Crazy Rich Asians
You can appreciate it from a casting perspective, but shouldn’t the bar be set higher…
Reviews
BlacKkKlansman
BLACKkKLANSMAN lulls you with its satire of American race relations, only to slap you awake at the end of the third act with a montage of grotesqueries from the past couple of years—lest we forget Ferguson and Charlottesville.
The Meg
Take the lesser entries in the Jaws franchise, toss in a bit of Sharknado, and…
Capsule reviews for Aug. 10
Elizabeth Harvest A stylish attempt to recombine horror and science-fiction tropes, this thriller from Venezuelan…
The Darkest Minds
The Darkest Minds is mostly laying the groundwork while forgoing the payoff. Withholding some of the key developments from the source material — which has expanded into a six-book series thus far — is essentially a gamble that the series will continue.
Christopher Robin
Less than a year after the period drama Goodbye Christopher Robin, we say hello again with Christopher Robin, a much different attempt at spinning the mythology of A.A. Milne’s beloved children’s characters in a new direction.
The Spy Who Dumped Me
It doesn’t take a secret agent to uncover the best part of The Spy Who…
Capsule reviews for Aug. 3
The Forest of the Lost Souls More concerned with atmosphere than plot, this black-and-white psychological…