Jumanji: The Next Level Is Fun but Familiar
Plus, Richard Jewell is well-crafted, Bombshell is only mildly explosive, Black Christmas is a mixed bag, and Uncut Gems is Certified Fresh.
This week at the movies, we’ve got a video game adventure (Jumanji: The Next Level, starring Dwayne Johnson and Jack Black), a persecuted hero (Richard Jewell, starring Paul Walter Hauser and Sam Rockwell), a man in serious debt (Uncut Gems, starring Adam Sandler and Julia Fox), a real-life scandal (Bombshell, starring Charlize Theron and Nicole Kidman), and a horror remake (Black Christmas, starring Imogen Poots and Aleyse Shannon). What are the critics saying?
Also Opening This Week In Limited Release
- , starring Karen Allen in a drama about a small-town mail clerk who must reexamine her life when the post office where she works announces it’s closing, is at 100%.
- , an action thriller set in a world where a superpowered minority of the population is persecuted as outcasts, is at 83%.
- , Terrence Malick‘s drama about Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who refused to fight for the Nazis in World War II, is at 76%.
- , a documentary profile of influential avant-garde dance choreographer Merce Cunningham’s decades-spanning career, is at 73%.
- , a horror film about a woman who undergoes an experimental procedure after an accident, only to discover she is patient zero for a violent, rapidly spreading disease, is at 67%.
- , starring Kristen Stewart in a drama about actress Jean Seberg‘s brushes with the law over her political activisim in the 1960s, is at 44%.
- , starring Jacob Tremblay and Kit Harington in a drama about the written correspondence between a young boy and the actor he idolizes, is at 17%.




