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Published on December 9, 2022 - Page 11
It comes as some relief Antoine Fuqua's "Emancipation," starring Will Smith as a runaway slave in Civil War-era Louisiana, is not an Oscar movie....
Published on December 9, 2022 - Page 11
In one of the more effective moments of "Spoiler Alert," the camera leaves the room. At the very moment a dining-table conversation becomes...
Published on December 9, 2022 - Page 11
Olivia Colman plays the manager of a movie theater in Sam Mendes' "Empire of Light." It's a cinema palace in a small town on England's south coast....
Published on December 2, 2022 - Page 8
The holiday season is upon us and how better to celebrate than watching Santa slip several pool balls into a Christmas stocking, swing them in the...
Published on December 2, 2022 - Page 8
Elegance Bratton is certainly not the first person to turn to the military to fill a hole in his life. But the filmmaker also knew he had a boot camp...
Published on December 2, 2022 - Page 8
A gentle and mournful spell is cast by Joanna Hogg's "The Eternal Daughter."
The film begins enchantingly with fog drifting through barren tree...
Published on December 2, 2022 - Page 18
The lovely and magnetic Emma Corrin plays a beaming bride at the start of "Lady Chatterley's Lover." It's a new adaptation of the once-scandalous...
Published on November 26, 2022 - Page 18
Is Searcher Clade the most millennial dad in all of animated moviedom? He has that telltale hipster beard. A sensitive voice sorta like Jake...
Published on November 26, 2022 - Page 18
Glen Powell kicks off "Devotion" with an entrance that's pure cocksure, smirking golden boy, a replay of his earlier role as Jake "Hangman" Seresin...
Published on November 26, 2022 - Page 18
"The Son" will leave you shaken and deeply moved.
Writer-director Florian Zeller's second installment in his trilogy examining mental health is an...
Published on November 25, 2022 - Page 8
Zombies had a good run. Now, it seems to be cannibals' turn for their bite at the apple.
Luca Guadagnino's "Bones and All" gives them that, and more...
Published on November 25, 2022 - Page 8
"Knives Out" was Rian Johnson's love letter to and send-up of Agatha Christie-style whodunnits. Netflix paid $450 million for two follow-ups to his...
Published on November 25, 2022 - Page 8
Like Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, the heart of Noah Baumbach's "White Noise" is in the supermarket. In the gleaming aisles of neatly arranged cereal...
Published on November 18, 2022 - Page 18
"What are we eating? A Rolex?"
So quips Margot (Anya Taylor-Joy) in Mark Mylod's "The Menu" as she waits with her date, Tyler (Nicholas Hoult). The...
Published on November 18, 2022 - Page 18
An early 20th century weekly comic strip created by Winsor McCay about Little Nemo's dream world and adventures provides the loose inspiration for...
Published on November 18, 2022 - Page 18
Just try not succumbing to goosebumps in "She Said." It's the story of the New York Times' initial Harvey Weinstein scoop. You may gasp aloud when...
Published on November 18, 2022 - Page 18
NEW YORK (AP) -- Brendan Fraser, whose performance in "The Whale" has made him a likely awards candidate, says he won't attend the Golden Globes in...
Published on November 11, 2022 - Page 8
Made in the wake of tragedy, "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever" reverberates with the agony of loss, piercing the usually less consequential superhero...
Published on November 11, 2022 - Page 8
"The Fabelmans" is clearly a very personal film for Steven Spielberg. It's as much a coming-of-age journey as a form of expensive therapy with John...
Published on November 11, 2022 - Page 8
The devil works in public relations in "Spirited," a new spin on "A Christmas Carol" starring Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. With songs by "The...
Published on November 4, 2022 - Page 20
A pickup breaking down on the street turns into a blessing of sorts in "Causeway," a gentle Apple TV+ drama starring Jennifer Lawrence.
The military...
Published on November 4, 2022 - Page 20
In the swaggering, maximalist cinema of Alejandro I??rritu, I??rritu has never been all that far off the screen.
Since his debut in "Amores Perros"...
Published on November 4, 2022 - Page 20
It is 1862 in a remote Irish village when an English nurse is called in by a local council to investigate a phenomenon in "The Wonder." There is, she...
Published on October 28, 2022 - Page 14
There's special significance to the title of "The Good Nurse." It's based on the serial killings of dozens and possibly hundreds of patients by a...
Published on October 28, 2022 - Page 14
In Phyllis Nagy's "Call Jane," Joy (Elizabeth Banks) is a 1960s housewife married to a defense attorney (Chris Messina) with a teenage daughter (...
Published on October 28, 2022 - Page 14
Just in time for Halloween comes a film that isn't afraid to lean into the darkness, one frame at a time.
In the first five minutes of "Wendell...
Published on October 28, 2022 - Page 14
Filmmaker James Gray explores his childhood in "Armageddon Time." It's set in the fall of 1980, in Queens, when he was 11.
The Graff family is mom...
Published on October 22, 2022 - Page 15
If one were to rank the most difficult adolescent age, 11 is certainly up there. It is just a horribly, hilariously awkward moment of still being...
Published on October 22, 2022 - Page 21
One of the best films of the year, Margaret Brown's "Descendant" is about the discovery of the Clotilda, the last known slave ship.
After it was used...
Published on October 21, 2022 - Page 12
Not long into "Black Adam," a preteen boy looks up at the muscled hulk of Dwayne Johnson and begs for his help: "We could use a superhero right now...