Despite its namesake, and the slick style portrayed in its trailer, the film is only about high-stakes poker on surface level. More than anything, it’s the character study of a broken man and a critique on the inhumanity of military interrogation in the Iraq War.

It is the job of actors and directors to take characters that exist on a page and bring them to life. However, the people charged with performing a character’s story always leave something behind;...

After 16 years without a real break from Spider-Man, you’d think that we’d be sick of the Web-Head by now. That’s why it amazes me just how Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse manages to be one of the best movies based on the character we’ve ever had.