Spike Lee’s adapts Akira Kurosawa’s original with ’Highest 2 Lowest’ - undoubtedly the best remake of his career, anchored by another magnifying lead turn from Denzel Washington, who continues to prove why he’s the greatest to have ever done it.

Bob Odenkirk is back with his unique brand of justice in ‘Nobody 2’, an action sequel that doubles down on what made the original such a refreshing entry into the action genre and delivers a follow-up that may just be even more enjoyable than its predecessor.

While Genndy Tartakovsky has not lost a touch animating expressive characters and worlds, his latest offering, the R-rated ’Fixed’, is painfully unfunny and contains far too much dated humor.

‘Freakier Friday’ is Disney’s best theatrical live-action release in ages, thanks in no small parts to the ineffable charm of both Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis.

After taking the horror genre by storm with his debut feature ‘Barbarian’, writer/director Zach Cregger returns with ‘Weapons’, a wildly entertaining horror mystery that easily sidesteps the dreaded sophomore slump.

In a summer movie landscape overcrowded with superhero blockbusters, ‘She Rides Shotgun’ is a refreshing change of pace, delivering a powerful story of unconditional love and lost innocence set against a thrilling backdrop.

With the overcrowded horror genre rising in popularity in recent years, ’Together’ aims to ride the wave and carve its own unique and grotesque path. Thankfully, this horror film has as much heart as it does gnarly thrills and chills.

Director Akiva Schaffer uses his comedic sensibilities to revive the police squad for 80 minutes of non-stop laughs in ‘The Naked Gun’.

Aside from some structural hiccups, the fourth feature attempt at adapting The Fantastic Four is fittingly the strongest, which means that ‘The Fantastic Four: First Steps’ is an aptly named film.

FilmSpeak begins the Fantasia Festival looking at Ari Aster’s attempts to make sense out of a year (and decade) that doesn’t make sense with his latest dark comedy, ‘Eddington’.

When ‘Superman’ was first announced, and since subsequently teased and advertised, a lot of folks wondered what writer/director James Gunn was going to do to break the genre’s ongoing funk.

The Dinosaurs are back wreaking havoc yet again in the latest Jurassic World instalment. ‘Rebirth’ may deliver some new thrills, but like its predecessors, fails to live up to the magic of the original Spielberg classic.

‘Sorry, Baby’ is just an assured debut in every sense. It is very methodic and well-plotted in its cathartic ambitions, and equally deft, light, and profound. Director Eva Victor is a rising talent, and it already excites to think about what her cinematic instincts will provide us with next.

While Ilya Naishuller remains a cogent action artist who knows how to frame and shoot a succession of kinetically exciting sequences, everything around the action in his latest, ‘Heads of State’, falls incredibly flat.

With a towering performance from Danielle Deadwyler and an assured sense of style, director R.T. Thorne breathes new life into Canadian genre cinema with the thrillingly tactile ‘40 Acres’ and ensures a future for this art form.

The sassy, murderous robot has returned to the big screen in ‘M3gan 2.0’, a sequel that takes the franchise in a brand new direction, but fails to capitalize on the potential that new territory brings with it.

F1: The Movie is a spectacularly entertaining summer blockbuster that yearns to be seen on the biggest screen possible. What it may lack in storytelling, it more than makes up for in its endless entertainment value.

Pixar’s latest, ‘Elio’, is a small breath of fresh air amidst a rapidly homogenizing stream of family films

While Bryan Cranston and Allison Janney give somewhat impassioned performances, Jon S. Baird can’t follow up the same momentum he built with ‘Tetris’ in his latest motion picture, ‘Everything’s Going to Be Great’.

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland re-team for an effective return to their 2000’s classic in ‘28Years Later’. But was this almost three decade wait, worth it?