Chad Stahelski’s John Wick: Chapter 2 isn’t worth continuing, but it probably will be anyway, because that's how Hollywood works nowadays.

Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg's Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales takes elements from the original and renders them creatively drained.

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword is not as bad as the advertising material would have you believe, but it's also not very good.

Alien was a masterpiece. Prometheus lagged under the weight of its own ambitions. Alien: Covenant is an uneasy weave of those two films.

The best Marvel films compel you to forget the industrial decisions that comes with Hollywood filmmaking. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 doesn't.

Nacho Vigalondo's Colossal lacks solid execution, decent editing, a sense for how to structure a narrative and a knack for making us laugh.

Julia Ducournau's brand new film, Raw, certainly isn't for the faint of heart, but if you're up for it, you've probably never seen anything like it.

Get Out has an appreciation of the strengths of its genre and exploits them. It also recognised the genre's regular blemishes, and contradicts them.