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Leviticus announces Adrian Chiarella as a filmmaker of remarkable confidence and control. It's a horror film that trusts its audience, trusts its characters, and trusts the power of what remains unseen. In doing so, it becomes one of the year's most unsettling — and impressive — genre debuts.

Toy Story 5 is a movie for everyone. But if you're feeling down, if the world seems overwhelmingly bleak, or if you just need a reminder that your heart can still be touched, then forget the chores and see it.

The lesson Another World offers is that tenacity is a virtue, but only when your goal is attainable.

Disclosure Day weaves these ideas and more into what seems to be a straightforward action film with some sci-fi elements. And given that this is Steven Spielberg, he doesn't give us answers but leaves us with some hopeful things to contemplate.

The Furious is two hours of exactly the martial arts mayhem you were hoping it would be.

Office Romance is wonderfully cast down to the cameos but so filled with bits and pieces aiming to amuse that almost from the get-go, it feels artificial enough to remind us that we’re watching a movie that’s trying hard to please.

In the end, writer-director Adam Carter Rehmeier’s Carolina Caroline — the odd title a play on the protagonist’s name and the state that magnetically draws her toward it — succeeds in blending the buoyancy of a road movie with the urgency of a crime caper, propelled by a pair of attractive bandits having a blast, at least initially.

If you expect the best from everyone involved, prepare for disappointment. But without giving anything away, it’s fair to say Power Ballad is a mix of feel-good, then feel-bad, then mostly feel good again. That’s a recipe for a pretty good popcorn movie, even if you can’t dance to it.

It’s a winning film. Plenty of ‘80s vibes but a lot of fun to be seen and shared with multiple generations of viewers.

Affection remains intriguing throughout, and often admirable in its ambition, but it never quite trusts the very themes that make it worth caring about in the first place.