Molly Templeton

In a beautiful bedroom in Brooklyn, a woman packs a suitcase. The bedroom is blue and large; the people who sleep in it, Amanda (Julia Roberts) and Clay (Ethan Hawke), obviously don’t do too poorly for themselves. But neither are they the kind of…

It’s a wonder Nimona ever got made. The tale of a puckish, chaotic, shapeshifting would-be sidekick and a presumed-evil knight began life as a Tumblr comic by ND Stevenson when he was in college. It transformed into a graphic novel in 2015 and was a…

I am sorry to say this, but if you have seen the trailer for writer-director Lisa Joy’s Reminiscence, you have effectively seen the movie. Hugh Jackman intoning voiceovers? Very cool scenery soaked through with floodwaters? Rebecca Ferguson in a…

It’s not every Disney movie that leaves you thinking about food. Raya and the Last Dragon is a lush, gorgeous work of animation with epic fight scenes, a doubting heroine, and a giddy water dragon—and it’s a movie that remembers that people need to…

Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie), last seen in Suicide Squad, is having a rotten day. She and the Joker split up, which makes it open season on Harley; without Mr. J’s reputation to protect her, she’s fair game. Also, she hasn’t had breakfast. Cathy…

How many ways can we find to murder our better natures? For the squabbling children, grandchildren and in-laws of the Thrombey family in Knives Out, the answer seems incalculable. On the night of his 85th birthday, the Thrombey patriarch, Harlan…

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien — J.R.R. to most of us — conjured some of the most influential magic of the 20th century. His most beloved works, The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, were turned into more blockbuster films than strictly necessary. His…

Partway through Avengers: Endgame’s three-hour runtime, our heroes are at an impasse. The team — those who remain after the events of Avengers: Infinity War — are trying to figure out how to save a day that seems unsalvageable. “Whatever it takes,”…

If there’s a single lesson to be taken from Neil Marshall’s Hellboy reboot, it’s that it’s ungodly hard to follow in the footsteps of Guillermo del Toro. While the pacing of 2004’s Hellboy seems nigh-on glacial in our current age, and 2011’s Hellboy…

Right now, in the glow of Captain Marvel’s excellent debut, it feels like there are as many articles about the troll response to Captain Marvel as there are articles about Captain Marvel. It’s deeply frustrating, this phenomenon, and I’d rather not…

If you haven’t seen Attack the Block, Joe Cornish’s 2011 aliens-invade-the-council-block movie starring the future first female Doctor Who and future Finn in The Force Awakens, I insist that you rectify this error at your earliest convenience. It’s…

The worst thing about Mortal Engines is that you can see, in fits and starts and flashes, the movie it could’ve been. That movie is a lot better than the one we actually got. Mortal Engines is based on the book by Philip Reeve—the first of a quartet…

Within the first few minutes of Widows, a heist goes terribly awry. You’ll see this coming. It isn’t the job that you’re here to see, but the one that sets everything in motion. It’s this disaster that seems to destroy the happy existence of Veronica…

Bad Times at the El Royale is the multi-talented Drew Goddard’s first film as a director since 2012’s horror delight The Cabin in the Woods — another tale about a group of people in an isolated location having an unexpected and often deadly…

It is always sunny in Colette. Wash Westmoreland’s new biopic of the early years of the French author exists in the kind of period-piece world where the light is always buttery, everything is always clean, and rarely is a hair out of place — unless…

Assassination Nation, writer-director Sam Levinson’s bloody, messy commentary on our outrage-fatigued era, can’t commit. The story of four teen girls vilified by the mostly white-male mob when their town’s personal information gets hacked, Nation is…

At first, Madeline is a cat. Cats sniff things; they curl up in strange places; they pounce; they rub their faces on their people and want scritches. Madeline (Helena Howard) does all these things. Her mother, Regina (Miranda July), is disconcerted,…

For all the things that have changed about being a teen — apps and laptops, likes and subscribes, the endless awareness that everyone else really is having more fun than you are, or at least filtering it to make it look that way — the basics are the…

If you as a child had even a passing familiarity with Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, you don’t need anyone to tell you to hop the trolley to the Neighborhood of Make-Believe — or rather, to get yourself to a theater to see Morgan Neville’s new…

The galaxy far, far away hasn’t been a nice place for a long time. We’ve known this since we saw Alderaan blow up in the very first Star Wars film; we’ve been reminded of it seeing slaves in Jabba’s palace, or meeting the moral degenerates partying…