‘It Chapter Two’ review: Boo! Scares pop out everywhere in sequel WATCH
The drooling, shape-shifting, child-murdering clown Pennywise (played by Bill Skarsgård) is back in the follow-up to 2017’s monster hit “It.” Rating: 2 stars out of...
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.
‘Angel Has Fallen’ review: Ridiculous franchise rises again with Gerard Butler WATCH
Hollywood’s most ridiculous franchise has been revived, with Gerard Butler playing a Secret Service agent who in movie after movie has to rescue the president...
‘ECCO’ review: Pack your patience — and see if you can spy Seattle — in this thriller WATCH
Confusion, thy name is “ECCO.” This handsome-looking Seattle-set thriller, directed by a University of Washington alum and starring another, is a puzzlement from start until...
‘Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood’ review: Tarantino takes us on a bumpy, nostalgic ride WATCH
What we have here, in Quentin Tarantino’s vision of Los Angeles at the time of the Manson family killings, is the past, reinvented wholesale, in...
‘The Lion King’ review: Hail to Disney’s powerful, visually stunning remake WATCH
How do you improve on a classic, which the 1994 animated “Lion King” indisputably is? Indisputably, Disney has done it with this remake, opening in...
‘Midsommar’ review: Dread slowly rises for friends on summer-solstice trip
In Sweden, the land of the midnight sun, a group of young Americans falls afoul of a village of cultists pursuing strange and ominous agendas....
‘The Quiet One’ review: Shining a light on bassist Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones WATCH
In this revealing documentary, Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman looks back over his decades-long career with “the greatest rock ’n’ roll band in the world.” Rating:...
‘All Is True’ review: Family trouble is the thing in Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare tale WATCH
Kenneth Branagh gives us a glum, though handsomely mounted, soap opera filled with sullen faces worn by people mired in miseries. Rating: 2.5 stars out...
‘The Last Black Man in San Francisco’ review: a heartfelt tale of a city, friendship, home and hope WATCH
Actor-writer Jimmie Fails draws upon his experiences to create a unique portrait of his life as a black man in a gentrifying San Francisco. Rating: 4...
‘Shaft’ review: It’s a standard-issue crime thriller tinged with comedy. Can ya dig it? WATCH
It’s 2019, and here’s “Shaft.” Again. This time with Richard Roundtree, Samuel L. Jackson and Jessie T. Usher playing three generations of John Shafts. Rating:...