Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania review: the MCU's strangest setting leaves its heroes stranded. Kang, M.O.D.O.K. and a $330 million budget, scored 4.8/10.
Annabelle: Creation review: the Conjuring prequel that made the doll scary again, with a demon, a dollmaker and six orphans in a locked house.
Apollo 13 review: Ron Howard's 1995 docudrama turns a failed Moon landing into a story about competence, with nine Oscar nominations and two wins.
Bad Boys II hit theaters July 18, 2003. Michael Bay's 146-minute sequel grossed $273.3M but scored 3.8/10 — a loud, long, empty ride.
Bambi at 70 minutes still stuns: no villain, no sidekick franchise, just a fawn, a gunshot off screen, and Disney's hardest scene.
Pixar's The Good Dinosaur sends an asteroid past Earth and follows Arlo, a runt Apatosaurus, on a long, uneven journey home. A review.
The 5th Wave review: Chloë Grace Moretz fights an alien invasion in a film with a strong opening, a clean premise, and a Fifth Wave that never lands. 3.3/10.
Denzel Washington's first-ever sequel is a forgettable reunion tour: The Equalizer 2 review, 5.0/10.
Borat review: Larry Charles' 2006 comedy, its method, its flaws, and its 6.8 TMDB audience score.
Sergio Leone's final film, Once Upon a Time in America, reviewed: De Niro, James Woods, the 269-minute cut that became 139, and why the ambition outruns it.
Casablanca (1942): Bogart, Bergman, and a nightclub in Vichy Morocco. How the film got made, why the ending still lands, and why it endures.
Orson Welles was 25 when RKO gave him final cut. Citizen Kane, his 1941 mystery about a dying word and a reporter who never solves it, still holds up.
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