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Despite her (obviously bogus) death-by-moppet in the first film, saucy robot girl M3GAN is back in action in the new sequel, "M3GAN 2.0." And how is it? Well, the movie suffers from narrative sprawl and thematic overkill, unfortunately, but it's still fun. Just not quite as much.

In the two years since the events of the original movie (which ...Read more

The first thing a reviewer should probably do with some movies is to offer only the most general assessment of their twists and secrets. In the case of Danny Boyle's new "28 Years Later" -- a movie of raw, bloodthirsty ambition -- any attempt to describe the picture in useful detail must risk igniting the ire of basement-dwelling spoilerati, who...Read more

"Materialists" is not a rom-com, you may be happy to note. Oh, it's not entirely without rom -- in fact modern romance is its subject, although one about which it has earnest reservations. As for the com part of the ancient Hollywood formula, well, the picture is not without amusement, either, although its laughs are not telegraphed so far in ...Read more

If nothing else, "Ballerina" -- an offshoot of the "John Wick" franchise, as its full title helpfully clarifies -- establishes once again that women can be fully convincing hard-action stars. (This will come as breaking news only to those who've missed Charlize Theron cracking heads in "Atomic Blonde," Carrie-Anne Moss leap-kicking various ...Read more

Over the course of nearly 30 years, director Wes Anderson has built an avid following with his distinctive films, from the 1996 "Bottle Rocket" to the 2014 "Grand Budapest Hotel." Most of his movies, with their toybox sets and locked-down pictorial style, look like no others. In recent years, however, Anderson seems to have bogged down in his ...Read more

What's the coolest stunt Tom Cruise has pulled off over the course of his 29 years of "Mission: Impossible" movies? Would it be the spectacular climb up (and run back down) the side of Dubai's Burj Khalifa skyscraper in the fourth film, "Ghost Protocol"? Or maybe the high-flying motorcycle/parachute leap in the seventh one, "Dead Reckoning"? Or,...Read more

Down here south of the border, Canada is often coded as mild-mannered and bland. But look closely beneath the surface of such choice Canadian films as David Cronenberg's "Videodrome" or Atom Egoyan's "Chloe" and you find dark things squirming around. Jason Buxton's "Sharp Corner" is very much this sort of picture. It begins high in a sunny sky ...Read more

At its best, which is pretty much whenever Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively are onscreen together, "Another Simple Favor" approaches the near-perfection of the 2018 movie that preceded it. If the new picture doesn't quite achieve the elevated state of the first one, the fault lies in its madly complicated storyline and, oddly, the sunny ...Read more

"The Accountant" was a zinglessly titled Ben Affleck crime thriller that came out nine years ago, did OK at the box office, and left no buzz behind. No one was crying out for a sequel, and yet here we have one. And the surprising thing about "The Accountant 2" is how much fun it is. If you were planning to go see "The Amateur" or "A Working Man"...Read more

Welcome to The Shrouds, an afterlife community where the dearly departed await your return and invite you, through the miracle of necro-technology, to come inside and watch them rot.

Yes, David Cronenberg is back. For 50-odd years now, the Canadian writer-director has probed the pulpy depths of body horror in a run of features that extends from...Read more

"The Amateur" is based on a 1981 Canadian secret-agent movie as forgotten today as this one will probably be 44 years from now. Don't get me wrong: The new picture is perfectly OK; it does its job. Well, pretty much. There's some gunplay, some bomb play, some Euro travel. But there's nothing new about most of it. (The big glass swimming pool in ...Read more