Anora (2024)

Anora (2024)

[7] Mikey Madison stars as Anora, a New York stripper and escort who accepts a marriage proposal from a super-rich Russian playboy (Mark Eydelshteyn) during a lavish excursion to Las Vegas. The romance burns fast and bright before the boy's oligarch parents…
A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

A Quiet Place: Day One (2024)

[6] The third film in the A Quiet Place franchise is a prequel set in New York City the day the vicious alien monsters arrived. If you've seen the previous films, you know the deal: The monsters are blind, but they can…
Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024)

[2] Ghostbusters has never had a good sequel or spin-off, so why should we start now? Frozen Empire combines the casts of 2021's mediocre Afterlife with the '80s' legacy gang to battle a big, horned demon that wants to freeze New York.…
Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023)

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning (2023)

[7] The seventh (and reportedly penultimate) Mission: Impossible film doesn't quite reach the series high achieved by 2018's Fallout, but it's still a solidly entertaining action/adventure flick. Tom Cruise's Ethan Hunt and his trusted teammates (including Ving Rhames and Simon Pegg) are…
Project Hail Mary (2026)

Project Hail Mary (2026)

[10] I strongly suspect directors Phil Lord and Chris Miller (Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) may have a few more Oscars headed their way after seeing their adaptation of Andy Weir's best-selling novel Project Hail Mary. Lord and Miller cast the immensely likable…
Dune: Part Two (2024)

Dune: Part Two (2024)

[9] Director Denis Velleneuve (The Arrival, Blade Runner 2049) concludes his adaptation of Frank Herbert's Dune with Dune: Part Two. The sequel picks up after the massacre of House Atreides at the hands of the vile Baron Harkonnen (Stellan Skarsgard). The baron…
Dune: Part One (2021)

Dune: Part One (2021)

[8] Director Denis Villeneuve (Blade Runner 2049, Arrival) takes a stab at delivering Frank Herbert's dense, complicated science-fiction novel to the big screen. Dune centers around a teenaged royal named Paul Atreides (Call Me By Your Name's Timothée Chalamet) whose family is…
Flow (2024)

Flow (2024)

[9] Flow, one of the most cinematic and meaningful animated films ever made, takes place in an unknown world and unknown time, where a cat must learn to trust animals of other species in order to survive a great flood. When the…
Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023)

Magic Mike’s Last Dance (2023)

[4] The third time's a disappointment with Magic Mike's Last Dance, the conclusion of Channing Tatum's adventures as a lovable Floridian stripper. The first Magic Mike, directed by Steven Soderbergh (Traffic, Sex Lies and Videotape), was a lot of fun, but got…
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024)

[3] Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch) plays a younger version of the character Charlize Theron played in 2015's brilliant Mad Max: Fury Road in this prequel co-written and directed by series creator George Miller. We learn Furiosa's backstory -- how she was kidnapped…