Movies
Published on December 6, 2024 - Page 8
The question sounds so friendly. But it's loaded, as many mothers can attest. "Do you just love getting to be home with him all the time?" asks the...
Published on December 6, 2024 - Page 8
Anthony Robles' story seems almost tailor made for a Hollywood film. Born with only his right leg, he overcame prejudices and his own physical...
Published on November 29, 2024 - Page 8
The warm Polynesian spirit and open-sea sense of adventure is back in "Moana 2." But little of the original's humor or catchy songs finds its way...
Published on November 29, 2024 - Page 8
Angelina Jolie glides through the final days of Maria Callas' short life in Pablo Larrain's "Maria." It's an aria for a once-in-a generation opera...
Published on November 29, 2024 - Page 8
One of the first real signs "Queer" is going to be an unconventional movie is when Daniel Craig in a linen suit saunters through Mexico City during...
Published on November 22, 2024 - Page 8
Few characters have undergone an image makeover quite like the Wicked Witch of the West.
She may have been vengeful and scary in "The Wizard of Oz."...
Published on November 22, 2024 - Page 8
Toward the end of "Joy," the cry of a newborn prompts a man and woman in a hospital to embrace. They aren't the parents, but they had as much to do...
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’...