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The obvious faults and sneaky virtues of 'Joker 2'

Hitchcock Shows You Nothing

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s 'Warriors' makes an unforgivable mistake

‘52 Pick-Up’

‘Ricochet’

'Horizon' is streaming and is awesome

'Alien: Romulus' review

'Trap' review

'Deadpool & Wolverine' & Downey & Doom

Wolverine Before ‘Deadpool’

'Twister' and 'Twisters'

'House of the Dragon' doesn’t realize the Targaryens are crazy

Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

'Bad Boys: Ride or Die' review

War for the Planet of the Apes

'Furiosa' gets the hard things right and the easy things wrong

'Tótem' review

How 'X-Men: Days of Future Past' invented the movie multiverse

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

Rise of the Planet of the Apes

In Praise of the Cannes Boo

'The Fall Guy' review

Planet of the Apes (2001)

“Battle for the Planet of the Apes”

"Love Lies Bleeding" review

“Conquest of the Planet of the Apes”

"Civil War" and the two Alex Garlands

Loving "Dune" made me love "Star Wars" in a new way

“Escape from the Planet of the Apes”

“Beneath the Planet of the Apes”

"The Hunt" remembered

“Planet of the Apes”

“Tenet” on IMAX, reviewed

In "This is Me... Now" and "Air," celebrities are gods. It's unsettling.

‘Madame Web’ review

"I, the Jury"

"Argylle" review

"I.S.S." and "Miller's Girl" review

"Origin" is Ava DuVernay’s most ambitious movie. So why does it feel so empty?

"Anyone but You" review

Why are movies funnier in a theater?

Welcome to "The Draftland Scene"

"The Beekeeper" review

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