While certainly not bringing anything new to the table, The New Mutants remains a pretty standard superhero outing. A mediocre plot with some great eerie atmosphere at least make it enjoyable enough for X-Men fans to watch as one final film in the now-dead Fox franchise.
Famed director Christopher Nolan’s most recent film is an enjoyable, if convoluted, outing. While Tenet will be remembered for its mind-blowing special effects and production design, its hurt by its unnecessarily confusing narrative, stagnant performances and soulless story.
Proving that his first outing was not a fluke, director John Krasinski stuns again in one of the best horror film sequels of all time. Building off the success of the 2018 film, A Quiet Place Part II is a masterpiece of horror sound and atmosphere with some excellent performances to back it up. While it comes just a tad short of the first film, it remains a worthwhile sequel that fans of the original cannot miss.
Promising Young Woman is an excellent directorial debut for Emerald Fennell with an outstanding lead performance, despite a final turn that works in terms of shock value, but severely derails the message of the film, almost the the point of cheapening everything that was so wonderful before it.
The highly anticipated sequel to the fantastic 2017 film Wonder Woman is a rather mixed bag, but it's filled with quite a few sweet treats if you let yourself overlook enough to enjoy it. Not without its many faults, particularly with its storytelling, the film still manages to entertain those fans of the Amazonian demigoddess.
Despite being an excellent source material, excellent special effects and Oscar-winning director Guillermo del Toro as a co-producer, Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark fails to capture the horror. Instead, it feels weighed down by weak performances, a lack of substance and retreaded horror storytelling that makes the film feel empty. In fact, these scary stories would have been best left in the dark.
When talking about teen dramas of the 1990s, Cruel Intentions can often be overlooked as one of the most influential and groundbreaking films of the genre.
Marriage Story depicts one of the most realistic portrayals of divorce ever put to film, and in doing so creates a cinematic experience filled with heartbreaking emotion and depth through its writing, performances and direction.
El Camino may not have been a necessary follow-up to the iconic television series Breaking Bad, but it is an enjoyable revisit all the same. Great performances and an interesting plot provides the series with a beautiful epilogue and send-off for one of the show’s best characters.
With charismatic performances and a perfectly fine balance between a whodunit mystery and comedy, Rian Johnson’s Knives Out proves to be one of the most enjoyable films of the year.
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