Mae Abdulbaki

People We Meet on Vacation is better than almost every Netflix rom-com.

Directed by Sylvain Chomet, A Magnificent Life falls short of greatness.

Widow’s Bay has excellent moments featuring comedy and horror, but it doesn’t always land.

I was dreading The Devil Wears Prada 2, and it wasn't because I didn't think I would enjoy it, but because I was worried that it, like so many other sequels, would be so bad that I'd want to forget...

The consequences of revenge have long been explored in films. If someone irreparably and unjustly harmed or killed another, does a character have a right to revenge? What does that look like? An eye for an eye might bring closure,...

The Mandalorian and Grogu is one of the most uninspired movies I've seen this year. It's less of a movie and more of a prolonged episode of television, one that comes between two big storylines in the season and serves...

Backrooms is unsettling. It gripped me in ways I wasn't immediately able to shake off. I didn't know why at first, but the longer I sat with the film, the clearer the reason became. As a society, we talk a...

John Carney's Power Ballad, starring the ever-charming Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas, is a lovely, solid return for the talented writer-director.

By Mae Abdulbaki | Film | June 19, 2026 Pixar’s most successful — and one of its more creative — franchises is back with a new installment, Toy Story 5.

By Mae Abdulbaki | Film | June 29, 2026 There are occasions when a movie is so bad that it’s almost incomprehensible how it got made to begin with.