Movie Reviews6.8/10
Black Widow Review: Florence Pugh Steals a Family Drama Wrapped in a Marvel Prequel
Black Widow review: Scarlett Johansson's MCU swan song is a bruising family drama carried by Florence Pugh's Yelena Belova.
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Movie Reviews6.8/10
JK Rowling’s Wizarding World Sequel Stumbles Between Two Films
A review of Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018), the lowest-grossing Wizarding World film, starring Eddie Redmayne and Jude Law.
Movie Reviews8.3/10
Pixar’s Soul asks what a life is for, and it answers with jazz
Pixar's Soul sends Joe Gardner into the Great Before with 22, voiced by Tina Fey. A review of the jazz, the cast, and the film's 8.3 score.
Movie Reviews4.6/10
Bruce Almighty at 23: A Divine Premise, a Shrug of a Movie
Bruce Almighty hit theaters May 23, 2003, with Jim Carrey as a Buffalo reporter given God's powers. It grossed $485M but hasn't aged well.
Movie Reviews9.3/10
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Forman’s Machine and the Men Inside It
A review of Miloš Forman's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest: Jack Nicholson vs. Louise Fletcher, Chief Bromden's witness, and why it still earns 9.3/10.
Movie Reviews4.6/10
The Four Horsemen Swap One Magician and Lose the Plot
Now You See Me 2 review: the Four Horsemen land in Macau, Lizzy Caplan joins the cast, and a 4.6 score shows a sequel that adds pieces but loses the plot.
Movie Reviews5.5/10
Tom Cruise’s post-apocalyptic sci-fi looks stunning but can’t sustain its mysteries
Oblivion review: Tom Cruise and Morgan Freeman in a gorgeous sci-fi puzzle box that explains too much and trusts its audience too little.
Movie Reviews7.7/10
The mechanical shark barely worked. Steven Spielberg shot the thing anyway, and the failure became the most important decision in the movie.
Jaws at 7.7: how a broken mechanical shark, John Williams' two notes and Spielberg's forced restraint made the 1975 summer blockbuster still work.
Movie Reviews5.7/10
Madagascar Review: A Well-Cast, Well-Animated Comedy That Peaks by Accident
Madagascar (2005): DreamWorks' zoo-breakout comedy, its voice cast, King Julien's accidental rise, the penguins, and why $558M didn't buy a better script.
Movie Reviews8/10
Casino Royale at 20: Daniel Craig’s Debut Is a Reboot That Earns the Word
Daniel Craig's first Bond film rebooted 007 with practical stunts, a poker-table plot, and Vesper Lynd as the real engine. A review of Casino Royale (2006).
Movie Reviews7.7/10
Nightcrawler: Dan Gilroy’s Sharp, Mean Debut
Dan Gilroy's Nightcrawler (2014) stars Jake Gyllenhaal as Lou Bloom, a freelance crime photographer chasing violent footage across Los Angeles at night.
Movie Reviews9.6/10
12 Years a Slave: A Great Film That Refuses to Comfort You
Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave earns its Oscars — a review of Chiwetel Ejiofor, Lupita Nyong'o, and a film that refuses every shortcut.