Thread by @globeandmail

Need to catch up on this season’s biggest movie releases? The Globe’s film critics have you covered.

From weird reboots to complicated coming of age romps, here's what to watch right now⬇️

First up: The Matrix Resurrections.

Lana Wachowski’s sequel-reboot-remake is “a weird, hilarious, romantic, messy, violent and upsetting manic spectacle that encapsulates every emotion of this supremely messed up year.”
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Conceived as a climate-change metaphor, Don’t Look Up’s conceit could be sharply effective, in careful hands.

But director Adam McKay (The Big Short, Vice) knows only of punching down with meaty fists, so the result is a messy, smarmy assault.
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Simply put, Spider-Man: No Way Home is “a gigantic act of franchise-mad hubris, and a ridiculous amount of fun.”
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Joel Coen breaks out on his own with The Tragedy of Macbeth, starring Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand.

“There is as much wit as there is wretchedness, the director having no trouble finding the human comedy scratching beneath the title tragedy.”
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Aaron Sorkin’s I Love Lucy docudrama has got some ’splaining to do.

“With some deft trimming, Being the Ricardos could be a fine HBO Sunday night movie ‘event.’ But as it is, this is less a cinematic thing and more an elaborate joke without a kicker.”
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There is a specific tone to films scheduled for a holiday release – in short, they’re corny.

And while that’s not always a bad thing, Denzel Washington's A Journal for Jordan feels particularly "dated and oftentimes emotionally cloying.”
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With The Lost Daughter, based on the novel by Elena Ferrante, director Maggie Gyllenhaal “creates and sustains a tone of mystery and tension that would rival any thriller, but feels especially miraculous here, since her subject is a woman’s inner life.”
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Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story is a “rare remake/reboot/reimagining/re-whatever that builds, even strengthens, the original property’s legacy instead of trying to furiously, futilely ignore it.”
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And finally, there's Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, which @HertzBarry calls the best film of 2021.

“A comedy, a drama, a romance, a memory, Licorice Pizza is the director’s warmest and fuzziest creation.”
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