Dev Patel’s action film packs a punch
Monkey Man★★★★★ fter an outstanding turn in 2021’s The Green Knight, Dev Patel makes his directorial debut with the visceral action vehicle Monkey...
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Unleveled storytelling hurts blockbuster
Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire★★★★★ In divisive times, it’s heartening to know that even the most gargantuan of monsters are able to put their...
New horror movie is far from perfect
Immaculate★★★★★ In 2021’s The Voyeurs, writer and director Michael Mohan mined the depths of trashy ’90s erotic thrillers to create his own take...
Leads are a knockout in love story
Love Lies Bleeding★★★★★ Last month, Ethan Coen’s Drive-Away Dolls had a very brief theatrical run as a light-hearted queer romance that was zany...
Hard to imagine a worse horror film
Imaginary★★★★★ Blumhouse made almost $300 million last fall with the sinister bear-fronted Five Nights at Freddy’s, and they returned to theaters...
‘Dune: Part Two’ builds on storytelling
Dune: Part Two★★★★★ For retroactive clarity, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune: Part One was originally due to come out November 2020, but got pushed almost...
Ethan Coen goes it alone on comedy
Drive-Away Dolls★★★★★ When the Coen Brothers decided to amicably part ways in 2018 following their co-directed Western anthology The Ballad of Buster...
Superhero flick is a tangled mess
Madame Web★★★★★ Sony’s Spider-Man Universe — the one that, confusingly, doesn’t actually have Spider-Man — crawls forward with Madame Web, another...
‘Frankenstein’ comes across lifeless
Lisa Frankenstein★★★★★ The story of Frankenstein has been reanimated so many times it was perhaps inevitable that we would eventually get a 1980s-tinged...
‘Argylle’ leans heavily on tired tropes
Argylle★★★★★ With a couple of exceptions, Matthew Vaughn is a director whose appeal largely eludes me. Twenty years ago, his Guy Ritchie-esque Layer...