Movies
Published on November 21, 2025 - Page 8
There is nothing particularly grand about Robert Grainier's existence. The main character of "Train Dreams," portrayed by a bearded, contemplative...
Published on November 21, 2025 - Page 8
Reality and fiction beautifully weave in and out in "Jay Kelly," director Noah Baumbach's love letter to Hollywood.
The script by Baumbach and Emily...
Published on November 14, 2025 - Page 8
Ten years or so between installments of a successful Hollywood franchise is a lifetime. When it comes to the third "Now You See Me" movie -- poof...
Published on November 14, 2025 - Page 8
In Stephen King's 1982 novel "The Running Man," the United States has fallen into a totalitarian state, divided between haves and have-nots, where...
Published on November 7, 2025 - Page 5
Lynne Ramsay's "Die My Love" is a jagged, go-for-broke psychodrama starring Jennifer Lawrence as an increasingly unhinged new mother and Robert...
Published on November 7, 2025 - Page 8
The Nuremberg trials have inspired filmmakers before. For the latest take, "Nuremberg," writer-director James Vanderbilt focuses on a lesser-known...
Published on November 7, 2025 - Page 8
Joachim Trier's "Sentimental Value" is about life in the arts, fulfillment and forgiveness, stories true and falsely remembered, home, trauma and...
Published on November 7, 2025 - Page 8
Any time a notable figure of the French New Wave is introduced in Richard Linklater's "Nouvelle Vague," we're treated to a momentary straight-on shot...
Published on November 7, 2025 - Page 8
Elle Fanning delivers one of the most disjointed performances of the year in "Predator: Badlands." She spends the majority of the movie in two pieces...
Published on November 7, 2025 - Page 9
"Christy," directed by David Mich?d, begins as a solid sports biopic, the based-on-true-events story of boxer Christy Martin (played by Sydney...
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...