Suicide Squad
The story behind this movie is better known than its plot: Warner Bros panicked after Batman v Superman got shredded, hired a trailer company to recut a finished film, and shipped whatever survived. You can feel the scissors in every…
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice
The movie that broke the fanbase in half. Batman v Superman wants to be a meditation on power, fear, and godhood, and about half of it is genuinely fascinating: Ben Affleck’s older, crueler Batman is one of the best screen…
Man of Steel
Zack Snyder rebuilt Superman from the ground up, and the results still split people more than a decade later. Henry Cavill plays Clark Kent as a drifter who has spent his whole life hiding what he can do, and the…
Resident Evil (2026)
Zach Cregger, the director of Barbarian and Weapons, took Resident Evil back to first principles: one ordinary guy, one delivery, one city eating itself. Austin Abrams plays Bryan, a medical courier who accepts a rush package bound for Raccoon General…
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut
Trey Parker and Matt Stone took their crude paper cutout cartoon to the big screen and somehow made the funniest movie musical of the 90s. When the boys sneak into an R rated Canadian film and come home swearing like dockworkers, their mothers blame Canada, and the blame escalates into a full war, while Satan and a needy Saddam Hussein plot an apocalypse from below. The plot is a genuinely sharp musical about censorship, scapegoating, and parents who outsource blame, and the joke is that the filthiest movie of the year is the one making the most coherent argument.
The End of Oak Street
David Robert Mitchell (It Follows) and producer J.J. Abrams drop a suburban family into the age of dinosaurs, and the result is the summer’s best straight-ahead survival ride. Anne Hathaway and Ewan McGregor sell the Platt family so well that…