Movies
Published on March 25, 2022 - Page 7
“Everything Everywhere All at Once” is your standard multiverse martial arts movie. It’s about filing your taxes and midlife regret. The movie is by...
Published on March 25, 2022 - Page 8
“The Lost City” is the kind of charming, star-driven, action-adventure that makes moviemaking look easy and effortless from the outside. It’s hard to...
Published on March 25, 2022 - Page 8
Meet Vic and Melinda Van Allen, the yin and yang of the country club circuit. On second thought, maybe steer clear entirely of the Van Allens — or...
Published on March 25, 2022 - Page 8
“Mothering Sunday,” Eva Husson’s affecting and visually pleasing meditation on love and loss, is based on a woman’s memory of an impactful day. At...
Published on March 25, 2022 - Page 8
In Houston 1979, a small film crew arrives to make a porn film in a rented cottage on a farm belonging to an aged couple. One greets the producer...
Published on March 25, 2022 - Page 8
“Master,” a horror film by Mariama Diallo, features themes of race and social justice at its core. Three Black women face indignities while trying to...
Published on March 11, 2022 - Page 6
For better and worse, “Turning Red” is like no Pixar film before it. It’s directed by Domee Shi, who made the lovely Oscar-winning short “Bao.” It’...
Published on March 11, 2022 - Page 6
Pathos and action are found in equal parts in “The Adam Project.” Starring Ryan Reynolds as a time-traveling pilot and directed by Shawn Levy, the...
Published on March 4, 2022 - Page 8
Batman is plunged into perpetual night in Matt Reeves’ nocturnal, nihilist, neo-noir take on the Caped Crusader. Reeves’ “The Batman” includes...
Published on March 4, 2022 - Page 8
A boy sees a pretty girl at a party and delivers a pick-up line for the ages. “If you don’t have anything to do tonight, how would you like to learn...
Published on March 4, 2022 - Page 8
South Korean-born filmmaker Kogonada’s “After Yang” is adapted from a short story by Alexander Weinstein. It takes place in a future with eerily...
Published on February 25, 2022 - Page 8
Joe Wright is at his best when he’s making movies about love. “Cyrano” is one of his finer efforts among a flock of high achievers including “...
Published on February 25, 2022 - Page 8
For anyone who found the band tensions that reverberate in “The Beatles: Get Back” too tame, the Foo Fighters have made a movie in which arguments...
Published on February 19, 2022 - Page 17
Anticipating the inevitable guts and gore and murderous mayhem, I screened Netflix’s new “Texas Chainsaw Massacre” on my TV in broad daylight and...
Published on February 18, 2022 - Page 8
Goonies never say die, and neither do some of their storylines. “Uncharted” is based on the PlayStation video game. It cribs heavily from...
Published on February 18, 2022 - Page 8
Something would have had to go very, very wrong for “Dog” not to work on a basic level. Pairing Channing Tatum, one of our most likable leading men,...
Published on February 11, 2022 - Page 8
Kenneth Branagh’s Agatha Christie adaptation “Death on the Nile” begins with a flashback to the trenches of World War I before shifting to 1930s...
Published on February 11, 2022 - Page 8
Jennifer Lopez is very good at being very famous. That might sound more like a circumstance and not a rarified skill, but that’s just because she’d...
Published on February 11, 2022 - Page 8
In his 54,796th action movie, Liam Neeson is mere months from turning 70. Despite his slower gait, he’s Liam Neeson, so we still believe,...
Published on February 4, 2022 - Page 8
Pity those in charge of COVID-19 protocols on “Jackass Forever.” Imagine the challenges of monitoring the health of participants in Johnny Knoxville...
Published on February 4, 2022 - Page 8
There is a fallacy of youthful restlessness that’s easy to forget: It’s possible to both not know what you want while also being pretty sure of what...
Published on February 4, 2022 - Page 8
Some people might admire the moon’s glowing and desolate beauty. Director Roland Emmerich apparently sees a constructed hollow orb that may have been...
Published on January 28, 2022 - Page 8
A man sits on the edge of an infinity pool contemplating his existence in Michel Franco’s “Sundown.” The settings get less luxurious as we go along...
Published on January 28, 2022 - Page 8
A train ride from Moscow to the arctic port city of Murmansk would not seem like the most likely setting for anything as warm as Finnish filmmaker...
Published on January 21, 2022 - Page 8
When we last saw George MacKay running, he was sprinting full-tilt across a World War I battlefield. In “1917,” the British actor played a soldier...
Published on January 21, 2022 - Page 8
Once upon a time there was a film that didn’t know what it was. A romantic comedy? Perhaps. A period drama? A fairy tale? A tween fantasy mixed with...
Published on January 21, 2022 - Page 8
In “The Royal Treatment,” the chief of staff for the prince of a fictional European country accidentally calls a run-down salon in the Bronx to...
Published on January 14, 2022 - Page 15
“If you’ve ever owned a slave, please raise your hand,” Jeffery Robinson urges a live audience at the beginning of “Who We Are: A Chronicle of Racism...
Published on January 14, 2022 - Page 16
Ring. Ring. Twenty-six years after the original, “Scream” calls again. We’re up to the fifth film in the franchise. But it’s the first since 2011’s...
Published on January 14, 2022 - Page 16
Anime master Mamoru Hosoda makes movies that can reach such staggeringly emotional heights they seem to break free of anything you’re prepared for....