“… where del Toro’s gothic instincts flower into full-blown Romanticism.”

“ The Pied Piper was on my mind throughout Weapons…”

“… eventually goes off the deep end, but without doing the work.”

“… as if Boyle and Garland had nearly 28 years of their own to generate ideas, then ended up smooshing them all into a single film.”

“… something like an American Girl doll who becomes the Evil Queen of Uncanny Valley.”

“… ghoulishly registers as a mediation on the madness of grief.”

“Music is liberation in Sinners…”

“One of our most elusive movie monsters avoids capture once again.”

“It’s as if blood has been sucked from the very images.”

“… turns on a fear of mortality — or worse, being stuck in some in-between place.”