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I Love Boosters is one of those films a viewer is likely to either love or despise; there is precious little middle ground. A frantic satire of the fashion industry and consumer culture, the movie largely rejects a coherent narrative in favor of a...

Perhaps the kindest thing to say about Lee Cronin's The Mummy is that it's not the worst movie to bear the words "The Mummy" in the title. That (dis)honor belongs to the 2017 Tom Cruise disaster. Cronin’s film falls well outside the purview o...

I think that if I had a deeper connection to the He-Man universe, I might have reacted more positively to the 2026 Masters of the Universe. It's apparent to me, even as an outsider, that there's a whole lotta fan service going on. Too much, in fac...

You know the old saying about putting lipstick on a pig? Well, that's pretty much what's happening with Timur Bekmambetov's Mercy, a tedious and preposterous whodunnit. It is so poorly scripted and negligently paced that the distributor (Amazon MG...

The sole reason for Michael to exist—and the only legitimate way in which the movie can be enjoyed—is as a cocktail of nostalgia and musical appreciation. This truncated hagiography bends its knee to the myth of Jackson before tabloid headline...

The thing I appreciate most about Minions & Monsters is its surprising sophistication. Sure, by the end, the film is doing the kinds of things that will engage kids (Minion-piloted spaceships shooting lasers at giant gelatinous blobs), but it ...

If the goal with Moana is to make money, Disney is probably in a safe space. Almost all of the live-action adaptations of animated films have been financially successful to one degree or another, with only the reviled Snow White failing to break e...

For better or worse (predominantly the latter, unfortunately), Mortal Kombat II delivers exactly what one might reasonably expect from a sequel to the 2021 franchise reboot. The film introduces two of the most interesting and charismatic character...

If one were to take The Purge, Before Sunrise, and After Hours and throw them into a blender, the result might look something like One Night Only, a hybrid dark comedy/rom-com that never goes quite as far as it should but ends up being likable non...

Onslaught is the perfect name for this horror/thriller hybrid. The film is a loud, in-your-face experience that relies more on sensory overload (both visual and audio) than conventional elements like story and character. It's not that the movie la...