Franchise overhaul mixes the storylines of the first two games, and they turn out to be two great tastes that taste surprisingly bad together
Rosamund Pike is the lone standout in an adaptation of Robert Jordan’s novel series mired in subpar effects, poor characterization and way too many subplots
How does Johnson’s role in ”Red Notice“ stack up?
The scares are backloaded, so that by the time they happen, the audience has utterly lost interest
John Cho shines as bounty hunter Spike Spiegel but episodes feel padded with Whedon-esque banter
Jason Reitman pays homage to his father’s 1984 remake by both updating it and borrowing from it as much as possible
AFI 2021: Benjamin Cleary’s feature debut raises ideas about technology and ethics but has little interest in pursuing them
The last act is scary and effective — good luck staying awake to get there
The ”Free Solo“ directors slickly tell the unlikely story of the cave-diving hobbyists who saved the day
Forget the plot — it’s a gloriously polyqueer, brain-eating, big-budget serial-killer movie, and it crams a lot into 90 minutes
This tale of one man’s mental breakdown in an uncaring city never gets too far below the surface
Toronto 2021: Rob Savage’s follow-up to ”Host“ is another COVID tale, but it digs itself into a hole without finding any depth
The ”Conjuring“ director sucks viewers into his mad monster vortex of sketchy ideas and viscera
Venice 2021: Masaaki Yuasa blends genres and ideas in a brilliantly intense and unhinged animated feature
The film feels torn between being a triumph of the human spirit and a triumph of corporations who convinced survivor families not to sue them into oblivion
