Ryan Syrek

My dad, a self-professed disaster-movie hound, wanted to go see Greenland 2: Migration. He had missed the original Greenland, given that it was released during the hot COVID summer of 2020. He asked me, quite sincerely, if he needed to see the first film ... See more

The holiday season has everything: peace, joy, and the soul-crushing pressure associated with gift-giving and the litany of obligatory seasonal social engagements. More than the first two, that last one explains why you are once again getting a brief roun... See more

What makes a film epic is the scope and scale, not simply a running time long enough to conceive, gestate, and deliver a baby elephant. Each successive Avatar has been identical to its predecessor in every way but length: each is longer than the one befor... See more

At nearly three hours, and with a deliberate pace that makes you feel most of those minutes, The Secret Agent isn’t a breezy watch. It is a dense cinematic tome, offering universal observations about life under authoritarianism (it’s bad!) and specific cr... See more

Before we get into Shakespeare in Love 2: Shakespeare Is Sad, two quick things. First, I have recently had multiple fairly intense conversations about whether the point of a reviewer (me) is to tell people (you) whether a movie is objectively good. That i... See more