The confusingly titled “Godzilla Minus Zero” is a follow-up to 2023’s “Godzilla Minus One.” That film took place in 1947. This one takes place in 1949, presumably they are counting up to the original “Godzilla” film from 1954. The setting for “Minus One” was a Japan recovering from World War II. The setting for this film is a Japan recovering from both World War II and the Godzilla attack of...
Bob Garver · Nov 13, 2026
Unlikely box office hit “You Can See Everything” is a nearly-three-hour documentary from comedic filmmaker Nathan Fielder. The movie follows disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes, famously played by Amanda Seyfried in the Hulu series “The Dropout.” Essentially, Holmes defrauded investors by claiming to have breakthrough blood-testing technology that ultimately did not work properly. Wit...
Bob Garver · Nov 6, 2026
Spin-off movies for Batman villains have been a mixed bag over the years. “Joker” won an Oscar, but it was followed up with the terrible “Joker: Folie à Deux.” “Suicide Squad” took Harley Quinn from niche fan-favorite to mainstream icon, but “Catwoman” somehow managed to bungle one of the most marketable castings in movie history. Now comes “Clayface,” based a character known to those who follo...
Bob Garver · Oct 30, 2026
The biggest problem with new video game adaptation “Street Fighter” is that it’s bad on purpose. Not “delightfully over the top” or “destined to become a cult classic,” just bad. As if having a degree of self-awareness about its unapologetic badness somehow justifies wasting two hours of its audience’s time. The story follows a pair of former best friends — Ryu (Andrew Koji) and Ken (Noah Ce...
Bob Garver · Oct 23, 2026
The title “Other Mommy” is misleading. The villainous demon haunting 8-year-old Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark) can take any form, including her father (Jay Duplass), her babysitter (Sean Kaufman), or even a complete stranger. But yes, much of the time it impersonates her mother (Jessica Chastain). The reason, I suspect, has less to do with the fraught mother-daughter relationship and more to do...
Bob Garver · Oct 14, 2026
“Verity” wishes it was a twisty thriller. It is indeed twisty, but it doesn’t have the heart to be a thriller. The film’s advertising is clearly positioning it as a successor to last year’s hit front-of-the-bookstore novel adaptation “The Housemaid,” though it is based on a book that predates that film’s source material by four years. In fact, it is based on a novel by the popular Colleen Hoo...
Bob Garver · Oct 9, 2026
In “Primetime,” Robert Pattinson plays Chris Hansen, host of “To Catch a Predator,” an offshoot of NBC’s “Dateline” news program in the mid-2000’s. Hansen and the show’s production team would coordinate with police to lure child predators (via Internet chatrooms where there would be no ambiguity as to their intent) to locations where they would be ambushed, first by Hansen and his cameras, th...
Bob Garver · Oct 2, 2026
I had never eaten ratatouille before, let alone cooked it. But it has always captured my imagination. I have seen bits and pieces of the Pixar movie of the same name and have also seen this dish in other media as well. Why does a dish made up of seemingly normal vegetables have so much hype around it? I have zucchini, onions, and tomatoes growing in my garden. And that got me to thinking about...
Connor Cooks · Sep 25, 2026
The streak is over. The last time I started a review with that phrase, it was to mean something bad — 2022’s “Lightyear” was the first Pixar movie that I didn’t recommend. This time, it’s something good — Zach Cregger’s new take on “Resident Evil” is the first movie based on a video game that I do recommend. Not surprisingly, the man who directed Amy Madigan to an Oscar last year for “Weapons”...
Bob Garver · Sep 25, 2026
A few days before I saw “The Conjuring: Last Rites,” a friend of mine asked me about my plans for the weekend. I told her that I planned to see the film, and I was excited. When she asked me why I was excited to see yet another entry in the generally-middling “Conjuring” series, I blurted out, “They make such a cute couple!” “They” of course being Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga as real-life...
Bob Garver · Sep 12, 2025
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