Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Review

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Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale Review

Ten years ago, the finale of Downton Abbey aired. Of course, that wasn’t truly the finale. The series continued as a theatrical feature, followed by another. Now we have a third film entitled Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale. Yet, this…

A Less Scary and Disappointing Finale Anchored by 2 Amazing Performances

The Conjuring franchise, as we know it, the James Wan-created horror juggernaut that launched a thousand nightmares, is coming to an end... or at least, that's the promise of the title of this iteration, the Michael Chaves-directed The Conjuring: Last…

Tim Burton’s Game-Changing Comic Book Movie Puts Most Modern Superhero Blockbusters To Shame

When Tim Burton was approached to direct a Batman movie, the most ubiquitous image of the Caped Crusader in pop culture was Adam West’s gloriously campy TV show from the 1960s. But by then, comics like The Dark Knight Returns…

George Clooney Anchors Noah Baumbach’s Moving Ode To The Magic of Movie Stars [Venice]

There’s no other way of dealing with the mythology of George Clooney but to fully lean into it. With “Jay Kelly,” Noah Baumbach understands this maxim, guiding Clooney through the shaky waters that separate reality from fiction to shape the…

Netflix’s Split-Season Formula Is Ruining a Perfectly Ghoulish Show

Editor's note: The below review contains spoilers for Wednesday Season 2 Part 2. Another year at Nevermore is over, but how does Wednesday's sophomore outing compare to Season 1? Well, it's a more difficult question to answer than you might…

After 17 Years, BritBox’s Reboot Delivers a Fresh Take on One of the Best British Mysteries of the ‘00s

Late last year, BritBox announced that it would be adapting Elizabeth George’s beloved Inspector Lynley series, nearly two decades after BBC One first adapted them into the still-popular Inspector Lynley Mysteries. The news took British mystery connoisseurs by surprise, as…

The Conjuring: Last Rites Review

The Conjuring: Last Rites marks the ninth film in a cinematic universe that’s been ongoing for about twelve years now. As the title suggests, paranormal investigators Lorraine Warren (Vera Farmiga) and Ed Warren (Patrick Wilson) return for one last job.…

Amanda Seyfried Is Sensational In This Socially Charged Religious Drama

The Testament of Ann Lee comes from the team behind last year’s Best Picture-nominated The Brutalist, with a screenplay co-written by Mona Fastvold and Brady Corbet, so it’s no surprise that it's a visual and thematic delight. Using gorgeously tactile…

Review: Highest 2 Lowest – Spike and Denzel Deliver

Review: Highest 2 Lowest Denzel and Spike Bring the Heat in a Morally Messy New York Thriller Spike Lee and Denzel Washington reunite like Voltron for Highest 2 Lowest, a sleek and heavy moral thriller dripping in soul, rhythm, and…

Netflix’s ‘Summer I Turned Pretty’ Replacement Has More Love Triangles, Less Closure

The final season of The Summer I Turned Pretty has taken the world by storm, sitting comfortably at number one on Prime Video’s streaming charts every week and populating social media with endless memes about peaches and cacao. If you’re…

Splatter-Gore Horror Is Back & Better Than Ever In This Wholesome Franchise Reboot [Review]

A blood-soaked love letter addressed not just to a genre, but to the craft of filmmaking as a whole, “The Toxic Avenger” is more sentimental than one might expect from a movie with roughly a dozen appendage losses. And while…

Stellar Characters & Drama Are Undermined By Mean-Spirited Comedy

The beginning of Loathe Thy Neighbor offers a simple premise. Down-on-his-luck freelance product reviewer Will Larkfield (Brennan Clost) is picking up the pieces after his father's traumatic death, leaving him the inheritor of a rural farm. While struggling to keep…

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