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Had the storyline for The Mandalorian and Grogu been used for a three-episode arc in the Disney+ TV series, I don't think anyone would have minded. The plot isn't appalling; it's the kind of thing that one wants from a TV series—an episodic ...

Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is a three-hour refutation of James Cameron's fallacious assertion that 3-D is necessary for complete cinematic immersion. On even a conventional screen, Nolan's reworking of Homer's epic tale towers over the audien...

The Social Reckoning should not be mistaken for a sequel to The Social Network, despite some obvious synergies. The critically lauded 2010 film focused on Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg. Although Zuckerberg (now played by Jeremy Strong) has a pr...

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie, the sequel to Universal’s massively successful 2023 release, The Super Mario Bros. Movie, received its U.S. theatrical release on April 1, 2026, and I have to say that the joke is on us. If the first movie was a 90-...

When you make a movie like this well, it turns out something like Braveheart. When you make it poorly, you get The Uprising. Loosely based on the 1381 so-called "Peasants' Revolt" in England, the film purports to tell how three men – the unn...

A period piece thriller set during the Great Depression, The Weight echoes aspects of the classic The Wages of Fear without being a copy and suffers only from the occasional too-obvious contrivance used to increase suspense. Director Padraic McKin...

You know what they say about "too much of a good thing?" That applies to They Will Kill You, the English-language debut of Russian filmmaker Kirill Sokolov, whose hyperkinetic approach to killing Satanic cultists is initially funny, bracing, and t...

It's somewhat amazing that, despite being 31 years old, the Toy Story franchise continues to retain a broad-based appeal unlike that of any other animated property. A cross-generational draw is certainly part of the equation: an eight-year-old who...

If a book is successful enough, a movie will almost always follow. Such is the case with Colleen Hoover's #1 bestselling 2018 thriller, Verity. Unfortunately for fans of the book and even more so for those who enjoy psychological thrillers, th...

Sometimes a premise can be so outlandish that it provides an impediment to enjoying a movie. In such cases, it falls on the filmmakers to create sufficient immersion to achieve that ephemeral state often referred to as the "willing suspension ...