It is so rare for a movie to deliver on a promise to the extent that Dune: Part Two does on everything the first part promised.
It is so rare for a movie to deliver on a promise to the extent that Dune: Part Two does on everything the first part promised.
If you aren’t already a fan of Makoto Shinkai, let this be your very own portal into a world of ancient mysteries where the connections between people become magic.
Ultimately too mediocre to even be truly bad, Spiderhead is an empty exercise in producing what passes for content.
Despite a somewhat inconsistent plotting, Belle is a true aesthetic and musical spectacle.
In our current landscape, you will not easily find another science-fiction/fantasy epic with such a firm voice, such a maximalist visual identity, or such a portentous tone.
This final movie, as messy as it is, provides something Evangelion has never had: a definite conclusion.
On the spectrum of spacefaring sci-fi thrillers, Stowaway exists somewhere in the middle of Gravity’s nonstop action and Ad Astra’s cerebral reflections, discreet and practical above all else.
An intriguing experiment, elevated by clever direction and impressive long takes.
The Rise of Skywalker walks back The Last Jedi by returning time and again to tropes and formulas. I wanted more.
Ad Astra is one of the loneliest science-fiction films I’ve seen, and also a thought-provoking, essential deconstruction of masculinity and loneliness.