Taika Waititi returns to the MCU five years after Thor: Ragnarok with a disappointing sequel sorely lacking in charm and imagination.
Director Sam Raimi injects some much needed personality into Marvel’s latest brand-building exercise.
A tale as old as time gets a cyberspace makeover in Mamoru Hosoda’s reimagining of Beauty and the Beast.
By Sam Bodrojan
All hail the new flesh in Julia Ducournau’s dreamlike fable of a fractured young dancer grappling with the fire inside her.
Tom Holland’s third solo Spidey outing brings some familiar faces to the party, but we’ve seen it all before.
By Aimee Knight
Céline Sciamma puts a time-loop spin on the classic coming-of-age tale with this gentle family fairy tale.
Chloé Zhao remixes the Marvel Cinematic Universe template with this ethereal take on the classic superhero saga.
This time-travelling neo-giallo from Edgar Wright contains a few stunning sequences, but flubs the final act.
Dev Patel and Ralph Ineson face off in David Lowery’s adaptation of a popular Arthurian legend, with stylish results.
By Weiting Liu
The MCU’s first Asian superhero movie combines thrilling spectacle with cultural specificity to correct the comics’ racist past.
By Leila Latif
Ryan Reynolds has an existential crisis inside a video game in this mostly entertaining action-adventure-comedy.
By Lou Thomas
Expectations be damned: Disney’s riverboat caper is one of the year’s most purely pleasurable motion pictures.
By Anton Bitel
A backwater preacher pushes his small congregation to its limits in this quasi-mystical Colombian parable.
Noémie Merlant’s fairground employee hitches a ride on the carousel of love in this sci-fi tinged romance.
This fan service-heavy redux of the 2017 superhero pile-up just about justifies its existence.
George Clooney directs and stars in this drably conventional sci-fi drama about the power of human connection.
Dixie Egerickx outshines her adult co-stars in this pleasant adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett’s novel.
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