Toy Story 5 Review: Pixar Still Knows How to Play
Toy Story 5 has the unenviable job of walking back into a room where the lights had already been turned...
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Toy Story 5 has the unenviable job of walking back into a room where the lights had already been turned off twice. Toy Story 3 gave Andy, Woody, Buzz, and the rest of the gang a farewell that still ranks among Pixar’s cleanest emotional landings. Toy Story 4 then gave Woody a separate ending, sending him into a new life outside Bonnie’s room. So the first question hanging over Andrew Stanton’s new sequel is simple: why return? The answer is smart enough to justify the risk. Bonnie, now eight years old, still plays with her toys, staging elaborate little dramas...

Dongnan Chen’s Whispers in May begins with movement before it offers explanation. Qihuo runs through tall grass. She plays computer games. She cooks alone in a small, smoky room, tending maize over fire with the weary competence of someone who should still be learning how to be carefree. The film does not announce her loneliness. It lets the room announce it first. Qihuo is 14, living in the Liangshan Mountains of Sichuan, where her parents have gone away as migrant workers and her grandfather has recently died. The empty family home becomes both shelter and wound. She likes being there...

Amazomania begins with the old grammar of exploration: a white man tying his boots, speaking into a camera, preparing to enter Indigenous territory as if history has granted him an appointment. Swedish journalist Erling Söderström traveled into Brazil’s Javari Valley in 1996 with Brazilian official Sidney Possuelo, whose expedition sought peaceful contact with the Korubo, one of the last communities living in isolation in the Amazon. Söderström filmed the encounter, used part of the footage in an earlier documentary, built a reputation from it, then left much of the material unseen for decades. Nathan Grossman’s film returns to that archive...

Moonsigil Atlas begins with a premise that sounds grand enough for a full cosmic RPG: three mages are drawn into a fight to protect the moon from star-eating monsters and colossal Titans. Snake Tower Games uses that setup less as a story engine than as a mood generator, letting card text, hero backstories, and enemy designs suggest a universe full of old celestial violence. That restraint works because the game knows where its strongest language lives. This is a deckbuilding roguelike on PC, published by Twin Sails Interactive, and its real poetry is spatial. It does the familiar things the...

High school comedy has always carried a faint odor of imprisonment. Lockers, bells, cafeteria hierarchies, gym floors polished to a punitive shine. Never Change! takes that old architecture seriously, then stuffs it with people old enough to have mortgages, divorces, failed bars, dead ambitions, and the weary knowledge that adulthood did not deliver the clean escape brochure. Directed by Marty Schousboe and written by John Reynolds, who also plays Sunny, the film begins with a wonderfully stupid premise: the 2008 graduating class of North Meadows High never technically finished school after a tornado cut their senior year short. Now, in...

Alex Wall and Will Sterling’s That Friend belongs to a very American comic tradition: the road-adjacent disaster comedy where private discomfort becomes public spectacle. Henry, played by Josh Brener, wants a Palm Springs weekend with Penny, played by Billie Lourd. The plan promises romance, climate-controlled escape, and maybe a clean adult conversation about where their relationship is heading. Then Paul arrives. Harvey Guillén plays Paul as the friend who treats every boundary like a locked door he can charmingly break. After his Joshua Tree plans collapse, he wedges himself into Henry and Penny’s trip, carrying a pack of drug-laced cigarettes...
Toy Story 5 has the unenviable job of walking back into a room where the lights had already been turned...
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Read moreToy Story 5 has the unenviable job of walking back into a room where the lights had already been turned off twice. Toy Story 3 gave Andy, Woody, Buzz, and...
Dongnan Chen’s Whispers in May begins with movement before it offers explanation. Qihuo runs through tall grass. She plays computer games. She cooks alone in a small, smoky room, tending...
Amazomania begins with the old grammar of exploration: a white man tying his boots, speaking into a camera, preparing to enter Indigenous territory as if history has granted him an...
Moonsigil Atlas begins with a premise that sounds grand enough for a full cosmic RPG: three mages are drawn into a fight to protect the moon from star-eating monsters and...
High school comedy has always carried a faint odor of imprisonment. Lockers, bells, cafeteria hierarchies, gym floors polished to a punitive shine. Never Change! takes that old architecture seriously, then...
Alex Wall and Will Sterling’s That Friend belongs to a very American comic tradition: the road-adjacent disaster comedy where private discomfort becomes public spectacle. Henry, played by Josh Brener, wants...
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