Movies
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...
Published on August 16, 2024 - Page 7
"In space, no one can hear you scream," went the tagline for the original "Alien" in 1979.
Sigourney Weaver's Ripley became the last one standing...
Published on August 16, 2024 - Page 7
In Paul Feig's "Jackpot!," buying a lottery ticket enters you a chance to win billions. But there's a catch.
Everyone else is free to try to kill the...
Published on August 16, 2024 - Page 7
"The Union," an action comedy with Mark Wahlberg and Halle Berry, should have been more fun. Or more exciting. It certainly had a lot working in its...
Published on August 16, 2024 - Page 7
A group of incarcerated fathers are warned in the documentary "Daughters" they're about to go on "emotional roller coasters."
In the film, directed...
Published on August 9, 2024 - Page 7
There are a lot of strange things happening at an Alpine resort in "Cuckoo." The place is run by a bespectacled German hotelier named Herr K?nig,...
Published on August 9, 2024 - Page 7
Lily Bloom and Ryle Kincaid don't really meet-cute. On a rooftop in Boston, he announces himself by angrily kicking a patio chair. She's there trying...
Published on August 9, 2024 - Page 7
A 17-year-old's perception of her father is forever altered on a three-day backpacking trip in India Donaldson's excellent debut "Good One."...
Published on August 3, 2024 - Page 17
In our spoiler-phobic culture, movie trailers don't often offer a lot of information. It's even dangerous territory for a critic to discuss too many...