Manny Fantasma (2018)

A trio of girls form a band and enter a singing competition together after learning they work best as a team.

The highly anticipated Marvel superhero movie of the year displays important themes of loss, loneliness, and change.

These confines won’t really encourage you to read the film as a metaphor for the nerve-inducing experience we’ve all been through over the last year, however — and in the interest of maintaining your dignity, you probably shouldn’t. While the sociopolitical commentary may have worked for the similarly-themed Buried (2010), in which we find Ryan Reynolds on his own buried alive in the Middle East, but this futuristic take on the premise is best left as a piece of distracting entertainment. Nevertheless, the atmosphere is no less suffocating, literally and dramatically.

Emily Henry’s adaptation reaches romance movie standards, but not romance reader standards.

A young girl named Hailey Mays sings a country song that is named after the film's title.

It: Welcome to Derry proves you can have rich representation, real humanity, and still fully enjoy Pennywise terrifying kids in sewers.