Movies
Published on June 9, 2023 - Page 8
A high school gym teacher grappling with her sexual identity is challenged in "Blue Jean." It's a quietly complex portrait of compartmentalization...
Published on June 3, 2023 - Page 18
Two minutes away, the Uber app promises at one point in "Past Lives." You may find yourself hoping that promise is a lie.
You'll want more minutes,...
Published on June 2, 2023 - Page 8
"Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" was the best comic-book film of the last decade.
Solemnity was out. Gone, too, was the idea of a chosen one....
Published on June 2, 2023 - Page 8
"Reality," starring Sydney Sweeney, is largely set in one empty room. There is nothing on the walls. There are no chairs or rugs, just a stark and...
Published on May 26, 2023 - Page 8
It's not Rob Marshall's fault Disney's latest live-action retread doesn't really sing.
"The Little Mermaid," a somewhat drab undertaking with sparks...
Published on May 26, 2023 - Page 8
What's more important: Being honest or making a loved one feel good about themselves? Do any of us really want straightforward feedback or do we just...
Published on May 26, 2023 - Page 8
If you were to resurrect the tired storyline of a young couple having to meet their partners' parents and were looking for someone to play the gruff...
Published on May 19, 2023 - Page 8
The "Fast & Furious" franchise jumped the shark when the Pontiac Fiero went into space.
The floating car -- tasked with bumping a satellite in...
Published on May 19, 2023 - Page 8
Paul Schrader plants the seeds of an intriguing melodrama in "Master Gardener."
Sigourney Weaver is wealthy dowager Norma Haverhill. She has...
Published on May 19, 2023 - Page 8
The remake of 1992's "White Men Can't Jump" returns to the blacktop courts where Wesley Snipes and Woody Harrelson hustled and Rosie Perez studied "...
Published on May 12, 2023 - Page 6
Gather around, young ones. Silence your iPhones and Samsungs. We're here to learn about the Before Times, when the hottest tech device was nicknamed...
Published on May 12, 2023 - Page 6
Candice Bergen hatched the idea for a sequel to "Book Club" before the first had come out.
It was 2017 and they were flying to a convention of movie...
Published on May 12, 2023 - Page 6
As Marty McFly in "Back to the Future" and Alex P. Keaton on "Family Ties," Michael J. Fox was a fixture of many childhoods. His sheer geniality and...
Published on May 5, 2023 - Page 19
When Peter "Star-Lord" Quill, while inspecting a murky extraterrestrial region, pressed play on Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love" in the first "...
Published on May 5, 2023 - Page 19
Khris Davis did not know who he was auditioning for when he got the lines for an untitled project about a boxer. He didn't know it was based on a...
Published on May 5, 2023 - Page 19
"What's Love Got to Do With It?" stars Lily James documentary filmmaker Zoe, who turns her lens to the arranged marriage of her childhood friend, Kaz...
Published on April 28, 2023 - Page 6
There is not a cynical molecule in the big-screen adaptation of "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret." It's a sweet, playful and reverential...
Published on April 28, 2023 - Page 6
Coming-of-age comedies are not a rarity. What is less common are films as spirited and charming as Nida Manzoor's "Polite Society." It's a...
Published on April 28, 2023 - Page 6
Seasons and years blow through the high Alpine peaks of the decades-spanning "The Eight Mountains." But a warm, abiding glow persists throughout this...
Published on April 21, 2023 - Page 7
Beau may be afraid but Ari Aster certainly isn't.
By Aster's high standards, "Beau Is Afraid" is notably less ghastly than his first two outings, "...
Published on April 21, 2023 - Page 7
Joseph Bologne, the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, was an accomplished man in Marie Antoinette's France. He was a scholar, a fencer, a virtuoso...
Published on April 21, 2023 - Page 7
The king of rock 'n' roll died just three years ago in Tullahoma, Tennessee.
That's the persuasive case made by Lisa Cortes' documentary "Little...
Published on April 14, 2023 - Page 8
"Renfield" is not Nicolas Cage's first brush with a vampire.
In 1988's "Vampire's Kiss," he played a New York literary agent who thought he was an...
Published on April 14, 2023 - Page 8
When suburban mom Kristin (Toni Collette) gets the mysterious call to head to Italy to settle the affairs of a dead relative, she protests she's too...
Published on April 7, 2023 - Page 8
"The Super Mario Bros. Movie," with its vistas of primary colors, is here to brighten our dreary springs. The last time Mario hit the big screen was...
Published on April 7, 2023 - Page 8
"Murder Mystery," one of Netflix's most-streamed films, was chock full of exotic settings and mysterious murders. But the only thing that mattered...
Published on April 7, 2023 - Page 8
"Air" is technically about a shoe. As the Q-like Nike designer Peter Moore (Matthew Maher) explains, the last significant change to footwear was made...
Published on April 7, 2023 - Page 8
Michelle Williams plays a sculptor whose hot water heater has irritatingly busted in the languid "Showing Up." That's about it, plot-wise.
Director...
Published on April 2, 2023 - Page 23
Shopping expert Trae Bodge sees higher prices for products and services marketed to women: Socks, razors, shampoo and apparel are a few products...
Published on March 31, 2023 - Page 8
"You're not a lot of fun, are you," notes barbarian Holga (Michelle Rodriguez) to brave fighter Xenk (Rege-Jean Page) in the new "Dungeons &...