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Review Roundup: Shawn Levy’s The Adam Project
Ryan Reynolds reteams with director Shawn Levy for this time-traveling sci-fi adventure from Netflix.
Review Roundup: Domee Shi’s Turning Red
Pixar’s coming-of-age story about a teen girl who turns into a red panda arrives on Disney+ on March 11.
Police Story 2 by Jackie Chan (1988)
It pains me to rate a Jackie Chan movie so low, but compared to the first Police Story, this one fe…
Bigbug by Jean-Pierre Jeunet (2022)
This cautionary tale about technology run amok is joyless and heavy-handed, two words I never thoug…
Review Roundup: Matt Reeves’ The Batman
Critics react to the Caped Crusader’s latest silver screen incarnation.
The Hunt for Red October by John McTiernan (1990)
A top-notch Cold War thriller in every possible way. One of those movies that I could watch almost …
Wonder by Stephen Chbosky (2017)
I haven’t read the original book but I enjoyed the movie, which felt like it mostly earned its big,…
Blame! by Hiroyuki Seshita (2017)
I really want to rate this higher, but it just doesn’t embrace the weirdness of Tsutomu Nihei’s man…

ZZ Top: That Little Ol’ Band From Texas by Sam Dunn (2019)
I know nothing about ZZ Top’s music (other than the obvious hits) but I really enjoyed this.
Eternals by Chloé Zhao (2021)
Though I appreciate what Chloé Zhao tried to do here, the results were flat and unremarkable. Also,…
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters by Scott Conditt and Jeremy Tremp (Review)
A shallow, mean-spirited movie obsessed with proving its own cleverness time and again.
2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus by Joshua Wesely and Simon Wesely (Review)
There’s a certain charm to this inept German film about Christians battling religious persecution brought on by the pandemic.
Max Reload and the Nether Blasters by Scott Conditt and Jeremy Tremp (2020)
I can’t remember the last time I hated a movie as much as I hated this one.
2025: The World Enslaved by a Virus by Joshua Wesely and Simon Wesely (2021)
An absolute train wreck. A fascinating train wreck. But a train wreck, nevertheless.

The Fable by Kan Eguchi (2019)
Really enjoyable action scenes, but the comedy was too broad and over-the-top. Still undecided as t…

The Matrix Resurrections Subverts Its Own Franchise to Explore Trauma, Grief & Romance (Review)
Borne out of personal loss, the fourth Matrix film trades kung fu and bullet time for something more emotional.