A rare stumble for the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Falcon and the Winter Soldier squanders poignant themes, fails to deliver on the promise of its progressive storylines, and wastes some the better straight-to-streaming action sequences.
6.5 out of 12 Tamales
Dramatic deals, eager entrepreneurs, and shrewd Sharks launch investors and inventors into success or failure in one of TV’s all-time best reality/game shows.
12 out of 12 Tamales
Charming better than a Smith’s song, Apple TV’s Ted Lasso epitomizes outside-the-pitch thinking, scoring with each endearing, blissful episode.
11 out of 12 Tamales
A special effects behemoth, Godzilla vs. Kong smashes past weaker, human-driven subplots and delivers on its promise of entertaining, titanic-sized rumbles.
9 out of 12 Tamales
The Baker Street sleuth, Benedict Cumberbatch, turns amateur foreign agent, convincingly, in director Dominic Cooke’s The Courier, a mostly true—and mostly entertaining—story of Great Britain’s most unlikely Cold War spy, Greville Wynne.
9 out of 12 Tamales
Raya and the Last Dragon’s stupendous animation and imaginative characters catapult this welcome Disney entry past How to Train Your Dragon-lite territory.
8.5 out of 12 Tamales
A brisk power walk down memory lane, Coming 2 America revisits, with mostly diminishing returns, the majority of the first Coming’s jokes and characters, leaving no stone, zirconia or diamond, unturned.
6 out of 12 Tamales
Hidden behind WandaVision’s quaint, subdued sitcom facade is an epic Marvel story of love and loss that falls only an episode or two short of perfection.
10.5 out of 12 Tamales
Even if Tom and Jerry are a minor nuisance rather than characters capable of carrying their own film, there’s enough comedic adeptness in the live-action co-stars to make up for this classic duo’s two dimensional performance.
7 out of 12 Tamales
Redeemability at zilch and villainy at Mach 10, I Care a Lot is a disgraceful, fiery train wreck you can’t help rubbernecking.
8.5 out of 12 Tamales
