MOVIE REVIEWS
Now showing around town… maybe streaming.
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.
Roads to Perdition
You can’t accuse Óliver Laxe of lacking the courage of his narrative convictions when it comes to Sirāt.
Almost Re-animated
Lee Cronin’s The Mummy ain’t your daddy’s mummy movie. It’s more your brother’s Sam Raimi.
Feeling So-so
It may feel like a day in a dark theatre given how deliberate A New Dawn can be.
Truth in Advertising
Kristoffer Borgli manages to partially deconstuct a thorny subject for us non-Americans in The Drama.
What Finish Line?
Pegasus 3 is exactly the same movie as Pegasus and Pegasus 2, so at least there’s no disappointment.
Image is Everything
Now this… We’re Nothing at All is the Herman Yau we’ve all come to know and love.