Hollywood Reviews
Now Streaming: THE REGIME Plods, GIRLS5EVA Rocks
Kate Winslet and Matthias Schoenaerts star in a dramatic satire. Sara Bareilles, Busy Phillips, Paula Pell and Renee Elise Goldsberry star in a comic satire.
PALM ROYALE Review: Secrets and Lies in High Society
Kristin Wiig, Ricky Martinez, Laura Dern and Allison Janney star in the comedy-drama series, premiering globally on Apple TV+.
SXSW 2024 Review: CIVIL WAR, Is Not What You Think It Is. It's So Much More.
Civil War follows a quartet of war correspondents in the last days of the American republic as the Western Forces of the secessionist states of Texas and California advances on Washington, D.C. with harrowing results. Leading this motley crew are Lee...
Now Streaming: APPLES NEVER FALL Tries to Teach, MANHUNT Simply Thrills
Annette Bening, Sam Neill, Jake Lacy and Alison Brie star in a family melodrama, now streaming on Peacock TV. Or, you can watch the search for Abe Lincoln's killer on Apple TV+.
ARTHUR THE KING Review: Adorable Dog Outshines Wahlberg in Inspirational Drama
In Mark Wahlberg’s latest inspirational drama, Arthur the King, Wahlberg’s character, Michael Light, finds himself face-to-face with the end of his career in adventure racing, an ultra-niche sport that involves running, biking, climbing, and kayaking across rough terrain, and hundreds of...
RESIDENT ALIEN S3 E5 Review: Love Is Never Easy, Even for Humans
Alan Tudyk and Sara Tomko star in the sci-fi comedy series, airing on SYFY and streaming next day on Peacock.
IMAGINARY Review: Tiresome Compendium of Horror Genre Cliches
Filled with stock scares, stock plot turns, and stock set pieces, Imaginary, writer-director Jeff Wadlow’s (Fantasy Island, Kick-Ass 2, Never Back Down) latest enfeebled effort, stumbles from its first moments through its last shot before the end credits mercifully roll...
KUNG FU PANDA 4 Review: Fourth Entry Falls Short of Its Predecessors
While the Kung Fu Panda series has been noticeably offscreen for the better part of a decade, it’s survived and thrived via three, small-screen series, Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, The Paws of Destiny, and The Dragon Knight, each,...
DAMSEL Review: Millie Bobby Brown Stars in Middling Dark Fantasy
At 20, Millie Bobbie Brown, the erstwhile breakout star of Netflix’s Stranger Things, has co-starred in two kaiju-themed blockbusters (Godzilla vs. Kong, Godzilla: King of the Monsters), and not only headlined two made-for-Netflix young-adult adventure-dramas, Enola Holmes I and II...
MANHUNT Review: Killing a President, Disrupting a Nation, A Thriller
Tobias Manzies, Anthony Boyle, Lovie Simone, Lily Taylor and Hamish Linklater star in a dramatic thriller about the chase for a killer, debuting globally on Apple TV+.
DUNE: PART TWO Review: Still Handsome. Still Obligatory. Stilgar.
If it does nothing else, Dune: Part Two completes the circle of the Fatboy Slim-Arrakis EU. By opening with Christopher Walken’s Emperor Of The Known Universe, this might just be the quirkiest, and most unexpectedly sly, thing about the...
CONSTELLATION Review: Beyond Space and Time
Noomi Rapace, Jonathan Banks, and James D'Arcy star in a psychological sci-fi thriller, created and written by Peter Harness, debuting globally on Apple TV+.
BOB MARLEY: ONE LOVE Review: Conventional Biopic for Unconventional Musical Genius
Whenever the famous son of a famous singer, songwriter, and musician appears onscreen to extoll the authenticity of his late, revered father’s biopic, largely thanks to his family’s intimate involvement in every aspect of production, there’s a better-than-average chance that...
LISA FRANKENSTEIN Review: 80s Goth Throwback Disappoints, Underwhelms
Losing a parental figure, biological or otherwise, as a teen can have long-term, lifelong effects, most of them related to the initial, life-changing trauma. Losing the same parent to an axe-wielding intruder can double or triple that trauma, but in...
Sundance 2024 Review: WILL & HARPER, Road Trip Doc Engages, Enlightens, Educates
When comedian and actor Will Farrell learned that his longtime friend and onetime Saturday Night Live (SNL) head writer Harper Steele had come out as a trans woman at the age of 61, he, like most of us on the...
Sundance 2024 Review: THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF MAGICAL NEGROES, Surface-Deep Satire Flounders on Rom-Com Shores
Filmmaker Spike Lee generally gets credit for inserting the “magical negro” phrase into pop culture more than two decades ago, but the idea itself dates back decades, if not longer. Coined to reflect the tradition in fiction or film of...
ARGYLLE Review: Meta-Spy-Comedy Underwhelms on Every Level
A profoundly underwhelming D-level effort from mostly A- and B-level talent, director-producer Matthew Vaughn’s (The Kingsman: The Secret Service. X-Men: Days of Future Past, Layer Cake) latest attempt at a franchise starter, Argylle, perplexes, irritates, and disappoints in almost equal measure. Nothing, not even...
GUILLERMO DEL TORO'S PINOCCHIO 4K Review: An Honest to Goodness Great Film
Ewan McGregor, Gregory Mann, Tilda Swinton, David Bradley, and Christoph Waltz star in the award-winning stop-motion take on the dark fairy tale.
IN THE KNOW Review: Puppets Rule the World
Zach Woods, J. Smith-Cameron and Mike Judge lead the ensemble for a funny new series on Peacock TV.
MASTERS OF THE AIR Review: War and Glory, Same Old Story
Austin Butler, Callum Turner and Anthony Boyle star in the respectful World War II military spectacle, debuting on Apple TV+.