Despite a committed performance from Taylor Zakhar Perez, the Hallmark-lite aesthetic of Red, White & Royal Blue ruins anything it tries to establish.
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Diehard DC fans should catch ‘Blue Beetle’ simply because it’s a DC heroes’ first feature introduction, and that’s always a big deal. But for the casual moviegoer and superhero cinema fan, this one is too mixed a bag to warrant buying a ticket.
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‘The Last Voyage of the Demeter’ is a lean, studio-stunted yet passionate horror film that boasts a strong lead performance and vintage setting. It may not be the greatest monster-thriller in recent memory, but absolutely deserves the attention of horror junkies.
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Ben Kingsley gives an incredible performance in Marc Turtletaub’s ‘Jules’, but can’t prevent the movie from falling short of its overall ambitions.
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Director Neil Blomkamp has brought the beloved video game to life with ‘Gran Turismo’, a racing film that should not only please fans of the source material, but adrenaline junkies as well.
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For a summer day out at the movies, you could do a lot worse than ‘The Meg 2: The Trench’. But later down the line, when the film is only available in the confines of your living room, there won’t be many reasons to go back to it.
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Both nostalgic and revitalizing, 'Teenaged Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem' will take you back to the first time you met the Ninja Turtles, remind you why you love them, and lock you in for whatever comes next.
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The film is an experience you have to commit to, and it’s a difficult ride, but there’s something of value within ‘Talk to Me’, that everyone can enjoy.
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A priest, a psychic, and an astrophysicist walk into a haunted house. While you might think that’s a setup for some cheesy joke, it’s a partial plot description for Disney’s latest film adaptation of its iconic theme park attraction, ‘The Haunted Mansion’.
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Despite some narrative stretches in its latter half, Juel Taylor’s ‘They Cloned Tyrone’ remains an enjoyable watch, thanks to the contributions of John Boyega, Teyonah Parris and Jamie Foxx.
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It’s far from perfect, but Greta Gerwig’s ‘Barbie’ is a heartfelt, hysterical journey through imaginative spaces unlike any other. Barbie is better than your average blockbuster, and could easily be seen as the epitome of summer cinema.
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Director Christopher Nolan brings yet another massive movie event to the silver screen with ‘Oppenheimer’, an emotionally explosive and visually dazzling historical drama.
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Ethan Hunt and his team returns to the silver screen yet again in ‘Mission: Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1’, a sequel that not only reaches the dizzying heights of its predecessor, but raises the stakes substantially.
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Despite assured performances from Pierce Brosnan, Ellen Barkin, Richard Kind, Julie Hagerty and Michael Rooker, ‘The Out-Laws’ is the year’s most irritating and unfunniest movie.
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Unless you’re an Insidious super-fan, you can safely skip ‘Insidious: The Red Door’. Let’s hope this franchise gets some much needed time behind closed doors; red or otherwise, and lock from the outside.
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If you’re looking for laughs this long weekend - Ashley Park, Sherry Cola, Stephanie Hsu, and Sabrina Wu provide non-stop laughs in ‘Joy Ride’, one of the funniest and most energetic comedies of the year.
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It isn’t always a bad thing to play it safe and deliver perfectly harmless family fun, especially for a studio as weathered as Dreamworks. ‘Ruby Gillman, Teenage Kraken’ almost feels like a pit-stop for the studio, in that it serves as a sufficiently sweet little adventure that does more than enough to warrant buying a ticket.
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As the title suggests, the latest Harrison Ford-led film, ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ sees Ford return as the iconic veteran archaeologist/adventurer searching for yet another mystic artifact and battle more Nazis.
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‘Asteroid City’ is another triumph for writer/director Wes Anderson, solidifying his status as one of the greatest (and quirkiest) auteurs of our time.
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After a bumpy road to the silver screen, audiences are finally able to see ‘The Flash’, a superhero film that has glimmers of brilliance, but buckles under its own ambition… but at least it has Michael Keaton.
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