Movie Reviews6.2/10
Cars 2: Pixar’s $200 Million Spy Comedy That Works Only Partly
Cars 2 sent Lightning McQueen and Mater into a $200M spy comedy at the World Grand Prix. A look at Pixar's strangest sequel, its plot, cast and 6.2 score.
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Every film we have scored, from 1980s horror to what is in cinemas now.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
Nobody at 5: Odenkirk’s 91-Minute Revenge Thriller Still Lands
Bob Odenkirk plays a suburban nobody with a violent past in Nobody, the 91-minute 2021 action thriller from the writer of John Wick. Our review.
Movie Reviews7.1/10
22 Jump Street sends Schmidt and Jenko back to school, and the joke is that school has changed.
22 Jump Street sends Schmidt and Jenko to college to hunt a synthetic drug ring, and the sequel's real case is whether their partnership can survive.
Movie Reviews7/10
The Simpsons Movie Is a Feature-Length Episode, and That’s the Point
The Simpsons Movie review: Homer, Plopper, and the dome that traps Springfield. How the 2007 film was written, rewritten 100 times, and voiced.
Movie Reviews6.6/10
The Breakfast Club Earns 6.6 of 10
A critical look at The Breakfast Club: its 1984 shoot, messy casting, the essay at its core, and why it earns 6.6 of 10.
Movie Reviews6.1/10
Ghost in the Shell (2017): A Fine-Looking Shell With No Ghost Inside
Ghost in the Shell (2017): Scarlett Johansson, Rupert Sanders, the whitewashing fight, and why the live-action remake got the surface right and the soul wrong.
Movie Reviews5.8/10
Quantum of Solace Turns Bourne-Style Restlessness Into a Bond Without Interiority
Quantum of Solace review: Daniel Craig returns as Bond in a 106-minute sprint that mistakes speed for stakes, wastes Olga Kurylenko and a weak villain.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
Lara Jean’s Unsent Letters Make a Teen Romance That Still Holds Up
Netflix's 2018 teen rom-com To All the Boys I've Loved Before, reviewed: Lana Condor and Noah Centineo carry a fake-dating contract that works.
Movie Reviews6.4/10
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is a good film with a great film buried inside it
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 review: James Gunn's 150-minute farewell earns its grief with Rocket's origin, but the goodbye tour around it runs thin.
Movie Reviews7.2/10
Why The Cabin in the Woods Still Works When You Know the Twist
A review of The Cabin in the Woods: five students, a cellar full of monsters, and the lab that runs the whole ritual. Score 7.2/10.
Movie Reviews4.2/10
Armageddon at 28: A Sturdy Premise Buried Under 151 Minutes of Noise
Armageddon review: Michael Bay's 1998 asteroid blockbuster made $553.7M and became Touchstone's biggest hit, but 151 minutes of noise buries a good premise.
Movie Reviews6.9/10
Scott Pilgrim vs. the World: Style Over Substance in Edgar Wright’s 2010 Cult Classic
Edgar Wright's Scott Pilgrim vs the World turns Toronto into a video game level and asks Michael Cera to fight seven exes, in a stylish but uneven 2010 film