Daniel Howat Pro

Journalist for Next Best Picture
Las Vegas Film Critics Society

Favorite films

  • That Thing You Do!
  • (500) Days of Summer
  • La La Land
  • Her

All
  • Avengers: Age of Ultron

    ★★★½

  • Lilo & Stitch

    ★★½

  • KPop Demon Hunters

  • Guardians of the Galaxy

    ★★★★

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Lilo & Stitch

2025

★★½ Watched

Like most of Disney’s live-action remakes, Lilo & Stitch is missing the magic of the original.

The film still finds plenty of cute moments, and Stitch is as great a character as ever.

It’s all perfectly fine, but the story feels stretched a bit too thin this time around.

KPop Demon Hunters

2025

1

Embargoed

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Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

2022

★★★ 14

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness feels thrown together. Some of it works, some of it doesn’t, but it feels surprisingly bland. The story never connects emotionally, which makes it hard to care deeply.

For a multiverse movie, this felt weirdly contained, and honestly a little forgettable.

Elizabeth Olsen always shines as Wanda, and Cumberbatch has plenty to play with in these universes. There are flairs of Raimi’s style from time to time, and this is the closest we may…

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever

2022

★★★★½ Liked 8

Black Panther: Wakanda Forever is blockbuster filmmaking on another level. It sures the incredible first film with high stakes and and thrilling world-building.

The entire ensemble is phenomenal, but Tenoch Huerta bursts onto the scene with a brilliant, complex turn as Namor.

The cinematography, score, visual effects - everything is even better than before. Some of the best crafts in any Marvel film. A breath of fresh air all around.

It’s an emotional, dark journey, leading to a full-scale war, but always feels personal. This may be the best Marvel movie yet.