In Slate’s annual Movie Club, film critic Dana Stevens emails with fellow critics—for 2024, Bilge Ebiri, K. Austin Collins, Alison Willmore, and Odie Henderson—about the year in cinema.

This month’s picks include a Malaysian war movie, an underwater plane rescue ... instead the camera focuses on the shark’s full-bodied danger. McIntosh is equally forceful as the undaunted ...

He’s a respected craftsman who nevertheless puts his own stamp on all of his movies, no matter how different they may seem. His movies feel like his while still reaching a larger audience ...

David Corenswet "Superman" partial poster. The movie business starts sharpening its fang for big business in 2025 in January with Wolf Man, and the first big superhero movie of the year takes ...

In any other M. Night Shyamalan movie, you would expect the big twist to come closer toward the end in order to leave audiences reeling, but Trap does something much more intriguing with its story ...

The Jujutsu Kaisen 2025 movie was officially announced during Jump Festa 2025, confirming the adaptation of the Hidden Inventory and Premature Death arcs. Based on Gege Akutami’s hit manga, these arcs ...

Congrats kids (and animals), this weekend is for you. The two biggest releases of the week are about lions and hedgehogs, they both have stacked casts, and they’re both “live-action ...

At the moment, Mufasa: The Lion King is available exclusively in theaters. The film officially hit the big screen on Friday, December 20, 2024. While it is quite early to discuss the release details ...

So, as the holidays draw near and you settle down by the proverbial fire, why not watch an actual movie about politics? Movies skewer and satirize a political system that dearly deserves both.

Banished to Eshe’s side, Mufasa learns the tricks that Taka never gets to. The script by Jeff Nathanson, Linda Woolverton and Irene Mecchi (who also collaborated on the 2019 remake) engages with ...