John Roebuck

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood would have been better had the final act showed the same understanding of what was working as everything that preceded it.

Late Night is an easy watch that fluctuates congenially in quality from minute to minute that would have benefitted from perhaps a few more drafts.

Regardless of the shiny veneer that suggests something more innovative than genre retreading, Midsommar subscribes to many conventions wholeheartedly.

In Fabric loses us in Strickland's desire to invoke purposeful weirdness and wins us back with fleeting moments of promise in which clarity seems possible.

Hobbs & Shaw is a powerful persuader that there's more to big, dumb action films like Fast Five than bigness and dumbness.

Apollo 11 is a means of conveying an experience and in that capacity it is less successful than First Man despite the authenticity in its images.

Blinded by the Light is about Bruce Springsteen and there's no way in for anyone who doesn't already care about the singer songwriter.

We would suggest to anyone wanting to revisit the The Lion King to do just that. The 2019 remake by Jon Favreau is wholly sterile.