the @popcollin reviews

With all the buzz and controversy surrounding it in the weeks leading up to its release, it would be easy to say that ‘Darling’ just couldn’t get out of its own way, but it turns out it’s just not a very good movie in its own right. Director Olivia Wilde […]

Much of this stand-up special (the comedian’s eighth) reflects primarily on his stir-crazy hours spent during the pandemic. You would think all that time would have allowed him to write some better material than whatever this is. Sure, some things work—the idea for the saddest Pixar movie, particularly—but when a […]

Jon Hamm tries his best to assume the mantle that Chevy Chase first wore in 1985’s cult hit, but a meandering and needlessly convoluted script about art theft and murder is only part of the issue. The bigger problem is that Hamm—as talented and respected as he is—doesn’t have (or […]

Documentarian April Wright follows up her 2013 film ‘Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the American Drive-in Movie’ with a return visit to the now-fading bit of nostalgic Americana, looking at how a dozen or so theaters across the country navigated the post-pandemic times. While certain to serve as a […]

The first film from Apple-backed Skydance Animation (the new home of ousted Pixar honcho John Lasseter), Luck is a wildly convoluted story of a comically unlucky teenage girl in foster care. She travels to the Land of Luck to help a young friend find a forever home with a new […]

West End director Carrie Cracknell makes her feature debut with the latest adaptation of Jane Austen’s classic novel, which, despite decent intentions, never really gets off the ground. Dakota Johnson stars as Anne Elliot and manages to mostly pull off a British accent and also showcase some decent comic timing, […]

As loud as a six-year-old’s birthday party, as colorful as a bowl of radioactive Froot Loops, and as frenetic as a rave at a caffeine lovers convention, the sequel to 2015’s ‘Minions’ is an all-over-the-place world of craziness that might well leave some parents in the theater reaching for the […]

For five movies, the formula has worked—let dinosaurs loose, and let humans try to escape (or fight) to survive the day. Why, then, writer/director Colin Trevorrow decided to jettison that and instead focus on a mutant locust swarm and a debate about the ethics of human cloning is anyone’s guess. […]

Chris Pine tries his damndest to elevate this international spy intrigue film above the level of mediocre Tom Clancy-lite, but it slogs more than it sings. Plus, anytime you can easily figure out the “big reveal” five minutes into the film, you know you’re in trouble. Thandiwe Newton, Laurence Fishburne, […]

Playing a little like what you’d get if Quentin Tarantino directed a quirky, low-budget British Indie, this bloody tale of murder and mayhem in a tiny Welsh village has plenty of stuff going for it, but it can’t seem to get out of its own way when the poop really […]