There was plenty of hesitation going into Toy Story 4. After a near-perfect finale with Toy Story 3, was a fourth film in the franchise really necessary? Would it hold up to the standards of the franchise or would it be a less-than-stellar note to end the series on?

For a movie that tackles such big ideas, Late Night ends up feeling pretty lightweight. Still, it's a super enjoyable watch.

Charlie Says might not be the best depiction of the time in which Charles Manson terrorized the west coast, but it does bring a new light to the women that fell victim to his "charms."

Marvel and DC have dished out film after film over the past 10 years, hoping to achieve billion-dollar success. However, neither film house had given fans a substantial representation of women and people of color until Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther. Julia Hart’s new film, Fast Color, aims to change that with actress Gugu Mbatha-Raw as super powered woman on the run in the west, thus giving moviegoers something no film is giving us right now: superpowered Black women.

Jezebel is a sparkling debut for director/screenwriter Numa Perrier, which its SXSW premiere crowd acknowledged enthusiastically. The film deals with themes many will find unsettling. That’s unfortunate, because there's no reason to be uncomfortable with sex work.

This wickedly smart breakout hit of SXSW proves you don’t need to reinvent the wheel to create honest, sincere cinema.

Teen Spirit, Max Minghella’s debut feature at SXSW, isn’t unlike anything you’ve seen before, narratively or aesthetically. Themes of youth and fame come up, wrapped in visuals akin to Nicholas Windin Refn’s The Neon Demon, and while Elle Fanning pours her heart into every performance, neither that, the film’s stylish visuals, nor boisterous pop songs could save it from ultimately being hollow.

It was always going to be difficult for The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part to live up to the original, if for no other reason than that the first movie took us by total surprise, setting our expectations high for the sequel. And while this movie may not be as smart or subversive as its predecessor, it does still have those qualities in abundance. (It's also, arguably, just as funny.)

Dan Gilroy has gotten his old gang back together for Velvet Buzzsaw, now out on Netflix, and while it's definitely no Nightcrawler, it's certainly a worthwhile and wholly unique experience.

Wives in fiction are fascinating to examine, because too often they fall into set tropes.

You may have been hoping that M. Night Shyamalan would return to his former brilliance with Glass. That's not the case, and it's really disappointing.

The film functioned as a reverse Mirror of Erised, showing me only things I desperately did not want.

Widows is the best film I've seen all year, hands down. It might be one of the best films I've seen period.

Thanks to Can You Ever Forgive Me? and Melissa McCarthy, the massive void of great female anti-heroes is a little less empty.

The Hate U Give is a must-watch film for everyone.

We answer the question: Do Venom and Eddie Brock actually make out in this film?

I had no idea what to expect when I walked in to see Assassination Nation, but leaving the theater, I turned to my friend and said, "This generation finally has its Heathers."