Blonde is torture. Not for the viewer, necessarily—though your mileage may vary—but for Marilyn Monroe, whose life the film distills into a series of tragedies. Marilyn (born Norma Jeane) was…
See How They Run, a murder mystery set in 1950s London, is a little too self-assured. Its opening monologue complains that murder mysteries are too samey: “you’ve seen one, you’ve…
Barbarian understands that the central thrill of horror is not wanting someone to go in there. Those alarm bells go off almost immediately, when Tess, a young woman traveling for…
Over the summer, a slew of visual effects artists came forward with claims that Disney and its subsidiaries have been abusing VFX teams for years. From overworking artists to the…
Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. may sound like a faith-based film, but don’t worry—it’s not here to preach! It’s a mockumentary/comedy-drama about a megachurch pastor and his wife staging…
George Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Longing is unlike anything he’s done before, which is in and of itself a feat—the man’s directed everything from Mad Max to Babe: Pig…
Eagle-eyed viewers may notice that Bullet Train, a Japan-set adaptation of a Japanese novel, has a shortage of Japanese characters. That’s no accident, obviously and unfortunately. Attempting to rationalize this…
Resurrection finds Rebecca Hall at her most psychologically fraught, which is to say that a knockout performance is guaranteed. In the vein of The Gift and The Night House, Hall…
In many ways, Thor: Love and Thunder is the MCU’s most simply enjoyable movie in years. It’s (relatively) self-contained, light on the heavy stuff, and as small-scale as the gods…
Love is a fickle thing—unless love is happening in 19th-century England, in which case it’s entirely predictable and nearly always ends the same. The Victorian/Regency-era romance genre is notoriously unadventurous.…
Elvis opens on Tom Hanks, donned in the least believable fat suit you’ve ever seen, sneering in a venomously outsized accent that he’s not “the villain of this here story”…
Just before the studio logos, Lightyear tells us we’re seeing Andy of Toy Story’s favorite movie, begging an unsettling question: does Disney exist in the Toy Story universe? Does Andy…
