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.
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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
Movie Reviews8.7/10
Hereditary: Ari Aster’s Family Drama Disguised as Horror
Ari Aster's Hereditary turns a family's grief into horror, with Toni Collette anchoring a film that made $90M on a $10M budget.
Movie Reviews5.9/10
Bad Boys for Life: A Competent, Likable Sequel That Never Becomes Necessary
Bad Boys for Life review: Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return as Miami detectives 17 years later, in a competent sequel that never feels necessary.
Movie Reviews5.7/10
Thor: Love and Thunder: Two Good Performances, No Conviction
Thor: Love and Thunder review: Christian Bale and Natalie Portman shine, but Taika Waititi's jokes bury the grief. A 5.7/10 Marvel misfire.
Movie Reviews5.5/10
The Terminal Review: 128 Minutes of Pleasant Waiting
A review of Steven Spielberg's The Terminal (2004), starring Tom Hanks as stranded traveler Viktor Navorski at JFK. Well-acted but weightless. 5.5/10.
Movie Reviews9.3/10
The Boston Globe Team That Broke the Catholic Abuse Scandal, and the Bureaucratic Grind Behind It
Tom McCarthy's 2015 drama Spotlight follows the Boston Globe team that exposed Catholic Church abuse — a 9.3/10 review of the Best Picture winner.