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Removing the shackles of canon and continuity allow "First Steps" to breathe.

Run Time: 2:36
U.S. Release Date: 2025-06-27
MPAA Rating: "PG-13" (Profanity, Car Crashes)
Genre: Drama
Director: Joseph Kosinski
Cast: Brad Pitt, Damson Idris, Kerry Condon, Tobias Menzies, Kim Bodnia, Javier Bardem

Watching the film, you may not believe you are in a racing car but you will feel like you are doing more than passively sitting in a theater seat.

Only the unevenness of the proceedings and the lack of a clean ending keep this from greatness.

Run Time: 2:05
U.S. Release Date: 2025-06-13
MPAA Rating: "PG" (Violence)
Genre: Fantasy/Adventure
Director: Dean DeBlois
Cast: Mason Thames, Nico Parker, Gerard Butler, Nick Frost

Represents solid family entertainment even if it feels like it is tracing over an existing pattern rather than developing something new.

Anderson has almost completely dispensed with a conventional storyline in service of a movie that delights in parodying seemingly anything and everything.

Run Time: 1:44
U.S. Release Date: 2025-05-30
MPAA Rating: "R" (Violence, Gore, Profanity, Nudity)
Genre: Horror
Director: Danny Philippou, Michael Philippou
Cast: Bill Barratt, Sally Hawkins, Sora Wong, Jonah Wren Phillips

A serious downer, with a nihilistic approach designed to infuse the viewer with a sense of growing unease without worrying about delivering a catharsis.

A no-holds-barred action-oriented epic that does not much care if it makes sense as long as viewers are amped-up and engaged.

Bringing together the flotsam and jetsam of the MCU imparts the “back to basics” feel of Thunderbolts* with a welcome sense of freshness.

Warts and all, "Sinners" is a wholly original motion picture full of bravura moments, strong performances, and horror-appropriate gore and violence.

This one is definitely not for pre-teen girls.