Tense, gorgeous to look at, well-acted, and wonderfully directed, ‘Prey’ is a goddamn blast, and a pleasant back-to-basics return for the franchise.
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Soon we’ll find out if ‘Prey’ takes heed of these lessons, but if any enterprising party is curious, the data on previous ‘Predator’ installments point towards a clear winner, and is now there for the taking.
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[Rating: Minor Rock Fist Up] In Theaters Friday, July 22nd People are going to try and sell Nope as a 70s-era Spielberg homage, or a 50s alien-invasion throwback, and while there’s notes of all these things in the picture, this is 100% undiluted, uncut Jordan Peele. A bracing, suspenseful, well-paced thrill-a-minute corker buttressed by insightful, […]
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One day a movie will peel back the gruesome and abominable moral complexity of Adolf Eichmann, but ‘Orders from Above’ is not that movie.
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A forgettable trifle that rarely makes sense and doesn’t look particularly interesting, ‘Thor: Love & Thunder’ is nonetheless funny and easy to consume.
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Elvis the film, even if it nails the look, feel, rhythm, and swagger of “The King” takes away his agency and misses too many key details.
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A fun detective yarn full of meta humor and industry jokes, ‘Chip and Dale: Rescue Rangers’ is the rare 21st-century franchise resurrection that works.
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At once a send-up of Hollywood as well as a heartfelt exploration of success and legacy, ‘The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent’ is poignant and fun.
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‘The Northman’ might be a little too bloody or juicy for some, but that’s only because Eggers has left so much for audiences to sink their teeth into.
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‘Ambulance’ is fun enough at times to justify its existence, yet remains tonally inconsistent with a dash of thematic schizophrenia.
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Full of laughs from beginning to end and supported by a top-notch cast, one could do worse than spending a few hours getting lost with Channing and Sandy.
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Blessed with a simple conceit (stuck on a haunted island with no way off), ‘Offseason’ never comes close to bringing all its disparate elements together.
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‘The Batman’ is a mixed bag, and too often forgets what makes its eponymous superhero so interesting in the first place.
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‘The Burning Sea’ matches the scope and vibe of its Norwegian disaster film predecessors while not quite clearing the same bar on quality.
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‘Big Gold Brick’ suffers from an unsympathetic, emotionally frantic lead and about six-too-many subplots within a broader story that can’t manage them.
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