The extent to which one enjoys Thor: Love and Thunder, will depend upon a tolerance for an overplayed hand of wink-wink, nudge-nudge so broad as to suggest that hundreds of millions of dollars were spent aspiring to little else than a trivial wank.…
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In a movie cage fight between director and actor, Baz Luhrmann tries very hard—and nearly succeeds—at minimizing star Austin Butler’s dazzling turn as The King of rock-n-roll in Elvis, a wildly overdetermined and largely superficial collection of gee-whiz film techniques masquerading as a biopic…
Read MoreFrank, Insightful Leo Grande: Adult Sexuality and Awakening Courtesy of a Richly Rewarding Emma Thompson

An incisive, bold adult drama about aging and sexuality, Good Luck to You, Leo Grande finds Emma Thompson in top form as widowed former educator soliciting the services of a young sex worker in a bid toward enlightenment—initially a physical pursuit but ultimately yielding…
Read MoreJurassic World: Dominion is Big, Loud, Overstuffed…and (Slightly) Better Than You’ve Heard

Jurassic World: Dominion, the sixth film in a bloated series that lost its magic about five films ago yet continues barreling ahead, believing there is still wonder in seeing photorealistic dinosaurs onscreen (which hasn’t truly been the case since Steven Spielberg’s 1993 original), certainly…
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Read MoreVoyeurism, stalking and murder in style—suspenseful Watcher ratchets up taut tension as elegant exercise in paranoia that pays homage to classic suspense with a modern twist.…
Read MoreTop Gun: Maverick is both nostalgia and new, foremost a movie star tribute but equally compelling in both its cross-generational dynamics and sensationally thrilling aerial training and combat sequences.…
Read MoreAlex Garland’s latest head trip Men, starring Jessie Buckley as a haunted Londoner who retreats to the countryside following a personal trauma, begins strong and becomes less compelling as it resolves. This is mostly because Garland ultimately proves less interested in his feminine enigma…
Read MoreBold, uncompromising and cautionary about the stark reality of where we are headed.…
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