Young CriticDisclosure Day
A familiar light in the sky, dimmer than before. Spielberg returns to aliens with gorgeous craft and John Williams back at the score, but Disclosure Day plays almost like a remake of Close Encounters, minus the emotional
Reviews tagged: sci-fi
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Young CriticStar Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu
A film that plays like a very expensive TV episode. The Mandalorian and Grogu has technical craft to spare, but Favreau and Filoni deliver a timid, inconsequential story that mistakes motion for cinema.
Young CriticProject Hail Mary
A crowd-pleaser to be hailed Despite the success of Andy Weir's novel “The Martian” on the big screen with the Ridley Scott and Matt Damon film of the same name, it has taken more than a decade for another of Weir's nove
Young CriticAvatar: Fire and Ash
A visually staggering saga running out of fire James Cameron has now devoted close to two decades to his Avatar films, which have revolutionized blockbuster cinema: the first Avatar (2009) through its groundbreaking
Young CriticThe Running Man
A bold new cyberpunk vision held back by tonal whiplash and a muted leading man Edgar Wright is a beloved director for many film nerds, known for a winking style and frenetic editing, the Brit has delivered some modern c
Young CriticPredator: Badlands
Dan Trachtenberg's latest Predator entry is another solidly entertaining character piece It’s a curious yet unsurprising trend, when a franchise has burnt out, studios are willing to give the material to filmmakers with
Young CriticFrankenstein (2025)
Guillemo Del Toro delivers a colorful and defining adaptation of the Mary Shelly novel As much as Netflix is getting blamed for the death of the theatrical experience, the streaming company is giving filmmakers the resou
Young CriticTron: Ares
The third entry in the franchise is more style than substance Despite amassing a devoted cult following, the Tron films have never been box office hits. The first one, Tron (1982) was admired more for its daring use of c
Young CriticThe Fantastic Four: First Steps
A stylish reboot with charm, but little risk Since Disney bought Fox Studios from the Murdoch family in 2019, many film fans have eagerly awaited the company’s use of its newly acquired properties—especially in the conte
Young CriticSuperman
DC’s reboot buckles under bloated world-building and thin storytelling The DC comic book adaptations have been a mixed bag at best for Warner Bros. studios. They began with a significant advantage over Marvel, kickstarti
Young CriticJurassic World: Rebirth
A formulaic but welcome return to Jurassic basics. Despite some fun sequences in The Lost World: Jurassic Park (1997) and some nostalgic bait in Jurassic World (2015), every Jurassic sequel has been a face-palm ins
Young CriticLilo & Stitch
Another sweet if slightly diluted remake Disney’s live-action remakes of animated classics follow a clear pattern when it comes to financial success. Remakes of films from the studio’s first Golden Era in the 1930s and ’
Young CriticAndor (Season 2)
A grounded rebellion tale with the grit of a spy thriller It seems hard to fathom, but the best story to emerge from the Star Wars universe—arguably ever—is a prequel to a spinoff. Yet it proves that what matters most
Young CriticMickey 17
A Sci-Fi Spectacle Derailed by Chaos and Indecision Following up a cultural hit is always daunting—expectations are raised to the max and often prove unrealistic or impossible to meet. Parasite (2019) struck the perfec
Young CriticVenom: The Last Dance
The final film in the trilogy falls completely flat Super-hero fatigue has been noted by movie studios. As a result, output has significantly been scaled back as Disney’s MCU had just one theatrical release this year ( D
Young CriticMegalopolis
Francis Ford Coppola's latest is big on ambition, but short on substance Francis Ford Coppola is arguably one of the best directors in history. He’s a filmmaker with an unbridled ambition, and whose uncompromising nature
Young CriticTransformers One
The animated film is a surprisingly enjoyable one The Transformers franchise has constantly delivered unwatchable slogs. Diminishing box office returns, lack of story ideas, and the exit of Michael Bay as the franchise d
Young CriticThe Substance
The layered body horror film delivers Demi Moore's best performance Hollywood has been commenting on how women are discarded as they age as far back as All About Eve (1950). The issue has been discussed for over 70 yea
Young CriticAlien: Romulus
Fede Alvarez's entry in the franchise is an entertaining if unmemorable flick Despite approaching its 45th anniversary as a franchise, Alien has avoided the decline that has plagued series like Terminator and Star W
Young CriticKingdom of the Planet of the Apes
The latest in this solid franchise is another worthy, transporting entry The recent Planet of the Apes films have been among the more contemplative blockbuster franchises in recent memory. What began as pure popcorn en
Young CriticGhostbusters: Frozen Empire
The latest in the franchise is a forced and bland sequel The problem with Hollywood’s current sequel system is that if a good film makes enough money, there is an immediate pressure to produce another entry, even if ther
Young CriticDune: Part II
Dennis Villeneuve's retains cinematic scale and expands the thematic layering Creating a cinematic spectacle on the scale of Ben-Hur (1959) or The Lord of the Rings in today’s film landscape is becoming increasingly
Young CriticRebel Moon: Part 1 - Child of Fire
Zack Snyder's space epic is a barrage of exposition and slow-motion Zack Snyder’s jump from Warner Bros. to Netflix seems to have allowed him to deliver on the ambitious stories he’d been restrained from telling. We firs
Young CriticThe Marvels
The latest from Marvel is its most generic yet The Marvel Cinematic Universe is sorely lost. The pioneering “shared universe” idea that found individual films build upon a larger interconnected story (a structure stolen