Movies
Published on October 31, 2025 - Page 20
The twisted filmography of Yorgos Lanthimos has trained us to expect darkly comic visions of contemporary life.
His latest, "Bugonia," is...
Published on October 31, 2025 - Page 20
Written by William Gillies, filmmaker Babak Anvari's "Hallow Road" is the kind of minimalistic thriller that knows sometimes all you need to do is...
Published on October 24, 2025 - Page 19
In his 500-page memoir, "Born to Run," Bruce Springsteen spends fewer than three pages on the making of his 1982 album "Nebraska."
But the first...
Published on October 24, 2025 - Page 19
Hedda Gabler, one of the theater's great schemers, is transported to 1950s England in Nia DaCosta's deliriously fun, intelligent and impassioned spin...
Published on October 24, 2025 - Page 19
Colleen Hoover's "Regretting You," a tragicomic intergenerational romance adapted by Susan McMartin, has its share of grief. But the strange way the...
Published on October 17, 2025 - Page 14
By MARK KENNEDY
AP Entertainment Writer
The mundane act of a car breaking down in Iran sets in motion one of the most moving movies of the year in “...
Published on October 17, 2025 - Page 14
Not far into Kelly Reichardt's "The Mastermind," the title's irony becomes painfully clear.
Because J.B. Mooney, the mediocre art thief played by...
Published on October 17, 2025 - Page 15
Guillermo del Toro has been telling monster stories for as long as he's been making films. A romantic with keen appreciation for the macabre, his...
Published on October 17, 2025 - Page 15
One senses Linda, the overburdened mom embodied by Rose Byrne in Mary Bronstein's "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You," is nobody's priority.
She's certainly...
Published on October 17, 2025 - Page 15
Richard Linklater's "Blue Moon," about lyricist Lorenz "Larry" Hart, takes place at Sardi's, in New York, on March 31, 1943. Down the street, "...
Published on October 17, 2025 - Page 15
Aziz Ansari's "Good Fortune" is about wealth disparity and the shackles of the gig economy. Ansari, who wrote, directed and stars, is attempting...
Published on October 10, 2025 - Page 20
Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite" is an urgent, if heavy-handed nuclear wake-up call.
Words across the screen open the film, noting global...
Published on October 10, 2025 - Page 20
"Tron: Ares" is the third entry in a cult franchise somewhat trapped between the human and digital worlds.
Ride-or-die Tron-iacs are going to need...
Published on October 10, 2025 - Page 20
Luca Guadagnino's "After the Hunt" is set among a well-educated, self-involved class. It takes place around Yale University. His cocktail party...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 15
Benny Safdie's "The Smashing Machine" would seem to bear all the hallmarks of something grittier, darker and more disturbing than it is.
It's the...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 15
Filmmaker Raoul Peck uses George Orwell's writings to weave together a biographical portrait of the author and a dispiriting picture of power and...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 15
It is often said our greatest actors could compellingly recite the phone book.
There's no doubt Daniel Day-Lewis is one of our greatest living actors...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 15
HOLLYWOOD (AP) -- Aaron Sorkin is diving back into Facebook with a "Social Network" follow-up featuring Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg and a newly...
Published on September 26, 2025 - Page 13
There is a lovely story of friendship, grief and starting over at the heart of "Eleanor the Great." The film, directed by Scarlett Johansson in her...
Published on September 26, 2025 - Page 13
There's something about Laura Sharp and Simon Tavistock. Close friends since college, they share jokes no one else understands and instinctively know...
Published on September 19, 2025 - Page 11
Early on in "Adulthood," siblings Meg and Noah Robles learn why they never got to have a dog growing up.
There was a body walled up in the basement....
Published on September 19, 2025 - Page 11
Political struggles never die in Paul Thomas Anderson's gloriously messy "One Battle After Another."
Paranoid, pot-smoking, pajama-wearer Bob...
Published on September 19, 2025 - Page 11
On Nov. 8, 2018, the day the Camp Fire burned the town of Paradise, California, and killed 85 people, a school bus driver was sent to pick up 22...
Published on September 12, 2025 - Page 11
Change comes slowly to the Downton Abbey universe and its Crawley family. Just watch Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville) go flat-hunting in London.
It's...
Published on September 12, 2025 - Page 11
"The History of Sound" finds Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor in a romantic affair. It's a lyrical meditation on fleeting first love and the questions...
Published on September 12, 2025 - Page 11
In an early scene from "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues," the obtuse Nigel Tufnel asks his wife a question after he and his bandmates have reunited...
Published on September 5, 2025 - Page 11
"The Conjuring: Last Rites" seems to finally nail the coffin shut, saying goodbye to a series that revels in timeless scary stuff -- swing sets that...
Published on September 5, 2025 - Page 11
James Sweeney never had a twin, though he wanted one. The filmmaker dreamed of a having a twin that would serve as a kind of built-in best friend....
Published on September 5, 2025 - Page 11
Director Jay Duplass' "Baltimorons" is one of those little movies you might stumble across and be surprised it hooks you. It does so despite -- or...
Published on August 29, 2025 - Page 6
In "The Thursday Murder Club," an amiable, cozy, pleasantly entertaining adaptation of Richard Osman's mystery novel, the lucky club members live in...