Movies
Published on September 13, 2024 - Page 15
Has there ever been a horror film set in a country home with a decent cell signal?
There's no signal at Paddy and Ciara's house, either, deep in the...
Published on September 13, 2024 - Page 15
The arts rarely have anything good to say about critics. They're not generally the hero of many stories. More often they're portrayed as joyless,...
Published on September 13, 2024 - Page 15
They say tripping on psychedelic mushrooms triggers hallucinations, anxiety, paranoia and nervousness. In the case of Elliott, an 18-year-old...
Published on September 6, 2024 - Page 12
"I have global entry!"
Now, does that sound like a funny line? Of course it doesn't.
But put it in the mouth of comedy goddess Catherine O'Hara, and...
Published on September 6, 2024 - Page 12
"Rebel Ridge" opens with a shot of a lanky, muscular stranger riding into a small, corrupt Southern town. It's a scene we've all seen plenty of times...
Published on August 30, 2024 - Page 15
"Is there anything worse than an actor with a cause?" asks an annoyed Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan's first wife, early in "Reagan," the new biopic...
Published on August 23, 2024 - Page 11
At the beginning of Zo? Kravitz's "Blink Twice," her tech-mogul protagonist, Slater King, sits on a TV couch and says "I'm sorry" for some...
Published on August 23, 2024 - Page 11
In his attempt to give new life to "The Crow," director Rupert Sanders has given us plenty of beauty at the expense of depth or coherence.
The...
Published on August 23, 2024 - Page 11
In Nathan Silver's "Between the Temples," Jason Schwartzman plays a grieving cantor who can't sing anymore. He finds a strange kinship with a much...
Published on August 16, 2024 - Page 7
"In space, no one can hear you scream," went the tagline for the original "Alien" in 1979.
Sigourney Weaver's Ripley became the last one standing...
Published on August 16, 2024 - Page 7
In Paul Feig's "Jackpot!," buying a lottery ticket enters you a chance to win billions. But there's a catch.
Everyone else is free to try to kill the...
Published on August 16, 2024 - Page 7
"The Union," an action comedy with Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry, should have been more fun. Or more exciting. It certainly had a lot working in its...
Published on August 16, 2024 - Page 7
A group of incarcerated fathers are warned in the documentary "Daughters" they're about to go on "emotional roller coasters."
In the film, directed...
Published on August 9, 2024 - Page 7
There are a lot of strange things happening at an Alpine resort in "Cuckoo." The place is run by a bespectacled German hotelier named Herr K?nig,...
Published on August 9, 2024 - Page 7
Lily Bloom and Ryle Kincaid don't really meet-cute. On a rooftop in Boston, he announces himself by angrily kicking a patio chair. She's there trying...
Published on August 9, 2024 - Page 7
A 17-year-old's perception of her father is forever altered on a three-day backpacking trip in India Donaldson's excellent debut "Good One."...
Published on August 3, 2024 - Page 17
In our spoiler-phobic culture, movie trailers don't often offer a lot of information. It's even dangerous territory for a critic to discuss too many...
Published on August 2, 2024 - Page 8
"Harold and the Purple Crayon," the famed 1955 children's picture book, is getting the three-dimensional treatment nearly 70 years after its release...
Published on August 2, 2024 - Page 8
Though depression lurks around the edges of "The Instigators," Doug Liman's heist movie is a loosely amiable return to South Boston for Matt Damon...
Published on July 26, 2024 - Page 8
If one thing is certain about "Deadpool," its titular hero understands his place in the world.
From its inception, the "Deadpool" franchise has...
Published on July 26, 2024 - Page 8
Whoever thought to open the third-act female friendship comedy "The Fabulous Four" alongside "Deadpool & Wolverine" deserves a raise. Because if...
Published on July 26, 2024 - Page 8
Coming-of-age films are nothing new. We’ve seen the awkwardness, the raucous, lewd humor and the emotional complexity that accompanies teen years on...
Published on July 19, 2024 - Page 7
In the promo for "Twisters," actors Daisy Edgar-Jones, Glen Powell and Anthony Ramos are standing in front a massive, menacing cyclone. It contains...
Published on July 19, 2024 - Page 7
The force is not strong in "Skywalkers: A Love Story."
It's a shallow "Man on Wire" for social media influencers about a pair of Russian daredevils...
Published on July 12, 2024 - Page 12
"Fly Me to the Moon" is better than it looks.
The space race rom-com is about a straight-laced NASA man and the Madison Avenue marketing savant...
Published on July 12, 2024 - Page 12
Few symbols herald straight hypermasculinity quite like horses do.
In Luke Gilford's "National Anthem," 21-year-old Dylan (a phenomenal Charlie...
Published on July 12, 2024 - Page 12
A chilling, half-remembered encounter from childhood looms over "Longlegs," Osgood Perkins' stylishly composed 1990s-set horror film. It's about a...
Published on July 12, 2024 - Page 12
"Sing Sing" follows the path of amateur actors as they come together to put on a play in front of a captive audience.
The movie is set inside a...
Published on July 5, 2024 - Page 8
Since they emerged in the original "Despicable Me" in 2010, the Minions have marauded through movie theaters with impunity, spawning a franchise that...
Published on July 5, 2024 - Page 8
Judge Reinhold is in a truck barreling down the highway chased by angry cops when he turns to Eddie Murphy and says something we're all feeling: "God...