Sometimes you get animation that’s just sort of…pandering to children, and other times you get stuff like The Mitchells vs. the Machines, which is not only a delightful and fun animated venture from Sony and Netflix, but also super sharp, funny, and smart throughout its runtime. With references to movies like Dawn of the Dead […]

A movie, or at least a memorable one, tends to be about the inner lives of its characters. In too many films today, though, the characters have inner lives that are thin, scannable, mystery-free. But Pablo Larraín’s entrancing drama is a lightning rod that channels the inner life of Princess Diana — the jolt and […]

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The Best Movies category awards the best-reviewed film regardless of their release, whether they went straight to streaming or swung onto the silver screen. Spider-Man: No Way Home became the mega-cultural event that would entice moviegoers back into theaters, and it lived up to the hype for critics, as well. It was a music-filled year […]

A movie, or at least a memorable one, tends to be about the inner lives of its characters. In too many films today, though, the characters have inner lives that are thin, scannable, mystery-free. But Pablo Larraín’s entrancing drama is a lightning rod that channels the inner life of Princess Diana — the jolt and […]

The stampede back to the multiplexes that was predicted for early 2021 didn’t quite happen, and the post-pandemic landscape for theatrical releases is still an uncertain blur, with the emergence of the Omicron variant unlikely to quicken the pace. Still, getting away from our televisions and laptops and back to physical screenings provided an invigorating […]

(Photo by Universal/Everett Collection.) Along with horror films like A Quiet Place Part II, action movies have been instrumental in demonstrating signs of vital life at the 2021 box office. Nobody made an unlikely commercial action hero out of Bob Odenkirk as theaters were re-opening, and afterwards, massive Blockbusters like F9, Black Widow, and Godzilla […]

Spring is in full swing, bringing another helping of (you guessed it) movies and TV shows that are new on Netflix this week, including the sequel to Zack Snyder’s space opera “Rebel Moon.” “Rebel Moon — Part Two: The Scargiver” continues where the first movie left off, following Kora (Sofia Boutella) as she and her […]

This is a weird article to pen, considering quite a few of these films made it onto the list last year, and we never got to see them because of the pandemic. And the movies we did get to see didn’t astound us in the way we expected: Tenet was divisive and Wonder Woman 1984 […]

35. Ron’s Gone Wrong (2021) PG | 107 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy The story of Barney, an awkward middle-schooler and Ron, his new walking, talking, digitally-connected device. Ron’s malfunctions set against the backdrop of the social media age launch them on a journey to learn about true friendship. Directors: Sarah Smith, Jean-Philippe Vine, Octavio […]