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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 th

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 Incred

Young Critic's Predictions for the Academy Awards Best Picture: Will Win: One Battle After Another Should Win: One Battle After Another Could Win: Sinners Best Director: Will Win: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another) Should Win: Paul Thomas Anderson (One Battle After Another) Could Win: Ryan Coogler (Sinners) Best Lead Actor: Will Win: Michael B. Jordan (Sinners) Should Win: Wagner Moura (The Secret Agent) Could Win: Timothée Chalamet (Marty Supreme) Best

More Snooze Than Scream No franchise is safe from Hollywood milking it for all that its worth. The Scream movies had remained a solid franchise that, despite entries of diminishing returns, had always delivered an enjoyable and meta take on its horror genre. Since being “revived” after an 11-year hiatus between Scream 4 (2011) and the fifth entry, confusingly titled Scream (2022), the franchise has been risking an overproduction that would dilute its reputation. Thus we arriv

A provocation that mistakes erotic excess for emotional depth Despite being one of the most iconic love stories ever written, Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights has never had a definitive screen adaptation, with many filmmakers and onscreen pairings failing to capture the complex push-pull relationship at its core. This is not for a lack of trying; the novel may be one of the most adapted books in cinema history, with the likes of William Wyler, Luis Buñuel, and Andrea Arnold a

A campy survival comedy undone by its own third act While bursting onto the scene with the inventive comedy-horror The Evil Dead (1981), Sam Raimi also helped pioneer the superhero craze of the 2010s by directing the Tobey Maguire Spider-Man trilogy. Yet after such big-budget success, he has only returned to directing for the big screen once in the past thirteen years, with another Marvel film, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022). Those studio projects pr

A breathless con-man epic dismantling the myth of the American Dream The unmasking of “the American Dream” as one in which people have to con their way to the top is a thesis American cinema has explored before, going as far back as The Sting (1973) or Paper Moon (1973). These films emerged in the 1970s, during a moment of backlash and activism against American idealism shaped by Vietnam and a revived anti-capitalist fervor. American filmmaking was broken into by young, u

A Transcendental Take on Shakespeare Shakespeare has been a well of material for artists and filmmakers, not just through adapting his works, but his life as well. Shakespeare in Love (1998) was fun theatre-kid fanfiction, while All Is True (2018) was a deep cut for Shakespearean nerds. With her novel Hamnet , Maggie O’Farrell chose to explore the most “un-Shakespearean” aspects of the bard’s life, choosing instead his wife Anne Hathaway (not the modern actress) as the p

A Bleak but Compelling Portrait of Motherhood Motherhood has been the surprising common theme for many 2025 releases, from Die My Love (2025) to Hamnet (2025), Bring Her Back (2025), The Perfect Neighbor (2025), and Young Mothers (2025). The latest to join this exploration of often unnamed, dark thoughts of motherhood is the searing If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (2025). If I Had Legs I’d Kick You follows Linda (Rose Byrne), a therapist and mother of a young daught