Malice (1993)
Alien Romulus (2024)
The Roses (2025)
Sinners (2025)
Superman (2025)
Atomic Blonde (2017) ///
The Finest Hours (2016) Solid production values and intensely designed action benefit from grounded performances to tell true-life heroics by regretful lifeboatman Chris Pine and volunteers to save storm broken tanker's crew led by dedicated engineer Casey Affleck. Landside emotions less persuasive, yet finishes with rousing sense of community.
Malice (1993) Twisting tale of seduction and betrayal features strong creative talent and fluid telling as cocky doctor Alec Baldwin's intrusive arrival in tentative college professor Bill Pullman and wife Nicole Kidman's lives leads to ruinous medical decision. Busy plotting without raising pulses.
Alien Romulus (2024) Benefitting from intense, compassionate Cailee Spaeny, storytelling serves up gory thrills as group of youthful colonists seek escape from company control by taking over derelict space station unaware of its deadly inhabitants. Depending on view, visual and conceptual ideas either copy elements of previous films or pay inventive tribute.
The Roses (2025) Thanks to consummate leads, marriage deterioration between accidentally ambitious chef Olivia Colman and conceitedly ruined architect Benedict Cumberbatch delivers sufficient broad laughs and withering acerbic jousts. Yet darker resonance fumbles satiric bite, lessening character and dramatic effect.
Sinners (2025) Delivered with bravura visuals and fluid staging, Michael B Jordan's war vets / criminal twin brothers return to 1930s Mississippi to establish community juke joint only to face vampiric prejudice. Wild thematic leaps falter coherence, yet experience remains compelling and allows standout musical set piece.
Superman (2025) Breezy comic strip adventure disposes with origin story in order to pitch David Corenswet's idealistic hero against Nicholas Hoult's corrupt Lex Luthor while developing relationship with Rachel Brosnahan's pragmatic Lois Lane. Despite typical, bludgeoning conclusive destruction, heart and humor always winningly center stage.
Atomic Blonde (2017) Bloody, blistering action set against Berlin corruption and double-dealing as the wall falls in 1989. Empty, enjoyably propulsive style and twisting plot concerning search for list of counter agents is held together by passionate intensity and physical brutality of Charlize Theron's spy.
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