Movies
Published on February 9, 2024 - Page 8
"Lisa Frankenstein" is a real monster. The movie is stitched together from previous movies, painfully incoherent and deeply, deeply dumb.
This is a...
Published on February 9, 2024 - Page 8
For a piercing refresher lesson on democracy, one wouldn't necessarily think of rural Bhutan as the first place to look. For one thing, democratic...
Published on February 9, 2024 - Page 8
Moana and Maui are sailing back to the big screen, very quickly. "Moana 2" is coming to theaters in November, Walt Disney Company CEO Bob Iger said...
Published on February 6, 2024 - Page 6
Wim Wenders' "Perfect Days" is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks Hirayama (K?ji Yakusho) traverses daily in his...
Published on February 2, 2024 - Page 7
A checkered mesh of mysteries have accompanied the release of Matthew Vaughn's "Argylle." Who is the "real" Agent Argylle? Why two Ls?
Criss-...
Published on February 2, 2024 - Page 7
To say the hero of Netflix's new animated movie "Orion and the Dark" is fearful is an understatement.
Orion, 11, is scared of clogging the school...
Published on February 2, 2024 - Page 7
"How to Have Sex" is a stylish, assured and moving debut from writer-director Molly Manning Walker.
It's about a girl, Tara (Mia McKenna-Bruce), and...
Published on January 26, 2024 - Page 8
Jenna Ortega's stark rise as Gen Z's goth-glam princess takes a pointless, awkward turn in "Miller's Girl." It's a romantic horror movie about...
Published on January 19, 2024 - Page 8
Words like "important" and "vital" are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. When watching and reviewing good films in real...
Published on January 19, 2024 - Page 8
After decades when fears of mutual destruction and nuclear fallout filtered into movies from "Fail Safe" to "WarGames," anxiety over current Russian-...
Published on January 12, 2024 - Page 7
The first "Mean Girls" by Tina Fey came out in 2004. The Broadway musical opened in 2018. Now it's 2024, and we have a screen adaptation of the...
Published on January 12, 2024 - Page 7
Somewhere between the sacred and profane, comedy, drama and satire comes "The Book of Clarence." It's a retelling of The Greatest Story Ever Told.
It...
Published on January 12, 2024 - Page 7
"The Teachers' Lounge" hosts an expanding web of uneasy power dynamics, mutual suspicion and misinformation, and that's just for starters.
Writer-...
Published on January 12, 2024 - Page 7
The near-future is bleak for the working class of London in "The Kitchen," a well-executed film about a familiar kind of urban dystopian nightmare....
Published on January 12, 2024 - Page 7
The bee metaphors come fast and furious in "The Beekeeper," a movie that flirts with a so-bad-it's-good vibe but is too serious to quite pull it off...
Published on January 5, 2024 - Page 8
Pain and trauma permeate Michel Franco's new drama "Memory." It's about two lost souls who find surprising comfort in one another. Both Jessica...
Published on January 5, 2024 - Page 8
"Freud's Last Session," starring Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud, adds to a string of sterling late-chapter performances by the 86-year-old actor....
Published on December 29, 2023 - Page 7
Andrew Scott plays a writer trying to pen something about his dead parents in Andrew Haigh's transcendent drama "All of Us Strangers."
His folks...
Published on December 29, 2023 - Page 7
"Oppenheimer" will get a theatrical release in Japan, after all. The Japanese distributor Bitters End recently said the Christopher Nolan film will...
Published on December 23, 2023 - Page 9
It doesn't take long to understand the level of commitment Zac Efron brings to "The Iron Claw" as Texas wrestling brother Kevin Von Erich.
It's also...
Published on December 23, 2023 - Page 9
Director George Clooney both begins and ends "The Boys in the Boat" on a sun-dappled lake. It aptly reflects the ethos of a film that often feels...
Published on December 22, 2023 - Page 7
Exuberant performances from a cast led by Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks breathe life into Blitz Bazawule's stirring "The...
Published on December 22, 2023 - Page 7
It's perhaps appropriate the latest Aquaman movie is about a lost kingdom. In many ways, this mini-franchise is just that, a Jason Momoa kingdom that...
Published on December 22, 2023 - Page 7
Director Michael Mann has put his stylish spotlight on yet one more stoic, brilliant and broken uber-masculine dude, Enzo Ferrari. The biopic is set...
Published on December 22, 2023 - Page 7
Illumination studio's latest, "Migration," centers on a father duck, Mack Mallard (Kumail Nanjiani). His fears and paranoia have kept his feathered...
Published on December 21, 2023 - Page 6
Zac Efron didn't realize how much he needed a hug.
He'd transformed himself into a mass of muscle and repressed emotion to play professional wrestler...
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...