Movies
Published on January 14, 2022 - Page 16
Here are some good things about the fourth “Hotel Transylvania” movie: Kathryn Hahn, who is as evocative a voice actor as she is in live action; The...
Published on January 7, 2022 - Page 8
It’s always a little suspect when too much is made of a big action movie being “female-fronted.” Unfortunately, Hollywood has decided in course-...
Published on January 7, 2022 - Page 8
In Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi’s films, reasonably straightforward set-ups — a divorce, a missing woman, a newly lent apartment — unspool such...
Published on December 31, 2021 - Page 9
Clifton Collins Jr. has made a career out of being a supporting player. Even if the average moviegoer might not know his name, you know his face and...
Published on December 25, 2021 - Page 26
His hair is graying. His nerves are fraying. Denzel Washington’s Macbeth is a man literally running out of time. At 66, Washington is certainly at...
Published on December 24, 2021 - Page 18
There are a lot of movies out this holiday season but only one where you can see a slug sing Drake’s “Hotline Bling.” “Sing 2,” the sequel to the...
Published on December 24, 2021 - Page 18
A title like “Nightmare Alley,” especially when paired with a filmmaker like Guillermo del Toro, suggests a certain kind of movie. Del Toro, the...
Published on December 24, 2021 - Page 18
We’ve seen good moms, bad moms, crazy moms, selfish moms, generous moms, loving moms, cold moms. But what strikes home so vividly in “The Lost...
Published on December 24, 2021 - Page 18
Be sure to pack tissues before seeing “A Journal for Jordan.” This Denzel Washington-directed love story may leave you sobbing as it explores duty...
Published on December 23, 2021 - Page 18
In the 22 years since the “The Matrix” debuted, it has never left us. Despite two largely disappointing sequels, “The Matrix” still hasn’t quite gone...
Published on December 23, 2021 - Page 18
There are distinct pleasures to be had in watching Ralph Fiennes play the lead in an action franchise at this stage in his career. “The King’s Man...
Published on December 23, 2021 - Page 18
Two women meet in a maternity ward and their lives become inextricably linked in Pedro Almod??var’s gentle but penetrating “Parallel Mothers.” It’s...
Published on December 17, 2021 - Page 6
In “Spider-Man: No Way Home,” the distinct time zones of Marvel’s webslinger overlap and collide in ways that are often entertaining and likely to be...
Published on December 10, 2021 - Page 7
Mikey Saber, the antihero of Sean Baker’s new film, has a bit of a problem during job interviews. He has a hole in his resume that stretches some 20...
Published on December 10, 2021 - Page 8
Steven Spielberg’s “West Side Story” is a feat of reconstruction. Spielberg, Tony Kushner and Steven Sondheim have taken the original play and...
Published on December 10, 2021 - Page 8
Aaron Sorkin’s “Being the Ricardos” is a loving and sharp dramatization of a particularly fraught week during the making of “I Love Lucy.” Ball (...
Published on December 10, 2021 - Page 9
Imagine: You’re the scientist who discovered a planet-destroying comet on a collision course with Earth. But nobody has the patience or the bandwidth...
Published on December 3, 2021 - Page 18
Christmas is just around the corner and Paul Verhoeven has left a present for us during this hallowed season: A film with lesbian nuns, full-frontal...
Published on December 3, 2021 - Page 18
Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film, “The Hand of God,” is a catalog of wonders. The glittering night vista of the Naples harbor. The soft thump of a...
Published on December 3, 2021 - Page 18
Filmmaker Jonas Poher Rasmussen was 15 when he encountered Amin (a pseudonym), who lived with a foster family and had come from Afghanistan. They...
Published on November 26, 2021 - Page 6
Everything in “House of Gucci” is over the top. The accents. The performances. The fashion. The settings. The runtime. The music. The greed. This...
Published on November 26, 2021 - Page 6
Mirabel is extraordinary in that when it comes to her family, she is totally normal. That’s the set-up for Disney’s absolutely charming new animated...
Published on November 26, 2021 - Page 6
It’s school picture day at a high school in Southern California’s San Fernando Valley in the opening scene of Paul Thomas Anderson’s 1970s-set “...
Published on November 24, 2021 - Page 16
Stephen Karam’s “The Humans” is a film entirely comprised of one Thanksgiving meal. It’s based on a play written nearly a decade ago. Karam is...
Published on November 19, 2021 - Page 22
“Ghostbusters: Afterlife” — the direct cinematic follow-up to the 1984 classic — is haunted. But not in a good way. Director and co-writer Jason...
Published on November 19, 2021 - Page 22
We got “Beginners” because of Mike Mills’ father and “20th Century Women” because of his mother. Because of his child, we have “C’mon C’mon.” This...
Published on November 19, 2021 - Page 22
“King Richard” is the story of the father of tennis greats Venus Williams and Serena Williams when they were just talented kids from Compton trying...
Published on November 18, 2021 - Page 20
“Tick, Tick... BOOM!” is Lin-Manuel Miranda’s affectionate, well-crafted adaptation of Jonathan Larson’s “rock monologue.” It captures all that’s...
Published on November 18, 2021 - Page 20
Tracking shots of a solitary figure striding across a Western plain, seen from within the darkened interiors of a home, bookend Jane Campion’s “The...
Published on November 12, 2021 - Page 9
It’s not complicated. Kids love dogs. Dogs love kids. Despite obvious efforts to link the beloved and durable “Clifford” story, about a huge dog and...