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,…

As We Burn

In her directing debut, Helena Molin follows a group of young teenage climate activists over several years, including Greta Thunberg, from the moment when they started protesting outside the Swedish…

The Assessment

In the near future, no one can have children without a rigorous government process; a couple (Elizabeth Olsen, Himesh Patel) receive a visit from a woman (Alicia Vikander) who will…

Uglies

In the future, teenagers are kept separate from the rest of the population until they turn 16 and receive a full-body cosmetic surgery; 15-year-old Tally (Joey King) finds reason to…

Twisters

Five years after a storm that almost killed her, meteorologist Kate Cooper (Daisy Edgar-Jones) agrees to join a team of storm chasers in Oklahoma during a tornado season that gets…

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom

Four years after becoming king of Atlantis, Arthur (Jason Momoa) is not only a dad but faces a renewed threat from Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II). A slight improvement on…

Don’t Look Up: Last Days of Earth

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Photo: Netflix There’s something about Adam McKay that irritates the hell out of right-wingers and left-wingers alike. In the first case, the reason is obviously…

Interstellar: Escape from Earth

Matthew McConaughey. Photo: Warner The day I saw this movie, I woke up feeling sad over what is a very common dream for me. It had taken me back to…

Beasts of the Southern Wild

A huge storm is headed straight toward a Louisiana bayou community… and a five-year-old and her sick dad (Quvenzhané Wallis, Dwight Henry). Director Benh Zeitlin's first feature film became a…