Movies
Published on January 12, 2024 - Page 7
"The Teachers' Lounge" hosts an expanding web of uneasy power dynamics, mutual suspicion and misinformation, and that's just for starters.
Writer-...
Published on January 12, 2024 - Page 7
The near-future is bleak for the working class of London in "The Kitchen," a well-executed film about a familiar kind of urban dystopian nightmare....
Published on January 12, 2024 - Page 7
The bee metaphors come fast and furious in "The Beekeeper," a movie that flirts with a so-bad-it's-good vibe but is too serious to quite pull it off...
Published on January 5, 2024 - Page 8
Pain and trauma permeate Michel Franco's new drama "Memory." It's about two lost souls who find surprising comfort in one another. Both Jessica...
Published on January 5, 2024 - Page 8
"Freud's Last Session," starring Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud, adds to a string of sterling late-chapter performances by the 86-year-old actor....
Published on December 29, 2023 - Page 7
Andrew Scott plays a writer trying to pen something about his dead parents in Andrew Haigh's transcendent drama "All of Us Strangers."
His folks...
Published on December 29, 2023 - Page 7
"Oppenheimer" will get a theatrical release in Japan, after all. The Japanese distributor Bitters End recently said the Christopher Nolan film will...
Published on December 23, 2023 - Page 9
It doesn't take long to understand the level of commitment Zac Efron brings to "The Iron Claw" as Texas wrestling brother Kevin Von Erich.
It's also...
Published on December 23, 2023 - Page 9
Director George Clooney both begins and ends "The Boys in the Boat" on a sun-dappled lake. It aptly reflects the ethos of a film that often feels...
Published on December 22, 2023 - Page 7
Exuberant performances from a cast led by Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks breathe life into Blitz Bazawule's stirring "The...
Published on December 22, 2023 - Page 7
It's perhaps appropriate the latest Aquaman movie is about a lost kingdom. In many ways, this mini-franchise is just that, a Jason Momoa kingdom that...
Published on December 22, 2023 - Page 7
Director Michael Mann has put his stylish spotlight on yet one more stoic, brilliant and broken uber-masculine dude, Enzo Ferrari. The biopic is set...
Published on December 22, 2023 - Page 7
Illumination studio's latest, "Migration," centers on a father duck, Mack Mallard (Kumail Nanjiani). His fears and paranoia have kept his feathered...
Published on December 21, 2023 - Page 6
Zac Efron didn't realize how much he needed a hug.
He'd transformed himself into a mass of muscle and repressed emotion to play professional wrestler...
Published on December 15, 2023 - Page 8
The original 1971 "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" may have been a delicious dream, lined with trees of gumballs and fields of lollipops. But...
Published on December 15, 2023 - Page 8
Jeffrey Wright's Thelonious "Monk" Ellison is at the end of his rope at the beginning of "American Fiction."
It's crowd-pleaser that's both funny...
Published on December 15, 2023 - Page 8
It's just a woman trying on a fur coat alone in her room and sampling a lipstick. It's just a few friends discussing toothpaste orders over coffee in...
Published on December 8, 2023 - Page 8
Imagine it's close to midnight and there's a knock at the door of your luxurious weekend rental home. A man dressed immaculately in a tux is calmly...
Published on December 8, 2023 - Page 8
Though Bella Baxter's insatiable libido might be her guiding light at first in "Poor Things," sexual liberation is only part of this fantastical,...
Published on December 8, 2023 - Page 8
Hayao Miyazaki's "The Boy and the Heron" is loosely adapted from Genzaburo Yoshino's 1937 novel "How Do You Live?"
In the opening scenes, a boy's...
Published on December 1, 2023 - Page 8
Something strange has happened to Eileen Dunlop, and we don't just mean the plot of "Eileen." The adaptation of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh's delicious...
Published on November 24, 2023 - Page 8
Walt Disney Animation's "Wish" is stunning to look at with textured and rich watercolor-inspired animation and Easter egg treasures for audiences...
Published on November 24, 2023 - Page 8
Bradley Cooper's "Maestro," a high-wire act of a biopic, leaps constantly between on stage and off, flying through Leonard Bernstein's public life as...
Published on November 24, 2023 - Page 8
Two years ago, Emerald Fennell stood on the Oscars stage hoisting her writing trophy for "Promising Young Woman." It was a scathing look at rape...
Published on November 17, 2023 - Page 10
Ridley Scott doesn't do anything small, not even famously diminutive French emperors in "Napoleon," starring Joaquin Phoenix.
Early in the film, a...
Published on November 17, 2023 - Page 10
There is hardly a false note in "May December, " a self-aware, mischievously funny and emotionally complex drama.
Filmmaker Todd Haynes is working...
Published on November 17, 2023 - Page 10
Aki Kaurism?ki's "Fallen Leaves," short, sweet and utterly delightful, is so charming you want to run it back the moment it's over.
Bleak as Kaurism?...
Published on November 17, 2023 - Page 10
In writer-director Taika Waititi's "Next Goal Wins," a soccer coach comes from far away to lead a hapless group of athletes.
"Next Goal Wins" stars...
Published on November 10, 2023 - Page 8
The stakes feel immensely low in "The Marvels." Somewhere along way, Marvel movies just stopped feeling like events. And this galactic trifle from...