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West Side Story (2021): A Movie Review

Spielberg attempts the impossible remake - and the musical. It doesn't match the original, but the qualities of the story shine through.

Shaka King’s second feature is engaging and direct. It pulls no punches and moves at an exhilarating pace.

A retrospective movie review.

Pablo Larraín's cinematic portrait of Diana, an unconventional horror film, is heart-rending, joyful, suffocating, and tense.

Something dark, twisted, but great to close out #Noirvember? This is your ticket.

Ridley Scott’s medieval #MeToo drama pointedly conveys a bleak worldview, but feels unbalanced and disjointed.

The first Halloween movies made Michael Myers a simple, dreadfully effective metaphor for the nature of evil in the real world.

David Gordon Green's second entry in the new trilogy is a 105-minute Michael Myers kill scenes reel, and not much more.

Wes Anderson’s new movie, an anthology of three stories, goes for broke and makes things work (with narrative excesses).

Villeneuve's long-awaited science fiction extravaganza might be deeply flawed, but it does not disappoint. A spoiler-free review.

Why John Landis's wolfman classic is one of the greatest films ever made.

John Krasinski's follow-up to his “stay quiet or be eaten” hit of 2018 makes me question whether the original was actually good.