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Transformers: Rise Of The Beasts is no better or worse than most of the franchise, but it is a step down from Bumblebee and that's a shame.

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts isn't the worst of this franchise, but that is a bar so low that you could stub your toe on it, and it is also a step back from the potential that we saw with Bumblebee.

The Flash might feature some of these good moments, but they don't add up to anything, and at the end of the day, the film as a whole is an overly long mess with a few bright spots and a massive missed opportunity when it comes to Supergirl.

Spider:Man: Across The Spider-Verse is as perfect a film can be, and the standard all animated, superhero, and action films should be held to.

Highly recommended: Baby Assassins, a hilarious Japanese comedy-thriller about two mismatched women forced to be roommates but find being contract killers harder than living together.

Reality is a tense new thriller on HBO and Max that shows Sydney Sweeney is a force to be reckoned with, and will be for a long time.

Sakra is a hot mess that tries to cram too much story into one movie but it's a lot of fun and Donnie Yen gets to look cool from start to finish since he also directed it.

Weird: the Al Yankovic Story is an absurdist, surrealist entry into the rockumentary genre that never fails to deliver laughs, heart, and weirdness.

The Swordsman of All Swordsman, Joseph Kuo's major entry, gets its North American premiere at the 10th Old School Kung Fu Fest.

Vengeance of the Phoenix Sisters is a low-budget, breezy, pulpy minor classic of the wuxia genre that offers easy feminist escapist fun.

We review King of Wuxia, the definitive documentary about the life and career of director King Hu, who defined the wuxia movie as we know it, which launches the 10th Old School Kung Fu Fest in New York City.

Ben Affleck makes a winning return behind the camera with Air, featuring outstanding performances from the entire cast.

While infinitely better than the first try, The Super Mario Bros Movie has a pretty basic story full of references hampering the film.

Scream VI is a brilliant, visceral film that continues to prove the franchise is the strongest horror property of our time.

Scream VI does the unimaginable and turns in one of the best entries in the franchise six films in. As good as horror sequels get.

The new Children Of The Corn is terrible, forgettable, and the kind of horror sequel that is unacceptable these days. Skip it.

Director Dave Franco and stars Alison Brie, Jay Ellis & Kiersey Clemons shine in Amazon Prime Video rom-com Somebody I Used to Know.

Casper Van Dien, Vivien Ngô, Elyse Dinh & Ian Alexander shine in Dark Star Pictures psychological thriller Daughter from Corey Deshon.

Cocaine Bear has its issues, but ultimately delivers on its promise to titillate those who want to see a coked up, rampaging bear film.

Ant-Man And The Wasp: Quantumania is huge in scale and importance for the MCU, but is that really a good thing?

The Wandering Earth 2 is a prequel that improves on the first movie, is epic in scale with hard science fiction but flawed by melodrama and still derivative of Hollywood blockbusters.

Director Roxanne Benjamin strikes gold with Blumhouse & Paramount's There's Something with the Children with classic horror and buildup.

A unique experience awaits those who wish to watch Kyle Edward Ball's film Skinamarink and they're all horrifically delightful.

M3gan is a marvel herself, but the film surrounding her is uneven and lifeless. Let's hope the sequel will be better.

Don DeLillo's award-winning 1985 novel White Noise has been a white whale for many filmmakers since the 1980s. It's a dense, non-naturalistic satire of

Babylon is the best film of 2022, a decadent, thrilling, and emotional journey through old Hollywood from Damien Chazelle.

Like the first Avatar, The Way Of Water is a bloated film short on substance and long on flash. Pretty as it gets, but not much else.

Spoiler Alert is mostly a good rom com, and also a very sad cancer drama. Worth a watch, but not as strong as one would hope.

The Fabelmans is Spielberg at his best, telling a personal story while also being a love-letter to the filmmaking process.

The Fabelmans is an overly long love letter to the concept of filmmaking and how creatives tend to put so much of themselves into the works that they end