The most remarkable thing about The Marksman is how actively it insists on not setting itself apart. Almost willfully mediocre, Robert Lorenz’s neo-western fea...
Retirement is the ultimate adversary. True for Will Smith’s Mike Lowrey, truer still for Hollywood. Though lega-sequels perpetually seem like a fairly recent p...
Time and Terminators make fools of us all. Much like the cold-blooded killers that have inhabited it, the sci-fi action franchise seems hellbent in its refusal ...
Few movie stars have an affability as potent as Will Smith's. At 51, it's an asset he and his collaborators, big and small alike, have bet big (and mostly won b...
In its final moments, Spider-Man: Far From Home muses that people will believe anything. This fairly blatant observation of the not-too-distant future setting o...
Ari Aster wants you to know you’re screwed–that is, if you’re on the wrong side of a deal with demons or deities. In the wake of last year’s wickedly captivatin...
It’s difficult to not be impressed by Dexter Fletcher’s Rocketman in some form or other. It’s placed in a paradoxical position. In the wake of Bohemian Rhapsody...
There's something somewhat hypocritical in remaking a horror yarn about the perils of not leaving something well enough alone. Much like Jason Clarke's Louis Cr...
It’s become increasingly rare to see American remakes of foreign properties garner much traction or success, if any. It is rarer still to find one that justifie...
Mission: Impossible – Fallout is an anomaly. It’s the sixth installment of a decades-old franchise that has hit full steam. This is stranger still when conside...
