Mood Indigo (2013)
Nov 15, 2014Wackily Surreal Romance
Michel Gondry returns to the surreal whimsy of The Science of Sleep. A film where Gondry delights in visual nonsense and serving up all the appealingly capricious silliness he can muster
Omar Sy
X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
May 25, 2014Comic-Book Superheroes
It is nice to see Bryan Singer regain his form after several years lull. The plot is nothing world-shattering but it is nice to see a character-driven X-Men, while Singer delivers the superheroics with a cheer-out loud elan that most of the sequels missed by a wide margin
Jurassic World (2015)
Jun 13, 2015Genetically-Engineered Dinosaurs Amok
After two ho-hum sequels, this finally delivers a solid follow-up to Jurassic Park. Rather than more scenes with dinosaurs chasing people, this comes with some fascinating ideas about seeing the park in operation
Inferno (2016)
Dec 3, 2016Dan Brown Adaptation/Trail of Clues to a Deadly Virus
The third film based on Dan Brown's Robert Langdon books. This is essentially the same plot as The Da Vinci Code with Tom Hanks following clues to a deadly virus hidden in classic artworks around Europe
Transformers: The Last Knight (2017)
Sep 23, 2017Live-Action Transformer Robots
The fifth of Michael Bay's Transformers films. This comes with more of an outright comedy focus than any of the other films where Bay seems to be second-guessing his critics and spoofing his own peccadilloes in quote marks, only to produce the silliest entry in the series yet
Jurassic World: Dominion (2022)
Jul 17, 2022Genetically-Engineered Dinosaurs Amok
This was the sixth film in the Jurassic Park/World franchise and offers very much a return to the familiar. It at least also shakes several familiar things up