BOLDLY GOING WHERE EVERYONE WANTS TO BE Man, that was something no Trekkie saw coming. A year after its U.S. premiere, the time had come in Germany as well, and the new Trek series set out to explore ...

ONE POND TO RULE THEM ALL The worst thing one can say about Pixar’s new film, with its straightforward message of coexistence between humans and nature, is a lack of genuine, surprising innovation and...

VRACH FRANKENSHTEYN - DIRECTOR'S CUT 2.0 [This is going to be a somewhat longer review. But we'll have to breeze through a few things. More or less spoiler-free of course.] It's fascinating. This film...

An opera of death, more Greek tragedy than American Western, from the heart of Italy. It hardly gets any more epic, melancholic, or artistically sophisticated than this. Almost a meditative arthouse f...

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I WANTED TO BELIEVE SO BAD Back in the ’90s, I saw the first X-FILES movie in theaters. It was a matter of honor to do the same for this belated sequel to the series. To put it positively: the movie d...

Spider-Man is one of the longest-running superheroes on the big and small screens—and certainly the most popular Marvel Comics hero of all time. Live-action adaptations date back to the 1970s, when ep...

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It’s as much a story about the evolution of the Minions as it is about the history of film—from the first moving image through sound films to creature features. My first time seeing a movie featuring ...

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FLASH GORDON AND THE PRINCESSES OF THE UNIVERSE This tongue-in-cheek subversion of its own mythology may not be to every fan’s taste, but that doesn’t detract from the charm of the second live-action ...

In his second feature film, German filmmaker Ezra Tsegaye struggles less with the titular monster than with all sorts of production hurdles he can’t quite overcome. The film’s concept is so outlandish...

Late period John Frankenheimer is better than no Frankenheimer at all and this rather standard thriller is elevated not only by the director’s still formidable chops but the production design of Ken A...

John Frankenheimer’s 1965 World War II film is an admirable attempt to fuse the action genre with art-house drama a la The Wages of Fear. Thanks to Frankenheimer's clean craftsmanship and star Burt La...

An unbridled romantic comedy of the kind we’ve seen far too rarely since the mid-80s through the early 90s. Some of the jokes are really good, and the chemistry between all three couples in the film i...

For a film adaptation of a novel running just under an hour and a half, you have to choose your battles carefully. As a result, the film’s focus remains on the relationship between a broken bodyguard ...

In the wake of Quentin Tarantino’s early work—somewhere between *True Romance* and *Pulp Fiction*—there was a whole wave of ensemble films featuring cool, wisecracking gangsters. This film, whose titl...