Tag: in theaters
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Spider-Man: Brand New Day: A Reboot and a Homecoming for the MCU’s Finest
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) Destin Daniel Cretton As Morgan and I got seated in the theater tonight (albeit way too early—I figured there’d be lines out the wazoo for concessions, so we got to the theater 20 minutes before our showtime only to find zero line), I realized that I’d only ever seen four MCU movies in the theater before tonight. Those were the first Avengers, Spider-Man:…
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Hadestown: The Musical: To Love is To Turn Around and Go Watch This Again
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Hadestown: The Musical (2026) Brett Sullivan What a month to be Greek at the movie theater! Morgan and I have seen ProShots of popular musicals in theaters a few times—Hamilton and Merrily We Roll Along, at least—and it has become one of my favorite things to do. I love seeing new (or new to me) musicals, and it’s reassuring that the ones getting theatrically released ProShots are going…
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The Odyssey: An Epic Destined to Please the Gods
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Odyssey (2026) Christopher Nolan My personal film-loving renaissance began in 2022 under pretty silly circumstances (that aren’t important to this story, so I’ll save them for another time), and as my love of film grew, one of the big events I remember early in that development was Barbenheimer in the summer of 2023. I was determined to see both Barbie and Oppenheimer in order to…
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Moana (2026): A Good Time, But How Far Will This Go?
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Moana (2026) Thomas Kail At this point, it seems like Disney is going to release a live-action remake every year until I die, so I’ve done my best to accept that and develop what I think is a nuanced view of Disney’s business model. We’re definitely trapped in a vicious cycle here, where the live-action remakes fund the original movies—precisely why we need the remakes—and though…
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The Invite: Seth, Edward, Penelope, and Olivia Going Wilde
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. The Invite (2026) Olivia Wilde In a month dominated by the impending release of The Odyssey—sure to be a Best Picture nominee, if not the frontrunner—it’ll be difficult for any other movies to grab people’s attention. The live-action Moana will surely make a billion dollars, but from this film critic to you, The Invite could be one of the best new movies out this summer. I had a feeling I was…
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Young Washington: Where Did We Come From, and Where Are We Going?
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Young Washington (2026) Jon Erwin After being on the road for most of last week, I was happy to get back to the theater today, and I barely squeezed in a patriotic watch on this Fourth of July weekend. Young Washington wasn’t really on my radar, and despite Angel Studios not really being my favorite studio, the trailer was interesting enough that I wanted to give it a…
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Minions & Monsters: An Ode to Cinema, Good and Bad
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Minions & Monsters (2026) Pierre Coffin When Despicable Me 4 was about to come out two years ago, I rewatched all of the Despicable Me movies and unfortunately realized that the franchise has only gotten worse over the years. In my opinion, Despicable Me and Despicable Me 2 are the only good movies in the larger Despicable Me universe—once the girls got phased out and the minions phased in, the quality cratered. I’m really not a…
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Supergirl: Lost in Translation Without Gunn
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS. Supergirl (2026) Craig Gillespie I’ve had quite the superhero renaissance over the last few years, and it all started with James Gunn’s Superman. I saw that poster and trailer and immediately felt hope for the genre again. I felt many of the same feelings about Supergirl—my excitement most manifested in me reading the comic that this movie was allegedly based on—but those feelings waned as everyone on the…
