The blockbuster mediocrity of Despicable Me and its Minions dominate the made-for-iPad formDisney and DreamWorks cower in the face of the modern era's platonic animation-slop idealByJesse HassengerPublishedJuly 10, 2024
Indiana Jones turned its pulp hero into an American icon, then had the grace to endHarrison Ford punched Nazis until it was finally time to hang up the hat and whipByJesse HassengerPublishedJuly 4, 2024
A Quiet Place: Day One review: Intimate New York disaster with a light touchPig's Michael Sarnoski turns in a franchise horror with low-key, character-centric passionByJesse HassengerPublishedJune 27, 2024
Kevin Costner trusts exactly one filmmaker with his biggest ideas: Kevin CostnerThe Western juggernaut knows there's only one right man for the job of directing him.ByJesse HassengerPublishedJune 27, 2024
Audrey Hepburn and Stanley Donen pushed Classic Hollywood towards modernityThe man behind Singin’ In The Rain found a muse that allowed for grounded yet starry experimentationByJesse HassengerPublishedJune 25, 2024
Bad Boys: Ride Or Die review: Middle-aged franchise is still dumb funThe adult boys are still bad and still bloodthirsty, despite now potentially being AARP membersByJesse HassengerPublishedJune 4, 2024
The world of Mad Max keeps ending and its characters keep driving towards salvationThe cyclical movies make up the perfect perpetual-motion blockbuster seriesByJesse HassengerPublishedMay 24, 2024
Star Wars: Episode I—The Phantom Menace marked a beginning for more than Star WarsGeorge Lucas let it all hang out in the first Star Wars prequel, influencing a generation of blockbustersByJesse HassengerPublishedMay 14, 2024
The rebooted Planet Of The Apes series looks perpetually forward to an uncertain futureAmazing feats of mo-cap accompany movies that act as wormholes to Fox's pastByJesse HassengerPublishedMay 10, 2024
The Last Stop In Yuma County review: Crime drama is more than its influencesThe scrappy indie cites (but doesn't succumb to) the Coen brothers and Quentin TarantinoByJesse HassengerPublishedMay 9, 2024
Colin Farrell explores the grief of the future in the beautiful sci-fi drama After YangKogonada follows up Columbus with a more ambitious visionByJesse HassengerPublishedMarch 1, 2022
Rhys Darby and Taika Waititi are out to sea in pirate comedy Our Flag Means DeathThis stacked-cast show has its amusing moments, but they're adrift in a tedious earnestnessByJesse HassengerPublishedFebruary 24, 2022
Time keeps on slipping, slipping in the films of Ethan Hawke and Richard LinklaterDid Hawke become a better actor under the Boyhood director, or did time just pass?ByJesse HassengerPublishedFebruary 24, 2022
Batman returns, and so does Pixar, this MarchAlso coming this month: After Yang, The Adam Project, and The Lost CityByA.A. Dowd and Jesse HassengerPublishedFebruary 22, 2022
You can’t get more Oasis than the gloriously overproduced hubris of Be Here Now25 years ago, Oasis released a massive hit record that also ended Liam and Noel Gallagher’s time as the world's…ByJesse HassengerPublishedFebruary 21, 2022
Channing Tatum stars with, and directs, a good DogIt’s not on the level of the star’s Soderbergh movies, but it suggests he may have been paying attention to themByJesse HassengerPublishedFebruary 17, 2022
Netflix’s teen-romance sequel Tall Girl 2 doesn’t have much space to growAva Michelle and company return for a follow-up that doesn’t stack upByJesse HassengerPublishedFebruary 10, 2022
The new direct-to-streaming Ice Age sequel is a generic chunk of contentGone are the original animators, the core voice cast, Scrat, and the funByJesse HassengerPublishedJanuary 28, 2022
Death On The Nile, disaster in space, and some love triangles are coming this FebruaryThe month’s new movie releases also include sequels to Tall Girl and The Texas Chain Saw MassacreByA.A. Dowd and Jesse HassengerPublishedJanuary 27, 2022
20 major stars whose careers took off at SundanceJennifer Lawrence, Elizabeth Olsen, and Michael B. Jordan are all Sundance Breakthrough alumniByJesse HassengerPublishedJanuary 21, 2022