When the spotlight’s fully on Austin Butler’s Elvis, Baz Luhrmann’s film shines and electrifies—but when it’s not—the chaotic, off-key plot almost steals and ruins the show.
7.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Lightyear”: One-Sentence Review
To inferiority and boredom, Lightyear fails to reach the starry and infinite joy brought by the Buzz of before.
5 out of 12 Tamales
“Sonic the Hedgehog 2”: One-Sentence Review
Sonic 2 hits the reset button and reruns Green Hill with as much self-assuredness and absurdness as the first—for better or worse.
8 out of 12 Tamales
“The Dropout”: One-Sentence Review
Move over idle swindlers and faux heirs, the baddest grifter, played and slayed by Amanda Seyfried, dons—as she cons—the crown for this year’s best of the worst.
10 out of 12 Tamales
“The Lost City”: One-Sentence Review
Over-the-top plot and straight-to-video villain notwithstanding, The Lost City unearths comedy gold from the pairing of Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum.
8.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Jurassic World: Dominion”: One-Sentence Review
Team I’m Only Here for the Dinos will undoubtedly enjoy some of this nearly 30-year-old franchise’s best dino-centric scenes; however, Team Logic and Plot might wish for this series’s extinction.
7 out of 12 Tamales
“Everything Everywhere All at Once”
The multi-verse goes from infinite to intimate in this sensationally surreal, genre-bending instant classic from up-and-coming directors Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.
11.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Top Gun: Maverick”: One Sentence Review
1980’s action makes an epic comeback—at hypersonic speed—in Tom Cruise’s Maverick, a Top Gun sequel that bests its predecessor at absolutely and resolutely every facet.
11 out of 12 Tamales
“The Adam Project”: One-Sentence Review
All concept, no execution, The Adam Project is a hodgepodge of sci-fi films and father-son dramas that came before and did it better.
5 out of 12 Tamales
“Abbott Elementary: Season One”: One-Sentence Review
The authenticity, with only mild hyperbole, of the American classroom has never been encapsulated quite as well as in ABC’s ferociously funny and big-hearted Abbott Elementary.
11 out of 12 Tamales
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