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Mike Clark USA Today 5 days ago 3/4 Savorers of 1970s cinema are likely to think Ken Russell has passed the directorial torch. The images are flashy, the editing kinetic and the lasting emotion a tad underwhelming. Go to Full Review William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996) 79% 77%

Brian Truitt USA Today Oct 21, 2026 2/4 Director James Watkins’ unnerving, frustrating thriller can only do so much melting Tom Rhys Harries’ sharp features amid a bunch of creepy scenes and a severe lack of character development. Go to Full Review Clayface (2026) 77% - -

Mike Clark USA Today Oct 20, 2026 4/4 Full Metal Jacket is lean, mean and icy, but at the same time deliriously expressionistic. There's directorial genius in each of its three distinct segments, yet the story peaks two-thirds through. Go to Full Review Full Metal Jacket (1987) 84% 94%

Brian Truitt USA Today Oct 7, 2026 2/4 Unlike the film's characters, who scramble to have all their evidence in order before going public, “The Social Reckoning” can't get its themes together enough to make a coherent point. Go to Full Review The Social Reckoning (2026) 54% - -

Lou Aguilar USA Today Oct 3, 2026 0/4 Jason Lives is neither scary nor funny. Nor does it have plot, logic, consistency, acting or any justification besides profit. The movie merely unreels. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VI: Jason Lives (1986) 39% 53%

David Elliott USA Today Oct 2, 2026 0/4 Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter is more disturbing than most of what is shown in porno theaters. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th: The Final Chapter (1984) 20% 51%

Brian Truitt USA Today Sep 29, 2026 3/4 Wearing facial prosthetics, a faux beer belly and a Texas-sized twang, Cruise pushes his own considerable boundaries and reminds that the dude can still put on an acting masterclass when he wants. Go to Full Review Digger (2026) 53% - -

Mike Clark USA Today Sep 28, 2026 1/4 To crystallize its fundamental flaw, here's a movie about Manhattan that takes 75 minutes just to get to Manhattan -- followed by another 15 that could just as easily have been shot (and possibly were) in some East Topeka alley. Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part VIII: Jason Takes Manhattan (1989) 8% 27%

Brian Truitt USA Today Sep 25, 2026 3/4 Primetime goes a smidge too hard on the style, but it works as a wild and intriguing peek at a piece of media that helped shape today's love-it-or-hate-it viewing habits. Go to Full Review Primetime (2026) 86% - -

Robert Bianco USA Today Sep 20, 2026 2/4 The only new the the movie has is a bad one: an ending that is far less satisfying than the original. Go to Full Review Carrie (2002) 32% 49%

USA Today Staff USA Today Sep 12, 2026 1.5/4 If Jason, that indestructible corpses of the first four Fridays, is really dead, then who is responsible for the 22 gory deaths in this episode? Does it matter? Go to Full Review Friday the 13th Part V: A New Beginning (1985) 11% 26%

Susan Wloszczyna USA Today Sep 9, 2026 1/4 Every shlock shock is here: Mirrors, dark closets, overwrought music. Go to Full Review Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday (1993) 11% 24%

Brian Truitt USA Today Sep 8, 2026 2.5/4 Bier, like Griffin Dunne previously, isn’t afraid to get a little dark and weird with the magic. Toss in a smattering of talented actresses and you’ve got a witches’ brew that’s fairly satisfying. Go to Full Review Practical Magic 2 (2026) 36% - -

Mike Clark USA Today Aug 21, 2026 1/4 Director John Carpenter's latest is too fatiguing to generate hoots. Go to Full Review Ghosts of Mars (2001) 22% 25%

Mike Clark USA Today Aug 10, 2026 It's about sickness and sex, and though there's some tongue-in-cheekiness, it seems real because Goldblum and Geena Davis unexpectedly deliver two of the year's major performances. Go to Full Review The Fly (1986) 82% 83%

Mike Clark USA Today Aug 3, 2026 2/4 Danny DeVito's movie of Roald Dahl's children's horror family is less frightening than it is coarse and overblown. Go to Full Review Matilda (1996) 90% 73%

Brian Truitt USA Today Jul 28, 2026 3/4 While “Brand New Day” might not be the most rambunctious or exciting of Holland’s Spider-flicks, it aims to be a little deeper than the average MCU installment while trapping you in its gratifying web. Go to Full Review Spider-Man: Brand New Day (2026) 90% - -

Brian Truitt USA Today Jul 24, 2026 1.5/4 A potentially clever and smart take on male friendships and next-gen technology that instead ruins its own party. Go to Full Review 72 Hours (2026) 17% - -

Brian Truitt USA Today Jul 15, 2026 Watching them sail across the sea and deliver the heart of Te Fiti is an amazing odyssey. Watching their live-action counterparts run it back is a slog. Go to Full Review Moana (2026) 33% - -

Brian Truitt USA Today Jul 15, 2026 4/4 Not only is it the greatest work on the iconic director’s noteworthy resume but "The Odyssey" also tops Matt Damon’s not-too-shabby CV. Just give him the best actor Oscar now, for Zeus' sake. Go to Full Review The Odyssey (2026) 94% - -