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★★★½ Colin Trevorrow (The Book of Henry), writing with Emily Carmichael (Pacific Rim: Uprising) and Derek Connolly (Kong: Skull Island), returns to the Jurassic World director’s chair with Jurassic World: Dominion. This final film in the arc unites both iconic casts for the first time in a thrill ride of a movie that is big...
★★★ Crimes of the Future is a sci-fi film directed by David Cronenberg (The Fly, A History of Violence) and stars Viggo Mortensen, Lea Seydoux, Kristen Stewart, and Scott Speedman. In the future, the human species has continued to adapt and evolve. The earth has also changed, having been ravaged by some unnamed environmental (or...
★★★ Director Chloe Okuno dials up the suspense in her moody and atmospheric directorial debut, Watcher. The film focuses on the minute, unsettling things that someone may encounter that turns their stomach but may cause others to think they’re overreacting. As the story progresses, these subtly creepy things become more and more menacing and apparent....
★★★★ The Bob’s Burgers Movie is directed by Loren Bouchard and Bernard Derriman, both of whom have won multiple Primetime Emmys for various episodes of the TV show. The voice actors from the show reprise their roles in the movie, H. Jon Benjamin as Bob, Kristen Schaal as Louise, Dan Mintz as Tina, John Roberts...
★★★★½ Maverick (Tom Cruise) is back in the pilot’s seat in the Top Gun film bearing his nickname. This time Joseph Kosinski (Oblivion) takes over directing the Peter Craig (The Batman) script. While the film features many new pilot characters, the audience needs to strap in for an experience that pays tribute to and exceeds...
★★★ Alex Garland’s (Ex Machina, 28 Days Later) film, Men, may leave the viewer with more questions than answers, which isn’t necessarily bad. It is a horror movie brave enough to take an audience on a twisted journey and send it out of the theater with an eerie “what now” feeling. As a result, moviegoers...
★★★½ A follow-up to the 2019 film and the BBC series, Downton Abbey: A New Era is a romance drama directed by Simon Curtis (Goodbye Christopher Robin, My Week with Marilyn) and starring Hugh Bonneville, Jim Carter, Michelle Dockery, Elizabeth McGovern, Maggie Smith, Robert James-Collier, Hugh Dancy, Dominic West, and Laura Haddock. The Crawley family...
★★ Director Keith Thomas (The Vigil) takes a script from Scott Teems (Halloween Kills) for the remake of the classic Stephen King novel Firestarter. Unfortunately, what starts as a good adaptation with acceptable alterations ultimately devolves into something unrecognizable from the original story, with a rushed, senseless ending. Andy McGee (Zac Efron) met his future...
★★★★ In Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, director Sam Raimi (Army of Darkness) takes a script by Michael Waldron (Loki) and creates an eye-popping masterpiece that combines horror and fantasy. Though the story suffers a bit from underdeveloped characters, the fantastic musical score and various visual components easily overcome its shortcoming. Dr. Stephen...
★★½ Memory is an action mystery film directed by Martin Campbell (Casino Royale), starring Liam Neeson, Guy Pearce, Monica Bellucci, Taj Atwal, Ray Fearon, Harold Torres, and Ray Stevenson. It is based on a Belgian novel from 1985 called, “De Zaak Alzheimer” by Jef Geeraerts which was already adapted into a 2003 Belgian film titled,...
