All Reviews

A worthy toy, buried under too many boxes. Jessie finally gets her due as the emotional core of Toy Story 5, even if Pixar can't quite let go of Woody and Buzz long enough to let her story breathe.

A familiar light in the sky, dimmer than before. Spielberg returns to aliens with gorgeous craft and John Williams back at the score, but Disclosure Day plays almost like a remake of Close Encounters, minus the emotional core that made the original a classic.

The Wayans return, but the jokes don't. Scary Movie (2026) starts promisingly then loses focus entirely in a second act of disconnected parody skits that can't replicate the sharp wit of the original.

A prodigious debut that trusts its mystery more than its message. Kane Parsons turns his YouTube horror into a gripping, claustrophobic debut feature that announces a major new filmmaking talent.

A brazen act of revisionism dressed up as a biopic. The Jackson estate delivers a sanitized greatest-hits listening party that tells us nothing about who Michael Jackson really was. Colman Domingo is the only one doing interesting work.

A heartwarming film that has no right being as good as it is. Hugh Jackman, Emma Thompson, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and a flock of sheep solve a murder mystery in rural England — and somehow deliver one of the most genuinely moving family films in years.

A film that plays like a very expensive TV episode. The Mandalorian and Grogu has technical craft to spare, but Favreau and Filoni deliver a timid, inconsequential story that mistakes motion for cinema.

All dressed up, nowhere to go. Meryl Streep slips back into Miranda Priestly with effortless magnetism, but The Devil Wears Prada 2 squanders a genuinely intriguing journalism premise on a melodramatic third act that feels more like fan fiction than a worthy sequel.

Too many power-ups, not enough story. Illumination's latest is more merchandise than movie: a forgettable corporate exercise that squanders its characters, its budget, and any semblance of creative vision.

A crowd-pleaser to be hailed Despite the success of Andy Weir's novel “The Martian” on the big screen with the Ridley Scott and Matt Damon film of the same name, it has taken more than a decade for another of Weir's novels to be adapted. This one, again featuring a solitary and witty astronaut in space, is the crowd-pleaser Project Hail Mary (2026). Project Hail Mary opens on Ryland Grace (Ryan Gosling), a man waking up from a coma with memory loss, who finds himself the so

Almodovar Turns the Camera on Himself yet Again Pedro Almodovar has an incredibly distinct style, in both his narrative tone, which plays with the melodramatic, as well as with his visuals and sets, which are vibrant and alluring. While the Spaniard has been making films for over four decades with this consistent signature style, he’s undergone several evolutions. He started as part of the “Movida Madrileña” cultural movement, with an extroversion of the artistic and social f

Nature, Robots, and a Pixar Firing on All Cylinders Like much of the other Disney brands, Pixar's reputation was severely hurt by the insatiable quotas for "content" in the Streaming Wars, to populate Disney+. The result was that the once pristine animation studio began to turn to easy stories, choosing quantity over quality. The studio had already begun to show creative fatigue as it started to heavily focus on sequels in the mid-2010s, with Finding Dory (2016) and Incredibl