Movies

Published on March 15, 2024 - Page 7
The new Mark Wahlberg movie "Arthur the King" is rather generic -- an underdog story that hits the expected beats. Wahlberg plays an adventure racer...
Published on March 15, 2024 - Page 7
By the time Nicholas Winton died in 2015 at 106, the former London stockbroker and self-proclaimed "ordinary man" had been widely recognized for his...
Published on March 8, 2024 - Page 8
"Kung Fu Panda 4" finds our hero Po at a career crossroads and he's nervous. "Change doesn't have to be a bad thing," he is told. "Kung Fu Panda 4"...
Published on March 8, 2024 - Page 8
Muscles ripple, veins pop and electronic music throbs in “Love Lies Bleeding.” It’s a heaving, hyper-sexy neo-noir drenched in sweat, blood and bug...
Published on March 8, 2024 - Page 8
LOS ANGELES -- When director Peter Farrelly set out to make what became the genre-defining rom-com "There's Something About Mary" more than 25 years...
Published on March 4, 2024 - Page 2
1789: The Constitution of the United States went into effect as the first Federal Congress met in New York. (The lawmakers then adjourned for lack of...
Published on March 1, 2024 - Page 8
LOS ANGELES -- Timothee Chalamet and Austin Butler were really looking forward to their fight. The actors had been training separately with a Kali...
Published on March 1, 2024 - Page 8
The hero of "Problemista" sees the world differently. He's an aspiring toy designer named Alejandro who thinks today's toys are too fun. He proposes...
Published on March 1, 2024 - Page 8
Noora Niasari's delicately moving "Shayda" puts the viewer in the shoes of an Iranian woman in Australia living in a women's shelter with her 6-year-...
Published on March 1, 2024 - Page 8
When Adam Sandler, as Czech astronaut Jakub in Johan Renck's "Spaceman," is asked if he's lonely, he answers in platitudes but his eyes betray the...
Published on February 23, 2024 - Page 7
Three firm thumps into the Arrakis sand is all you need to summon a sandworm in Denis Villeneuve's "Dune: Part Two." The big buggers can't resist the...
Published on February 23, 2024 - Page 7
The script for "Drive-Away Dolls" was written two decades ago. There's a sought-after briefcase, odd-couple thugs on the hunt for it and innocents...
Published on February 23, 2024 - Page 7
At the end of "Ordinary Angels," we're given now-see-how-it-really-happened moments with real footage mirroring the climax of the film. That's a good...
Published on February 16, 2024 - Page 7
There is a lot of pretty niche comic book mythology swirling around "Madame Web," the inspiration for the newest of Sony's "Spider-Man" spinoffs....
Published on February 16, 2024 - Page 7
Bob Marley was born in 1945, the son of an 18-year-old mother and a much older White man who had nothing to do with his son. As a boy raised in...
Published on February 9, 2024 - Page 8
"The Taste of Things" should come with a warning: Audiences may be tempted to abandon work and start a new life in the French countryside devoted to...
Published on February 9, 2024 - Page 8
"Lisa Frankenstein" is a real monster. The movie is stitched together from previous movies, painfully incoherent and deeply, deeply dumb. This is a...
Published on February 9, 2024 - Page 8
For a piercing refresher lesson on democracy, one wouldn't necessarily think of rural Bhutan as the first place to look. For one thing, democratic...
Published on February 9, 2024 - Page 8
Moana and Maui are sailing back to the big screen, very quickly. "Moana 2" is coming to theaters in November, Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger said...
Published on February 6, 2024 - Page 6
Wim Wenders' "Perfect Days" is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks Hirayama (K?ji Yakusho) traverses daily in his...
Published on February 2, 2024 - Page 7
A checkered mesh of mysteries have accompanied the release of Matthew Vaughn's "Argylle." Who is the "real" Agent Argylle? Why two Ls? Criss-...
Published on February 2, 2024 - Page 7
To say the hero of Netflix's new animated movie "Orion and the Dark" is fearful is an understatement. Orion, 11, is scared of clogging the school...
Published on February 2, 2024 - Page 7
"How to Have Sex" is a stylish, assured and moving debut from writer-director Molly Manning Walker. It's about a girl, Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce), and...
Published on January 26, 2024 - Page 8
Jenna Ortega's stark rise as Gen Z's goth-glam princess takes a pointless, awkward turn in "Miller's Girl." It's a romantic horror movie about...
Published on January 19, 2024 - Page 8
Words like "important" and "vital" are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. When watching and reviewing good films in real...
Published on January 19, 2024 - Page 8
After decades when fears of mutual destruction and nuclear fallout filtered into movies from "Fail Safe" to "WarGames," anxiety over current Russian-...
Published on January 12, 2024 - Page 7
The first "Mean Girls" by Tina Fey came out in 2004. The Broadway musical opened in 2018. Now it's 2024, and we have a screen adaptation of the...
Published on January 12, 2024 - Page 7
Somewhere between the sacred and profane, comedy, drama and satire comes "The Book of Clarence." It's a retelling of The Greatest Story Ever Told. It...
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....