Megan Basham

Megan Basham The Daily Wire May 27, 2022 3/4 "Top Gun: Maverick" is nostalgia for Reagan's America writ large across our collective imagination. The movie itself may not realize how much it speaks to a longing for more confident days. Go to Full Review Top Gun: Maverick (2022) 96% 60%

Megan Basham The Daily Wire Mar 4, 2022 2/4 Pattinson's one-note performance isn't the fundamental problem. The problem is that it attempts to embody the current ethos of deconstructing systems we once believed represented the common good and that includes the system that created Batman. Go to Full Review The Batman (2022) 85% 40%

Megan Basham The Daily Wire Dec 29, 2021 For anyone who has ever felt that the moment for greatness passed them by, Warner's story offers encouragement that nothing we go through need go to waste. Go to Full Review American Underdog (2021) 75% 98%

Megan Basham The Daily Wire Oct 29, 2021 This sounds kind of fun. And I wish it were. But with the exception of Kumail Nanjiani who offers, without question, the only real reason to see the movie, the story takes itself far too seriously for fun or, really, even logic. Go to Full Review Eternals (2021) 48% 77%

Megan Basham National Review Sep 18, 2021 Believing that a nonagenarian is capable of punching out a thug half his age, attracting a woman a third of his age, and breaking a wild mustang a bare fraction of his age requires too much suspension of disbelief. Go to Full Review Cry Macho (2021) 57% 64%

Megan Basham The Daily Wire Aug 6, 2021 While there's a reasonable amount of fun to be had from the mayhem, things never get quite as gonzo as the trailers promised. Overall, you get the sense that the once-canceled Gunn has become gun-shy. Go to Full Review The Suicide Squad (2021) 90% 40%

Megan Basham WORLD Jul 30, 2021 Jungle Cruise has nothing original to offer. We get essentially the same story as Pirate's of the Caribbean with slightly different window dressing. Go to Full Review Jungle Cruise (2021) 62% 20%

Megan Basham The Daily Wire Jul 2, 2021 Black Widow's name may be on the title, but the true heroes of the 24th entry in the MCU mega-franchise are her supporting characters -- a pack of gonzo Russkie faux relatives. Go to Full Review Black Widow (2021) 79% 20%

Megan Basham The Daily Wire May 28, 2021 As sheer spectacle overlaying a sly rebuke to modern feminist values, it pays off. Go to Full Review Cruella (2021) 75% 97%

Megan Basham The Daily Wire May 18, 2021 3.5/5 'Those Who Wish Me Dead' may be, thematically, a lesser work in the impressive canon writer/director Taylor Sheridan has been building, but it's no less entertaining for that. Go to Full Review Those Who Wish Me Dead (2021) 63% 86%

Megan Basham WORLD May 3, 2021 4/5 Whether it's dealing with the stress of life under COVID or marital strife, we laugh at what we recognize. Bargatze's new pandemic special is just what the doctor ordered. Go to Full Review Nate Bargatze: The Greatest Average American (2021) 100% 91%

Megan Basham WORLD Mar 26, 2021 While Raya and the Last Dragon may not have the staying power of past Disney princess films, it does offer beautiful scenery and a chance to point out to children the truths of Proverbs. Go to Full Review Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) 93% 97%

Megan Basham WORLD Mar 26, 2021 Light as it may be, A Week Away is still a sweet confection. Go to Full Review A Week Away (2021) 61% 90%

Megan Basham WORLD Mar 22, 2021 So many of these characters flit across the screen, we're only given minutes to get to know each and, consequently, care about none. Go to Full Review Fame (2009) 24% 36%

Megan Basham WORLD Mar 13, 2021 The close set and small cast are the ideal building blocks to illustrate the narrowing that so often comes with the end of life, when the world available to us, both physically and socially, grows so small. Go to Full Review The Father (2020) 98% 92%

Megan Basham WORLD Feb 27, 2021 Overall, for all its pratfalls and fantasy, Flora & Ulysses tells kids some important truths. Go to Full Review Flora and Ulysses (2020) 73% 60%

Megan Basham WORLD Feb 11, 2021 Without a fixed standard, the story crumbles like some of the items the Suffolk team digs up, seeming solid at first before turning to sand. Go to Full Review The Dig (2021) 87% 78%

Megan Basham WORLD Jan 29, 2021 Warmhearted, with something of a Hallmark vibe, Fisherman's Friends is not a pick for cynics, but that doesn't mean it has nothing of substance to say. Go to Full Review Fisherman's Friends (2019) 69% 74%

Megan Basham WORLD Jan 15, 2021 Hanks has already shown he's more than capable of carrying an action-heavy film, but News of the World proves he can successfully channel his inner Eastwood as well. Go to Full Review News of the World (2020) 88% 89%

Megan Basham WORLD Jan 4, 2021 Docter does use his brightly colored, metaphysical version of It's a Wonderful Life to a good end. The movie doesn't just avoid the "pursue your dream at all costs" message we typically get from kids' entertainment. It positively rebukes it. Go to Full Review Soul (2020) 95% 40%