U.S. Home Release Date: 2024-05-14
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Sexual Content, Nudity)
Genre: Horror/Thriller
Director: William Malone
Cast: Stephen Dorff, Natascha McElhone, Stephen Rea, Jeffrey Combs
It hurts to search for logic in the wreckage of a screenplay that feels like it was cut into tiny pieces and glued back together in some random order.
U.S. Release Date: 2024-05-03
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Comedy
Director: David Leitch
Cast: Ryan Gosling, Emily Blunt, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Hannah Waddingham, Stephanie Hsu, Winston Duke, Ben Knight
Represents what a true “summer movie” should be: a light, fast-paced spectacle with likeable characters and a balance between action/eye candy and narrative elements.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-12-25
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content, Gruesome Images)
Genre: Drama
Director: Michael Mann
Cast: Adam Driver, Shailene Woodley, Penelope Cruz, Gabriel Leone, Jack O’Connell, Sarah Gadon
As a well-acted standard-order bio-pic, "Ferrari" delivers but as something more, it falls short.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-11-03
MPAA Rating: "R" (Profanity, Sexual Content)
Genre: Drama/Science Fiction
Director: Christos Nikou
Cast: Jessie Buckley, Riz Ahmed, Jeremy Allen White, Luke Wilson, Christian Meer, Amanda Arcuri
Has a strong premise and well-defined characters but is missing too much connective tissue to fully satisfy.
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: 2023-09-29
MPAA Rating: "R" (Sexual Content, Nudity, Profanity, Violence)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Chloe Domont
Cast: Phoebe Dynevor, Alden Ehrenreich, Eddie Marsan
Although it does not qualify as a white-knuckle sort of movie, it exerts a magnetism that is difficult to turn away from.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-08-29
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence)
Genre: Action/Science Fiction
Director: Andy Muschietti
Cast: Ezra Miller, Michael Keaton, Ben Affleck, Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon, Ron Livingston
The best things – or at least the most memorable ones – are rooted in fan service and nostalgia. The movie, although too long by about 45 minutes, is enjoyable on that level.
U.S. Release Date: 2023-05-19
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Violence, Profanity)
Genre: Action/Thriller
Director: Louis Leterrier
Cast: Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Jason Momoa, Jordana Brewster, Tyrese Gibson, Chris ‘Ludacris’ Bridges, Nathalie Emmanuel, John Cena, Sung Kang, Charlize Theron, Brie Larson, Alan Ritchson, Jason Statham
"Fast X" brings little new to a series that has been repeating itself since it went hyperkinetic with installment #4.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2023-02-14
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Bullying, Drugs)
Genre: Drama
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Gabriel LaBelle, Chloe East, Oakes Fegley, Sam Rechner, Judd Hirsch, Mateo Zoryon Francis-DeFord, Seth Rogen, Paul Dano, Michelle Williams, David Lynch
It probably will not go down as “Great Spielberg” or even “Very Good Spielberg” but represents a warm, enjoyable plunge into the 1950s and 1960s.
U.S. Home Release Date: 2022-10-18
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Intense Peril)
Genre: Thriller
Director: Scott Mann
Cast: Grace Fulton
As B-movies go, this one is good enough to hold the attention and wring out the tension without doing anything more ambitious.