Mark Hughes

Mark Hughes Forbes Nov 24, 2025 [T]his heartbreaking and inspiring Oscar contender conveys more than most other contenders by saying less and feeling more. Go to Full Review Train Dreams (2025) 93% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes Nov 22, 2025 [It] will thrill fans and seems destined for greater box office success than the first film... Go to Full Review Wicked: For Good (2025) 66% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes Nov 13, 2025 [A] rousing call for courage, moral clarity, and action in the face of threats not only to our freedoms and society, but to our very humanity itself. It’s the sort of studio picture you rarely expect, and even more rarely get. Go to Full Review The Running Man (2025) 61% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes Oct 24, 2025 [T]ells us the final hour of civilization will be confusing, clouded by emotion and fear... Which is precisely why the choices are all conveniently figured out beforehand. The trouble is, all of those choices are in a Black Book of nuclear launch orders. Go to Full Review A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) 75% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes Oct 10, 2025 [A] tale that would seem unbelievable if you wrote it as an original fictional story. It’s a testament to how often life is strange than fiction, and why those are some of the best and most important stories to tell. Go to Full Review Roofman (2025) 87% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes Sep 28, 2025 Sometimes good people do bad things, and sometimes bad people do good things, but they are still either a good person or a bad person... The film’s question to us is, which one are you? Which one do you want to be? And what are you willing to do about it? Go to Full Review One Battle After Another (2025) 94% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes Jul 26, 2025 [G]orgeous and thrilling, among the best-looking Marvel releases... the best MCU movie in years. Go to Full Review The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) 86% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes Dec 18, 2024 [It] lets Carrey be Carrey in all the best ways, and he delights by seeming to be having as much fun doing it as we’re having watching it. It lets us escape entirely for 109 minutes, and laugh the whole time. Go to Full Review Sonic the Hedgehog 3 (2024) 86% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes Aug 16, 2024 [A] huge victory, successfully and faithfully reviving one of the best sci-fi/horror series of all time for longtime fans as well as a new generation of audiences. Go to Full Review Alien: Romulus (2024) 80% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes Jul 26, 2024 [A] rollicking fun time and laugh riot from start to finish...a rollicking fun time and laugh riot from start to finish... Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman are in top form... Go to Full Review Deadpool & Wolverine (2024) 77% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes May 25, 2024 [A] fantastic, complex character story with an immensely engrossing and thrilling plot filled with spectacular action set pieces and cheer-out-loud moments. Go to Full Review Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) 90% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes May 23, 2024 [A] good choice for adults seeking a more contemplative and serious experience at the movies, offering a view of important historical moments and modern medical advances through a personal lens of loss and redemption. Go to Full Review Sight (2023) 74% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes May 11, 2024 [W]ildly fun and hilariously charming... a fantastic summer popcorn movie of exactly the sort audiences usually love and reward handsomely. Go to Full Review The Fall Guy (2024) 81% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes May 8, 2024 [T]he sequel we all hoped for, not just carrying the series forward but building toward something even greater and more epic ... as compelling, resonant, and thrilling as the rest of the modern franchise. Go to Full Review Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024) 80% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes May 2, 2024 The beauty, the scale, and the artistic vision Scott brings to Alien go beyond filmmaking and into the ambitious realm of myth-making that burned a permanent, glorious scar on the memory and psyche of the world. Go to Full Review Alien (1979) 93% 94%

Mark Hughes Forbes May 2, 2024 [A] visually exciting, smart, engaging detective story that will both impress with it’s animated quality and eventually make you forget your even watching animation. Go to Full Review Mars Express (2023) 100% - -

Mark Hughes Forbes Mar 3, 2024 This is what movie theaters exist for, this type of visual and complete story immersion. Go to Full Review Dune: Part Two (2024) 92% 75%

Mark Hughes Forbes Dec 24, 2023 [Aquaman and the] Lost Kingdom plays all of the “greatest hits” from the first film, if the selections were made based on what’s loudest and easiest for the audience to sing along. Go to Full Review Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) 33% 40%

Mark Hughes Forbes Nov 30, 2023 [T]he best Godzilla film ever made, and a masterpiece of kaiju cinema. Go to Full Review Godzilla Minus One (2023) 99% 98%

Mark Hughes Forbes Nov 23, 2023 "Napoleon" is lessened by being cut to pieces & turned into a smaller version of itself that gets to say less of what it was created to say. [S]o much of it misses its potential... & wind[s] up feeling like they had very little to say anyway. Go to Full Review Napoleon (2023) 58% 59%