Quentin Tarantino says he’s going to retire from filmmaking after he makes 10 movies. I don’t believe him, but if it’s true, then he should probably just stop now, with his ninth, Once Upon a Time in… Hollywood .

This review originally aired on May 9, 2019. High Life is out on blu-ray and streaming now. The great French director Claire Denis’ newest film, High Life, opens with us alone on a small spaceship with Robert Pattinson and a young child. The girl is presumably his own, though we don’t know who they are, or why they’re there, so we can’t be sure. A fair stretch of the first part of the movie shows Pattinson living on this ship, tending to its lush garden, keeping the ship operating, and, most

Midsommar begins with death and ends with a smile.

Here’s a question: What do you do with a movie that isn’t what you think it ought to be? I don’t mean a movie that tries to be one thing and fails, but rather one that simply has no intention of being or doing what you want it to?

Quick, name a truly great fourth installment in a movie series. Aside from Rocky 4 , I mean.

Jim Jarmusch is here to burn it all down. Or, rather, he’s here to tell us it’s all burning down. Probably both.

Sometimes you know right away when a movie is not for you. And sometimes you’re forced to keep watching that movie and it turns out you were dead wrong.

Rocketman outlines Elton John’s career, from his start in the late 1960s to his stint in rehab in 1990, with a bit of his childhood thrown in. Its story is boilerplate biopic, showing John’s rise, his inner demons and spiral to the bottom, and his redemption. As far as that goes, Rocketman is basically unremarkable. But it blows right through the trite plot with gusto, revealing itself to be a dazzling jukebox musical fantasy.

The teen comedy is, of course, a longtime Hollywood tradition. Occasionally there’s a party involved, usually kids feel out of place at their high schools, and often there are lessons learned about growing up or accepting others for who they are.

You’ll get me to go see pretty much any movie about con artists. Even a mediocre one. And with The Hustle , welp… that’s exactly what I got. Please note: When I say “mediocre,” I am not saying The Hustle is bad , because it’s not. But I also can’t say it’s very good, because it’s not. The Hustle is a remake of the 1964 comedy Bedtime Story , which also served as the basis for the delightful Steve Martin/Michael Caine film Dirty Rotten Scoundrels . In this one, Rebel Wilson plays a crass, small