For 129 minutes, the defaults to the most pedestrian narrative turns imaginable.
Matt Reeves’s compelling back-to-basics take on DC Comics’s most iconic character gets an excellent 4K release.
The Batman is a commemoration of the Batman mythology and its stylistic and tonal shifts across its 80-year history.
The title is an assurance that the most action-packed sequences will be defined by loudness, incoherence, and pointless cruelty.
The film struggles to both honor and redeem the past before everything comes to a close.
As it proceeds toward its telegraphed rom-com ending, the film becomes just more empty rhetoric, an ineffectual reiteration.
While the film’s perception of the politics of the jungle is often profound, the same cannot be said of its take on the human world.
There’s a narrative lopsidedness to Black Panther that sharply undercuts Killmonger’s emotional journey.
The Last Jedi is largely content to further the themes and narrative strategies of J.J. Abrams’s predecessor.
Breathe is an easily digestible replica of the truth, bathed in honeyed cinematography and sentimentalized adulation.
Matt Reeves’s War for the Planet of the Apes is a film that resides in an ethical grey zone.
Today, 20th Century Fox released the first clip from Matt Reeves’s upcoming War for the Planet of the Apes.
It has all the charm of the best entries in the Star Wars series, and it arrives on a pristine Blu-ray primed to delight the next generation of fans.
The film exists less as a meaningful extension of its world than as a fan-service deployment device.
Joss Whedon’s film struggles against the rigid formula that typifies the Marvel universe, but only does so up to a point.
This is a summer blockbuster contingent on grand bargains, tactical retreats, and a ferocious, inevitable shock-and-awe campaign.
Even amid the troubling trend of remaking films that have barely collected a speck of dust, there are still movies that can surprise you.
A top-shelf presentation of one of last year’s baggiest, most unnecessary films.
There’s more to An Unexpected Journey than self-conscious nostalgia and fan pandering.
The tone of Jackson’s latest is, appropriately, much more jovial than that of Rings, which unfolds in an era far more stricken with despair.