Tick, Tick… Boom! is a story for every artist to experience, with a career-best performance from Andrew Garfield, delightful music, and an extremely strong directorial debut by Lin-Manuel Miranda.
Don’t Look Up uses comedy to subtly deliver commentary on the political and sociological nature of modern America’s culture when facing a potential threat to humanity.
The Matrix: Resurrections has a few cool ideas about the role digital spaces play in our modern lives, but other than that its unhealthy obsession with repeated callbacks and references to the original films stop it from telling an interesting story.
Spider-Man: No Way Home is easily the MCU’s strongest film featuring the wall-crawler, with enough throwbacks, surprises and an emotional narrative to satisfy any comic-book fan.
Featuring an excellent cast with stellar direction, West Side Story may be seen as a fantastic reimagining of a classic story, but only if you’re already interested in what it has to say about America.
Marvel’s Hawkeye is off to a slow but fun start with Hailee Steinfeld’s Kate Bishop stealing the show from Clint Barton with wit and oozing Christmas charm.
Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings keeps the MCU fresh and exciting with a likeable new hero and cast of characters, innovative action and most important of all - a beating heart.
David Fincher’s The Killer is a snappy and sleek revenge thriller that doesn’t boast much emotional depth on the surface, but on a technical level is a viewing experience that’s as satisfying as they come featuring a great performance from Michael Fassbender.
Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 is a sincere, if overly familiar, take on Peter Parker & Miles Morales’ collaboration as Spider-Men - a worthy follow-up combining Insomniac Games’ mastery of in-game traversal and storytelling to deliver a superhero spectacle of the highest order.