Movies on Dan Heskett

The Drama

Fri, 03 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

105 min | R | April 3, 2026 | A24

A confession turns a love story into a controlled burn that nobody walks away from clean.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

98 min | PG | April 1, 2026 | Universal Pictures

A perfect video game movie. Setup in five minutes, characters in ten, and a straight shot to the flag pole.

Project Hail Mary

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

★★★★★

156 min | PG-13 | March 20, 2026 | Amazon MGM Studios

The best sci-fi film in a decade earns every minute of its runtime.

Hoppers

Tue, 17 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

105 min | PG | March 6, 2026 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

Pixar makes an original movie again. The premise is ridiculous. It works.

Reminders of Him

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

114 min | PG-13 | March 13, 2026 | Universal Pictures

Colleen Hoover’s best adaptation is still just a Colleen Hoover adaptation.

Scream 7

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

114 min | R | February 27, 2026 | Paramount Pictures

Kevin Williamson returns to the director’s chair and proves the franchise still has a pulse. Not exactly fun, but it hits all the right notes.

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

134 min | R | February 13, 2026 | Briarcliff Entertainment

Gore Verbinski goes full throttle on AI paranoia and gets most of it right. Pacing stumbles but the vision holds.

How to Make a Killing

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

105 min | R | February 20, 2026 | A24

A family thriller that doesn’t moralize about its villains. Smarter than it looks.

Solo Mio

Mon, 16 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

100 min | PG | February 6, 2026 | Angel Studios

Kevin James does something unexpected. The movie buries it under everything else.

Wuthering Heights

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

135 min | R | February 13, 2026 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Emerald Fennell adapts Emily Brontë with raw carnality and visual opulence. Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi destroy each other across the Yorkshire moors. This is not your grandmother’s period drama.

Crime 101

Sun, 15 Feb 2026 19:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

140 min | R | February 13, 2026 | Amazon MGM Studios

Bart Layton adapts Don Winslow’s novella into a Los Angeles crime thriller that feels like it was made in 1995. Chris Hemsworth and Halle Berry anchor a film about desperate people making irreversible choices.

Shelter

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

107 min | R | January 30, 2026 | Black Bear Pictures

Statham does what Statham does best. Kills people beautifully in beautiful places. The kid nearly steals the whole thing.

Send Help

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

113 min | R | January 30, 2026 | 20th Century Studios

Raimi’s survival horror has committed performances and inventive gore, but the plotting is a mess. Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien carry the film despite narrative confusion.

Melania

Wed, 04 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

104 min | PG | January 30, 2026 | Amazon MGM Studios

A vanity project that mistakes access for insight. The most revealing thing about it is that no one in Trump’s orbit had the courage to say this was a bad idea.

Anaconda

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

100 min | PG-13 | December 25, 2025 | Directed by Tom Gormican

TLDR: Jack Black and Paul Rudd remake their favorite childhood movie in the rainforest and stumble into genuine heart. The slapstick lands, the sentiment earns it, and the whole thing works way better than it should.

Hamnet

Sun, 01 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

126 min | PG-13 | November 26, 2025 | Focus Features

A grief story that earns every tear without manipulating you into them. The rare prestige period piece that trusts its audience.

Mercy

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

100 min | PG-13 | January 19, 2026 | Amazon MGM Studios

Minority Report meets Judge Dredd meets GenZ phone addiction. Interesting premise undermined by a telegraphed twist and too many cop movie tropes.

Greenland: Migration

Sat, 24 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

98 min | PG-13 | January 9, 2026 | STX Entertainment

Big plot holes, small investment, performances that are unearned and characters barely worth knowing. But a few good shots and interesting plot devices make this “something.”

28 Years Later: The Bone Temple

Sat, 17 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

109 min | R | January 16, 2026 | Sony Pictures

Watched most of this through the cracks in my fingers. Strong world-building for the “28 Years” universe, but a gaping plot hole sinks whatever story they were trying to tell. Bonus points for releasing close enough to the first film that I didn’t need a refresher.

Dead Man's Wire

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

105 min | R | December 12, 2025 | Rowk Presents

Hip and fast-moving melodrama that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Lots of nice visual touches, and a really strong performance from Colman Domingo as the DJ. Glows up the based-on-true-life characters as Dread Pirate Cary Elwes and It-clown Bill Skarsgard. Not exactly airy but still light enough to not take too seriously.

Song Sung Blue

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

132 min | PG-13 | December 25, 2025 | Focus Features

A Neil Diamond tribute act sounds like a punchline, but Jackman and Hudson sell the hell out of it. Surprisingly tender family drama underneath the sequins and chest hair. Craig Brewer knows exactly how much schmaltz he can get away with.

Is This Thing On?

Sun, 11 Jan 2026 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

121 min | R | December 19, 2025 | Searchlight Pictures

Will Arnett doing halting crowd work and mid-life crisis comedy? I’m there. Charming and real, with Laura Dern delivering a powerhouse turn as the wife balancing pride in parenthood against the quiet grief of setting aside who you used to be. Never saccharine, even when you see the beats coming.

Marty Supreme

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

150 min | R | December 19, 2025 | A24

Timothee Chalamet commits fully to a ping pong obsessive, but the pacing and tonal whiplash keep this from greatness. Strong supporting turns from Kevin O’Leary, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Odessa A’zion can’t quite save the slapstick detours.

The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants

Sun, 21 Dec 2025 18:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

96 min | PG | December 19, 2025 | Paramount Pictures

Derek Drymon sends SpongeBob into the deep sea searching for his missing parents. The animation is gorgeous. The emotional stakes are real. This is SpongeBob at his best.

Avatar: Fire and Ash

Sat, 20 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

198 min | PG-13 | December 19, 2025 | 20th Century Studios

Cameron delivers again. Three hours of visual spectacle from an obsessive perfectionist. Still can’t explain why nobody talks about these movies a month later.

The Housemaid

Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

131 min | R | December 19, 2025 | Lionsgate

A domestic thriller that actually earns its twist. Amanda Seyfried is the reason to show up.

The Running Man

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

133 min | R | November 14, 2025 | Paramount Pictures

Edgar Wright’s Stephen King adaptation has style to spare but asks too much of your suspension of disbelief.

Rental Family

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★★

110 min | PG-13 | November 21, 2025 | Searchlight Pictures

Brendan Fraser as a too-big-for-Japan American finding himself through pretend families. My favorite movie of the year.

Five Nights at Freddy's 2

Sun, 07 Dec 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

104 min | PG-13 | December 5, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Emma Tammi returns to Freddy Fazbear’s Pizza with a sequel that drowns in convoluted mythology and forgotten character. The animatronics look great. Everything else is a mess.

The Secret Agent

Wed, 03 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

161 min | R | November 26, 2025 | Neon

Brazil’s military dictatorship gets the thriller treatment it deserves. The parallels to the present are not subtle. They don’t need to be.

Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 20:30:00 +0000

★★★★★

145 min | PG-13 | November 26, 2025 | Netflix

Rian Johnson sends Benoit Blanc into a religious community to solve an impossible murder. Daniel Craig leads an ensemble that includes Josh O’Connor, Glenn Close, and Josh Brolin. This is mystery filmmaking at its finest.

Eternity

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

114 min | PG-13 | November 26, 2025 | Focus Features

David Freyne asks who you choose when you die and meet everyone you ever loved in the afterlife. Elizabeth Olsen anchors a romantic comedy about impossible choices.

Zootopia 2

Fri, 28 Nov 2025 18:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

108 min | PG | November 26, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Jared Bush and Byron Howard send Judy and Nick undercover into new corners of Zootopia. The animation is stunning. The mystery is sharp. Disney Animation remembers what made the original special.

Sentimental Value

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

133 min | R | November 7, 2025 | Neon

Tender family drama with strong performances that never finds the gear it keeps reaching for. Cannes loved it. I liked it fine.

Train Dreams

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

102 min | PG-13 | November 7, 2025 | Netflix

Denis Johnson’s novella gets the adaptation it deserves. Edgerton finally gets the role he deserves. Everybody wins.

Die My Love

Mon, 10 Nov 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

119 min | R | November 7, 2025 | Neon

Jennifer Lawrence descends into postpartum madness in rural Montana. The performances work but the jagged edges make it a tough sit.

Predator: Badlands

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

107 min | PG-13 | November 7, 2025 | 20th Century Studios

Dan Trachtenberg makes a Predator film from the Predator’s perspective. Elle Fanning plays a synthetic ally to an exiled Yautja. This is the boldest swing the franchise has taken.

Nuremberg

Sun, 09 Nov 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

148 min | PG-13 | November 7, 2025 | Sony Pictures Classics

James Vanderbilt dramatizes the psychological battle between U.S. Army psychiatrist Douglas Kelley and Nazi war criminal Hermann Göring. Rami Malek and Russell Crowe circle each other with intelligence and menace.

Anniversary

Fri, 07 Nov 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

111 min | R | October 29, 2025 | Lionsgate

A political thriller that forgot to include either politics or thrills. Strong cast wasted on a story that refuses to commit.

Bugonia

Sun, 26 Oct 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

119 min | R | October 24, 2025 | Focus Features

Lanthimos and Stone do their weird thing again. It works. Oscar bait, sure, but the kind that actually earns it.

Frankenstein

Fri, 24 Oct 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

132 min | PG-13 | October 17, 2025 | Netflix

Del Toro finally makes his Frankenstein and it’s gorgeous. Too bad most people will watch it on a phone.

Black Phone 2

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

114 min | R | October 17, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Scott Derrickson returns to the Black Phone mythology with a sequel that expands the horror intelligently. Mason Thames and Madeleine McGraw anchor a film about trauma that lingers.

Good Fortune

Sun, 19 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

108 min | PG-13 | October 17, 2025 | Netflix

Aziz Ansari directs his first feature about an incompetent angel assigned to help a struggling gig worker. Keanu Reeves brings perfect deadpan to absurdist comedy with heart.

TRON: Ares

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

121 min | PG-13 | October 10, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Joachim Rønning sends a program from the Grid into the real world. Jared Leto plays AI made flesh. The visuals are stunning. The story is hollow.

After the Hunt

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

139 min | R | October 10, 2025 | Searchlight Pictures

Luca Guadagnino makes a campus thriller about accusations and secrets. Julia Roberts anchors a film that gestures at important themes without committing to difficult truths.

One Battle After Another

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

162 min | R | September 26, 2025 | Warner Bros.

PTA’s Pynchon adaptation is a tonal mess wrapped in prestige packaging. Great performances buried inside a film that can’t decide if it’s a comedy or an epic.

Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale

Sun, 14 Sep 2025 19:30:00 +0000

★★★★☆

125 min | PG | September 12, 2025 | Focus Features

Simon Curtis brings the Crawleys into the 1930s for a final chapter about scandal, financial ruin, and the end of an era. Julian Fellowes writes with precision and heart.

The Conjuring: Last Rites

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

112 min | R | September 5, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Michael Chaves closes the Warrens’ story with one final case. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson anchor a film that delivers familiar scares without finding new territory.

Nobody 2

Sun, 17 Aug 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

93 min | R | August 15, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Bob Odenkirk returns as Hutch Mansell on vacation with his family. Violence finds him anyway. Timo Tjahjanto directs with brutal efficiency.

F1

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

156 min | PG-13 | June 27, 2025 | Apple Studios

A Brad Pitt racing movie had no business being this watchable. The supporting cast elevates what could have been a vanity project into something with actual depth.

Weapons

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

129 min | R | August 8, 2025 | New Regency Pictures

Zach Cregger follows Barbarian with an ambitious mystery horror about seventeen children who vanish simultaneously. The structure is bold. The payoff is muddled.

Freakier Friday

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

98 min | PG | August 8, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Jamie Lee Curtis and Lindsay Lohan return for another body swap. Nisha Ganatra directs with warmth and precision. This is how you make a legacy sequel that honors what came before.

The Naked Gun

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 19:30:00 +0000

★★★★☆

85 min | PG-13 | August 1, 2025 | Paramount Pictures

Akiva Schaffer reboots Police Squad with Liam Neeson playing Frank Drebin Jr. The deadpan absurdity translates perfectly. This is what comedy reboots should be.

The Bad Guys 2

Sun, 03 Aug 2025 18:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

104 min | PG | August 1, 2025 | DreamWorks Animation

Pierre Perifel returns with a heist sequel that introduces the Bad Girls and doubles down on what made the first film work. Fast, funny, and surprisingly smart.

The Fantastic Four: First Steps

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

146 min | PG-13 | July 25, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Matt Shakman sets the Fantastic Four in a retro-futuristic 1960s and remembers these are scientists first, superheroes second. Pedro Pascal leads an ensemble that actually feels like family.

The Home

Sun, 27 Jul 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

97 min | R | July 25, 2025 | Lionsgate

James DeMonaco sends Pete Davidson to a haunted retirement home for mandatory community service. The premise is better than the execution.

Eddington

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

185 min | R | July 18, 2025 | A24

Ari Aster makes a western about a small-town standoff that spirals into apocalyptic violence. Joaquin Phoenix and Pedro Pascal destroy each other. This is controlled chaos.

I Know What You Did Last Summer

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

111 min | R | July 18, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Jennifer Kaytin Robinson reboots the slasher franchise with meta commentary and returning legacy characters. The film knows what it is and cannot transcend that knowledge.

Smurfs

Sun, 20 Jul 2025 18:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

92 min | PG | July 18, 2025 | Paramount Pictures

Chris Miller reboots the Smurfs with an all-star voice cast led by Rihanna. The film chooses chaos over charm and drowns in frantic energy that never coheres.

Superman

Sun, 13 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

129 min | PG-13 | July 11, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

James Gunn reboots Superman with sincerity and optimism. David Corenswet embodies the character without irony or apology. This is what superhero films should be.

Jurassic World Rebirth

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

134 min | PG-13 | July 2, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Gareth Edwards reboots Jurassic World with a new cast and familiar formula. Scarlett Johansson hunts dinosaurs. The film delivers competent spectacle without surprise or vision.

M3GAN 2.0

Sun, 29 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

120 min | PG-13 | June 27, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Gerard Johnstone trades horror for action-comedy and the shift destroys what made M3GAN work. The killer doll becomes a superhero and the satire becomes noise.

28 Years Later

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

119 min | R | June 20, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland return to the Rage virus twenty-eight years later. Britain is sealed off. The infected have evolved. So have the survivors.

Elio

Sun, 22 Jun 2025 18:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

101 min | PG | June 20, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Pixar sends a space-obsessed misfit into the cosmos and remembers what made their early films special. This is heartfelt without being manipulative.

Materialists

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 20:30:00 +0000

★★★★☆

116 min | R | June 13, 2025 | A24

Celine Song follows Past Lives with a romantic comedy about money, self-worth, and modern dating. Dakota Johnson, Chris Evans, and Pedro Pascal navigate love as transaction.

How to Train Your Dragon

Sun, 15 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

124 min | PG | June 13, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Dean DeBlois remakes his own animated masterpiece in live-action and discovers what works and what doesn’t. The dragon is perfect. The humans are adequate.

Ballerina

Sun, 08 Jun 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

124 min | R | June 6, 2025 | Lionsgate

Ana de Armas enters the Wick universe and proves she can carry an action franchise. Len Wiseman directs with brutal efficiency. The film earns its place in the world of professional killers.

Karate Kid: Legends

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

135 min | PG-13 | May 30, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio team up to train a new kid. Ben Wang is the breakout. The film delivers exactly what nostalgia promises and nothing more.

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

Sun, 25 May 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

170 min | PG-13 | May 23, 2025 | Paramount Pictures

Tom Cruise says goodbye to Ethan Hunt in the longest Mission: Impossible film. Christopher McQuarrie directs the final mission with scope and sentiment in equal measure.

Lilo & Stitch

Sun, 25 May 2025 18:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

112 min | PG | May 23, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Dean Fleischer Camp remakes Lilo & Stitch with live actors and a CGI alien. The film captures the heart of the original without trying to improve what already worked.

Final Destination: Bloodlines

Sun, 18 May 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★★

110 min | R | May 16, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Zach Lipovsky and Adam Stein resurrect Final Destination and discover what the franchise always had in it. This is precision horror filmmaking disguised as crowd-pleasing spectacle.

Thunderbolts*

Sun, 04 May 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★★

126 min | PG-13 | May 2, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Jake Schreier assembles Marvel’s rejects and outcasts into a team movie that remembers character matters. Florence Pugh and Lewis Pullman anchor the best MCU film in years.

The Accountant 2

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

132 min | R | April 25, 2025 | Amazon MGM Studios

Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal team up as autistic hitman brothers investigating a Treasury murder. Gavin O’Connor finds the sequel the first film was reaching for.

Until Dawn

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

103 min | R | April 25, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

David F. Sandberg adapts the horror video game with an original story set in the same universe. The practical effects work. The time loop premise wears thin.

Sinners

Fri, 25 Apr 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

138 min | R | April 18, 2025 | Warner Bros.

Ryan Coogler invents a new genre and dares you to look away. You won’t.

The Legend of Ochi

Sun, 20 Apr 2025 19:30:00 +0000

★★★★☆

99 min | PG | April 18, 2025 | A24

Isaiah Saxon directs his first feature and builds a fantasy world with tactile beauty and emotional stakes. Helena Zengel anchors a story about fear and connection.

A Minecraft Movie

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

101 min | PG-13 | April 4, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Jared Hess adapts Minecraft into a family adventure that understands its audience better than its critics. Jack Black and Jason Momoa sell the absurdity completely.

Death of a Unicorn

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

107 min | R | March 28, 2025 | A24

Paul Rudd and Jenna Ortega accidentally kill a unicorn and corporate greed ensues. A24 tries to make a satire about pharmaceutical exploitation. The tone never settles.

A Working Man

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

116 min | R | March 28, 2025 | Amazon MGM Studios

Jason Statham plays a construction worker with a lethal past forced back into action. David Ayer directs. The formula is familiar but the execution is solid.

The Alto Knights

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

122 min | R | March 21, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Robert De Niro plays two 1950s mob bosses in a turf war. Barry Levinson directs. Neither of them finds anything new in the well-worn genre they helped define.

Snow White

Sun, 23 Mar 2025 18:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

109 min | PG | March 21, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Disney remakes Snow White with CGI dwarfs and flattened fairytale logic. The modernization rings hollow. The performances feel constrained. The whole enterprise misses the point.

Opus

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 21:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

103 min | R | March 14, 2025 | A24

John Malkovich plays a reclusive pop star who invites journalists to his compound for a sinister plan. Ayo Edebiri tries to ground the chaos. The film can’t decide what it wants to be.

Black Bag

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:30:00 +0000

★★★★☆

93 min | R | March 14, 2025 | Focus Features

Soderbergh makes another spy thriller because he can. Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender play married intelligence agents who might be betraying each other. Sleek, cold, efficient.

Novocaine

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

110 min | R | March 14, 2025 | Paramount Pictures

Jack Quaid plays a bank employee who can’t feel pain and has to rescue his kidnapped coworker. The premise is better than the execution but Quaid sells it completely.

Mickey 17

Sat, 08 Mar 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★★

137 min | R | March 7, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Bong Joon Ho makes a sci-fi satire about disposable labor and corporate exploitation. Robert Pattinson plays the same man dying over and over. This is what cinema should be.

Last Breath

Sun, 02 Mar 2025 19:30:00 +0000

★★★★☆

93 min | PG-13 | February 28, 2025 | Peacock

Alex Parkinson remakes his own 2019 documentary as a survival thriller. Woody Harrelson leads a rescue effort hundreds of feet below the ocean. Taut, efficient, terrifying.

The Monkey

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

98 min | R | February 21, 2025 | Neon

Osgood Perkins adapts Stephen King’s cursed toy monkey story and leans fully into horror-comedy chaos. Theo James plays twin brothers haunted by random death. It works.

The Unbreakable Boy

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

109 min | PG | February 21, 2025 | Pure Flix

Jon Gunn adapts a true story about a boy with brittle-bone disease and autism who transforms his family. Zachary Levi tries. The film is earnest to a fault.

Captain America: Brave New World

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

118 min | PG-13 | February 14, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Anthony Mackie officially takes up the shield and the MCU delivers its most middling entry yet. Competent, forgettable, and overstuffed with setup for movies nobody asked for.

Paddington in Peru

Sun, 16 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

106 min | PG | February 14, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Paddington goes to Peru and the franchise maintains its improbable winning streak. Dougal Wilson steps in for Paul King and delivers exactly what’s needed.

Heart Eyes

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 21:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

97 min | R | February 7, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Josh Ruben makes a Valentine’s Day slasher that understands the genre and executes with precision. Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding sell the premise completely.

Bring Them Down

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

105 min | R | February 7, 2025 | Mubi

Christopher Abbott and Barry Keoghan destroy each other over land, livestock, and pride in rural Ireland. No heroes. No easy answers. Just escalation and consequence.

Love Hurts

Sun, 09 Feb 2025 18:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

83 min | R | February 7, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Ke Huy Quan plays a retired hitman whose brother wants him dead. Ariana DeBose shows up as the ex-partner. The film is eighty-three minutes and feels longer.

Companion

Mon, 03 Feb 2025 21:00:00 +0000

★★★★★

97 min | R | January 31, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Drew Hancock’s directorial debut is a nasty, clever thriller that earns its twists and never apologizes. Sophie Thatcher continues her winning streak.

Valiant One

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

87 min | R | January 31, 2025 | Lionsgate

A military helicopter crashes in North Korea. The survivors must escape. You have seen this movie a dozen times and those versions were not good either.

Dog Man

Sun, 02 Feb 2025 15:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

89 min | PG | January 31, 2025 | DreamWorks Animation

DreamWorks adapts Dav Pilkey’s graphic novel with genuine respect for the source material and young audiences. Smart, fast, and surprisingly heartfelt.

The Brutalist

Tue, 28 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★★★

215 min | R | January 24, 2025 | A24

Brady Corbet makes a three-hour-and-thirty-five-minute epic about architecture, ambition, and the cost of artistic vision in America. Every minute earns its place.

Presence

Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:30:00 +0000

★★★★★

84 min | R | January 24, 2025 | Neon

Soderbergh shoots a haunted house movie from the ghost’s point of view. The formal experiment works. The emotional core lands. This is what mastery looks like.

Flight Risk

Sun, 26 Jan 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

91 min | R | January 24, 2025 | Lionsgate

Mel Gibson directs Mark Wahlberg in a contained thriller that never finds a reason to exist. Ninety-one minutes feels long.

One of Them Days

Mon, 20 Jan 2025 19:30:00 +0000

★★★★★

97 min | R | January 17, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Lawrence Lamont directs his first feature. Syreeta Singleton writes her first screenplay. They deliver a comedy that feels lived-in and urgent. Hollywood needs more of this.

Wolf Man

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

102 min | R | January 17, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Leigh Whannell swings for the fences again with Universal’s monster IP and lands somewhere between ambitious and frustrating. The Invisible Man was lightning. This is the bottle.

Better Man

Mon, 13 Jan 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

134 min | R | January 10, 2025 | Paramount Pictures

Michael Gracey depicts Robbie Williams as a CGI chimpanzee and makes it work. The boldness of that choice elevates what could have been another paint-by-numbers music biopic.

Den of Thieves: Pantera

Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

144 min | R | January 10, 2025 | Lionsgate

Gerard Butler chases O’Shea Jackson Jr. across Europe in a heist sequel that knows exactly what it is and delivers without apology. Sometimes that’s enough.

Nosferatu

Sat, 28 Dec 2024 20:00:00 +0000

★★★★★

132 min | R | December 25, 2024 | Focus Features

Robert Eggers remakes the vampire and makes you forget every bloodless franchise that came before.

Mufasa: The Lion King

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

118 min | PG | December 20, 2024 | Walt Disney Pictures

Barry Jenkins trades poetry for paycheck. The Lion King gets a backstory nobody asked for, rendered in photoreal animation that still can’t make fake animals emote.

A Complete Unknown

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

141 min | R | December 25, 2024 | Searchlight Pictures

Timothee Chalamet becomes Bob Dylan in a biopic that covers 1961 to 1965. He sings live. He plays live. James Mangold makes the rare music biopic that trusts the music.

Babygirl

Wed, 25 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

114 min | R | December 25, 2024 | A24

Nicole Kidman plays a CEO who starts an affair with a young intern. Halina Reijn directs an erotic thriller that is actually erotic and actually thrilling. Kidman is fearless.

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Fri, 20 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

110 min | PG | December 20, 2024 | Paramount Pictures

The Sonic franchise introduces Shadow and Keanu Reeves voices him with tragic sincerity. Jim Carrey plays two Robotniks. The whole thing is ridiculous and consistently entertaining.

Kraven the Hunter

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

127 min | R | December 13, 2024 | Sony Pictures

Sony’s Spider-Man Universe dies the death it deserved. Aaron Taylor-Johnson plays a Marvel villain nobody asked to see as a hero. J.C. Chandor deserves better. Everyone deserves better.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

134 min | PG-13 | December 13, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures

An animated Lord of the Rings film tells the origin of Helm’s Deep two hundred years before Frodo. The battle sequences are impressive. The characters are not.

Moana 2

Wed, 27 Nov 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

100 min | PG | November 27, 2024 | Walt Disney Pictures

Disney sends Moana back to sea with a new crew and a bigger quest. The animation is stunning. The songs are not. The sequel does enough to justify its existence without matching the original.

Gladiator II

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

148 min | R | November 22, 2024 | Paramount Pictures

Ridley Scott returns to the Colosseum twenty-four years later. Paul Mescal fights well. Denzel Washington steals everything. The film cannot escape its predecessor’s shadow but it fights hard.

Wicked

Fri, 22 Nov 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

160 min | PG | November 22, 2024 | Universal Pictures

Jon M. Chu brings the first act of the Broadway juggernaut to screen with two lead performances that justify twenty years of development hell. Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande are the real deal.

Red One

Fri, 15 Nov 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

124 min | PG-13 | November 15, 2024 | Amazon MGM Studios

Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans team up to save a kidnapped Santa Claus. The film cost $250 million. It looks like it cost $250 million. It feels like it cost nothing.

Heretic

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

110 min | PG-13 | November 8, 2024 | A24

Hugh Grant plays a polite monster who traps two Mormon missionaries in his house for a theological debate that turns lethal. Grant has never been this terrifying or this entertaining.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever

Fri, 08 Nov 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

99 min | PG | November 8, 2024 | Lionsgate

Dallas Jenkins adapts the beloved 1972 children’s book about the worst kids in town hijacking the church Christmas pageant. Wholesome does not mean toothless. This one earns it.

A Real Pain

Fri, 01 Nov 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★★

90 min | R | November 1, 2024 | Searchlight Pictures

Jesse Eisenberg writes and directs a film about two cousins on a Holocaust tour in Poland. Kieran Culkin gives the performance of his career. Ninety minutes. Not a wasted frame.

Conclave

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

120 min | PG | October 25, 2024 | Focus Features

Edward Berger turns a papal election into a political thriller. Ralph Fiennes leads an extraordinary ensemble through Vatican corridors where every whisper is a weapon.

Venom: The Last Dance

Fri, 25 Oct 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

109 min | PG-13 | October 25, 2024 | Sony Pictures

The Venom trilogy ends with a whimper disguised as a bang. Tom Hardy talks to himself for two hours while the plot happens around him.

Anora

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★★

139 min | R | October 18, 2024 | Neon

Sean Baker makes his masterpiece. A Brooklyn stripper marries a Russian oligarch’s son and the fairy tale collapses in real time. Mikey Madison is extraordinary.

Smile 2

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

127 min | R | October 18, 2024 | Paramount Pictures

Parker Finn takes his Smile franchise and makes the rare horror sequel that improves on the original in every way. Naomi Scott gives a star-making performance as a pop star losing her mind.

We Live in Time

Fri, 18 Oct 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

107 min | R | October 18, 2024 | A24

Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh fall in love across a decade told out of order. John Crowley makes a romantic drama that trusts its actors more than its structure.

Saturday Night

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

109 min | R | October 11, 2024 | Sony Pictures

Jason Reitman makes a film about the ninety minutes before the first episode of Saturday Night Live aired. It is frantic and funny and more interested in the chaos of creation than the mythology of the show.

Terrifier 3

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

125 min | Unrated | October 11, 2024 | Cineverse

Art the Clown goes Christmas. Damien Leone escalates from Halloween to the holiday season and delivers the most transgressive slasher sequel in years. The kills are extraordinary. The budget is still nothing.

The Apprentice

Fri, 11 Oct 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

120 min | R | October 11, 2024 | Briarcliff Entertainment

Ali Abbasi makes a film about how Donald Trump became Donald Trump. Sebastian Stan disappears into the role. Jeremy Strong steals the film as Roy Cohn.

Joker: Folie à Deux

Fri, 04 Oct 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

138 min | R | October 4, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Todd Phillips makes a Joker sequel that nobody asked for and turns it into a jukebox musical that nobody wanted. The result is a film at war with itself and its audience.

Megalopolis

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

138 min | R | September 27, 2024 | Lionsgate

Francis Ford Coppola spends forty years and $120 million of his own money to make his dream project. The result is a glorious, incoherent mess that only a genius could make this badly.

The Wild Robot

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★★

102 min | PG | September 27, 2024 | Universal/DreamWorks Animation

A robot learns to be a mother on a wild island. Chris Sanders adapts Peter Brown’s book into one of the most beautiful animated films ever made. You will cry. Everyone cries.

Never Let Go

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

101 min | R | September 20, 2024 | Lionsgate

Halle Berry lives in a cabin with her twin sons, tethered by ropes to keep an unseen evil at bay. The atmosphere is suffocating. The answers are not worth the wait.

The Substance

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

140 min | R | September 20, 2024 | Mubi

Coralie Fargeat makes a body horror film about aging in Hollywood that goes further than anyone expects. Demi Moore gives the performance of her career. The last thirty minutes are insane.

Transformers One

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

104 min | PG | September 20, 2024 | Paramount Pictures

The Transformers franchise goes animated and tells the origin story of Optimus Prime and Megatron as friends who became enemies. The best Transformers film since 1986. That is not a joke.

Speak No Evil

Fri, 13 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

110 min | PG-13 | September 13, 2024 | Universal/Blumhouse

James McAvoy plays the worst dinner host in cinema history. The American remake of the Danish original changes the ending and earns the change. Social politeness as a weapon has never been this terrifying.

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

Fri, 06 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

104 min | PG-13 | September 6, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Tim Burton returns to the property that made him Tim Burton. Michael Keaton is still Beetlejuice. Catherine O’Hara steals the film. The nostalgia is earned more often than not.

Blink Twice

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

102 min | R | August 23, 2024 | Amazon MGM Studios

Zoë Kravitz directs her first film about a tech billionaire’s island paradise that is actually a nightmare. The allegory is obvious. The execution is sharp. Naomi Ackie is a star.

The Crow

Fri, 23 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

111 min | R | August 23, 2024 | Lionsgate

The Crow gets rebooted again. Bill Skarsgard replaces Brandon Lee. The gothic romance is gone. The visual style is gone. What remains is a generic revenge film wearing the wrong costume.

Alien: Romulus

Fri, 16 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

119 min | R | August 16, 2024 | 20th Century Studios

Fede Alvarez takes the Alien franchise back to basics. Young colonists trapped on a derelict space station with xenomorphs. The scares work. The fan service is excessive. The third act goes somewhere new.

Borderlands

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

102 min | PG-13 | August 9, 2024 | Lionsgate

Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, and Kevin Hart star in a video game adaptation that wastes every single one of them. Eli Roth directs. Nobody survives.

Cuckoo

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

102 min | R | August 9, 2024 | Neon

A teenager moves to a German Alps resort and discovers something profoundly wrong. Hunter Schafer anchors the dread. Dan Stevens goes full maniac. Tilman Singer makes horror weird again.

It Ends with Us

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

130 min | PG-13 | August 9, 2024 | Sony Pictures

Blake Lively stars in the adaptation of the Colleen Hoover phenomenon. The domestic violence subject matter is handled with more care than expected. The romance around it is handled with less.

Harold and the Purple Crayon

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

91 min | PG | August 2, 2024 | Sony/Columbia Pictures

A beloved children’s book gets the live-action treatment nobody wanted. Zachary Levi draws things with a purple crayon. The magic of the source material evaporates on contact.

Trap

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

105 min | PG-13 | August 2, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures

M. Night Shyamalan makes a thriller about a serial killer trapped at a pop concert with his daughter. Josh Hartnett is genuinely great. The film around him is genuinely Shyamalan.

Deadpool & Wolverine

Fri, 26 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

128 min | R | July 26, 2024 | Marvel Studios/Disney

Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman team up for the MCU’s first R-rated film. It is a buddy comedy disguised as a superhero movie disguised as a eulogy for the Fox Marvel universe. The cameos are insane.

Twisters

Fri, 19 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

122 min | PG-13 | July 19, 2024 | Universal Pictures

The sequel to Twister that nobody expected delivers summer blockbuster thrills with genuine craft. Glen Powell is a movie star. Daisy Edgar-Jones grounds the spectacle. The tornadoes are terrifying.

Fly Me to the Moon

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

132 min | PG-13 | July 12, 2024 | Sony Pictures

Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum make a romantic comedy about faking the moon landing. The premise is fun. The execution is uneven. The two leads carry it through the rough patches.

Longlegs

Fri, 12 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

101 min | R | July 12, 2024 | Neon

Osgood Perkins makes a serial killer film that feels like a nightmare you cannot wake from. Nicolas Cage disappears into prosthetics and madness. Maika Monroe anchors the dread.

MaXXXine

Fri, 05 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

103 min | R | July 5, 2024 | A24

Ti West completes his horror trilogy with Maxine Minx in 1985 Hollywood. Mia Goth goes full movie star. The Night Stalker lurks. The ambition is bigger. The results are messier.

Despicable Me 4

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

94 min | PG | July 3, 2024 | Universal/Illumination

Gru gets a baby. The Minions get superpowers. Illumination gets another billion dollars. The franchise runs on fumes and merchandise.

A Quiet Place: Day One

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

99 min | PG-13 | June 28, 2024 | Paramount Pictures

The Quiet Place franchise goes to New York City on the day the aliens arrive. Lupita Nyong’o plays a dying woman who just wants a slice of pizza. The best entry in the series.

Kinds of Kindness

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

164 min | R | June 21, 2024 | Searchlight Pictures

Yorgos Lanthimos makes a three-part anthology about control, devotion, and obedience. Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone play different roles in each segment. It is long and strange and not for everyone.

The Bikeriders

Fri, 21 Jun 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

116 min | R | June 21, 2024 | Focus Features

Jeff Nichols makes a motorcycle club movie that is really about the death of American rebellion. Austin Butler broods. Tom Hardy mumbles. Jodie Comer steals the whole thing.

In a Violent Nature

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

94 min | R | June 14, 2024 | IFC Films

A slasher movie told from the killer’s perspective. The camera follows Johnny as he walks through the woods and murders people. It is ambient horror. It is also genuinely disturbing.

Inside Out 2

Fri, 14 Jun 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

100 min | PG | June 14, 2024 | Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar

Riley hits puberty and new emotions move in. Anxiety takes over. Pixar remembers how to make adults cry in a children’s movie. The formula works because the feelings are real.

Bad Boys: Ride or Die

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

115 min | R | June 7, 2024 | Sony Pictures

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return for a fourth Bad Boys. The formula has not changed. It still works. Nobody is more surprised than the franchise itself.

The Watchers

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

102 min | PG-13 | June 7, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Ishana Night Shyamalan makes her directorial debut with a forest horror film starring Dakota Fanning. The Shyamalan twist gene is hereditary. So is the inconsistency.

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

Fri, 24 May 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

148 min | R | May 24, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures

George Miller tells the origin story nobody asked for and makes it feel essential. Anya Taylor-Joy becomes Furiosa. Chris Hemsworth goes full maniac as Dementus. The Wasteland expands.

The Garfield Movie

Fri, 24 May 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

101 min | PG | May 24, 2024 | Sony Pictures

Chris Pratt voices Garfield in a heist movie about a cat reuniting with his deadbeat dad. The lasagna-loving indoor cat deserves better. So does the audience.

IF

Fri, 17 May 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

104 min | PG | May 17, 2024 | Paramount Pictures

John Krasinski makes a family film about forgotten imaginary friends. The concept is Pixar-level. The execution is Hallmark-level. Ryan Reynolds cannot save it.

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Fri, 10 May 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

145 min | PG-13 | May 10, 2024 | 20th Century Studios

The Apes franchise jumps forward generations and finds a new story worth telling. The motion capture is stunning. The world-building is patient. Caesar’s shadow looms over everything.

The Fall Guy

Fri, 03 May 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

126 min | PG-13 | May 3, 2024 | Universal Pictures

David Leitch makes a love letter to stunt performers with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. The chemistry is electric. The stunts are real. Hollywood makes a movie about why movies matter.

Challengers

Fri, 26 Apr 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

131 min | R | April 26, 2024 | Amazon MGM Studios

Luca Guadagnino makes a tennis movie that is actually a three-way love story shot like an action thriller. Zendaya commands the screen. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross turn tennis into war.

Abigail

Fri, 19 Apr 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

109 min | R | April 19, 2024 | Universal Pictures

Radio Silence makes a vampire movie disguised as a heist movie. A twelve-year-old ballerina murders a house full of criminals. The blood is everywhere and the fun is relentless.

Civil War

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

109 min | R | April 12, 2024 | A24

Alex Garland makes a war film set in a fractured America and refuses to tell you whose side to take. Kirsten Dunst anchors it with the exhaustion of a woman who has seen too much.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

115 min | PG-13 | April 12, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Godzilla and Kong team up to fight a bigger ape. The human characters exist to explain things. The monsters exist to destroy things. The film exists because the last one made money.

Monkey Man

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

121 min | R | April 5, 2024 | Universal Pictures

Dev Patel writes, directs, produces, and stars in a revenge thriller set in India. The ambition is staggering. The action is brutal. The politics are real.

The First Omen

Fri, 05 Apr 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

120 min | R | April 5, 2024 | 20th Century Studios

A prequel to The Omen that has no business being this good. Nell Tiger Free carries a horror film about institutional evil and forced motherhood with ferocious commitment.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

115 min | PG-13 | March 22, 2024 | Sony/Columbia Pictures

The Ghostbusters franchise continues with too many characters, too much nostalgia, and not enough reason to exist. McKenna Grace deserves her own movie. This is not it.

Immaculate

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

89 min | R | March 22, 2024 | Neon

Sydney Sweeney produces and stars in a nunsploitation horror film set in an Italian convent. The final act is ferocious. This is not the Sydney Sweeney movie the industry expected.

Late Night with the Devil

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★★

93 min | R | March 22, 2024 | IFC Films

A 1977 Halloween broadcast goes horribly wrong. David Dastmalchian delivers a career-defining performance. Found footage horror has never been this polished or this terrifying.

Arthur the King

Fri, 15 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

107 min | PG-13 | March 15, 2024 | Lionsgate

Mark Wahlberg does an adventure race through the Dominican Republic and adopts a stray dog. Based on a true story that is genuinely remarkable. The dog acts better than most of the humans.

Cabrini

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

145 min | PG-13 | March 8, 2024 | Angel Studios

Angel Studios tells the story of Mother Cabrini, the Italian nun who built hospitals and orphanages in 1890s New York through sheer force of will. Cristiana Dell’Anna is a revelation.

Imaginary

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

104 min | PG-13 | March 8, 2024 | Lionsgate

Blumhouse makes a horror movie about a haunted teddy bear. The bear is named Chauncey. The scares are named absent.

Kung Fu Panda 4

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

94 min | PG | March 8, 2024 | Universal/DreamWorks Animation

Po gets a fourth adventure that he probably does not need but mostly earns. Awkwafina brings energy. The animation is gorgeous. The franchise treads water with style.

Love Lies Bleeding

Fri, 08 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

104 min | R | March 8, 2024 | A24

Rose Glass makes a steroid-fueled queer noir about love and violence in the desert Southwest. Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian generate heat that could melt asphalt.

Dune: Part Two

Fri, 01 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

166 min | PG-13 | March 1, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Denis Villeneuve finishes what he started. The second half of Frank Herbert’s novel is the dangerous half. Villeneuve handles it with intelligence and spectacle in equal measure.

Drive-Away Dolls

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

84 min | R | February 23, 2024 | Focus Features

Ethan Coen goes solo with a lesbian road trip crime comedy set in 1999. It is slight and messy and more fun than it has any right to be.

Ordinary Angels

Fri, 23 Feb 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

117 min | PG | February 23, 2024 | Lionsgate

Hilary Swank plays a recovering alcoholic hairdresser who mobilizes a community to save a dying child. Based on a true story. Earns its sentiment without drowning in it.

Bob Marley: One Love

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

107 min | PG-13 | February 14, 2024 | Paramount Pictures

The authorized Bob Marley biopic hits every expected beat with craft and caution. Kingsley Ben-Adir commits fully. The film does not.

Madame Web

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★☆☆☆☆

116 min | PG-13 | February 14, 2024 | Sony Pictures

Sony scrapes the bottom of the Spider-Man IP barrel and finds Madame Web. Dakota Johnson looks like she wants to be anywhere else. So does the audience.

Lisa Frankenstein

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

101 min | PG-13 | February 9, 2024 | Focus Features

Diablo Cody writes a teen horror comedy set in 1989. Zelda Williams directs. The vibes are immaculate. The script needed another pass.

Argylle

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

139 min | PG-13 | February 2, 2024 | Universal Pictures

Matthew Vaughn makes a spy movie about a spy novelist caught up in a real spy plot. Two hours and nineteen minutes of that. With a cat.

Miller's Girl

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

93 min | R | January 26, 2024 | Lionsgate

A student-teacher boundary thriller that thinks it is smarter than it is. Martin Freeman deserves better material.

Sometimes I Think About Dying

Fri, 26 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

91 min | PG-13 | January 26, 2024 | Oscilloscope Laboratories

Daisy Ridley disappears into a quiet office worker who fantasizes about death. A tiny, precise film about the terror of human connection.

Land of Bad

Thu, 25 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

110 min | R | January 25, 2024 | Lionsgate

Russell Crowe flies a drone. Liam Hemsworth runs through a jungle. A straightforward military thriller that works because it commits to being exactly that.

I.S.S.

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

95 min | R | January 19, 2024 | Bleecker Street

War breaks out on Earth. Astronauts on the International Space Station get orders to take control by any means necessary. The premise is better than the movie.

Origin

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

141 min | PG-13 | January 19, 2024 | Neon

Ava DuVernay adapts a nonfiction book about caste into a narrative film about grief, obsession, and the architecture of human cruelty. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor anchors a film that should not work but does.

Mean Girls

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

112 min | PG-13 | January 12, 2024 | Paramount Pictures

The Broadway musical adaptation of the movie based on the book. Reneé Rapp owns it. The meta-layers are dizzying but the songs hold up.

The Beekeeper

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

99 min | R | January 12, 2024 | Amazon MGM Studios

Jason Statham punches his way through a phishing scam revenge thriller. David Ayer keeps it lean and mean. This is exactly as stupid and satisfying as it sounds.

American Fiction

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★★☆

117 min | R | December 15, 2023 | Amazon MGM Studios

Cord Jefferson adapts Percival Everett’s novel into a razor-sharp satire about race, publishing, and the stories America wants to buy. Jeffrey Wright carries the whole thing on his back.

Night Swim

Fri, 05 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★☆☆☆

98 min | PG-13 | January 5, 2024 | Universal Pictures

Blumhouse turns a backyard pool into a horror villain. The pool is scarier than the movie.