All articles by Kim Newman

Doctor Strange in The Multiverse of Madness: An inventive trip through the Marvel universe

Morbius has all the signs of a troubled film production

The Batman is a muted, early-in-the-career superhero story with a narrow emotional register

Nightmare Alley: Guillermo del Toro returns with a creepy carnival noir

Spider-Man: No Way Home offers a satisfying trip through the multiverse

Venom: Let There Be Carnage serves up a strangely affecting superhero sequel

No Time to Die brings Daniel Craig’s tenure as Bond to a disappointing end

Boys from County Hell reawakens a bloodthirsty beast under an Irish bypass

The Suicide Squad regroups its gang of DC supervillains for a US cover-up mission

Settlers fights for its life on Mars

Old washes up on the sands of time

Black Widow fails to balance low key pseudo-familial bickering with CGI-smashing action

Loki confronts the God of Mischief with alternative versions of himself

Freaky puts a horror villain into the final girl’s shoes

Fast & Furious 9 may be nonsensical, but it has heart

Fatima witnesses a holy apparition in wartime

Vile VHS: unspooling the history of the ‘video nasty’ controversy

Cruel Britannia: six British ‘video nasties’

The Night fills a haunted hotel with manifestations of migrant paranoia

Godzilla vs. Kong is a giant alpha-male roughhouse

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier keeps Captain America’s special friends in harness

WandaVision presents a bold, old-school spin on Marvel stalwarts

A Ghost Waits joins the ranks of classic supernatural romances

Sweet Home is a Korean horror fantasy uncannily of its moment

Remake/remodel: 45 weird and wonderful alternative film cuts

The Queen’s Gambit is an intoxicating chess thriller

Planet terror: the horror of 2020

His House gives a displaced couple no happy home