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Published on June 27, 2025 - Page 8
If you want to know how big an upgrade the "M3GAN" sequel has on the original, look no further than the first scene. "M3GAN" was mostly set in a...
Published on June 27, 2025 - Page 8
The first thing to love about writer-director-star Eva Victor's extraordinary debut "Sorry, Baby" is how she, as the young professor Agnes, tries and...
Published on June 20, 2025 - Page 8
Elio is a lonely 11-year-old just looking for big answers about life.
He's recently lost his parents, the only people who understood him and wanted...
Published on June 20, 2025 - Page 8
Take your average wedding flick, shotgun a hostage situation into it and add some anarchic energy from Rebel Wilson and you get "Bride Hard," which...
Published on June 20, 2025 - Page 8
Danny Boyle's 2002 dystopian thriller "28 Days Later" managed to be on the cutting edge of two trends: global pandemic and fleet-footed zombies.
Add...
Published on June 13, 2025 - Page 8
Ever wanted to soar through the skies on the back of a friendly dragon? The new "How to Train Your Dragon" may be the ticket, from a decidedly safer...
Published on June 13, 2025 - Page 8
The problem with so many rom-coms is how often we're asked to conveniently dismiss our knowledge of life's realities. Particularly economic ones.
How...
Published on June 13, 2025 - Page 8
NICE, France -- An ominous chain unspools through the water. Then comes chaos. A churning cloud of mud erupts as a net plows the seafloor, wrenching...
Published on June 6, 2025 - Page 8
Watch a bunch of John Wick movies all in a row, and you start to think everyone's an assassin.
So it shouldn't be too surprising that in "From the...
Published on June 6, 2025 - Page 8
"Life of Chuck" teases out a cosmic mystery about life and some guy named Charles Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) in a story told in reverse chronological...
Published on June 6, 2025 - Page 8
As if a movie about sharks wasn't scary enough, the filmmakers behind "Dangerous Animals" added a serial killer.
The result is taut and well crafted...
Published on June 2, 2025 - Page 3
"Lilo & Stitch" and "Mission: Impossible -- The Final Reckoning" dominated the box office charts again after fueling a record-breaking Memorial...
Published on May 9, 2025 - Page 8
Craig Waterman is a suburban dad in middle age. He favors extremely puffy jackets, yearns to see the new Marvel movie and is so uncool he lobbies his...
Published on May 9, 2025 - Page 8
Jia Zhangke's "Caught by the Tides" is less than two hours long and yet contains nearly a quarter-century of time's relentless march forward.
Few...
Published on May 2, 2025 - Page 8
"Thunderbolts*" is the unlikely meeting of two of the dominant forces in 21st century American movies: Marvel and A24.
This isn't a co-production,...
Published on May 2, 2025 - Page 8
For a long, sun-addled stretch, Lorcan Finnegan's beach-set "The Surfer" simmers as a deliciously punishing nightmare, driving Nicolas Cage into a...
Published on May 2, 2025 - Page 8
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Being a Western drama, there's plenty of gunfights, showdowns and old-school cowboy justice in "Rust." But this is a movie haunted by the...
Published on May 2, 2025 - Page 8
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"Another Simple Favor" is a movie in search of execution. It's more than predictable.
Anna Kendrick portrays Stephanie Smothers...
Published on April 27, 2025 - Page 8
Whatever cruelness you might assign to the month, Dea Kulumbegashvili's "April" probably has it beat.
Kulumbegashvili's shattering, sensational film...
Published on April 25, 2025 - Page 8
On the heels of tax season, here is "The Accountant 2," Gavin O'Connor's sequel to the 2016 film that did not, exactly, leave audiences clamoring for...
Published on April 25, 2025 - Page 8
Muriel, a waitress in 1950s America, has a loving husband, a suburban house with a white picket fence in California and nice outfits. But not...
Published on April 25, 2025 - Page 8
"The Legend of Ochi," a scrappy and darkly whimsical fable about a misunderstood teenage girl on a dangerous quest, has the feeling of a film you...
Published on April 18, 2025 - Page 14
In the last few months, we've had Robert Pattinson, Theo James and the great Robert De Niro playing opposite each other on screen. Now we have by far...
Published on April 18, 2025 - Page 14
Two gay couples decide to embark on one fake straight marriage to get what they need in Andrew Ahn's modern update of "The Wedding Banquet."
Min (Han...
Published on April 11, 2025 - Page 8
Before Jack Ryan was introduced into the culture, Robert Littell imagined Charlie Heller. He's a quiet, CIA cryptographer who goes rogue on a quest...
Published on April 11, 2025 - Page 8
In Ray Mendoza's and Alex Garland's "Warfare," there are no backstories to the American Navy SEALs we follow on a mission. There's not a short...
Published on April 11, 2025 - Page 8
A movie can still dial M when it wants to.
At least since 1949's "Sorry, Wrong Number," phones have been a reliable conduit for terror capable of...
Published on April 4, 2025 - Page 7
The latest IP to be mined into a Hollywood blockbuster is appropriately a video game that celebrates digging: "A Minecraft Movie."
"A Minecraft Movie...
Published on April 4, 2025 - Page 7
A rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan is probably pretty close to a universal dream. It's easy enough, then, to understand the profound conundrum...
Published on April 4, 2025 - Page 7
Writer-director Ryan Fleck, with partner Anna Boden, has produced a "very weird" love letter to his former home of Oakland in "Freaky Tales."
What's...