‘Glass’: M. Night Shyamalan pieces together an effective creepshow WATCH
It’s a doom-soaked enterprise in which “Unbreakable” stars Samuel L. Jackson and Bruce Willis are teamed up with James McAvoy of "Split." Rating: 2.5 stars...
Soren Andersen
Soren Andersen has been writing about movies since he was in high school, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. He has written for papers in Southern California and Washington, and was the staff critic at the News Tribune in Tacoma for 25 years.
‘The Upside’: Odd-couple comedy with Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston makes it clear it’s no downer WATCH
A mouthy no-account from the streets of New York (played by Kevin Hart) is hired to be the caregiver of a superrich quadriplegic (Bryan Cranston). Uplift is...
‘Aquaman’ sinks under weight of endless battles WATCH
Welcome to a picture that is a nonstop succession of battle scenes, each one bigger, louder and longer than the one that came before. Rating:...
‘Bumblebee’ morphs into a gentler ‘Transformers’ film, but it still has ka-boom WATCH
For his live-action debut, Travis Knight (filmmaker of intelligently made stop-motion-animated young people’s movies) slips into Michael Bay boomboom mode. Well, Bay produced the picture,...
‘Mortal Engines’ rolls out a big post-apocalyptic mess WATCH
From the makers of “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” comes this tale set more than 1,000 years in the future. With the...
‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’: Pure fun flies by in ‘zip-zap-zop’ fashion WATCH
This comic-book movie — featuring a new Spider-Man — actually looks and feels like a comic book, with its bright colors, striking character designs, in-picture...
‘Mowgli’: A wildly impressive — and very dark — version of ‘The Jungle Book’ WATCH
Everywhere, fangs are bared. No previous screen rendering of the Rudyard Kipling classic has been so bloody and, surprisingly, thoughtful. Rating: 3.5 stars out of...
‘Ralph Breaks the Internet’: Sequel creates a web of clever, colorful, cloying moments WATCH
When it’s good, “Ralph Breaks the Internet” is very, very good. When it’s not, it’s annoying, cloying and LOUD! Rating: 2.5 stars out of 4.
‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’: Coen brothers’ Western hits the right notes WATCH
Classic Western-movie moments are curated and celebrated in the Coen brothers’ magnificent “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.” Rating: 3.5 stars out of 4.
‘Overlord’ overdoes it with Nazis, zombies, cliches, violence
This movie, about GIs battling zombies and Nazis on D-Day, delivers a whole lot of much too much. Rating: 1.5 stars out of 4.