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Happy Gilmore 2 is an admirably okay legacy sequel
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Happy Madison Productions’ cynically produced continuation of a story which concluded 29 years ago fails to enrich the original, but its effect is ultimately harmless.
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Hard Eight, a prodigious 26-year-old’s homage to the wizened masters of the past
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The movie offering the most insight into Paul Thomas Anderson’s whole career is also his first.
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Deadpool & Wolverine is the safest possible version of itself
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Shawn Levy’s latest collaboration with Ryan Reynolds is not an irreverent mockery of Marvel, but a redressing of what to expect from multiverse gruel.
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Dead Poets Society and its fake rebellion
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Opposition to authority in Peter Weir’s coming-of-age dramedy consists of the kind of life advice that should remain on Hallmark cards.
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Jacques Tati inimitably satirizes the waste of industrialism in PlayTime
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Sound and dimension are used to their fullest extent to disorient Monsieur Hulot, as well as the audience, in the intricate metropolis of this macroscopic comedy.
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Everything you’ve heard about Earwig and the Witch is true (derogatory)
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You have no reason to see this ugly and deeply uncomfortable mistake of a film.
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Robin Robin is some cute fare from a studio at the height of its talents
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All is not lost in a world where Aardman hangs onto its status as a wholly original animation house that gets to make shorts like this.
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The Founder is a convincing, albeit confined biography of a vulture
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No one will come away from this movie respecting Ray Kroc, but in the hands of John Lee Hancock, no one will be pushed to excessively question capitalism either.
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Endlessly energetic, Miyazaki’s Lupin movie cannot be understated in its creativity.
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Literally, it actively refuses to be understated or relaxed, it will not slow down.
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Spencer is a fantastical study into the character of Princess Diana
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Kristen Stewart’s performance in this fable is fully captured by Pablo Larraín’s surreally tense direction.