Jake Cole

Toy Story 5 leans into the sentimental beats that are familiar to the series, except those moments too often give the film the feel of a PSA aimed at convincing parents to monitor their kids’ screen time.

This ambitiously staged brawler understands that narrative simplicity is the core of a truly relentless, propulsive action movie.

Befitting its image-conscious milieu, The Devil Wears Prada 2 has the aspartame fake-sweetness and zero-calorie comfort of its predecessor: It’s charming enough in the moment but you’ll be hungry again half an hour later.

Phil Lord and Christopher Miller put a comedic spin on Andy Weir’s more straightforward 2021 novel Project Hail Mary, recasting the author’s hopeful vision of productive communication with extraterrestrials as an unlikely buddy comedy.

In the Blink of an Eye feels less like a film than a commercial for life insurance that got out of hand, or perhaps more accurately one for the kind of hollow Silicon Valley tech optimism that has been thoroughly exposed as a sham by now.

Not even a typically scenery-chewing Christoph Waltz can enliven the proceedings.

The film's legible direction and steady escalation of tension makes for an enjoyably retro diversion.

Young Mothers is a welcome return to form for the Dardenne brothers, balancing social observation with character study.

On paper, anime master Hosoda Mamoru’s Scarlet sounds positively electrifying.

In flinching at the end, The Running Man ultimately becomes akin to the very thing it criticizes: a hollow, mollifying image of empowerment that distracts from the logical conclusions of its nihilistic premise.