'The Mummy' Review: Lee Cronin's Take Fiendish But Not Distinctive Lee Cronin's The Mummy is a noxious and gnarly enough reimagining of Universal’s franchise, an amusing film if not altogether convincing.

Thrilled to be back in the pages of Deadline. Lee Cronin's The Mummy might dodge most of its pre-release scrutiny, but only just. Fun in spots, goopy enough to satisfy your hunger for grossness, but mostly a protracted mess without much under the hood. Full review: deadline.com/2026/04/the-...

The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment

A Magnificent Life Review: Creative But Shallow Animated Movie Is A Loving Tribute To A French Legend The marriage of animator Sylvain Chomet and iconoclast Marcel Pagnol is a marriage made in French artistic heaven, though the movie lacks depth.

Feels fitting that my final review for ScreenRant would be Sylvain Chomet's loving ode to Marcel Pagnol. A Magnificent Life loses a lot to surface-level hagiography but it gains it back in warmth - unapologetic nostalgia for cinema that warps the memory like taffy: screenrant.com/a-magnificen...

I've been let go from ScreenRant. Very proud of the work I put in as the Lead Critic and happy to have met wonderful co-workers.

I’m seeking new work then! If you hear of any writing or programming opportunities or just want to catch up, please send me a message.

I Love Boosters Review: Boots Riley's Bombastic, Surreal Heist Comedy Messily Dismantles The Oligarchy In Plasticized Technicolor Boots Riley approaches his newest film with righteous anger, bizarre comedy, and a love for the women fighting for the possibility of a change.

@sxsw.com I Love Boosters is wild, unwieldy, a strange Frankenstein’s monster of Pee-wee, Spike Lee & Celebrity Death Match? It’s Boots Riley. Utterly distinctive. Shout out to Tune Yards who I’ve loved for 16 years, they provide a great score. @screenrant.bsky.social screenrant.com/i-love-boost...

I loved this movie. Read my review :)

SXSW 2026 Preview: Our Fifteen Most Anticipated Titles From An Eclectic Offering The Austin-based festival serves up genre mashups, gritty thrillers, searing documentaries and sci-fi dystopian dramas.

Heading to @sxsw.com for @screenrant.bsky.social (for the first time!) and wrote up a little preview of the always eclectic fest. Send me your Austin food recs :) screenrant.com/sxsw-2026-pr...

Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Bride! Explores Love, Rebellion in Gritty 1930s Chicago Maggie Gyllenhaal's 'The Bride!' explodes social norms in a thrilling romance. Jessie Buckley delivers a powerhouse performance.

I liked The Bride! quite a bit especially in its both fealty and lack thereof to a whole stream of literary influences. Buckley undefeated. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/the-bride-mo...

The Bride! - An explosive presentation of social disruption, and also a really good representation of insane emo bisexual girlfriend-timid cuck boyfriend relationships in New York. Loved it. Full review to come.

Hoppers Review: Pixar's Bizarro Mashup of Avatar and Being John Malkovich Is Their Best Yet of the Decade Daniel Chong's film isn't perfect, but it reaches such a strange fever pitch of hilarity and politcal prescience that it demands respect.

I really enjoyed Hoppers, though I can't say it makes much sense. Utterly wild ride, politically both prescient and somewhat confusing - but what I can say for sure is that it is Pixar's best film this decade thus far. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/hoppers-movi...

ScreenRant Movie Review Roundup: Scream 7, Paul McCartney: Man on the Run, The Bluff & More! From Scream 7 to The Bluff, ScreenRant's Movie Reviews Team has you covered!

Newest movie review roundup for @screenrant.bsky.social includes Scream 7, Paul McCartney, queer performance art, sci-fi epics, Pretty in Pink… what more could you want?

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Stand With Minnesota Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

ICE is still in Minnesotaaaa And StandWithMinnesota.com is still the best way to help from far away.

How to Make a Killing Review: Glen Powell is a Defanged Patrick Bateman Wannabe in John Patton Ford's Lukewarm Black Comedy A24's Glen Powell vehicle aims for sharp critique of the upper class but rarely hits its target with enough precision.

How to Make a Killing is charming but toothless. Hard not to compare it to Park Chan-wook's No Other Choice, which is smarter in just about every way. Even Glen Powell's usual charm is useless. My full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/how-to-make-...

Crime 101 Review: Bart Layton Cooks Low and Slow with Chris Hemsworth in Tense Cat and Mouse Caper The references to Heat practically make themselves in this old school heist flick.

Found Crime 101 to be a smooth, haptic recreation of better films, pleasurable in its very derivative nature. Hemsworth playing very against type and it’s lovely to see, Halle Berry just a constant reliable actor. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/crime-101-mo...

Wuthering Heights Review: Emerald Fennell Prioritizes Vibes in Toothless Adaptation Fennell is flippant with Wuthering Height's most readily available themes in favor of a plasticized, garish romance.

Fennell’s plasticized, whitewashed adaptation reveals a filmmaker who has little understanding of subtlety. The casting of Elordi is harebrained, but it’s just as strange to have Robbie preening in a role meant for a teenager. For @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/wuthering-he...

GOAT Review: Stephen Curry's Inclusive, Richly Animated Basketball Film Soars Above its Conventional Rim There may not be a ton new in this basketball under-goat story, but it plays the game warmly and effectively.

Against my admittedly low expectations, I thought GOAT was great. Really fun, beautifully animated, super big heart, plus a surprisingly progressive message about inclusivity in sports. My full review of Stephen Curry's basketball movie for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/goat-movie-r...

Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die Review: Gore Verbinski's Gleeful Yet Vapid Diatribe Against Social Media and AI Is Too Eager to Succeed Sam Rockwell is deliriously fun, but the film is not, relying on Boomer levels of misplaced anger to get its message across.

Had to break from early consensus over Verbinski's return. I found Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die to be overlong, tedious and preening. Feels like the work of a boomer whose anxieties about AI is focused on the wrong target. For @screenrant.bsky.social: screenrant.com/good-luck-ha...

Oscar nominated co-writer of It Was Just An Accident has just been arrested in Iran. Statement by Jafar Panahi:

The Invite Review: Olivia Wilde's Foursome Is an Expertly Crafted, Bitingly Hilarious Game of Marital Jenga The actor-filmmaker's best film to date is acerbic and tightly wound and profits from four actors at the top of their crafts.

“The Invite is a magnetic, acerbically funny, romantic nightmare in the vein of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? It was never a doubt that this foursome could keep the ball so high up but what really mesmerizes is Wilde's meticulous direction.” @screenrant.bsky.social: screenrant.com/the-invite-m...

Carousel Review: Chris Pine & Jenny Slate Soar in Impressionistic Romantic Drama at Sundance Rachel Lambert's gentle drama is a patient, wholly distinctive look at adult depression and love.

“It is a story about pushing past boundaries so well-established that they've metastasized to the degree that even the physical frame of the cinema keeps its characters locked in.” I really liked Carousel. Full Sundance review for @screenrant.bsky.social

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Wicker Review: Olivia Colman's Absurdly Hilarious and Achingly Romantic Fable Teaches Us How To Love One of Sundance's more surprising films comes via wicker and sex. Lots of sex.

“Wicker's treasure is in its hopeless romanticism that insists that pure love and adamant individuality can create irrevocable progress through osmosis.” Full review of Olivia Colman’s beautiful fable from Sundance, for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/wicker-movie...

The Moment Review: Charli XCX's Mockumentary is an Unmitigated Disaster The loosely scripted comedy drama is a completely misguided mess from top to bottom.

At #sundance and found last night's buzzy premieres to be disappointments. Araki's I Want Your Sex is sleek, fun, ridiculous, silly - but I was turned off by the casual treatment of a predation; Charli XCX's The Moment is a disaster. @screenrant.bsky.social t screenrant.com/the-moment-m...

Paralyzed By Hope: The Maria Bamford Story Review - Judd Apatow's Essential Sundance Portrait of a Singular Comic Bamford's career has flourished in spite of the artist's many challenges; Apatow's Sundance doc argues that she has succeeded because of them.

I love Maria Bamford and I loved Judd Apatow’s portrait of her. What a gift she is. Full review of the doc for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/paralyzed-by...

The Incomer Review: A Charming Scottish Fairy Tale Elevated by Gayle Rankin's Performance The Incomer is a sweet and quirky adult fairy tale at Sundance set in Scotland, with a standout performance by Gayle Rankin

#sundance The Incomer is very sweet, really silly. One can feel the growing pains of Louis Paxton moving to features, but Gayle Rankin is exceptional. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/the-incomer-...

Carousel - had a hard time getting on Lambert’s wavelength but once this settles into a tactile understanding of depression - and the difficulty of communicating when you well, don’t know how to communicate - it hits, little off-kilter still-lives just very smart direction and patient. #sundance

The Last First: Winter K2 Review - Sundance Doc Tragically Depicts the Last Frontier of Mountaineering in Harrowing Detail Amir Bar-Lev's documentary is less about the sport than about how natural spaces are corrupted by human folly.

The world of high-risk climbing does not seem like it would be an environment for the likes of nationalism, xenophobia, social-media dependency, craven capitalism, colonialism, but The Last First goes there. Really enjoyed @sundance.org @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/the-last-fir...

American Pachuco @sundance.org beautiful and joyous tribute to Luis Valdez. Wished it went even deeper! So much theatrical innovation glossed over, but loved the depth of appreciation for a true trailblazer

I have exactly two takes about the Oscars. 1) F1... lol 2) Amanda Seyfried's performance in The Testament of Ann Lee is extraordinary and it's frustrating to see her (as well as Fastvold's audacious film as a whole) get overlooked consistently

Mercy Review: Chris Pratt's Sci-Fi Dystopia Is a Harebrained, Confounding Slice of Swiss Cheese Timur Bekmambetov ends up endorsing the very thing it advertises as critiquing.

Mercy - not uninteresting, as I keep getting suckered into Timur’s advancement with Desktop Cinema, but overall just really silly and politically inscrutable. Pratt is very bad in this, Ferguson very good. Full review for @screenrant.bsky.social : screenrant.com/mercy-movie-...

Sundance Preview: The Fifteen Most Anticipated Titles at The Legendary Festival's Final Rodeo in Utah Some legends return to the directing chair, several more make their debuts, as Charli XCX threatens to make this her year alone.

Heading to @sundance.org to cover the last Park City edition for @screenrant.bsky.social and wrote up a small preview of the fest’s most exciting titles. Hard to narrow it down! Gregg Araki! Charli XCX! A new posthumous film from William Greaves! Boy oh boy! screenrant.com/sundance-202...