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
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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