Michael Bay turns his singularly amped-up aesthetic to a Netflix blockbuster that’s even more brain-dead than usual.
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Jake Kasdan’s followup to the surprisingly fun 2017 sequel loses some of the original’s luster.
As his WWI war epic 1917 comes out in time for the holidays, we spend December looking back on the eclectic modes of Sam Mendes.
One writer’s childhood bond with his best friend was sealed by a fateful late-night screening of Die Hard with a Vengeance.
Brian Kirk’s crime drama suffers from bad writing, ham-fisted messaging, and an overwhelming sense of “been there, done that.”
Disney+’s live-action Star Wars series shakes off its fan-film cobwebs and shows glimmers of space Western intrigue.
Elizabeth Banks revives the girl-power action franchise with new blood and a solid if formulaic actioner.
Roland Emmerich’s dull, misguided World War II epic tries to mask its Pacific-sized flaws in the cloak of patriotism.
If you can’t use your eyes to see, you might as well roll them at Apple TV+’s hokey dystopian drama.
Judgment Day creeps up on us once again as old and new characters join forces to fight the future.
Episode two digs into more of the show’s thematic material, as answers give way to more questions.
On the thirty-fifth anniversary of the film’s release, we look back at James Cameron’s most melancholy blockbuster.
Cheap, creaky jokes and overstimulated filmmaking plague a too-late sequel no one asked for.
Ang Lee’s ambitious young-vs-old futuristic thriller is a misfire of cranked-up frame rates and muddled plotting.
Brad Pitt seeks the divine amongst the stars in James Gray’s flawed but mesmerizing space epic.
The third entry in Gerard Butler’s mil-porn series about patriot dads is almost saved by the sudden appearance of a wild Nick Nolte.
Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, and Elisabeth Moss can’t quite spice up the underdone intrigue of this ’70s-set comic book adaptation.
Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham team up in a spinoff that delivers plenty of action, even if its humor stalls.
