Shows You Should Be Watching
Honest reviews. Zero hype.
The one where they look for God and find a disappointed fan. William Shatner directed The Final Frontier, and the result is the shabbiest, most hubristic entry in the franchise: Sybok, Spock’s emotional half brother, hijacks the Enterprise to fly…
The one where they save the whales. The Voyage Home is the lightest, warmest, and funniest Star Trek film, a fish out of water comedy where the fish are a starship crew and the water is 1986 San Francisco. Nimoy…
The middle film of the Genesis trilogy is the most emotional and least discussed of the classic three. Picking up days after Spock’s funeral, The Search for Spock asks what friendship costs: Kirk discovers his friend’s katra, his living essence,…
The best Star Trek movie is really a great submarine movie that happens to be in space. Nicholas Meyer, a director who admitted he barely knew the series, cut the budget, the pomposity, and the velocity, and made a film…
After ten years of syndication, Paramount brought Star Trek back as the biggest, slowest, most expensive episode of television ever filmed. The Motion Picture is Star Trek with the fun surgically removed: a mysterious cloud is heading for Earth, Admiral…
The summer’s most expensive lesson in box office physics: a good lead cannot rescue a story built from spare parts. Supergirl sends Kara Zor-El (Milly Alcock) on a revenge road trip across the galaxy with a girl named Ruthye (Eve…
James Gunn took over DC Studios and his first film spends no time on an origin: Superman already flies, the world already watches him, and the story is about whether trust can survive a century of collateral damage. David Corenswet…
The original Joker grossed a billion dollars by daring audiences to take a comic book villain seriously. The sequel dares them to stop. Folie à Deux finds Arthur Fleck deteriorating in Arkham, represented by a lawyer pleading split personality, and…
The long run of linked DC films ended not with a climax but with a shrug in a wet cloak. Shot years earlier, rewritten endlessly, and finally dropped into theaters with minimal fuss, Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom picks up…
The final hero entry of the previous DC regime arrived with almost no marketing and turned out warmer than most of what came before it. Xolo Maridueña’s Jaime Reyes is a college graduate who comes home to find his family…