Wes Anderson gonna Wes Anderson and he Andersons hard in The Phoenician Scheme.

What’s going on with Feng Xiaogang? We Girls is ludicrous on every level.

I guess… if it’s really hot out… maybe… you got to Lilo & Stitch? Or if the kids demand it.

A power-trio of young Japanese actors headlines Unreachable and is almost entirely wasted.

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning is exhausting…

Oh, baby, get ready for the gnarliest Rube Goldberg deaths so far in series best Final Destination: Bloodlines.

Steven Soderbergh marries modern and retro highjinks in the thoroughly entertaining spy romp Black Bag.

Sturdy. Last Breath is sturdy.

All We Imagine as Light is a giant contented sigh of a film.

OMG we’ve gotten the first good MCU movie in a dog’s age with Thunderbolts*.

Maybe the game of Until Dawn has playable characters that are less dumb?

Who knew we needed a sequel to The Accountant? Evidently Gavin O’Connor and Ben Affleck did.

The Uniform is a love triangle melodrama first, class-based education piss-take second.

Oliver Chan’s Montages of a Modern Motherhood is a film you respect, not one you have fun at.

Black Box Diaries is essential viewing if anything’s goign to change vis-a-vis rape.

César Augusto Acevedo contemplates the legacy of war and its impact on humanity in Horizon.

Smashing Frank is Trevor Choi’s second film but first feature, and it runs on sheer will.

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza don’t reinvent the war picture wheel but they ace ‘You are there’ vibes in Warfare.

Harbin may not say anything new but it sure nails the resistance chic aesthetic.

Chihiro Amano’s Sato and Sato is absolutely not a workplace drama about a law firm.