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Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Terminate This

Johnny Depp (on monitors) welcomes Morgan Freeman, Cillian Murphy, and Rebecca Hall to his afterlife in Transcendence.

Logging Off

City Island: An Actor Prevaricates

Henry Cavill presents himself to the United States military in Man of Steel.

Man and Superman

Film Reviews

Film Reviews

Oscar’s Gold

Honestly, some evil part of me wishes that Donald Trump had withheld federal aid from California after this winter’s wildfires, because then you’d really...
Iko Uwais and Cecep Arif Rahman go at each other with curved blades in a restaurant kitchen in The Raid 2.

Power Raid

When I reviewed The Raid: Redemption two years ago, I asked, “When was the last time you saw a badass Indonesian film?” Many people...

The Last Exorcism: Devil out of Nell

So Paranormal Activity 2 is coming out soon. Good luck to it, because while I thought the original Paranormal Activity was built well but...

Am I Blue?

So your epic disaster movie broke box-office records and won every Oscar in sight. What do you do for an encore? For 12 years,...

Thunderbolts*: Avengerz with a “Z”

The Marvel series confronts franchise fatigue head on during the opening of Thunderbolts*. While Yelena Belova (Florence Pugh) executes a BASE jump off a...

Legal Eagle: The Conspirator

Even though it has a bigger budget and higher production values than most of the entries at the Sundance Film Festival, the historical legal...
Bradley Cooper takes aim in "American Sniper."

Firing Blind

It has become a depressingly familiar ritual during awards season: movies based on real-life events being picked apart by professional trolls and op-ed writers....

Oscar’s Gold

My editor asked me to do something different this year and analyze all the major categories at the Academy Awards instead of just the...

Chop Suey Masala

With the release of Chandni Chowk to China, the race for the title of Weirdest Movie of 2009 is off to a flying start....

Death on the Nile: Poirot Gets the Blues

Following up the success of his Murder on the Orient Express, Kenneth Branagh has taken the same approach to Death on the Nile by...