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The Predators are back, and it's up to a group of former soldiers and a biologist to save the world.

The ’80s had its fair share of movies where huge men, guns, explosions, homoerotic undertones and quite a bit of steroids all collided in a cacophony of m...

★★☆☆☆ Shane Black returns to the series he co-wrote in 1987, now in the director’s chair, for this fourth instalment in the Predator franchise....

He and Fred Dekker get stupid with a franchise that's been starving for stupidity.

Shane Black’s The Predator doesn’t have just one dreadlocked space invader with a nightmarish genital-looking mouth, it has a whole posse's worth of them.

The first “Predator” movie took place in the jungle. The sequel was set in the inner city.…

Spoiler alert: it doesn't find one.

Can Shane Black revive the franchise?

Shane Black directs this fourth take on the Predator franchise. Read the Empire review.

The movie, starring Sterling K. Brown, Boyd Holbrook, Jacob Tremblay, Olivia Munn, and more, opens Friday.

Black’s typically tangy showcase for one f-word brings to mind others: fast, furious, fun… and somewhat forgettable.

Shane Black upgrades the 20th Century Fox franchise with a new cast and a new monster in 'The Predator,' which world premiered as the opener of Toronto's Mid...

You can see what Shane Black was going for with his latest Hollywood sequel, but this compromised mess is the first bad film of his career.

More than once in “The Predator,” a slicked-up, snarked-out piece of action-comedy bloodletting from the writer-director Shane Black, the characters paus...

This continuation of the Predator series from writer-director Shane Black starts out well and then peters out. Too bad: I was in its grip for a long time. ...

The new, giant predator introduced in 'The Predator' is a better character than villain.

Director/co-writer Shane Black's attempt to infuse snappy dialogue and dark humor into the alien-hunter franchise works until it, suddenly, doesn't. Blame a ...

In 1987’s “Predator,” Shane Black played Hawkins, the first person in the movie to be killed. Now he’s the director of the latest sequel, called “T...

Parody and fan service take precedence in this new entry in the franchise, starring Boyd Holbrook and Olivia Munn. Shane Black directed.

The Predator is bad, and not even in the fun way.

Predator is one ofthose tired franchises that Hollywood simply won’t give up on. Maybe a boxoffice bonanza will justify Fox’s faith but this sixth entry ...

With a fantastic cast and razor-sharp pacing, the fact is that this is what you want from a movie called The Predator.

'The Predator' gets a much needed transfusion courtesy of writer-director Shane Black — but it's still a franchise-first movie. Our review.

This sci-fi action reboot has good performances and effects, but a weak script and a strange depiction of autism

Director and co-writer Shane Black stirs together Guardians of the Galaxy (what if our supergroup was a bunch of damaged misfits?) Split (what if so-called m...

The classic ’80s horror franchise with a new director, new stars, and a new take on the Predator.

Shane Black's reboot of the 1987 creature feature franchise

Damn you, John Travolta. This desperate attempt to reboot the 1987, Rasta-Alien-hunts-humans classic fails partly because Travolta wore dreads in the dire Ba...

The new Predator spin-off may be missing Arnie Schwarzenegger but not the raucous action comedy.

Shane Black’s entry into the long-running sci-fi franchise is too chaotic for its own good.

Writer Shane Black had a good year in 1987. He burst onto the action screenwriting scene with Lethal Weapon, co-wrote the cult classic children versus Univer...

We watched them and rated them, now read all about them. The Globe’s critics reviewed a wide selection of films screening at TIFF 2018 so you’ll know whi...

Master of the '80s action film, Shane Black takes the reins of a beloved franchise and does it right with "The Predator."

Shane Black tries to bring the franchise back to life and doesn’t quite get there

The worst movie in the "Predator" series that doesn't have the words "Alien vs." in the title

'The Predator' brings back an old sci-fi franchise that's gory, funny and sometimes clever but makes some head-scratching decisions.

Shane Black's reboot of a franchise he once acted in is loud, energetic, and near-senseless.

Shane Black's reboot of a franchise he once acted in is loud, energetic, and near-senseless.

The casting of a sex offender led to even more haphazard editing in a movie overstuffed with bad trims.

Contrary to what the trailer and posters suggest, it’s a barrage of bad jokes.

It throws enough at you to keep you distracted from seeing all the marks it’s not quite hitting.

The Predator guts and slashes its way to gory sci-fi mediocrity, but is further failed by abysmal pacing that loses characters, subplots and interest along t...