Peg Aloi
Mike Flanagan’s ambitious update of Stephen King’s classic pairs a superb cast with social media cruelty and an expanding supernatural world that sometimes overwhelms the story.
David Kittredge’s lively, illuminating documentary revisits John Boorman’s troubled 1977 “Exorcist II: The Heretic”—a studio-era fiasco whose ambition, artistry, and afterlife now demand a second look.
Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman return to the Owens family in a handsome, fan-friendly follow-up whose appealing cast and witchy atmosphere cannot overcome a disjointed, derivative script.
This lush, beautifully acted adaptation follows a young woman’s struggle to pursue astronomy—and defy the sexist conventions of Edwardian England.
Director Jane Schoenbrun’s seductive, funny, and unsettling meditation on horror, desire, and cinema turns summer-camp carnage into a tale of identity, intimacy, and renewal.
Eli Roth’s brightly packaged slasher has an intriguing premise, sweet candy-colored visuals, and impressive effects, but its lazy derivations, forced humor, and AI-generated cartoons leave a sour aftertaste.
Handsome yet not easily typecast, Sam Neill built a quietly remarkable career playing heroes, villains, lovers, weirdos, and everything in between.
David Frankel’s wildly popular fashion fairy tale returns with a biting media critique and Meryl Streep’s cucumber-cool Miranda facing down tech billionaires.
This is pure cinema, unpretentious, rough-hewn, mystical, conjured from the earth, offered up at the forest altar of whatever flesh-and-blood gods are still listening.
Clea Simon’s latest is an easy-going entertainment that will be a fine introduction to those who are only now discovering the author’s uniquely enchanting brand of feline genre fiction.
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