Alfonso Cuaron’s nostalgic love letter to his beloved Mexico City roots is wonderfully captured with a fond and honest eye in Netflix’s Roma.
10.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Bird Box”: One-Sentence Review
Sure, it brings to mind The Happening and 28 Days Later, and it was probably bought by Netflix because of A Quiet Place’s success, but rest assured Bird Box builds suspense and thrills as good—sometimes better—than those that came before it.
10 out of 12 Tamales
“Mary Poppins Returns”: One-Sentence Review
Musicality, whimsicality, and the perfect Poppins in Emily Blunt give rhyme and reason to Mary Poppins Returns, a sequel no one asked for but most everyone will enjoy.
9.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Holmes & Watson”: One-Sentence Review
Playing more like a post-Weekend-Update SNL skit than a feature-length film, Holmes & Watson has some funny moments, but unlike Sherlock’s cleverness—this movie’s clueless.
5 out of 12 Tamales
“Aquaman”: One-Sentence Review
Aquaman, DC’s latest superhero movie, doesn’t break new ground—or water—but it certainly entertains, delivering some gnarly, underwater worldbuilding along with a tsunami of cheesiness.
8.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Bumblebee”: One-Sentence Review
Sharing more in common with Brad Bird’s The Iron Giant than with its predecessors, Bumblebee livens up a stale franchise by revving up character and story and stalling some of the pointless mayhem.
9 out of 12 Tamales
“Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse”: One-Sentence Review
The Comic-Pop art animation overawes, the superb soundtrack engages, but it’s Miles Morales’s origin story, set against a lively Brooklyn, that makes Into the Spider-Verse this year’s best superhero movie.
10.5 out of 12 Tamales
“Making a Murderer: Season 1″: One-Sentence Review
Whether you believe guilty or innocent (definitely), Netflix’s Making a Murderer reels its viewer in with titanium-infused fishing line.
11 out of 12 Tamales
“WALL-E”: Throwback-Tamales Review
Never have protagonists of metal and circuitry conveyed the human condition better than in WALL-E, Pixar’s monumental platonic love story.
11 out of 12 Tamales
“Ralph Breaks the Internet”: One-Sentence Review
While Ralph Breaks the Internet will keep kids under ten glued to the theater screen—parents will find themselves looking for the logout button.
6.5 out of 12 Tamales
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