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 Courier”: One-Sentence Review
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”: One-Sentence Review
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
“Coming 2 America”: One-Sentence Review
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
“WandaVision”: One-Sentence Review
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
“Tom and Jerry”: One-Sentence Review
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
“I Care a Lot”: One-Sentence Review
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
“Wayne: Season One”: One-Sentence Review
More than just The Bay State’s Garden State, Wayne—or badassness captured in a bar-fight bottle—is the epitome of originality, creativity, and tenacity.
12 out of 12 Tamales
“The Dig”: One-Sentence Review
Even without a titular archeologist leading the way, Netflix’s The Dig unearths enough dramatic intrigue to make this a film worth exhibiting.
9 out of 12 Tamales
“The Little Things”: One-Sentence Review
By taking a novel angle on the police procedural, The Little Things eludes getting completely caught up in its menagerie of typical detective-story characters.
7.5 out of 12 Tamales
