What Sinners Gets Right About Family, Fear, and the Fight to Stay Human
The quiet ache of guilt sitting at the dinner table, the silence after a truth is buried, and the way pain is passed down like a name.

Scott Gamble waits anxiously in the Emergency Room to hear the status of his little sister. After overhearing the nursing staff whispering about the superstitions surrounding Room 566, where his sister is to be placed overnight, he must get her out of the room before it's too late.
The quiet ache of guilt sitting at the dinner table, the silence after a truth is buried, and the way pain is passed down like a name.
Two young girls meet in the same neighborhood unexpectedly as they embark on a new adventure using their imaginations as this movie brings strong representation among women.
Soul takes intangible concepts like self and personality and makes them completely palpable and simple to digest.
As this critic continues to look back at some of this Summer's films I have taken in, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one of the most overall unsettling trends in Hollywood over the last several years.....sequels, reboots, and remakes. Look, I am all for seeing more than one film for certain originals that made a splash, ie: "Jurassic Park", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Transformers", etc.
Swapped combines comedy, adventure and emotional growth while delivering one of the biggest plot twists in animation history.
The Mandolorian has a more nuanced and commentative take on masculinity that refrains from praising the toxic traits associated with the social category, while also showing a more positive and transformative representation of masculine characters.