Peter Debruge

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‘Dora and the Search for Sol Dorado’ Review: Harmless Reboot Highlights Inca Culture and Expected Family-Friendly Tropes

If a flawed family-friendly movie can kindle the audience’s curiosity in pre-Columbian civilizations, that’s a net positive. And that’s just the effect that the brightly colored “Dora and the Search for...

‘K-Pop Demon Hunters’ Review: High-Concept Toon Is as Catchy as the Korean Music Phenom That Inspired It

In K-pop, the fans come first, or so catchy South Korean music acts are constantly telling the legions of dedicated followers who have propelled them to international stardom. If it weren’t...

‘She Runs the World’ Review: What Wappened When Nike Thought It Could Beat Track Star Allyson Felix

The protruding belly getting its closeup early in “She Runs the World” belongs to Allyson Felix, the world’s most decorated track star. It’s 2018, Felix is 32 and pregnant for the...

‘How to Train Your Dragon’ Review: DreamWorks Swoops Into the Remake Game With Respectful Cover From Co-Director of 2010 Toon

Fifteen years doesn’t seem very long to wait before doing a nearly scene-for-scene remake of an animated blockbuster. In the case of DreamWorks’ “How to Train Your Dragon,” that’s the same...

‘Rosemead’ Review: Lucy Liu’s Revelatory Turn Is the Reason to See an Otherwise Downbeat Family Drama

In a historic legal decision last year, a Michigan jury found the parents of a 15-year-old school shooter responsible for the deaths their son had caused. Could they have prevented it?...

‘Predator: Killer of Killers’ Review: Gruesome Animated Triptych Travels Through Time With the Ruthless Extra-Terrestrials

A thrilling animated triptych from filmmaker Dan Trachtenberg, “Predator: Killer of Killers” extends not just the hunt-or-be-hunted franchise for which it is named, but a larger trend by which Hollywood studios...

Best of Cannes: Critics Pick 17 Must-See Movies From the 2025 Festival

The last day of the 2025 Cannes Film Festival saw a region-wide power outage — reportedly an act of sabotage — and a handful of other surprises at the closing...

‘Militantropos’ Review: Austere Anti-War Doc Employs Formal Control in an Impassioned Defense of Ukraine

Billowing gray smoke intermingles with moody cloud cover, while scores of grim-faced Ukrainian citizens watch the skies, arms folded. The visual opening salvo of “Militantropos,” directed by Yelizaveta Smith, Alina Gorlova...

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