This may be the end of the world, but nothing about it made me feel fine. I found Bugonia to be an unrelentingly miserable journey into pessimistic darkness, its viscerally sardonic malice more than I could bear.

Queens of the Dead travels into a night of zombie terror and finds a reason to believe that humankind can make a better world that everyone can live in together, no matter their differences before the undead walked among them.

Black Phone 2 calls viewers to attention with rigidly frigid authority, and it is only through togetherness, compassion, courage, and communal fortitude that individual humanity is discovered, forgiveness granted, and hope for a better tomorrow restored.

Beast of War is a gut-wrenching rollercoaster ride of survival and suspense.

Good Boy is going to go down as one of the year’s most disappointing misfires.

For all its volcanic outbursts and aggressive proclamations of overwhelming victory, HIM fails to score.

The Conjuring remains the best film in the ever-expanding “Conjuringverse.” It is also the best film in director James Wan’s career.

Strange Harvest got under my skin.

Deaths are perfunctory and have zero shock value, and House of Eden’s final moments land with something of a shoulder-shrugging thud.