Sebastian Stan

If “Pam & Tommy” is a story entranced by characters reaching for a higher status, it also takes interest in one character who knows she has more wit than the twits surrounding her.

“Fresh” subverts the genre of the romantic comedy, a meet-cute turned meat-cute — a gruesome exploration of the physical and emotional degradation of a woman bound to a cannibal.

Cave’s chronicle of an audacious, thrilling story shines remarkably, her history in both music videos and dance directly evident in her distinctive, upbeat style of storytelling.

There is a responsibility, when invoking the consequential issues that Walker represents — white privilege, police brutality, American war crimes — to interrogate those topics beyond lip service.

Where “WandaVision” took full advantage of its TV format, “The Falcon and the Winter Soldier” has a more uneasy relationship with the medium, reading mostly as an extended “Captain America” movie.

Nicole Kidman delivers a powerful performance as the unsympathetic protagonist, Erin Bell, in her latest movie, “Destroyer.”

As an independently financed and distributed film, “Logan Lucky” proves that good ole fashioned, intelligently made, economical mid-budget movies can provide more entertainment value than overstuffed blockbusters.