Movies
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’...
Published on October 4, 2024 - Page 15
Saoirse Ronan gives one of her finest performances in "The Outrun." She plays a 29-year-old biology student named Rona who is battling alcoholism....
Published on October 4, 2024 - Page 15
It's never a bad time for stories celebrating acts of kindness. In "White Bird," the act is quite significant: A family in Nazi-occupied France...
Published on October 4, 2024 - Page 15
NEW YORK (AP) -- Daniel Day-Lewis is coming out of retirement, seven years after his last movie, for a film directed by his son Ronan Day-Lewis, 26....
Published on September 29, 2024 - Page 20
The seasonal differences of the movie calendar have eroded a little bit with time. Neither of the last two Oscar juggernauts -- "Oppenheimer," "...
Published on September 27, 2024 - Page 15
In the opening scenes of "The Wild Robot," a chirpy metal android with a state-of-the-art processing unit wanders around a forest asking animals if...
Published on September 27, 2024 - Page 15
Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis" is a sprawling, operatic, clumsy and fascinating film that should inspire discussions for many years to come.
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Published on September 27, 2024 - Page 15
"Rez Ball" is the latest inspirational youth sports movie. There's a lot you can predict. But that doesn't mean your heart won't be caught up in this...
Published on September 22, 2024 - Page 12
In its first two hours, "The Substance" is a well-made, entertaining movie. Writer-director Coralie Fargeat treats audiences to a heavy dose of...
Published on September 20, 2024 - Page 15
Movie origin stories finally reach their nadir this week with "Transformers One." The super-violent, toy-selling vehicle tells the tale of how...
Published on September 20, 2024 - Page 15
In "His Three Daughters," Elizabeth Olsen's Christina is telling her sisters, Katie (Carrie Coon) and Rachel (Natasha Lyonne), about their father,...
Published on September 20, 2024 - Page 15
Imagine you could wake up one morning, stand at the mirror and literally peel off any part of your looks you don't like -- with only movie-star...
Published on September 20, 2024 - Page 15
"Wolfs" stars George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime. The two start out as strangers in Jon Watts'...
Published on September 13, 2024 - Page 15
Has there ever been a horror film set in a country home with a decent cell signal?
There's no signal at Paddy and Ciara's house, either, deep in the...
Published on September 13, 2024 - Page 15
The arts rarely have anything good to say about critics. They're not generally the hero of many stories. More often they're portrayed as joyless,...
Published on September 13, 2024 - Page 15
They say tripping on psychedelic mushrooms triggers hallucinations, anxiety, paranoia and nervousness. In the case of Elliott, an 18-year-old...
Published on September 6, 2024 - Page 12
"I have global entry!"
Now, does that sound like a funny line? Of course it doesn't.
But put it in the mouth of comedy goddess Catherine O'Hara, and...
Published on September 6, 2024 - Page 12
"Rebel Ridge" opens with a shot of a lanky, muscular stranger riding into a small, corrupt Southern town. It's a scene we've all seen plenty of times...
Published on August 30, 2024 - Page 15
"Is there anything worse than an actor with a cause?" asks an annoyed Jane Wyman, Ronald Reagan's first wife, early in "Reagan," the new biopic...
Published on August 23, 2024 - Page 11
At the beginning of Zo? Kravitz's "Blink Twice," her tech-mogul protagonist, Slater King, sits on a TV couch and says "I'm sorry" for some...
Published on August 23, 2024 - Page 11
In his attempt to give new life to "The Crow," director Rupert Sanders has given us plenty of beauty at the expense of depth or coherence.
The...
Published on August 23, 2024 - Page 11
In Nathan Silver's "Between the Temples," Jason Schwartzman plays a grieving cantor who can't sing anymore. He finds a strange kinship with a much...