Category: Review
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Barbie review: literal feminist fable
Greta Gerwig expertly and hilariously sketches out the problems with our male-dominated world—but with zero subtlety. Akhil Arora, a member of the Film Critics Guild and a Rotten Tomatoes-certified film critic When I first heard that the writer-director behind Lady Bird and the most recent Little Women movie adaptation had been picked to give us…
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Oppenheimer review: Nolan goes nuclear
Part thriller and part character study, Christopher Nolan’s biopic of the father of the atomic bomb is his most political movie yet.
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Kohrra review: toxic masculinity will be the death of us all
Police apathy, failed fathers, and a foggy future make a deadly cocktail in this spiritual successor to Udta Punjab.
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning review: you can bet on Tom Cruise
No better duo than Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie when it comes to action blockbuster filmmaking in Hollywood today.
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The Witcher season 3 review: time runs out
In Henry Cavill’s final season as Geralt, as the Netflix series loses its star attraction, it makes a bigger case for Ciri as the future.
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The Flash review: best DC universe movie since Wonder Woman
The utterly joyous first half is doomed by a third act full of multiversal shenanigans.
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Extraction 2 review: rinse and repeat, warts and all
Chris Hemsworth-led Netflix sequel is bigger and more personal—but it fails to be any better.
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Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse review: brilliant but botched
The sequel to the Oscar-winning original is mature, wilder, and more ambitious—but it’s ultimately one half of a movie.
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Ted Lasso season 3 review: an own goal
Enamoured by its own success, the Apple TV+ series got overly cloying as it bid goodbye.
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Succession season 4 review: everything burns
In the final season of the HBO series, the Roy children showed themselves to be no less than their late father.