Movies like Peter Farrelly's Green Book are a useful reminder of the distance toward true equality that still remains to be travelled.

Josie Rourke's Mary Queen of Scots certainly had a great deal more awkward cunnilingus than we were expecting, which was none.

Mary Poppins Returns gains some distinction from the ways it hearkens back to musicals of old, quite successfully in many instances.

It may be problematic that Yorgos Lanthimos’ most misanthropic film, The Favourite, is the one that studies the inner workings of the female mind.

Etan Cohen's Holmes & Watson has some occasional laughs, but also not enough to exceed the level of plane or drive-in worthy.

Aquaman is concurrently far better than it ought to be and severely worse than it should have been. Either way, it's a lot of movie.

Eighth Grade is a masterwork of getting the details right, even and perhaps especially when they don’t immediately translate.

Can You Ever Forgive Me? is a story about lonely people, masquerading as a low-key dramatisation of a quirky little historical event.