Sam Raimi’s “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness”
Fusion of some of the best of Raimi’s work from both his horror and superhero backlog, this won’t convince the uninitiated but will delight existing fans despite being under the shadow of “Everything Everywhere All at Once”
James Cameron’s “Avatar: The Way of Water”
If effects were gravy and story the meat, you would be drowning in a vat of gravy clinging for dear life to a salisbury steak
Joseph Kosinski’s “Top Gun: Maverick”
Terrific flight sequences sandwiched by nostalgic soap opera melodrama with tokenised women and minorities sidelined in what at times feels like an extendended commercial for men’s hair dye in a jingoistic frame
Gina Prince-Bythewood’s “The Woman King”
An entertaining action epic which frames African history from a long overdue perspective with a terrific cast and pacy script
Tommy Wirkola’s “Violent Night”
If a "b-movie Die Hard with magic and Santa Claus" sounds like a good idea, you deserve this movie
Genndy Tartakovsky’s “Primal”
A visceral master class in visual storytelling in this fantasy action/drama