TV & Movies Reviews
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'Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire': Big Monsters Get Angry, Yadda Yadda Yadda
Cinema's most famous lizard and monkey team up to fight a common enemy, while you wonder why a blockbuster universe featuring two iconic creatures feels so empty and by-the-numbers
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'Diarra From Detroit' Is a Murder Mystery, a Romance, a Comedy — and a Star-Making Showcase
Creator-star Diarra Kilpatrick crafts one hell of an entertaining cross-hybrid series about a teacher from the Motor City who investigates the sudden disappearance of a date
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'Wicked Little Letters' Is Reason No. 347 That Olivia Colman Is a National Treasure
The British actor virtually strolls away with this droll comedy about a small English town plagued with a profane poison-pen letter writer
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How a Wild Romanian Comedy Nails Our 21st-Century Doomscroll-Apocalypse Vibe
Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World turns a gig-economy worker/part-time TikTok troll into a tour guide of society's downward spiral
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'Shirley': Regina King Gives Us the Queen of Underdog Political Campaigns
Revisiting Shirley Chisholm's 1972 campaign to be the Democratic nominee for president, this biopic gives the Oscar winner a chance to flex — and pays tribute to a disruptor
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It's Officially Time to Stop Calling the 'Ghostbusters'
'Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire' puts the franchise on very thin ice — and suggests that this may be the moment to gracefully retire this IP for good
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'Immaculate': Sydney Sweeney's Catholic Horror Movie Is Pure Nunsense
The 'Euphoria' star hits every station of the grindhouse cross in this passionately ridiculous take on religious orders. Just make sure you stick around for the end
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'Palm Royale' Is a Waste of A-List Talent — and Your Precious Time
Kristen Wiig's comedy about a desperate, wannabe socialite in 1960s Florida is a perfect storm of bad TV
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'In Restless Dreams' May Be the Definitive Paul Simon Documentary
What started as a making-of chronicle of 2023's Seven Psalms album gets supersized into a two-part look back at one of America's greatest modern songwriters
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'The Animal Kingdom' Asks: What If Humans Suddenly Switched Species?
Part dystopian nightmare and part PETA-friendly plea for tolerance, this French thriller charts a pandemic that turns people into animals
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