REEL | Ryan Reynolds Kills the Multiverse – 'Deadpool & Wolverine'

"Aim for the middle and you'll never miss."

Marvel Studios / Maximum Effort

Best of enemies, Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, make their much-anticipated team-up in their first official R-rated Marvel Studios effort, the straightforwardly titled Deadpool & Wolverine, combining the previously unrelated 20th Century Fox-produced X-Men franchise into the current MCU continuity. Directed by Shawn Levy, the jam-packed Deadpool crossover sequel delivers a surprisingly emotional ride overstuffed with the usual self-referential, wisecracking dirty jokes and excessive violent action.

SCREEN | Julianne Nicholson Orbits 'Janet Planet'

"Every moment of my life is hell."

A24 / BBC Film

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker makes her illuminating filmmaking debut in the moving coming-of-age mother/daughter drama, Janet Planet, set in early-'90s rural Western Massachusetts. As the planetary title suggests, the indie film explore a young girl's less than heatlhy "orbit" around her struggling single mother.

REEL | Daisy Edgar-Jones and Glen Powell Storm Hard – Chasing 'Twisters'

"If you feel it, chase it!"

Universal Pictures / Amblin Entertainment

Korean-American director Lee Isaac Chung brings his talent for trauma-based character drama to disaster studio blockbuster fare in his standalone follow-up to the 1996 hit action thriller Twister. Twisters (note the plural with an "s") takes tornado chasing and its cinematic depiction even further on screen for another sensational epic worthy of its mid-'90s predecessor.

CABLE | Rashida Jones Mourns A 'Sunny' Disposition

"I'd robot murder someone for this chair alone."

A24 Television

Actress/filmmaker Rashida Jones stars in the oddball dark sci-fi comedy, Sunny, based on the 2018 novel The Dark Manual by Colin O’Sullivan. Set in Kyoto, series creator Katie Robbins establishes a vaguely tech-centric future where A.I.-programmed domestic robot companions (called "homebots") are commonplace throughout Japanese society but might have troubling (possibly murderous) unknown motivations when not otherwise being helpful doing mundance tasks.

SCREEN | Scarlett Johansson Races to 'Fly Me to the Moon'

"You don't face your fears. You ride 'em!"

Sony Pictures / Apple Original Films

Scarlett Johansson (also a producer) and Channing Tatum star in the highly fictionalized, historically cheeky romantic comedy, Fly Me to the Moon, about the volatile relationship between a marketing executive and NASA launch director during the 1960s space race in their efforts to turn flagging public support in favour of landing a manned mission on the moon.

GENRE | Satanic Possession – 'Longlegs' Decodes the Devil

"He'll kill and kill again."

Neon / Elevation Pictures

Longlegs, writer/director Osgood "Oz" Perkins' (son of Psycho actor Anthony Perkins) mid-'90s set serial killer thriller, produced by and co-starring a heavily made-up and nearly unrecognizable Nicolas Cage, dials up the creepy religious horror imagery for a gripping, satanic-tinged experience.

GENRE | The 'MaXXXine' Factor – Mia Goth Slashes 1980s Sleaze

"[It's] a B-movie with A-movie ideas."

A24 / VVS Films

British scream queen Mia Goth and indie filmmaker Ti West reteam for the disappointing third entry in their X horror trilogy. Set in both the adult and mainstream film world of 1980s Hollywood excess, MaXXXine follows up Pearl's origin as a direct sequel to the "Texas Porn-Shoot Massacre" murders from the first film. Goth reprises her eponymous role as the fame-hungry starlet on the verge of her big break while trying to evade the paranoia of the Night Stalker and a possible copycat killer in 1985 Los Angeles.

REEL | Top 10 Films of 2024 So Far

Amazon MGM Studios / Warner Bros. Pictures

Click on each film title to read its corresponding review:

1) Challengers (dir. Luca Guadagnino)

2) Evil Does Not Exist (dir. Ryûsuke Hamaguchi)

3) Civil War (dir. Alex Garland)

4) Dune: Part Two (dir. Denis Villeneuve)

5) Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (dir. George Miller)

6) I Saw the TV Glow (dir. Jane Schoenbrun)

7) The Bikeriders (dir. Jeff Nichols)

8) Kinds of Kindness (dir. Yorgos Lanthimos)

9) Love Lies Bleeding (dir. Rose Glass)

10) Hit Man (dir. Richard Linklater)

GENRE | The Last Days of 'A Quiet Place: Day One'

"You can't have a cat in here."

Paramount Pictures / Platinum Dunes

Pig writer/director Michael Sarnoski, in his sophomore feature film, tackles the silent horror spin-off A Quiet Place: Day One, produced by mainline franchise steward John Krasinski, who also co-wrote the film's story. His thrilling sidequest prequel shows us the lives of other survivors at ground-zero level in the immediate aftermath of Earth's violent invasion of the previously seen, sound-sensitive alien monsters.