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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald (2018)

With this film, J.K. Rowling’s immense canon now spans twenty-plus years of wizards and witches…

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Widows (2018)

Widows begins with the post-mortem mayhem of a Reservoir Dogs-style heist gone horribly wrong.  Desperate men scream…

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The Girl in the Spider’s Web (2018)

In The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo–the first English-language adaptation of Stieg Larsson’s novel series–director David…

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Overlord (2018)

A strange cinematic bisque, Overlord so effectively stirs genuinely jarring horror elements into a gripping…

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The Grinch (2018)

Dr. Seuss’ evergreen opus about an evergreen grouch was not a story that cried out…

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The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018)

The first fifteen minutes of The Nutcracker and the Four Realms spark with real imagination and…

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Bohemian Rhapsody (2018)

It’s telling that Freddie Mercury chose to pepper his mansion with cats, maybe because their…

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Mid90s (2018)

Children of the mid-90s lived on the edge of a vanishing frontier, when the Internet…

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The Old Man and the Gun (2018)

During the Renaissance, the Stradivari family made stringed instruments with such phenomenal craftsmanship that their…

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Hunter Killer (2018)

My high school humanities teacher was an adorably quirky woman who had a saying:  “The…

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