Alien: Romulus (2024)

Alien: Romulus (2024)

[2] The seventh film in the Alien franchise is by far the worst of the litter, featuring a juvenile cast lacking any charisma who lead us through a tediously dull pastiche of the series' greatest hits. Alien: Romulus reeks of young adult…
Bring Her Back (2025)

Bring Her Back (2025)

[8] After the death of their father, a brother and sister (Billy Barratt and Sora Wong) are placed in foster care with a disturbingly odd woman (The Shape of Water's Sally Hawkins) who has sinister plans for them. Barratt suspects early on…
Roofman (2025)

Roofman (2025)

[8] In this true story from director Derek Cianfrance (The Place Beyond the Pines, Blue Valentine), Channing Tatum stars as Jeffrey Manchester, an Army veteran and struggling father sent to prison for robbing several McDonald's restaurants by digging through the roofs. He…
Good Boy (2025)

Good Boy (2025)

[7] Good Boy is a novelty horror film starring a dog and told entirely from the dog's perspective. The dog's name, in the film and in real life, is Indy. He's a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever who accompanies his human, Todd…
Saltburn (2023)

Saltburn (2023)

[8] Oscar-winning writer/director Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman) serves up a diabolical pitch-black comedy about an off-kilter Oxford student who ingratiates himself into the life of a handsome classmate and his aristocratic family to dubious and increasingly sinister ends. Barry Keoghan (Oscar…
One Battle After Another (2025)

One Battle After Another (2025)

[3] It's possible I'll see this movie again in the future and understand it better. I have to assume this is possible, because I love several other Paul Thomas Anderson movies, including Boogie Nights, Magnolia, There Will Be Blood, and Licorice Pizza.…
Sinners (2025)

Sinners (2025)

[7] In this period horror film from writer/director Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Black Panther), twin Chicago gangsters named Smoke and Stack (both played by Michael B. Jordan) return to their Depression-era Mississippi home town to create a more legitimate life for themselves.…
Red Rocket (2021)

Red Rocket (2021)

[3] As much as I like Tangerine and The Florida Project, director Sean Baker leaves me cold with Red Rocket. Former adult film actor Simon Rex stars as Mikey, a middle-aged douchebag porn star who flees Hollywood to lick his wounds in…
Frankenstein (2025)

Frankenstein (2025)

[7] Director Guillermo del Toro (The Shape of Water, Pan's Labyrinth) puts his cinematic stamp on Mary Shelley's formative sci-fi novel, casting Oscar Isaac (Dune: Part One, Annihilation) as the obsessed Victor Frankenstein who brings an assembly of dead body parts to…
Predator: Badlands (2025)

Predator: Badlands (2025)

[7] Director Dan Trachtenberg (10 Cloverfield Lane, Prey) leads the Predator franchise in a bold new, character-driven direction with Predator: Badlands. Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi stars (under digital makeup) as Dek, the film's title hunter, a runt whose ruthless father tries to kill him…