Ryan Coogler’s bid for star-director status delivers an entertaining, powerful concoction of crime, sex, horror, action, and blues music.
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Bong Joon-ho’s science-fiction satire features a great Robert Pattinson performance but misses the mark when it comes to its political commentary.
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Righteous violence is meted out as Jason Statham re-teams with The Beekeeper director David Ayer in this Stallone-penned revenge film.
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Osgood Perkins’ black comedy The Monkey runs one joke over and over into the ground.
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Drew Hancock’s thriller blends sci-fi and slasher conventions in amusing, if minor, ways.
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RaMell Ross’s adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel is a formally radical work of empathy.
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Mel Gibson’s Flight Risk is the definition of a January release: low-ambition, silly, and decently entertaining.
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Den of Thieves 2 is another entertaining riff on classic crime movies and a showcase for Gerard Butler’s relatable grubbiness.
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Brady Corbet’s new American epic is ambitious, to be sure, but lacks dramatic rigour.
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From the haunting opening scene to the strange final image, Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu makes us see the old vampire story in a new way.
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James Mangold’s A Complete Unknown captures the enigma of Dylan and proves the appeal of the musical biopic genre.
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Wicked is doomed by the decision to inflate Act 1 into an entire 160-minute film.
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Edward Berger’s Conclave is a lot of fun. Just don’t confuse it for more than a potboiler.
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Yet another meta-legacy sequel, Gladiator II also delivers some of the most rousing action spectacle of recent years.
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Francis Ford Coppola's strange political fable is an absurd, admirable moonshot of a film.
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Tim Burton's Beetlejuice sequel has fun elements, but its frankensteined script doesn't hold together.
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Greg Kwedar's Sing Sing is best when it examines the art of acting, worst when it plays like a conventionally inspirational prison movie.
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M. Night Shyamalan's new thriller starring Josh Hartnett is absurd, stylish, Shyamalanesque fun.
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Ti West’s MaXXXine is a step down from X and Pearl, but still a stylish, giallo-influenced good time.
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Deadpool & Wolverine is a wet dream for fanboys, but a repetitive grind for everyone else.
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