For all the above-the-title talent involved, Meg 2: The Trench is pretty toothless.

Drop Barbenheimer for a hot sec and pick up Macau director Hong Heng-fai’s Kissing The Ground You Walked On.

Herman Yau’s The White Storm 3: Heaven or Hell is a lot of bang for your buck. Literally. No, like everything blows up.

It’s the ol’ “go back in time and kill X before Y” thing, but done really well in Tokyo Revengers – part one of three.

It’s chirpy. It’s pink. It’s less miserable than Oppenheimer. It’s Barbie, and it’s every bit as hyper as you think it is.

Finally! Christopher Nolan lives up to his technical prowess with Oppenheimer. And we can hear it.

Hell yes we’ll be back for Part Two after Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.

Insidious: The Red Door is way, way, way too much like Insidious.

Seriously, what’s with the creepy romances? Next up: Phases of the Moon.

No, no, no. Elemental does not signal the death of Pixar.

Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken is very, very derivative, but very, very harmless.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny wraps the franchise with more of a whimper.

Chow Yun-fat stops gambling his life away in Anthony Pun’s paean to kindness, One More Chance.

Dear lord, watch your step around #Manhole.

If raunchy is what you’re looking for, No Hard Feelings isn’t even close to dirty.

Shin Kamen Rider, Shin Masked Rider, whatever the title, it’s the least of Hideaki Anno’s Shin Trilogy.

For peak Kore-eda go find Shoplifters. Monster isn’t quite there.

If you find Wes Anderson films insufferable, Asteroid City won’t disabuse you of that notion.

Do you actually think Both Sides of the Blade’s love triangle, as interpreted by Claire Denis, will be simple?

Robert De Niro must have enjoyed that de-aging because he’s dumped grandpas for About My Father.