Chris Klimek
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Writer-director Christopher McQuarrie returns to the M:Ifranchise with jaw-dropping stunts and set pieces, ensuring that "Fallout'ssky-high thrill quotient obliterates that of all competitors."
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Despite the lazy cliché that triggers its plot, The Equalizer 2 is a "reasonably well-written and (of course) beautifully acted serving of geriatric-virility violence porn." If that's your thing. -
The lackluster sequel to 2015's moody and violent Sicariois missing that film's director (Denis Villeneuve), its stars (Emily Blunt and Daniel Kaluuya) and its artfulness. -
In this derivative but fitfully inventive fifth installment of the Jurassicfranchise, our heroes try to rescue Isla Nublar's dinosaurs from extinction-by-lava, only to get their ash handed to them. -
The revamp of the classic low-budget 1972 flick Super Flysoftens that film's main character and careens between tones "like a Cadillac Fleetwood Eldorado that's had its brake lines cut." -
John Cameron Mitchell's "sweet, slight comic fantasy" explores what happens when a young man (Alex Sharp) in 1977 London meet-cutes a young woman (Elle Fanning) who's from ... out of town. -
"There's something weirdly serene about a film that doesn't try any harder than it must," says critic Chris Klimek. -
Anderson imbues this stop-motion-animated film about loyal dogs exiled to a lonely island with his signature formalism, but there's real emotion in those pups' wet, soulful eyes. -
The film depicting the origin story of Lara Croft's raider of lost tombs "isn't awful," says critic Chris Klimek, "but its invasive, thudding mediocrity will make you wish it were." -
Though it traffics in broad stereotypes, several funny performances nearly salvage this satiric tale of a faked kidnapping, greedy executives and dim-bulb criminals.
