Reviews

Minions: The Rise of Gru delivers plenty of fun moments, but its colorful, crazy world is beginning to feel a bit too familiar.

Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain lead an incredible ensemble of actors in The Forgiven, an observant but slight new social satire.

Hulu's genre-mashing action film The Princess is a fun, hard-hitting fairytale adventure that subverts expectations and delivers plenty of surprises.

Only Murders in the Building season 2 is a charming and hilarious, if less tightly plotted, follow-up to the Hulu hit's debut season.

The Greek comedy-drama Apples is an accidental COVID movie with shades of Yorgos Lanthimos that is ultimately unsatisfying.

Scott Derrickson's The Black Phone is an intense yet ultimately superficial thriller.

Hilarious and charming, Marcel the Shell With Shoes On is a coming-of-age story about a tiny shell that's cinematic chicken soup for your soul.

Flux Gourmet is the sensual and surreal new film from director Peter Strickland.

Moulin Rouge director Baz Luhrmann throws his whole mad heart into the alternately ridiculous and sublime biopic Elvis.

The Umbrella Academy keeps getting weirder with each season, but season 3 is a reminder that it keeps getting better, too.

My Fake Boyfriend, streaming now on Prime Video, is a slight but ultimately fun LGBT romantic comedy with engaging lead performances.

Disney and Pixar's Lightyear does an impressive job of transforming Toy Story's Buzz Lightyear from a toy into a bona fide sci-fi action hero.

Daryl McCormack and Emma Thompson elevate Hulu's Good Luck to You, Leo Grande.

Apple TV+'s Cha Cha Real Smooth is a charming and unabashedly romantic new drama.

The Netflix thriller Spiderhead doesn't aspire to be an Oscar darling, but it is an entertaining psycho-drama with excellent performances from its cast.

AMC's Dark Winds is an engrossing and entertaining thriller led by an incredible Zahn McClarnon performance.

A young writer tries to make it in the rough world of 19th century Paris in the superb French film Lost Illusions, one of 2022's best movies.

Jurassic World Dominion gets the whole team back together, but in doing so, it sidelines the franchise's greatest asset: Its amazing, terrifying dinosaurs.

Stop-motion and visual effects master Phil Tippett's film Mad God is a project 30 years in the making, and the nightmare it delivers is worth the wait.

Disney's Ms. Marvel series gets off to a great start with its introduction of Kamala Khan to the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Adam Sandler has returned with Hustle, a winning new sports drama that's a total crowd-pleaser. The film premieres June 8 on Netflix.

Olivier Assayas revisits one of his earliest triumphs with this HBO miniseries version of Irma Vep starring Tomb Raider star Alicia Vikander.

Scream queen Maika Monroe heads to Bucharest for the excellent Hitchcockian suspense thriller Watcher.

The Fly and Videodrome director David Cronenberg returns to his body-horror wheelhouse with the shockingly funny Crimes of the Future.

Season 3 of Amazon Studios' The Boys drops the humor and ups the darkness and depravity, and makes the whole show less entertaining in the process.

Fire Island offers plenty of laughs and romance but tells a predictable story.

Benediction iBenediction is another meditative, visually stunning drama from director Terence Davies. The Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi-led film hits theaters on June 3.

Obi-Wan Kenobi is a welcome return from a beloved Star Wars character, as well as a spotlight for new foes and an entertaining story.

Fox's beloved animated sitcom comes to the big screen with The Bob's Burgers Movie, which is basically just an overlong episode of the show.

By taking big swings and blowing up past seasons' formula, Stranger Things season 4 delivers a new chapter of the saga that's worth the long wait.

The first season of Letterkenny spinoff series Shoresy isn't just good. It might be the best hockey show ever.

Tom Cruise reprises the role of the Navy's cockiest flyboy in the twinkly romantic legacy sequel Top Gun: Maverick.

In the new film Downton Abbey: A New Era, everything old is not new again as the movie suffers from a lack of energy and an unwillingness to change.

J.K. Simmons and Sissy Spacek bring their A-game in Amazon's Night Sky.

You don't need to be a '90s kid to enjoy the Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers film, which delivers a fun, all-ages adventure filled with heart and humor.

Hulu's Conversations with Friends can't recapture the magic of Normal People.

Eskil Vogt's Norwegian thriller The Innocents shares a title with one of the great haunted house movies, but it's a forgettable game of psychic tyke warfare.

Tom Hiddleston and Claire Danes lead the moody, visually splendid new gothic melodrama The Essex Serpent. It premieres Friday, May 13 on Apple TV+.

The remake of 1984's Firestarter features a fantastic score and a strong performance by its lead, but wastes its potential on a tame, unsatisfying story.

Jerrod Carmichael makes his directorial debut with the nervy suicide comedy On the Count of Three.

Director Ninja Thyberg's Pleasure is an explicit and unflinching look at the adult film industry. The film hits theaters in the U.S. on Friday, May 13.

Director Rob Jabbaz's The Sadness is a grotesque, bloody horror-thriller that definitely isn't for the faint of heart.

Jean Smart returns in fine form as Deborah Vance in the hilarious and entertaining, if occasionally aimless, second season of HBO Max's Hacks.

Haley Lu Richardson gives another star-making performance in Montana Story.

Although it meanders a bit, Netflix's WW II thriller Operation Mincemeat still delivers a compelling account of one of history greatest wartime deceptions.

Alex Garland's latest film is a terrifying journey through the female gaze and the horrors lurking in the English countryside.

Audrey Diwan's Happening tells an intense and timely story.

Marvel's Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness tries to pack a lot in -- including plenty of horror -- but has trouble supporting all of that ambition.

The Staircase is an inconsistent thriller that is bolstered by a great cast.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds finds inspiration in the past to deliver a series set within the sci-fi saga's universe that feels fresh and new.