It is very strange to stream a new Coen brothers movie on Netflix, but this six-part collection of short films is as memorable and engaging as anything they’ve released on the big screen.
It could have been oh-so-much worse. In the end, the 2018 iteration of The Grinch is a pleasant if wholly unnecessary re-imagining of the tale done best by Boris Karloff and company in 1966.
It’s a complicated story to tell in two hours, but ultimately Jason Reitman can’t pin down what makes the saga of Gary Hart so nuanced and fascinating.
This Oakland-centric film from writing duo Daveed Diggs and Rafael Casal is unsubtle and uneven but teeming with the passion of a story that needed to be told.
No one is trying to reinvent the wheel here, but Tom Cruise and Christopher McQuarrie have gotten the Mission: Impossible series (mostly) back on track.
No one expected a Paul Rudd-led superhero franchise to exist, let alone be this enjoyable, but you can’t help but wonder if Marvel’s formula drags it down.
