Movies
Published on October 21, 2022 - Page 12
Not long into "Black Adam," a preteen boy looks up at the muscled hulk of Dwayne Johnson and begs for his help: "We could use a superhero right now...
Published on October 21, 2022 - Page 12
It's often said movies that were fun to make never turn out great. Well, George Clooney and Julia Roberts look like they had a grand time making the...
Published on October 21, 2022 - Page 12
What if, one day, your best friend decided he didn't want to be friends anymore? It's not anything that can be apologized for or mended. It's just...
Published on October 21, 2022 - Page 14
Even if you've never been to a Harry Styles concert, it's hardly difficult to comprehend his huge appeal.
But "huge" is not the word to describe...
Published on October 14, 2022 - Page 14
Almost by default, filmmakers typically take a wide lens to historical moments like the 1955 lynching of 14-year-old Emmett Till. In reaching for a...
Published on October 14, 2022 - Page 14
An insomniac detective falls for a beautiful suspect in a suspicious death he's investigating in "Decision to Leave." This deceptively simple premise...
Published on October 7, 2022 - Page 14
The stars appear one after the other -- a banquet of talent, a glut of inventiveness. Yet nothing clicks.
Welcome to "Amsterdam," writer and director...
Published on October 7, 2022 - Page 14
TORONTO -- When a young, bespectacled Al Yankovic picked up an accordion, few -- especially Al, himself -- would have predicted the long-running show...
Published on October 7, 2022 - Page 14
"Time is the thing," observes Lydia T?r (Cate Blanchett) in Todd Fields' "T?r." Lydia, a world-renown conductor, is explaining her art as more than...
Published on October 7, 2022 - Page 16
The question of worth flows through Ruben ?stlund's "Triangle of Sadness." It's a handsomely grotesque satire about the guests and workers aboard a...
Published on September 30, 2022 - Page 14
By MARK KENNEDY
AP Entertainment Writer
The romantic comedy "Bros" is absolutely revolutionary. And totally conventional. It's a film where both...
Published on September 30, 2022 - Page 14
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
The nostalgia for "Hocus Pocus" has always been a bit of a mystery to me. I was in the right demographic when "Hocus...
Published on September 30, 2022 - Page 14
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
"Smile" is a bluntly unsettling and blandly grim horror flick that wrings as much mileage as it can out of a twisted...
Published on September 23, 2022 - Page 12
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
Somewhere around when TikTok videos were analyzing whether spit flew at the Venice Film Festival premiere of Olivia...
Published on September 23, 2022 - Page 12
By MARK KENNEDY
AP Entertainment Writer
Sidney Poitier was born two months premature to uneducated tomato farmers in the Caribbean. His father...
Published on September 23, 2022 - Page 12
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
Naomi Watts had some reservations about remaking the Austrian horror "Goodnight Mommy." The 2014 film from directors...
Published on September 23, 2022 - Page 12
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
Lena Dunham has made something of a triumph in "Catherine Called Birdy," a medieval coming-of-age story that's part "...
Published on September 16, 2022 - Page 12
By MARK KENNEDY
AP Entertainment Writer
“See How They Run” is a whodunit film about a real murder backstage at a whodunit play where all the murders...
Published on September 16, 2022 - Page 12
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
Brett Morgen’s David Bowie documentary “Moonage Daydream” plunges into the mind of the rock star.
Bowie, like his alter-...
Published on September 16, 2022 - Page 12
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
Viola Davis should have been leading armies this whole time.
In “The Woman King,” the always regal Oscar-winner is a...
Published on September 16, 2022 - Page 12
By JOCELYN NOVECK
AP National Writer
What a dream it must be to be Marilyn Monroe, a starstruck assistant tells her. “Everyone would give their right...
Published on September 11, 2022 - Page 24
BEIJING (AP) — The latest “Minions” movie subtly reinforces a message for Chinese audiences that viewers in other countries won’t see: Crime doesn’t...
Published on September 9, 2022 - Page 11
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
After a string of live-action remakes, from “Beauty and the Beast” to “The Lion King,” the Walt Disney Co. has finally...
Published on September 9, 2022 - Page 11
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK — For five seasons of “Billy on the Street,” Billy Eichner was a roving commenter on Hollywood, proclaiming...
Published on September 2, 2022 - Page 19
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
NEW YORK — For the first time in three years, the fall movie industrial complex is lurching back into high gear....
Published on September 2, 2022 - Page 19
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
Regina Hall and Sterling K. Brown give fully committed performances in “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul.” So why does the...
Published on September 2, 2022 - Page 19
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
“Don’t Worry Darling” was a film everyone wanted to make — some 18 studios and streaming services were courting Wilde...
Published on August 26, 2022 - Page 11
There is not a cynical molecule in the makeup of George Miller’s “Three Thousand Years of Longing.” This patient and occasionally dazzling fantasy is...
Published on August 26, 2022 - Page 11
“Breaking,” Abi Damaris Corbin’s lean and heartfelt first feature, is a lackluster bank-robbery thriller with noble intentions. It’s enlivened by an...
Published on August 26, 2022 - Page 11
“Me Time” is the new Kevin Hart and Mark Wahlberg comedy. In a montage, Sonny (Hart) gets a day to himself for the first time in a long time. For...