They/Them (2022)

They/Them (2022)

[4] A group of LGBTQ teens are dropped off for a week-long stay at a conversion therapy camp where a masked slasher is on the loose. Before the body count begins, the program leader (Footloose's Kevin Bacon) promises no holy-rolling…
Swallowed (2022)

Swallowed (2022)

[8] Two friends (Cooper Koch and Jose Colon) swallow bagged drugs to smuggle them over the Canadian border for some quick cash. But when they're assaulted at a rest stop, one of the bags bursts and creates a medical emergency…
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

Avatar: The Way of Water (2022)

[6] Writer/director James Cameron (Titanic, Aliens) returns to the world of Pandora thirteen years after the first Avatar film broke all box office records. Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) now lives completely among the planet's tall, blue natives - the Na'vi.…
Funny Pages (2022)

Funny Pages (2022)

[5] A teenaged underground cartoonist (Daniel Zolghadri) seeks the company of bizarre, questionable characters in the hopes it might inspire his work. He shuns his parents and moves in with a couple of middle-aged men who watch old cartoons in…
EO (2022)

EO (2022)

[3] This review contains spoilers. The only thing worse than disliking a movie from the start is loving a movie, and then having the movie betray you in the end. Such a film is EO, a Polish film from veteran…
The Menu (2022)

The Menu (2022)

[7] Anya Taylor-Joy (The Witch) stars in this posh, claustrophobic horror flick that pits bourgeoise guests at an elite dining establishment against the head chef (Ralph Fiennes), whose multi-course menu is designed for a sinister purpose. The plates begin somewhat…
Don’t Worry Darling (2022)

Don’t Worry Darling (2022)

[6] Florence Pugh (Midsommar, Little Women) stars as a 1950s happy housewife living in an experimental desert paradise where the women cook and clean by day, host parties by night, and have sex with their husbands in-between. But she has…
The Fabelmans (2022)

The Fabelmans (2022)

[6] Steven Spielberg tackles his autobiography with this story of his youth and adolescence, discovering his love of film while coping with his parents' untenable marriage. As Spielberg's stand-in, Sam Fabelman, Gabrielle LaBelle is a disappointingly empty vessel, lacking the…
Tár (2022)

Tár (2022)

[8] [This review contains spoilers.] Cate Blanchett stars as a fictional celebrated conductor whose life begins to unravel after an alleged affair with a music student comes to light. Her character, Lydia Tár, breaks the glass ceiling in the rarified…
Death on the Nile (2022)

Death on the Nile (2022)

[7] Kenneth Branagh directs and stars as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot in this most recent iteration of Death on the Nile. Poirot is on vacation in Egypt when he's asked to join a wealthy socialite's honeymoon party down the river…