‘Uninvited’ delivers a high-stakes journey of vengeance, powered by stellar performances but falls short of fully exploring the complexities of its subject matter.

Arjo Atayde’s haunted, steely stoicism is an adequate anchor to hold ‘Topakk’ on. There are plenty of fist-pumping viscera to be found, but the film’s lack of grasp on its chaos hurts it more often than not.

‘My Future You’ plays with space and time but the love between its characters is no more than the cute moments in the film. The film is an entry to the 50th Metro Manila Film Festival.

‘The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim’ goes under the same pitfalls as the other prequels: insufficient characterization, reappearance of popular figures that serve little purpose, and overreliance on spectacle over character.

‘The Lion King’ prequel shows Mufasa’s rise to power. It successfully pays tribute to its precursor film and is unhindered by the live-action remake Disney trend fatigue.

Firmly planted in the lives of three Mumbai nurses in the lower-income part of the city, ‘All We Imagine as Light’ gently claims its place as one of the century’s most romantic films asserting that third world romances are worthy of the big screen.

‘Shahid’ is docu-fiction in feeble form, one that unfortunately limits itself to the prosaic presentations of symbols and signs, and so the film ends rather unfinished and unmoving, on a pulpit on its own. 

‘Room in a Crowd’ utilizes what is essentially a collective scattering of fragmented thoughts and musings to deliver an incredibly ethereal experience.

Sabrina Carpenter’s Netflix Christmas special is filled with nice holiday performances featuring special guests, and naughty sketches — all decked with her witty, flirty double entendres.

‘The Perfect Couple’ encapsulates all that we love about celebrity scandals, fueling our eagerness to know more about the case without actually caring for the people involved. Now streaming on Netflix.

For its third season, The Bear still makes room for fantastic television. But it’s clear-cut that it has experienced some errors in the kitchen for a string of episodes.

From Joko Anwar, the mastermind who turned Indonesian horror cinema on its head, comes ‘Nightmares and Daydreams’: a sci-fi series that will delight diehard followers and introduce new audiences to the mind of one of the most intriguing Asian filmmakers today.

Crawling out through the fallout of video game adaptations with much aplomb, Fallout sets its eyes on unexplored horizons, delivering a fresh perspective on the source material that genuinely surprises without losing the charm that made the games so iconic.

‘Avatar: The Last Airbender’ is a cinematic retelling of the original animated series that finally gives justice to the story that audiences grew up with. Now streaming on Netflix.

This television adaptation of Mr. and Mrs. Smith took the 2005 movie’s basic premise and elevated it to new and bold heights, creating an espionage-filled universe that is intriguing and compelling.