The story’s boilerplate setup gets a noticeable lift thanks to Darren Aronofsky’s style and focus.
The film somehow shows its hand too early and plays its cards too close to its chest.
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 film extends into impactful hyperbole the tensions inherent in being subjects of and subjects to incessant surveillance.
One of the greatest action franchises of all time receives a terrific UHD spit-polish.
The series works best when it focuses on intimate, human moments rather than on broad social critiques.
The fun but more predictable Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald moves the new series forward, but only incrementally.
Jonathan and Josh Baker’s Kin resembles a TV pilot that’s been released into theaters as a standalone property.
In a city known for reinvention, anyone can be anything, which implies that everyone is also no one.
To some degree, Rough Night’s attention to character detail compensates for its weaknesses as a comedy.
Its gory conclusion is presented with an ostentatious grandiosity that the rest of the film simply doesn’t justify.
It’s too regimented in its storytelling to conjure any real insight into the privileged world in which it’s embedded.
The film exists resolutely outside of salience and doggedly within the comfort of escapism.
The gorgeous transfer fully honors the film’s distinctly amazing road-fever aesthetic.
It’s a mess of styles and mixed signals, a pulp fiction that mostly tend to its loyalties to other cine-odysseys through the streets of L.A.
George Miller orchestrates the rubber-burning pandemonium with the illicit smirk of someone who knows he’s giving us exactly what we want.
Andrew Niccol has awkwardly shoehorned in broad talking points from various sides of the drone controversy.
Niccol has awkwardly shoehorned in broad talking points from various sides of the drone controversy.
The film’s tired sentimentality aside, its general lack of empathy is most damning.