They Cloned Tyrone is a satirical science-fiction story styled as a Blaxploitation film.
This set attests to the raw power and sociopolitical specificity of McQueen’s anthology series.
The Woman King doesn’t exactly offer anything subversive when it comes to its view of warfare.
Abi Damaris Corbin’s quiet and unobtrusive style helps Breaking build tension primarily from character instead of incident.
Steve McQueen’s series emphasizes that social change, as well as personal fulfillment, comes from connection rather than isolation.
The film struggles to both honor and redeem the past before everything comes to a close.
Pacific Rim Uprising is a more fascinating, unpredictable creation than its predecessor, and one that sticks longer in the mind.
The Last Jedi is largely content to further the themes and narrative strategies of J.J. Abrams’s predecessor.
Kathryn Bigelow hyper-realistically covers her ensemble’s actions in the manner of a somber disaster film.
The film is a hokily melodramatic rise-fall-redemption story with a mostly unearned patina of greater significance.
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.
It falls into the trappings of middlebrow literary adaptation by finding only sporadic means to convincingly adjudicate the trauma and anguish of its transitory epoch.
This list is likely the only one to put Nicole Kidman in the company of Lori Loughlin.
It distinguishes itself from its genre compatriots by prizing theme and place over referentiality and hip, out-of-the-box grindhouse-ness.