Alita: Body of an Angel
This was always going to happen. Alita: Battle Angel is the first successful Hollywood adaptation of a Japanese manga comic in history. Robert Rodriguez...
Lego 2: Stick to It
Except for one important element, The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part has pretty much everything that the original film had. The jokes are...
Extreme Job: Chicken Cops
I was waiting my whole life for someone to make a movie about fried chicken. I didn’t know that until I actually saw Extreme...
Destroyer: Violent Cop
Movies so often depict loose-cannon cops as heroes, men (it’s always men) who work for the law but happily ignore it to leave the...
Kid Who Would Be King: Alex and the Apocalypse
Ever since I saw Monty Python and the Holy Grail at the age of 13, it has ruined all other movies about King Arthur...
Beale Street: Dusky Dream Harlem
The movies have mostly neglected James Baldwin, but the 20th-century novelist and essayist foresaw everything that’s happening in Trump’s America, so it’s good that...
Best Documentaries of ’18
I wanted to pay tribute to as many films as possible this year, which is why I left the docs off my Top 10...
The Best Lead Performances of 2018
Always nice to see some new faces make this list, both in the sense of "new to this list" and new to our screens....
The Best Movie Dialogue of 2018
Here we are once again with my favorite recurring feature of my end-of-year coverage: The best movie dialogue of 2018. Ground rules for all...
The Best Supporting Performances of 2018
I thought I had something interesting to say for the introduction to this yearly feature of mine, but I don’t. These performances come from...
