Long stretches of the new Pixar movie, Soul, are set in a serene nirvana called The Great Before. With its soft,…

Note: The writer of this review watched Stardust on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…

There are two movies at war with each other inside Uncle Frank. In the first, Frank (Paul Bettany), a celebrated…

Note: The writer of this review watched The Croods: A New Age on a digital screener from home. Before making the…

There’s no reason why a movie that features Jackie Chan, lion attacks, and machete-wielding henchmen on Jet Skis…

“Life can change in the blink of an eye” is one of those clichés that sounds more hyperbolic than it really is.…

Mix The Family Stone with While You Were Sleeping, add a touch of My Best Friend’s Wedding, and give the whole thing…

Sound Of Metal is nothing without its sound design. It’s a story about music and deafness—both auditory…

All Chris Columbus wants for Christmas is mayhem. He may not fully admit it, insulating his destructive impulses…

Academic consensus credits Scottish philosopher Thomas Carlyle as the originator of the “great man theory” of…

Note: The writer of this review watched The Last Vermeer from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any…

Buffy The Vampire Slayer, the show not the movie, makes two appearances in Josh Boone’s long-delayed superhero…

In Run, helicopter parenting reaches a whole new level of unhinged. Likely taking cues from the real-life Munchausen-…

Note: The writer of this review watched The Climb on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…

Note: The writer of this review watched Dreamland on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…

Note: The writer of this review watched Ammonite on a digital screener from home. Before making the decision to see…

Note: The writer of this review watched Wolfwalkers from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any other…

Greta Thunberg has been a well-known and controversial public figure for about two years now, which makes the images…

Almost every interview subject in Werner Herzog’s latest documentary gets introduced with a prolonged, silent…

Note: The writer of this review watched Hillbilly Elegy from home. Before making the decision to see it—or any other…