After two consecutive years in which women were excluded from the feature film category entirely, this year’s lineup of Directors Guild Awards…
The 33-years-later sequel “Coming 2 America” starts poorly but gets funnier and more likable as it goes, and it’s stolen by a newcomer to this…
How does a filmmaker reckon with the unjust death of Fred Hampton? The Black Panther Party Deputy Chairman was murdered in his sleep in 1969, …
There’s always something satisfying about a pulpy thriller starring Denzel Washington. The Oscar-winning actor has an ability to elevate any r…
After much anticipation, Emerald Fennell’s auspicious directorial debut, “Promising Young Woman,” finally makes its way to video on demand Fri…
Corn Nuts. Fotomat. A Truckasaurus rally.
Pixar’s “Soul” is full of heart.
It might be the unique circumstances in which we are living, but it feels like every movie released in 2020 turns out to be about subsistence.…
Moviegoing has been thinking of ending things for a century now. The 1918-19 influenza pandemic, met with inadequate and piecemeal federal res…
“Fatale” is the familiar male movie nightmare of consequences for selfish actions while in a relationship, but through a thriller lens that bl…
Why do we love Christmas music?
Everyone’s favorite humanity-saving, golden lasso-wielding, Amazonian warrior goddess is back – as are Chris Pine and the '80s – in Warner Bro…
If only Chadwick Boseman were still with us – if we knew that we had years and maybe decades of performances from him to look forward to, from…
Five years ago, while she watched and rewatched 1970s and ‘80s crime genre classics, certain scenes lingered with filmmaker Julia Hart: the mo…
The whirlwind weather of the Irish countryside is as much a star of “Wild Mountain Thyme” as actors Emily Blunt and Jamie Dornan.
Filmed aboard the Queen Mary 2 during a real transatlantic crossing, HBO Max’s “Let Them All Talk” is a drolly successful example of experimen…
Note: We are continuing to review theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic, though please be aware that indoor moviegoing does ca…
The average holiday-themed romantic comedy is such a synthetic box of delights, such a pleasingly calculated assortment of warm-and-fuzzies, t…
In “Hillbilly Elegy,” Ron Howard looks deep into the heart of an American family torn apart by drug use and poverty and what he sees staring b…
Genre filmmaker Christopher Landon has carved out a niche for himself in the past couple of years. His two clever slasher comedy riffs, “Happy…
Note: We are continuing to review theatrical film releases during the COVID-19 pandemic, though please be aware that indoor moviegoing does ca…
“Come Away” aims at a magical mashup of the legends of “Peter Pan” and “Alice in Wonderland” and misses so badly, it leaves one perplexed. (Wi…
It has taken Sacha Baron Cohen 14 years to produce a “Borat” sequel. Having seen it, I’m guessing he spent a bunch of that time figuring out h…
What reason could there be for a new movie version of “Rebecca”? The Daphne du Maurier novel (still forever young at 82) was long ago filmed, …
A wealth of high-profile films arrive on various streaming platforms this week, proving that a starry fall movie season is possible during the…
The award-winning documentarian Alex Gibney is known for being prolific. He has 30-plus feature documentaries, plus many episodes of both fict…
You’re being watched. Everything you type into a search bar on Google, anything you like on Facebook – that information is being carefully tra…
Blackpink’s debut album hasn’t even been out for two weeks, and already the members of this K-pop girl group have the end in mind.
Fin Argus, a native of Des Plaines, Illinois, was a teenager when he came across the 2012 song “Clouds,” written and performed by Zach Sobiech…
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