U.S. Release Date: 2024-02-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Cast: Dakota Johnson, Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, Celeste O’Connor, Tahar Rahim, Adam Scott, Emma Roberts, Kerry Bishe
"Madame Web" is another example of a comic book movie no one was clamoring for.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-02-09
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Comedy/Horror
Director: Zelda Williams
Cast: Kathryn Newton, Cole Sprouse, Liza Soberano, Carla Gugino, Joe Chrest, Henry Eikenberry
"Lisa Frankenstein" is a bad Tim Burton movie with two unlikable main characters.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-01-12
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Musical/Comedy
Director: Samantha Jayne, Arturo Perez Jr.
Cast: Angourie Rice, Renee Rapp, Auli’I Cravalho, Jaquel Spivey, Avantika, Bebe Wood, Christopher Briney, Tina Fey, Tim Meadows, Jon Hamm
The haphazard fashion in which the movie has been assembled argues that this should have been left on the stage where a live production can cover all manner of missteps.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-01-05
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Disturbing Images, Violence)
Genre: Horror
Director: Bryce McGuire
Cast: Wyatt Russell, Kerry Condon, Amelie Hoeferle, Gavin Warren
The movie is at its best when it is content with being atmospheric and spooky. As soon is it starts explaining things, the story goes down the drain.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-22
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Action/Adventure
Director: James Wan
Cast: Jason Momoa, Jani Zhao, Martin Short, Dolph Lundgren, Temeura Morrison, Randall Park, Nicole Kidman, Amber Heard, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Patrick Wilson, John Rhys-Davies
Feels like it was mostly constructed in post-production, with CGI working hand-in-hand with editing to fashion something borderline-coherent.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-01
MPAA Rating: "R" (Bloody Violence, Drugs)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: John Woo
Cast: Joel Kinnaman, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Kid Cudi, Harold Torres, Yoko Hamamura
"Silent Night" is the antithesis of fun. Whatever the director is trying to do with the movie, it makes it for one big lump of coal in the 2023 cinematic stocking.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-11-22
MPAA Rating: "PG"
Genre: Animated
Director: Chris Buck, Fawn Veerasunthorn
Cast: Ariana DeBose, Chris Pine, Alan Tudyk, Angelique Cabral, Victor Garber, Natasha Rothwell, Jennifer Kumiyama
This may be the worst major animated film Disney has released in the past 40 years and its lack of creative energy doesn’t augur well for the immediate future.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-11-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Drugs)
Genre: Drama
Director: Sofia Coppola
Cast: Cailee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Ari Cohen, Dagmara Dominczyk, Tim Post
This mean-spirited and unpleasant production is unlikely to find favor with many either inside or outside of the Elvis fan base.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-10-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Horror
Director: Emma Tammi
Cast: Josh Hutcherson, Piper Rubio, Elizabeth Lail, Matthew Lillard, Mary Stuart Masterson
As a motion picture, it is disjointed and ultimately unsatisfying but as part of a larger cog in a cross-platform franchise, it does everything expected from it.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-10-06
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Disturbing Images, Profanity)
Genre: Horror
Director: David Gordon Green
Cast: Leslie Odom Jr., Ann Dowd, Jennifer Nettles, Norbert Leo Butz, Lidya Jewett, Olivia Marcum, Ellen Burstyn
It might have helped if Green understood "The Exorcist" a little better rather than just copying from it.