Movie Reviews5.9/10
The Monster Fights Are Great. The Movie Between Them Isn’t.
Godzilla vs. Kong review: Adam Wingard's Monsterverse clash delivers monster fights but a thin human plot. Score: 5.9 of 10.
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Movie Reviews3.8/10
Men in Black II Wastes Its Stars on a Script That Forgets Them
Men in Black II (2002) review: 88 minutes, a 38% Rotten Tomatoes score, and two movie stars wasted on a script that never gives them a reason to return.
Movie Reviews4.6/10
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York Review — A Sequel That Copies the Hit and Misses the Point
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York repeats the 1990 hit with a bigger budget and no real reason to exist, scoring 46 on Metacritic.
Movie Reviews6.9/10
Birds of Prey Review: Margot Robbie Shines in a Scattered, Colorful Harley Quinn Outing
Harley Quinn's chaotic emancipation hits screens in a 109-minute action-crime ride. Margot Robbie shines, but the Birds never quite gel.
Movie Reviews4.7/10
The Machines and Humans Stop Shooting Long Enough to Let Neo Die
The Matrix Revolutions ends in truce, not victory: Zion survives, Neo dies, Smith is destroyed. A 4.7/10 review of the 2003 trilogy finale.
Movie Reviews5.8/10
The Fast and the Furious Was Built on a B-Movie Engine and a Star Who’d Never Driven Stick
A review of 2001's The Fast and the Furious, the rough first draft of a franchise built on one good idea: a car is a promise.
Movie Reviews8.1/10
Cyborg’s Story Survives in the Snyder Cut
Zack Snyder's Justice League runs 242 minutes. Here's how the four-hour cut restores Cyborg's arc, Steppenwolf's motive and the film's heart.
Movie Reviews4.6/10
The Super Mario Bros. Movie Review: A 93-Minute Checklist That Settles for a Cat Suit
The Super Mario Bros. Movie review: 93 minutes of star voices, a Warp Pipe and a Cat Suit — but a 4.6/10 disappointment.
Movie Reviews7.1/10
Moriarty Finally Gets a Worthy Opponent in Guy Ritchie’s 2011 Sequel
Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law return as Holmes and Watson, chasing Jared Harris's Moriarty across 1891 Europe in Guy Ritchie's bigger, louder sequel.
Movie Reviews6.8/10
X2 Turns Mutant Rights Into a War Story
X2 review: Nightcrawler attacks the White House, Stryker invades Xavier's school, and Wolverine hunts his past. A sequel that widens the mutant argument.
Movie Reviews8.8/10
Frances McDormand’s grieving mother takes on a town that would rather she stayed quiet
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri: Frances McDormand, Sam Rockwell, and Martin McDonagh's Oscar-winning revenge drama, reviewed.
Movie Reviews8.4/10
Rian Johnson’s Time-Travel Hit Man Story Is a Movie About Two Men Who Cannot Stand Each Other
Rian Johnson's Looper (2012) pits Joseph Gordon-Levitt against Bruce Willis as one man split in two, a time-travel thriller with a moral spine.