Movies
Published on December 15, 2023 - Page 8
The original 1971 "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory" may have been a delicious dream, lined with trees of gumballs and fields of lollipops. But...
Published on December 15, 2023 - Page 8
Jeffrey Wright's Thelonious "Monk" Ellison is at the end of his rope at the beginning of "American Fiction."
It's crowd-pleaser that's both funny...
Published on December 15, 2023 - Page 8
It's just a woman trying on a fur coat alone in her room and sampling a lipstick. It's just a few friends discussing toothpaste orders over coffee in...
Published on December 8, 2023 - Page 8
Imagine it's close to midnight and there's a knock at the door of your luxurious weekend rental home. A man dressed immaculately in a tux is calmly...
Published on December 8, 2023 - Page 8
Though Bella Baxter's insatiable libido might be her guiding light at first in "Poor Things," sexual liberation is only part of this fantastical,...
Published on December 8, 2023 - Page 8
Hayao Miyazaki's "The Boy and the Heron" is loosely adapted from Genzaburo Yoshino's 1937 novel "How Do You Live?"
In the opening scenes, a boy's...
Published on December 1, 2023 - Page 8
Something strange has happened to Eileen Dunlop, and we don't just mean the plot of "Eileen." The adaptation of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh's delicious...
Published on November 24, 2023 - Page 8
Walt Disney Animation's "Wish" is stunning to look at with textured and rich watercolor-inspired animation and Easter egg treasures for audiences...
Published on November 24, 2023 - Page 8
Bradley Cooper's "Maestro," a high-wire act of a biopic, leaps constantly between on stage and off, flying through Leonard Bernstein's public life as...
Published on November 24, 2023 - Page 8
Two years ago, Emerald Fennell stood on the Oscars stage hoisting her writing trophy for "Promising Young Woman." It was a scathing look at rape...
Published on November 17, 2023 - Page 10
Ridley Scott doesn't do anything small, not even famously diminutive French emperors in "Napoleon," starring Joaquin Phoenix.
Early in the film, a...
Published on November 17, 2023 - Page 10
There is hardly a false note in "May December, " a self-aware, mischievously funny and emotionally complex drama.
Filmmaker Todd Haynes is working...
Published on November 17, 2023 - Page 10
Aki Kaurism?ki's "Fallen Leaves," short, sweet and utterly delightful, is so charming you want to run it back the moment it's over.
Bleak as Kaurism?...
Published on November 17, 2023 - Page 10
In writer-director Taika Waititi's "Next Goal Wins," a soccer coach comes from far away to lead a hapless group of athletes.
"Next Goal Wins" stars...
Published on November 10, 2023 - Page 8
The stakes feel immensely low in "The Marvels." Somewhere along way, Marvel movies just stopped feeling like events. And this galactic trifle from...
Published on November 10, 2023 - Page 8
Once the nameless hit-man protagonist of David Fincher's "The Killer" starts gabbing, he doesn't stop.
As Fincher's assassin (Michael Fassbender)...
Published on November 10, 2023 - Page 8
Nicolas Cage channels his inner drabness to chillingly comic effect in Kristoffer Borgli's "Dream Scenario."
As Paul Matthews, a college professor...
Published on November 10, 2023 - Page 8
"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" is an origin story of the Hunger Games as well as numerous characters -- primarily the devious President...
Published on November 3, 2023 - Page 20
Nature provides much of the soundtrack to "All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt." It's a poised and occasionally transcendent debut from writer-director...
Published on November 3, 2023 - Page 20
Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz doesn't know how to start a movie.
The first time we see Leila, her alter ego in the autobiographical...
Published on November 3, 2023 - Page 20
On their first day in sixth grade, the students of Jose Urbina Lopez Elementary School find their new teacher rolling on the floor surrounded by...
Published on November 3, 2023 - Page 20
The 1963 March on Washington drew an estimated 250,000 people from across the country and was where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his...
Published on October 27, 2023 - Page 15
Alexander Payne brings audiences to a New England boarding school in 1970 in " The Holdovers." It's a nostalgic and often funny piece about three...
Published on October 27, 2023 - Page 15
Just in time for Halloween comes "Five Nights at Freddy's," a video game adaptation with the potential treat of demented Chuck E. Cheese-like...
Published on October 27, 2023 - Page 15
Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s and...
Published on October 27, 2023 - Page 15
Despite a high-powered cast featuring a reliably solid Emily Blunt, an expertly low-life Chris Evans and the gifted Catherine O'Hara, "Pain Hustlers...
Published on October 21, 2023 - Page 6
The new Netflix movie "Old Dads" really should be called "Old Dads Yelling at Clouds" or "Old Dads Raging at QR Codes."
Bill Burr, who directs from...
Published on October 20, 2023 - Page 15
There tends to be lots of fast talking and fast moving in Martin Scorsese films.
But in "Killers of the Flower Moon," everything seems to slow down,...
Published on October 20, 2023 - Page 15
Errol Morris's conversation with the late David Cornwell in "The Pigeon Tunnel" is fascinating even without the filmmaking flourishes.
Cornwell is...