Movie Reviews

And it’s a wrap. Multiple Godzilla and King Kong films have reached the Apex — you’ll get the pun in a minute — as the two legendary titans finally square off in multiple CGI engagements that lay waste to a small fleet of ships and ultimately, of course, you guessed it, poor Hong Kong, in “Godzilla vs. Kong.”...

When HBO Max’s subscriber-based service decided to privately fund Zack Snyder’s vision to redo the “Justice League” film, they had to know the loyal base of DC fans and superhero geeks would flock to the opportunity to witness the original man behind the “Justice League” share his vision...

Daisy Ridley, who we last saw wielding a lightsaber as “The Last Jedi,” finds herself paired with your friendly neighborhood web-slinger, “Spider-Man’s” Tom Holland, in a sci-fi tale set in the mid-2200s on a newly-settled planet. Holland is Todd Hewitt, a young, poor member of a beet cropping family in a territory on the settled planet where all the women were killed and only the men remain. ...

A very slow burn, this serial murder mystery, “The Little Things,” keeps the audience engaged with a strong cast — Denzel Washington, Rami Malek and Jared Leto — who deliver the type of performances theatergoers have come to expect. Washington stars as former L.A. ...

When trailer footage for “WandaVision” first emerged, fans initial response was “what?” Now that the first of Marvel’s original Disney+ programs has dropped, fans of the popular comic book company turned motion picture giant, has been mixed at best...

One of Hollywood’s shining stars tries his hand at a western tale. Why not, he’s conquered everything else? Tom Hanks stars as Capt. Jefferson Kyle Kidd in “News of the World,” sharing the screen with a young Helena Zengel as Johanna, who much like her young contemporary Dafne Keen in Marvel’s “Logan” speaks very little English but tends to steal scenes using her facial expressions...

I was so excited for “Wonder Woman 1984” to drop at Christmas. I loved the first Wonder Woman and had high expectations for the follow-up. Admittedly a comic book geek, I looked forward to watching the heroic Amazonian (Gal Gadot) as she takes on her greatest rival Cheetah (Kristen Wiig) as well as maniacal mad man Maxwell Lord (Pedro Pascal) set on becoming the most powerful man in the world...

Taking a page out of the “Scream” script writing catalog, “Freaky” turns the serial killer genre on its head because nothing lends itself to big laughs like a 6-foot-5, teen-obsessed homicidal killer on the loose at prom. “Freaky” takes a mask wearing killer who targets affectionate young teens as prom approaches and gives it the old “Freaky Friday” treatment...

Ma and Pa Kent reunited for a brutal battle for the custody of their grandchild. Apparently the pairing of Kevin Costner and Diane Lane works because after appearing together as Superman’s adoptive childhood parents in recent DC superhero films, the duo are once again a couple in “Let Him Go.”...

It’s happened on a few occasions. Hollywood’s most recognized gangster actor, Robert De Niro, takes on a lighter role to show he can do comedy when he wants. Such is the case with the PG-rated, family comedy-with-a-heart “The War With Grandpa.” Bit of trivia for the readers, when was the last time De Niro did a PG, let alone a family film?...

When you sit through a movie, glued to a screen for 2 1/2 hours, and you’re never even given a name for the story’s main character ... and you don’t care, the director has got you. Such is the case in Christopher Nolan’s newest mind boggle, “Tenet,” which makes his previous works “Inception” and “Memento” look like easy watching...