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“At three hours and twelve minutes, reviewing Avatar: The Way of Water is much like watching it; a difficult slog with occasional bright spots marred by lots of confusion and too many subplots to comprehensively talk...
Four years ago, Chloé Zhao was lured into the world of Marvel to direct Eternals. Based on the strength of her Best Picture-winning Nomadland, she was given lots of freedom to direct and rewrite...
Welcome to January 2026 Flickcharters! It is post-Holidays Dump Month! We have a Daisy Ridley zombie movie that’s been hanging out since 2024, some late limited release 2025 flicks hoping for an Oscar push,...
It was the start of a fairly quiet year, a hundred years ago today. In 1926, explorers achieved the first non-reindeer-powered flight over the North Pole. The first liquid-fuel rocket hit the skies, too....
Since the divisive reception to Star Wars: The Last Jedi, director Rian Johnson has dedicated his creative endeavors to crime, the genre his feature career has more or less centered around outside of his...
Prior to 2018, only once in Walt Disney Feature Animation‘s history had the illustrious studio created a sequel (ignoring the straight-to-video, non-theatrical films). The first attempt, the less-than-well-received The Rescuers Down Under, seemed to...
My son is a fan of the Five Nights at Freddy’s lore. He’s young — the games are older than he is — but YouTube videos, posters, and the fanciful, creepy mythology of these...
Rental Family is elegantly absurdist, and beautifully banal in scope. The premise is eyebrow raising, focusing on a minor American actor (Brendan Fraser) living in Tokyo who starts working for a rental family service...
Wicked: For Good exemplifies why it is hard to split a complete story into multiple parts and expect those parts to stand alone. The sequel to last year’s immensely popular movie musical Wicked, it...
The directorial debut from acclaimed TV writer and producer Bryan Fuller, Dust Bunny brings his unique sensibilities to the big screen. At times, his storytelling doesn’t quite translate to the confines of a feature...
Keeper (2025) My Flickscore: 31 Keeper marks Osgood Perkins’ second release of the year, following the splatter-horror-comedy chaos of The Monkey. Where that film reveled in crimson excess, Keeper trades gore for mood —...
I don't know that anything has been uniformly one way or the other across all superhero films. That said, I…
Do you think this is a return to the Reeve-style moral simplicity and fresh-and-fun superhero films? Or was this a…
It should be on there! I linked it to rank if you click on the film title!
been wanting to rank this for a couple weeks now and this hasn't shown up on the site yet
Everything satire these days. When was the last time a slasher movie or any movie played it straight? They've been…