Werewolves Within is going to go down as one of my favorite films of 2021.

F9 takes the saga to a place that’s out of this world, and even that wasn’t enough to maintain my interest for all 145 minutes.

The Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard didn’t do much that I’d consider worthwhile, shooting far too many blanks and frequently missing the target the few times a live round was loaded into the chamber.

Some movies exist as if solely to make the viewer feel good. They’re not masterpieces. That’s Luca, and that’s wonderful.

Anything for Jackson is sensational. Watch it at once.

Godzilla vs. Kong is a sensory feast.

Even with a terrific soundtrack naturally dominated by The Smiths, Shoplifters of the World is a flat, emotionally inert coming-of-age drama that never worked for me.

“In a way, the world in this past year has gone through the most isolating, difficult time imaginable. What better guides out of the darkness and back into the light than the people of Washington Heights?”
– IN THE HEIGHTS director Jon M. Chu

In the Heights is an epic celebration of humanity I’ll be thinking about for the remainder of 2021.