Movies
Published on November 15, 2024 - Page 8
Rome teeters on the brink in Ridley Scott's "Gladiator II." Its fall is said to be imminent. The dream it once symbolized is dead. The once high-...
Published on November 15, 2024 - Page 8
The rhythms of bustling, working-class Mumbai are brought to life in "All We Imagine as Light." The stunning narrative debut of filmmaker Payal...
Published on November 15, 2024 - Page 8
Ah, the Christmas movie. That cozy perennial pastime where -- let's just pick one scene from "Red One" -- Dwayne Johnson, playing Santa's body guard...
Published on November 8, 2024 - Page 8
"Heretic" opens with two young missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are discussing condoms and why some are labeled as...
Published on November 8, 2024 - Page 8
An heirloom piano takes on immense significance for one family in 1936 Pittsburgh in August Wilson's "The Piano Lesson."
Malcolm Washington follows...
Published on November 8, 2024 - Page 8
"Is it too real for ya?" blares in the background of Andrea Arnold's latest film, "Bird," a 12-year-old Bailey (Nykiya Adams) rides with her...
Published on November 1, 2024 - Page 17
Nicholas Hoult was certain someone had made a mistake.
Clint Eastwood wanted to talk to him about starring his new film. It's a slow burn legal...
Published on November 1, 2024 - Page 20
Robert Zemeckis' latest movie is insanely ambitious, starting with the dinosaurs and ending in present day with the Roomba. But it's fixed on just...
Published on November 1, 2024 - Page 20
Writer-director Jesse Eisenberg's "A Real Pain" is a remarkably accomplished film about mismatched cousins on a somber trip through Poland.
It also...
Published on November 1, 2024 - Page 20
"Blitz," set in London during World War II, might technically be Steve McQueen's first war movie.
His films tend to ask questions -- often...
Published on November 1, 2024 - Page 20
There is so much going on in "Emilia Perez," the audacious musical/melodrama/crime-thriller from filmmaker Jacques Audiard, it's impossible not to...
Published on October 25, 2024 - Page 19
For three films, Tom Hardy has smushed Jekyll and Hyde into one strange and slimy double act. In a Marvel universe filled with alter egos, his...
Published on October 25, 2024 - Page 19
It's not your typical stop-motion film when characters name pets after Sylvia Plath.
That's just one of the unique things about Adam Elliot's "Memoir...
Published on October 25, 2024 - Page 19
In Edward Berger's "Conclave," the selection of the pope is no holy affair. Instead, it's a petty, political campaign carried out in secrecy, where...
Published on October 18, 2024 - Page 15
Anna Kendrick's "Woman of the Hour" is a chilling, based-on-a-true-story drama about a 1970s serial killer who appeared on an episode of "The Dating...
Published on October 18, 2024 - Page 15
In Sean Baker's "Anora," Ani (Mikey Madison), as she likes to be called, an exotic dancer from Brighton Beach, gets paired with a young man, Ivan (...
Published on October 18, 2024 - Page 15
In an early scene in "Smile 2," the fictional pop superstar Skye Riley is in her drug dealer's apartment. "Do you believe in weird stuff?" he asks...
Published on October 18, 2024 - Page 15
"Saturday Night Live" is entering its 50th year. So it's appropriate Jason Reitman's big-screen ode, "Saturday Night," should arrive to remind us of...
Published on October 11, 2024 - Page 15
A movie documentary that uses only Lego pieces might seem an unconventional choice. When that documentary is about renowned musician-producer...
Published on October 11, 2024 - Page 15
Decades before he hosted "The Apprentice," Donald Trump was one.
His mentor: Roy Cohn, the ruthless attorney who was a prominent New York power...
Published on October 11, 2024 - Page 15
It's not hard to spend a few hours watching Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield fall and be in love. In "We Live in Time," filmmaker John Crowley puts...
Published on October 11, 2024 - Page 15
NEW YORK -- The Jonathan Majors-starring bodybuilder drama "Magazine Dreams" has been acquired for theatrical release after it was dropped following...
Published on October 4, 2024 - Page 15
Let’s put on a happy face, at least to start, for “Joker: Folie ? Deux.” If there’s one undeniably compelling thing about both Todd Phillips’...
Published on October 4, 2024 - Page 15
Saoirse Ronan gives one of her finest performances in "The Outrun." She plays a 29-year-old biology student named Rona who is battling alcoholism....
Published on October 4, 2024 - Page 15
It's never a bad time for stories celebrating acts of kindness. In "White Bird," the act is quite significant: A family in Nazi-occupied France...
Published on October 4, 2024 - Page 15
NEW YORK (AP) -- Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis, 26....
Published on September 29, 2024 - Page 20
The seasonal differences of the movie calendar have eroded a little bit with time. Neither of the last two Oscar juggernauts -- "Oppenheimer," "...
Published on September 27, 2024 - Page 15
In the opening scenes of "The Wild Robot," a chirpy metal android with a state-of-the-art processing unit wanders around a forest asking animals if...
Published on September 27, 2024 - Page 15
Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" is a sprawling, operatic, clumsy and fascinating film that should inspire discussions for many years to come.
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Published on September 27, 2024 - Page 15
"Rez Ball" is the latest inspirational youth sports movie. There's a lot you can predict. But that doesn't mean your heart won't be caught up in this...