Digger: When Disaster Struck
Tom Cruise. Photo: Warner It’s not often that a box-office bomb this big becomes the season’s mest talked-about and debated film, but that’s what happened with Digger. Critics were divided,…
Bugonia
Conspiracy theorist Teddy Gatz (Jesse Plemons) and his intellectually disabled cousin (Aidan Delbis) kidnap the CEO (Emma Stone) of a pharmaceutical company and tell her to contact her people, an…
Zero Day
After a massive cyber attack that leaves thousands of people dead, former President George Mullen (Robert De Niro) is hired to lead an investigative commission with extraordinary powers. A political…
Civil War: The United States, No More
Kirsten Dunst and Wagner Moura. Photo: A24 As former president Donald Trump tries to mount a comeback for the 2024 elections, America seems almost as divided as in 1861, at…
El Camino
The long-awaited movie sequel to Breaking Bad (2008-2013) picks up where the show ended, with Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul) on the run from the police, getting in touch with old…
Vice
In 2015, Adam McKay successfully depicted the 2008 financial crisis in The Big Short; this is another satirical look at a dark chapter in American political history. The rise of…
Black Mass
In the late 1970s, the FBI makes a deal with up-and-coming Boston gangster James “Whitey” Bulger (Johnny Depp); in exchange for information on his rivals, the authorities turn a blind…
Breaking Bad: Journey to Damnation
Aaron Paul and Bryan Cranston. Photo: AMC On several occasions, Vince Gilligan has pointed out that Breaking Bad could never have existed without The X-Files (1993-2002). The sci-fi show may…