falls in line with Tomb Raider 2017 as a so-so video game adaptation that holds back like 40% too much but still essentially gets what it should be and does it with a blessedly straight face, all while cast with enough hot and charismatic people to carry me between the legitimately cool effects shots. the editing is very sloppy, there’s too many pop culture references, too few good gore shots, and too much left open for sequels, but it could…

lots of threads left dangling, the last 20 minutes is just an endless series of teases for movies that will likely never be made (that I'm able to watch this at at all feels like a miracle), but none of them are a bother because it so fully and wonderfully wraps up the emotional arcs established in the prior films as well as those introduced here. where BvS twisted familiar iconography to examine the ways grief can drive men to…

The opening 15 minutes are the purest, most horrifying audio/visual representation of what anxiety feels like I've ever come across, so affecting that I had to step away from the film for over an hour before I felt ready to return. Tsukamoto and Cocco put this character through absolute hell, but there's never any question that they're approaching her with empathy and understanding, and they end up leaving her with a kind of sad peace that feels earned, in no…