The Blacklist

A solid weekly crime show built around a genuine TV star. That’s the kind of series the networks have to be able to pull off to survive...

Spader plays his scenes with relish. It’s fun to watch. So are the stylish action scenes.

"The Tomorrow War" is the surprise of the season, a stuffed-to-the-gills battle between evil aliens and terrified humans.

It’s a vibrant, amusing comedy whose story, from returning writer-director Garth Jennings, may be a bit overstuffed for its intende...

What Sing 2 does offer is more big musical numbers, lots of eye-popping animation and a sugar-high ending that will delight kids and...

It is Bresson’s unadorned, almost ascetic style that lifts the tale beyond a genre piece.

How this works out over its many episodes isn’t easy to predict, but we have, at minimum, a strong beginning-Zamani notwithstanding-one that...

Do I need to see another episode of this? Probably not. Will I watch it more just to enjoy Spader and see if Red’s motivation is the thi...

It’s designed to be crowd-pleasing and, as a painless diversion, it works, even if the cynic in any viewer will recognize why it exists.

It’s empty calories, and a highly calculated musical sugar rush. Still, this franchise from Illumination doesn’t really aspire to...

Pop-tastic karaoke animation…

It’s a fast-paced mystery that’s just plain entertaining.

Illumination Entertainment producers Christopher Meledandri and Janet Healy have clearly hit on a winning strategy, one that they unabashedly...

Where previous seasons may have asked us to bring something back from the long and winding serialization of Red-and-Lizzie, the premiere of season...

I’m really quite surprised at how conceptual this season 3 premiere turned out to be.

This movie’s a total blast, but it’s also surprisingly emotional at times, too.

A cinematic masterpiece it is not. But "Sing 2"is good enough.

The turning point in "Sing 2" happens about 45 minutes in, when a porcupine croons a wistful version of U2's "Stuck in a Moment...

Think of it instead as an elaborate machinery of joy, and it’s easier to appreciate how every choice seems designed to put a smile on pe...

The Blacklist is never going to be anyone’s idea of great art, but at least it has a pulpy kind of momentum that may well be worth watching f...

It does, in its cheap-and-cheerful way, have fun.

Well, that’s what we would call sticking the landing.

While there are no surprises whatsoever here, the perky charm remains.

The Blacklist is a terrific, inventive, entertaining and eccentric show by network standards. Indeed, by any standards.

"Don’t Look Up" is good, but it could have been so much better.

The Blacklist is both utterly shameless and, in its way, genuinely (if cynically) sophisticated.

I don’t know if it was the fact that we now have several new characters on the show to give it a renewed energy or the fact that they se...

Here and now, The Blacklist is top-of-the-list escapism.

Blacklist came out like gangbusters, quite literally, even though James Spader is really all the reason we need to keep watching for now.

At least you’ll come out whistling. [Full review in Spanish]

The best thing in the movie is Pratt.

Your kids will love it.

In Sing 2's defence, the film is at least enthusiastic about its own overabundance, and the new celebrity voice additions fit nicely into the mix.

Is Craig’s poignant farewell the best of the actor’s run? I’d put the emotionality of Skyfall and the eye-popping Casino Royale a...

Heart and humor that will delight young audiences while the parents will get a kick out of the eclectic mix of songs.

C’mon, producers. Upend the procedural. Let Spader run loose.

He’s [James Spader] magnetic, chewing on the scenery so much that you can’t look away from him.

Luckily for everyone, Avengers director (and all-around nerdcore godhead) Joss Whedon is around to make the action figures move like real people.

What makes "Sing 2" enjoyable are the tunes.

"Return of the Jedi," the final act of George Lucas' first "Star Wars" trilogy, is the best one yet.

I took one look at The Tomorrow War’s dopey premise and knew I was all in.

I think Megan Boone could develop her own following – she’s engaging and believable – but this is Spader’s game and he plays...

If you’re looking for some lighthearted distraction from the worries of the world right now… give Sing 2 a shot.

Throughout, there’s a sense that [it] is building, or rebuilding, toward something big and bold-that what you’re seeing is not so...

"The Tomorrow War" spends most of its time in the future, but its central theme is timeless: the replayed tragedy that sometimes you don’t co...

It’s a lot of deluxe pablum you’ve seen before, but all you can eat of it.

Let’s just say, Sing was stuffed with poignant/cheeky surprises and this new film’s not short of them either.

Action-packed and family-centric in a solidly commercial way, the pic may be missing that certain something that would have made it huge in th...

Few series can boast such a compelling central figure.

The movie clearly intends its monsters as a metaphor for climate crisis. It works fairly well…

Sing 2 is better than the original. I wasn’t actively hate-watching this one.

Yes, it’s a preposterous premise, and Boone as well as the character she plays are in over their heads, but if NBC is willing to spend m...

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of this premiere … is that while Red was as engaging and creepy-charming as ever, the tone didn’t waver when...

Spader devours the script and steals every scene, basking in the power he has – more than the FBI thinks he has – the audience isn&rsquo...

There’s a more desirable reason to watch a show… and that is the sheer swoony pleasure of watching James Spader chew through scenes and scene...

This is what summer movies are all about – endearing but flawed humans fighting aliens as they save all of humanity and resolve their family e...

[A] gloriously moronic picture