It’s hands-down Disney’s best and punchiest prequel yet, one whose playful perils make for a deliciously rowdy ride.

It’s not the first time that the unearthly beauty of Rio has been presented as concealing an intense depravity and corruption, but here it is seen as a ceaselessly generational malignancy.

With Ilana Glazer leading an outstanding cast, False Positive is not a movie you can easily shake off in a day or two. Or three.

As in most of his television shows, Zimmern shows us just how much more alike we are than different by visiting American families from Miami to Minnesota and sampling cuisines from Creole to Italian to Cuban and everything in between.

Fear Street Part 1: 1994 is a film rich with character, world-building, Easter eggs, and scares. Horror fans will be grinning over a visual allusion, then be pulled to the edge of their seat by this slaughter-packed adventure, then catch themselves screaming at a harrowingly portrayed murder.

As true-crime, it’s an intriguing cottage-country mysteries. As offbeat comedy, it’s loopy and charming.