AvatarThe A.V. Club7 hours agoGodzilla X Kong: The New Empire review: A new world can’t make this sequel feel anything but staleverified_publisherThe A.V. Club - Manuel BetancourtGodzilla X Kong: The New Empire is a mouthful of a title. And one that’s surprisingly hard to parse out on its own, especially as it suggests more of a brand collab between those famed cinematic monsters than anything else. Then again, that may well be the best way of understanding what’s happening …
AvatarThe A.V. Club8 hours agoIn The Land Of Saints And Sinners review: Even Liam Neeson must be getting tired of thisverified_publisherThe A.V. Club - Murtada ElfadlIt’s clear early on in In The Land Of Saints And Sinners that director Robert Lorenz was inspired by his frequent collaborator Clint Eastwood. Lorenz was Eastwood’s producer and second-unit director for many years, and Eastwood starred in his directorial debut, Trouble With The Curve (2012). You …
AvatarThe A.V. Club9 hours agoJerry Seinfeld's Unfrosted is as goofy as you'd expect in new trailerverified_publisherThe A.V. Club - Mary Kate CarrIt’s the movie that will make you say, “This is Jerry Seinfeld’s directorial debut? Huh!” The first trailer for Unfrosted, premiering on Netflix on May 3, is here. If you’re wondering why Seinfeld chose this, of all subjects, for his first outing as a filmmaker, he’s just apparently been obsessed …
AvatarThe A.V. Club1 day agoMiles Morales does battle with a common enemy in new Spider-Verse shortverified_publisherThe A.V. Club - Emma KeatesSpidey stans may have to wait a little while longer for Beyond The Spider-Verse (the film still hasn’t gotten an official release date since it was postponed last summer), but Sony is helping to build a web across the gap with The Spider Within: A Spider-Verse Story, a new short film featuring …
AvatarThe A.V. Club1 day agoYorgos Lanthimos gets Emma Stone and the whole band back together in Kinds Of Kindness trailerverified_publisherThe A.V. Club - Mary Kate CarrSweet dreams are made of this: Yorgos Lanthimos has brought his merry band of weirdos, including Best Actress winner Emma Stone, Willem Dafoe, Margaret Qualley, and Joe Alwyn, back together for a new picture. Kinds Of Kindness, which premieres in theaters June 21, also adds a perfect crew of …
AvatarThe A.V. ClubAvatarAvatar1 day agoLa Chimera review: Alice Rohwacher's haunted Italian romance lives among the ruinsverified_publisherThe A.V. Club - Matt SchimkowitzThe past is so close you can almost touch it in Alice Rohrwacher’s romantic treasure hunt, La Chimera. Set in the liminal space between living and dying, better known as the Italian countryside, Rohwacher’s carefully excavated narrative unearths a funny and deeply satisfying meditation on loss and …
AvatarThe A.V. Club2 days agoEvil lurks everywhere in first trailer for Evil Does Not Existverified_publisherThe A.V. Club - Emma KeatesThere are few things more bone-chilling than the real-life evils set upon our planet and its people each and every day. This is the type of horror Japanese director Ryûsuke Hamaguchi is contending with in Evil Does Not Exist, the stirring and eerie follow-up to his Oscar-winning 2021 film, Drive My …
AvatarThe A.V. Club2 days agoWill Smith returns to the big screen with Bad Boys 4 trailerverified_publisherThe A.V. Club - Mary Kate CarrYou can’t keep a bad boy down for long. We haven’t seen Will Smith on the big screen since The Slap (Antoine Fuqua’s Emancipation excepted as a straight-to-streaming drama). But he’s finally making his triumphant (hopefully!) return alongside Martin Lawrence in Bad Boys: Ride Or Die, the fourth …
AvatarThe A.V. Club2 days agoBustin’ used to make me feel goodverified_publisherThe A.V. Club - Charles MossThe original Ghostbusters is a near-perfect film. It’s just the right blend of comedy and legitimate horror, with Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Bill Murray, and Ernie Hudson in their prime. When it came out, it was innovative from both a technological and storytelling standpoint, and my goodness, was …
AvatarThe A.V. Club3 days agoThe American Society Of Magical Negroes review: A movie that's afraid of itselfverified_publisherThe A.V. Club - Mustafa Yasar IIAlthough The Matrix came out two years before Spike Lee famously coined the term “magical, mystical Negro” in 2001, it successfully inverted the potential fulfillment of that trope. Morpheus was undoubtedly a self-sacrificing guide to Neo. but it was Morpheus’ confidence, the weight of respect his …
AvatarThe A.V. Club3 days agoIs The End Of Evangelion an undeniable masterpiece or nonsense for nonsense's sake?verified_publisherThe A.V. Club - Sam BarsantiThis month, for no real reason other than the fact that it was a cool idea, anime distribution company GKIDS announced a North American theatrical run for Hideaki Anno’s groundbreaking film The End Of Evangelion—originally released in Japanese theaters in 1997 as both a tie-in with Anno’s iconic TV …
AvatarThe A.V. ClubAvatarAvatar5 days agoWeekend Film Roundup March 23, 2024verified_publisherThe A.V. ClubA collection of our best posts of the week in film