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Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender star in Steven Soderbergh’s spy movie, Black Bag.

I spy another directorial hit from Soderbergh

A marriage story disguised as a spy caper, Steven Soderbergh’s latest, Black Bag, stars Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett as the partners at the center of this outstanding potboiler. Fassbender and […]

Robert Pattinson does the heavy lifting in Bong Joon-ho’s latest film, Mickey 17.

Pattinson forced to carry the load

Warner Bros. bets big on Parasite auteur Bong Joon-ho with Mickey 17, the director’s first film since that historic Oscar night more than five years ago. However, those going into […]

Natalie Morales, left, and Sonequa Martin-Green star in the film My Dead Friend Zoe.

Film uncovers comedy in tragedy

Adapted from his short film Merit x Zoe, the new dramedy My Dead Friend Zoe is the feature debut of writer/director and Bronze Star Medal recipient Kyle Hausmann-Stokes. Hausmann-Stokes’ experiences […]

Theo James stars in the new dark comedy-horror film based on a Stephen King story, The Monkey.

‘The Monkey’ can’t stay on beat

Dying is easy, but comedy is hard in The Monkey, Osgood Perkins’ morbid, but not particularly mordant, follow-up to last year’s outstanding serial killer thriller Longlegs. The latter film had […]

Anthony Mackie gets his shot to play Captain America in a feature film in Captain America: Brave New World.

MCU entry struggles to find direction

The silver screen shield has officially been passed from Steve Rogers to Sam Wilson with Captain America: Brave New World, the first MCU movie with Anthony Mackie in the titular […]

Olivia Holt and Mason Gooding have the right kind of chemistry in the romantic slasher Heart Eyes.

Horror meets romance in ‘Heart Eyes’

Arriving just in time for Valentine’s Day, the rom-com slasher Heart Eyes succeeds most by staying true to its unique combination of subgenres. It’s genuinely romantic, consistently funny, and certainly […]

Sophie Thatcher portrays a companion robot coming to grips with her reality in Companion.

Sci-fi thriller examines morality

Billed as “a new kind of love story from the creators of Barbarian,” the tongue-in-cheek thriller Companion finds young couple Iris (Sophie Thatcher) and Josh (Jack Quaid) arriving at a […]

Ghost story does not covet scares

The new Steven Soderbergh film Presence is a ghost story, albeit an unconventional one. It can’t be neatly described as a horror movie or even a thriller, genre-wise fitting in […]

The retelling of the Universal Monsters classic Wolf Man stars, from left, Julia Garner, Christopher Abbott, and Matilda Firth.

‘Wolf Man’ lacks necessary bite

Released right before the pandemic shut theaters down worldwide, Leigh Whannell’s The Invisible Man was a smart, suspenseful, and successful reimagining of the 1933 Universal Monsters classic. Five years later, […]