For every positive stride Shyamalan takes toward LGBTQ representation in Hollywood, there are almost as many going upsettingly backward, and I’m starting to think Knock at the Cabin was one cinematic rap on the door I should have left unanswered.

Missing is a tensely enjoyable roller-coaster ride that had my eyes glued to the screen.

Plane achieves liftoff, and for old-school action fanatics, even if it doesn’t stick the landing, watching it skid wildly off the runway into a ditch with such raucous aplomb is as ridiculous as it is wonderful.

Pretty positive M3GAN and I will be friends to the end.

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

Peking Express is a gorgeously shot oddity built on an unstable foundation.

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.

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