Wakanda Forever is too ambitious for its own good. It's a film largely built around the struggle for its distinct identity in the face of...

Black Panther is an outlier in the MCU, if not radical and not as subversive. Driven by the formulaic structure of the MCU, however, it...

Creature Commandos is a minor work by James Gunn and an effective coda in this stage of his career. Centering its themes of bodily...

Creed is an incredible legacy sequel. Themes of legacy, legitimacy, race, masculinity, identity, and time are preoccupied by the...

Peacemaker Season 1 is a gonzo triumph. It's a humanist tale juxtaposed against a B-movie narrative and black humor. Themes of parental...

Fruitvale Station is a rebuttal to the notion of post-racial America and a piece of the Obama-era cinema. Its skepticism of post-racial...

Fig is a cynical piece of work. Pertaining to cycles of abuse, it explores discrimination, sexism, violence, and family dissolution. The...

Ryan Coogler's Locks communicates through silence. Themes about identity, discrimination, African-American experience, self-esteem,...

Scooby-Doo Monsters Unleashed is oddly prescient on blockbuster cinema for the worse. Overstuffed with lore minutiae and fan service, it...

Scooby-Doo(2002) is a compromised product. Themes of generational displacement, self-worth, and found family are touched upon but never...

Gunn's Suicide Squad is an exciting blockbuster. Themes of abuse, free will, redemption, and humanity are explored potently. It also...

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3 is a break-up film in many ways. In many ways, it exists in conversation with James Gunn's firing and...

Guardians Of The Galaxy Holiday Special is a fun and breezy romp that stops just short of being saccharine. The holiday special is a fun...

Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 is a soulful blockbuster. Vol. 2 updates the generational tension of Star Wars and interrogates the idea...

Superman is an overstuffed mess. The bloated narrative becomes unwieldy, leading to superficial character development with flat...

Guardians Of The Galaxy is a film about imperfection and its beauty. The talented ensemble lends gravity and foregrounds the film's...

Super is a grim satire on the superhero genre and its uncomfortable subtextual ideas. It deconstructs the nostalgic fantasy through black...

Slither is a divorce film under the veneer of a creature feature. Themes of middle-class consumerism and exploitation are conveyed...

Robert Eggers' Nosferatu is a study of the eccentricity that intrudes upon civilized society. It conveys themes of sexual politics,...

Herzog's Nosferatu is a conversation about the legacy of Nosferatu and Germany's postwar status. This version mines existential dread,...