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Since we last left the beleaguered mutants and mutant-adjacent characters of Fox’s possibly-doomed X-Men spinoff…

Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable…

“You’re perfect,” Sarah (Taylor Schilling) says to her newborn son in The Prodigy, priming the audience for irony.…

In the wake of dead-end sequels to Machete, Spy Kids, and Sin City, it might seem strange to describe…

Some of the best movies addressing the North American narcotics trade lean hard into the futility of this so-called…

The Academy Awards may have questionable influence on the moviegoing public at large, but almost 16 years after Chica…

How long can you keep playing with little plastic building blocks? That’s a question The Lego Movie 2: The Second…

For much of the past 25 years, the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay has functioned as a consolation prize…

Since we last left the quarreling semi-emo mutants of Fox’s X-Men offshoot The Gifted, the show’s ensemble and…

When George W. Bush first appears on screen in Adam McKay’s new movie Vice, it’s strange to see him played by Sam…

Was the first live-action Transformers movie really long enough ago to qualify for its own nostalgia revisitation?…

In the 10 years since Clint Eastwood last starred in one of his own films, the de facto movie-star farewell Gran…

One thing the historical drama Mary Queen Of Scots seems to acknowledge straight away is that to apply the…

The Possession Of Hannah Grace begins with such a comprehensive assembly of exorcism-movie boilerplate that if the…

Too many superhero movies get lost in the attempt to navigate years or decades of comic-book lore, bending and…

One of the many minor miracles achieved by Ryan Coogler’s Rocky follow-up Creed is the unexpected depth the movie…

There have been relatively few sequels produced by Walt Disney Feature Animation—that is, the flagship Disney…

“We have a spectacle,” announces King Edward (Stephen Dillane) in the middle of both an England-Scotland peace…

If Walt Disney Animation built its reputation on fairy tales and princesses, is upstart animation house Illumination…

In some ways, Tyler Perry movies take place in their own specific world that merges stereotypes, romance-novel…