Alison Willmore is a Film Critic at Vulture and New York Magazine. She specializes in the film industry, filmmaking, and various aspects of arts and entertainment, including theater and consumer technology. Alison's insights and critiques have been featured in Magzter, The News International, NewsBreak, Vulture, and Slate Magazine.
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The Furious takes place in an unnamed city “somewhere in Southeast Asia,” which is as much a spiritual triangulation as a vague general location.
A Pan-Asian cast gives this attempt to bring back the glory days of Hong Kong cinema a more worldly edge.
The question of what counts as a toy in real life more or less comes down to what a kid might want to play with, but in Toy Story , the matter is existential.
Maddie's Secret is to TV movies what Far From Heaven is to Douglas Sirk — an homage to the flatly lit morality and cautionary tales of the '80s
I have a soft spot for space dirtbags, which is why I ended up liking Milly Alcock's Supergirl a lot more than I did the uninspiring new movie that's meant to be her showcase.
By: Alison Willmore
Before Minions & Monsters , I'd never seen a Minions movie. I'd never seen a Despicable Me , the movies that introduced the yellow Tic Tac–shaped henchmen to the world, either.
The Rock looks like Stretch Armstrong in Moana , a realization it took me around half of the nearly two-hour running time to come to.
Christopher Nolan is the king of the thinking man's blockbuster — the director who, for better and worse, ushered in the age of the serious superhero
This review was originally published on May 17, 2026 out of the Cannes Film Festival. We are recirculating it now timed to Sheep in the Box 's theatrical release.
Tom Holland , like Peter Parker in the new Spider-Man movie, has been dealing with some growing pains.
