Sarah Polley’s Women Talking is a powerful, thought-provoking drama that left me shattered and stunned.

Avatar: The Way of Water builds to a final hour of action and suspense that blew me through the theater’s back wall.

There is nothing subtle about writer-director Sam Mendes’s Empire of Light.

The Harbinger is director-writer-editor-composer-producer Andy Mitton’s best film yet.

Christmas Bloody Christmas is a gruesome slice of holiday cruelty that knows exactly what it is and doesn’t try to be anything else, and that’s exactly as it should be.

The hero may die, but love still lasts forever, and that makes Spoiler Alert a timeless romantic melodrama worth swooning over.

Violent Night does exactly what it sets out to do, and does so with panache, frivolity, and style. It’s a blood-splattered act of resistance, and not since Billy Chapman went on his Silent Night, Deadly Night rampage has a Santa Claus crushed so many skulls as he removes names from his extensive “naughty” list.

Knives Out set an impossibly high bar. Glass Onion vaults over it with rhapsodic ease.

Strange World is a gloriously weird adventure that’s like the ungainly love child of a Dr. Seuss storybook melded with Fantastic Voyage that revels in the goofy cosmic sensibilities of a random episode of the classic 1960s television series Lost in Space.