Adam Wingard

Hooooooo!

The action delivers. The rest does not.

(The human characters, not so much.)

Director Adam Wingard says the actors are “on board” as long as they approve of the script.

Our faces just melted off out of pure shock.

Adam Wingard will direct.

The Japanese trailer shows the hometown hero fighting back.

It’s a blockbuster brawl for monster supremacy.

One of the fun parts of film criticism is trying to identify which blockbuster movies that open to middling reviews will undergo a critical re-appreciation in the years to come. For example, while audiences were generally disappointed with Ridley Scott’s Prometheus on its release, the movie has slowly gained steam with critics, becoming something of an under-the-wire classic in the last few years. And now, just a few months after the release of Kong: Skull Island, there are already those who have argued that its unique aesthetic makes it one of the better action movies of the year.

In Netflix’s ‘Death Note,’ Nat Wolff plays Light Turner, a high schooler who discovers a mysterious notebook that gives him the power to kill anybody.