MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
ET Grown Up
Steven Spielberg is back in alien territory with Disclosure Day. But which aliens?
It Worked for Barbie!
Travis Knight found the power in a bottle of baby oil in the surprisingly entertaining Masters of the Universe.
Terrifying
If you’re keen to see Scary Movie (#6) nothing about how crass and dumb it is will deter you from that mission. Godspeed.
Room to Grow
Newcomer Kane Parsons is the latest filmmaker to make the leap from YouTube to the big stage with Backrooms.
Clear Skies
Pressure turns its lens on the weathermen of WWII. Who knew they could be this interesting?
Puh-ppies!
If you’re a soft touch for a cute dog movie, well, happy to say Gohan has three.
Enough of the Way
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu is unlikely to make Disney’s line go up but it is a welcome shot of Star Wars fun.
That’ll Do Too
The Sheep Detectives doesn’t really need Hugh Jackman or Emma Thompson. It has talking sheep.
Newly Crowned
Korean history has always done well at the Korean box office but The King’s Warden is next level.
Friends for Lives
Tony Leung teams up with Hungarian filmmaker Ildikó Enyedi and heads into the forest for Silent Friend.
Still Too Soon
Guan Hu loses the plot in A Man and A Woman, the year’s most tedious non-romance so far.
Everyone’s Avatar
Billie Eilish teams with James Cameron for her third concert film and, no surprise, leans into its tech.
Hagiography 101
The King of Pop’s long-gestating, much re-shot biopic finally lands and Michael is exactly the biopic you should expect.