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Mando and Baby Yoda Make the Leap to the Big Screen with ‘Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu’
Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu brings our small-screen duo to cinemas with a standalone adventure that thankfully avoids empty fan service, but doesn’t quite hit the highs of the Skywalker saga.
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‘Exit 8’ Video Game Becomes Psychological Horror in New Japanese Film
‘Exit 8’ adds depth to a popular Japanese liminal space video game, creating an effective, surprisingly tense psychological horror film.
Featured Reviews
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‘The Drama’ Could Become the Most Discussed Film of the Year
Robert Pattinson and Zendaya star in The Drama, Kristoffer Borgli’s jet-black comedy about a happily engaged couple whose love is put to the test after a shocking revelation during a party game.
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‘Project Hail Mary’ Brings Much-Needed Hope to Cinema Screens
‘Project Hail Mary’ couples Ryan Gosling’s charm with a sci-fi sense of wonder for a story about the value of connection, cooperation, and compassion.
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Sam Raimi’s ‘Send Help’ Twists Office Hierarchy with Horror and Humor
With Send Help, Sam Raimi reminds us that he is a master at balancing horror and comedy, turning a simple scenario about a downtrodden employee (Rachel McAdams) stranded on an island with her horrible boss (Dylan O’Brien) into a delightfully tense, bloody, fun movie experience.
Latest Reviews
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‘Shang-Chi’ Delivers Fresh Fights and Fun
With fresh, dynamic fight scenes, Shang-Chi manages to break some new ground and avoid the pitfalls of more generic MCU entries, especially for an origin story this late in the game.
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Marvel’s ‘What If…?’ Breaks Free From MCU Canon
As the MCU moves into a post-Infinity Saga world, Marvel is throwing all sorts of new stuff at us, particularly in the form of streaming shows on Disney Plus. Now we get an animated series that correctly assumes we’re all familiar enough with the characters of the MCU to wonder what would happen if they…
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You Probably Haven’t Seen Anything Like ‘Annette’ This Year
Annette is weird, it’s a musical, it’s over two hours long, and it features a marionette as a main character. It’s about as far from a Marvel movie as you can get.
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‘Free Guy’ Hopes to Coast on Ryan Reynolds’ Charm
What do you get when you mix The Truman Show with Ready Player One, a pinch of Westworld and a little bit of Space Jam: A New Legacy? You get the new Ryan Reynolds comedy Free Guy.
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What’s the Best Marvel Disney+ Show?
Now that we’ve wrapped the first season of Loki, we have a pretty good sample of the Marvel shows on Disney Plus. But out of the three we’ve seen so far, which one is the best? We take a look at WandaVision, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Loki in this Whatcha Watchin’ video.
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Is ‘Loki’ your new favorite Disney+ series?
Non-spoiler review: We’ve now seen WandaVision and The Falcon and the Winter Soldier as the first entries into the Marvel streaming series universe, but Loki might just become your favorite Disney+ show.
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Disney’s ‘Cruella’ Not Quite Campy Enough to Be Fun
How do you take a character most known for an unshakeable desire to murder a bunch of puppies and turn her into a not-like-the-other-girls-rebel-girl-boss heroine of her own story? Disney’s Cruella attempts to answer that question.
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#ReleaseTheSynderCut: Examining the Infamy of ‘Zack Snyder’s Justice League’
A look at the series of unfortunate events that led to the infamous #ReleaseTheSnyderCut campaign, resulting in the eventual streaming-only release of Zack Snyder’s Justice League on HBO Max.
