Movies
Published on November 3, 2023 - Page 20
Nature provides much of the soundtrack to "All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt." It's a poised and occasionally transcendent debut from writer-director...
Published on November 3, 2023 - Page 20
Let nobody say writer-director Maryam Keshavarz doesn't know how to start a movie.
The first time we see Leila, her alter ego in the autobiographical...
Published on November 3, 2023 - Page 20
On their first day in sixth grade, the students of Jose Urbina Lopez Elementary School find their new teacher rolling on the floor surrounded by...
Published on November 3, 2023 - Page 20
The 1963 March on Washington drew an estimated 250,000 people from across the country and was where the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his...
Published on October 27, 2023 - Page 15
Alexander Payne brings audiences to a New England boarding school in 1970 in " The Holdovers." It's a nostalgic and often funny piece about three...
Published on October 27, 2023 - Page 15
Just in time for Halloween comes "Five Nights at Freddy's," a video game adaptation with the potential treat of demented Chuck E. Cheese-like...
Published on October 27, 2023 - Page 15
Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s and...
Published on October 27, 2023 - Page 15
Despite a high-powered cast featuring a reliably solid Emily Blunt, an expertly low-life Chris Evans and the gifted Catherine O'Hara, "Pain Hustlers...
Published on October 21, 2023 - Page 6
The new Netflix movie "Old Dads" really should be called "Old Dads Yelling at Clouds" or "Old Dads Raging at QR Codes."
Bill Burr, who directs from...
Published on October 20, 2023 - Page 15
There tends to be lots of fast talking and fast moving in Martin Scorsese films.
But in "Killers of the Flower Moon," everything seems to slow down,...
Published on October 20, 2023 - Page 15
Errol Morris's conversation with the late David Cornwell in "The Pigeon Tunnel" is fascinating even without the filmmaking flourishes.
Cornwell is...
Published on October 20, 2023 - Page 15
In "Nyad," there are two feats of perseverance on display. First, there is the ceaseless determination of Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) to accomplish a...
Published on October 15, 2023 - Page 7
Of all the ways a relationship can end, a fundamental disagreement about a work of art is in some ways extremely silly. And yet, a film or a book...
Published on October 6, 2023 - Page 14
The disquieting root of Chloe Domont's slinky, slick feature debut "Fair Play" lies in the face of Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) as he learns fiance Emily...
Published on October 6, 2023 - Page 18
There may be no holier ground in horror than "The Exorcist." William Friedkin's 1973 film's power remains unalloyed, its place in movie history...
Published on October 6, 2023 - Page 18
"The Royal Hotel" is a horror movie. But don't expect any jump-cuts, scary masks or serial killers.
Filmmaker Kitty Green tells of two young...
Published on October 6, 2023 - Page 18
Bob Dylan called it her "heart-stopping soprano." When Joan Baez unleashed that pure, angelic voice on the protest song "We Shall Overcome," you...
Published on October 6, 2023 - Page 18
By LINDSEY BAHR
AP Film Writer
Jamie Foxx deploys his movie star charm judiciously and skillfully as a litigator with swagger to spare in “The Burial...
Published on October 4, 2023 - Page 14
NEW YORK (AP) -- A documentary chronicling Beyonce's just-concluded 39-city Renaissance World Tour will premiere in North American theaters Dec. 1,...
Published on September 29, 2023 - Page 13
The artificial intelligence in Gareth Edwards' "The Creator," a visually magnificent if by-the-books epic, is not the AI making headlines. This is AI...
Published on September 29, 2023 - Page 13
A new documentary on rock icon Carlos Santana begins with the legendary philosopher-guitarist asking: "Do you believe in magic?"
"Magic. Not tricks...
Published on September 29, 2023 - Page 13
NEW YORK -- Hattie McDaniel's best supporting actress Oscar in 1939 for "Gone With the Wind" is one of the most important moments in Academy Award...
Published on September 23, 2023 - Page 18
John Carney, the Irish filmmaker of "Once," "Sing Street" and "Begin Again," makes the movie version of "three chords and the truth."
His films,...
Published on September 23, 2023 - Page 18
"Gravity is setting in," responds Barney (Sylvester Stallone) when someone asks how he's doing in "Expend4bles."
Gravity is indeed setting in...
Published on September 22, 2023 - Page 18
A beautiful Indian American teen, Samidha (Megan Suri), just wants to fit in with her suburban classmates in the new horror flick "It Lives Inside."...
Published on September 22, 2023 - Page 18
The little guy -- or at least the little guy with a few hundred bucks to sink into the stock market -- gets a movie to cheer with "Dumb Money." It's...
Published on September 15, 2023 - Page 11
Kenneth Branagh indulges in the kind of macabre theatricality only a crumbling Venetian palazzo on a stormy Halloween night can provide in "A...
Published on September 15, 2023 - Page 11
If ever there was an inspirational story about reaching for the stars, it's "A Million Miles Away." It's the real-life journey of a boy who grew up a...
Published on September 15, 2023 - Page 11
We meet Haley Lu Richardson at an airport in "Love at First Sight." She's trying to get a young man's contact info into her phone.
It's this theme...
Published on September 15, 2023 - Page 11
Gael Garcia Bernal stars in "Cassandro," Roger Ross Williams' based-on-a-true-story drama about the Mexican wrestler Sa?l Armend?riz.
Bernal plays...