Malignant (2021)

Rating: 4/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76% critic, 52% Audience Overview: When a woman finds herself plagued by one of her childhood inventions, a boy named Gabriel, she becomes embroiled in a string of murders that she witnesses as they occur, even though she never leaves home.  The story, though, is much more complex, and …

Last Night in SoHo (2022)

Rating: 5/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76% Critic, 90% Audience Overview: A young fashion student moves into a London flat, only to find herself haunted by the history of the room in which she sleeps.  While struggling to define herself from the dreams she has as “Sandie” Collins, Ellie fights to make her dream of …

Night House (2021)

Rating: 3.5/5 Rotten Tomatoes/Goodreads Rating: Overview: A woman’s husband commits suicide, and leaves a bread-crumb-trail of secrets about his life and the things he would do to save his wife.  But save her from what?  Now his wife must uncover the mystery and come to terms with who her husband is, and the danger she …

King Richard (2021)

Rating: 4.5/5 stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 90% Critic, 98% Audience Overview: A biopic about the life of Richard Williams as he fought to raise his daughters in Compton while training them to be the best tennis players in the world.  From training to Venus’s first professional tournament, the movie shows the struggle and triumph of …

Dear Evan Hansen (2021)

Starring: Ben Platt, Amy Adams, Julianne Moore, Kaitlyn Dever, Amandla Stenberg, Nik Dodani, Danny Pino, Colton Ryan My Rating: 2/5 Stars Rotten Tomatoes: 29% Critics, 88% Audience Description: “The breathtaking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his role as an anxious, isolated high …

Stowaway (2021)

Starring: Anna Kendrick, Daniel Dae Kim, Toni Collette, Shamier Anderson My Rating: 2/5 Stars Rotten Tomatoes: 77% Critics, 51% Audience Description: “A three-person crew on a mission to Mars faces an impossible choice when an unplanned passenger jeopardizes the lives of everyone on board.” Short Version: A predictable plot that gets too tangled in philosophical …

Hypnotic (2021)

Rating: 2.5/5 Stars Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 25% Critic and 20% Audience Overview: A horror flick focusing on a woman who seeks help with her trauma from a hypnotherapist, until she starts losing time and memory, and begins to suspect there is something sinister going on. Best element: The acting by Kate Siegel is the only …

Dune (2021)

Starring: Oscar Isaacs, Jason Mamoa, Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgard, Charlotte Rampling, Dave Bautista, Javier Bardem My Rating: 3.5/5 Stars Rotten Tomatoes: 84% Critics, 90% Audience Rotten Tomatoes Description: "Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous …

Free Guy (2021)

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Jodie Comer, Joe Keery, Lil Rel Howery, Utkarsh Ambudkar, Taika Waititi My Rating: 3.5/5 Stars Rotten Tomatoes: 80% Critics, 94% Audience Description: “In "Free Guy," a bank teller who discovers he is actually a background player in an open-world video game, decides to become the hero of his own story... one he …

West Side Story (2021)

Starring: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Arian De Bose, David Alverez, Mike Faist, Rita Moreno, Corey Stoll, Brian D’Arcy James, Maddie Ziegler My Rating: 4.5/5 Stars Rotten Tomatoes: 92% Critics, 94% Audience Description: “Love at first sight strikes when young Tony spots Maria at a high school dance in 1957 New York City. Their burgeoning romance …