You can almost imagine elbows nervously bumping into each other on the armrest, or a hand inviting itself into a neighboring popcorn bucket, while Joel runs from bloodthirsty sand worms or fights off barnacle-crusted crabs the size of a house.

Sorkin’s may be a sunny view of American political progress, but in the final weeks of a tumultuous election that has made 2020 a harrowing year for us all, “The Trial of the Chicago 7” is a fitting send-off into whatever future awaits us.

If Sherlock is the detective of the family and Mycroft the career bureaucrat, then Enola is the spy.

The plotting may be clever and the timing apt, but “Antebellum” asks its audience to suspend disbelief to such an extent that it dilutes the impact of its premise.

“I’m Thinking of Ending Things” is perhaps best understood as a showcase of Charlie Kaufman’s film theory bona fides. It’s exasperating.

“The Secret Garden,” with its colorful visuals and curious music and non-linear editing, is a rare and refreshing act of faith in children.

“The Old Guard” homes in on the act of killing, reminding us that death is deeply personal.

“Da 5 Bloods” enters at a watershed moment, reckoning with America’s chaotic present and putting it into context with the past.

The movie may paint Shirley as a tortured genius, but the movie itself rejects the myth of the tortured genius.

“The Lovebirds” is a light, noncommittal shrug of a movie, one whose main characters take a back seat to their own story (often literally, in rideshares).