A pure late '80s cultural relic, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure is the least educational time travel story ever told, but it's proud of that accomplishment.
Insipid, obvious, and frustratingly angst-filled, Matrix Resurrections whiffs when trying to make a point about the studio system and the current run of franchise filmmaking.
Speed perfectly stands for what mega-budget action movies should aim to be, turning into a winking metaphor for the entire genre and dwindling attention spans.
Plush Rush For the fourth time, the characters of Toy Story face abandonment. They end up lost, accidentally separated from their kid, and spend the rest of Toy Story …
Life is Suffering Most of John Wick 3 takes place in New York. The story travels of course; as seen here, Casablanca changed since Bogart snuffed out the Nazis. …
Do Not Replicate The opening scene of Replicas sees scientist Keanu Reeves uploading the consciousness of a dead soldier into a robot. That’s Replicas at its most coherent. What …
Choo-choo Choose You The “revolution” of the title is choice. Free will, the thing that separates humans from programs. Set up in the first Matrix when Neo chose between …
Hail to the Geek The Matrix subverted a dull existence suggesting an ordinary, generic office worker is indeed something more. It was a middle American fantasy, rebellious, loud, gun-laced, …