Movies
Published on January 20, 2023 - Page 7
In Jesse Eisenberg's smart directorial debut, "When You Finish Saving the World," Julianne Moore plays Evelyn. She runs a women's shelter for the...
Published on January 20, 2023 - Page 7
Emotional abuse rarely gets the subtle, sensitive treatment on screen as it does in Mary Nighy's thoughtful if uneven drama "Alice, Darling,"...
Published on January 20, 2023 - Page 7
June Allen's mother has vanished during a romantic vacation with her boyfriend to Colombia when "Missing" starts gaining steam. The FBI are...
Published on January 13, 2023 - Page 11
After "Airplane!" "Airport," "Up in the Air," "Flight," "Snakes on a Plane," "Non-Stop" and "The Terminal," we have finally arrived, like weary...
Published on January 13, 2023 - Page 11
In November 2013, a mother took a train with her 15-month old daughter. She checked into a hotel, walked down to the water at night, fed the child,...
Published on January 6, 2023 - Page 7
Grab a jacket or a blanket before you watch Netflix's engrossing "The Pale Blue Eye."
Set during an unrelenting winter in upstate New York in 1830,...
Published on January 6, 2023 - Page 7
"A Man Called Otto" is Marc Forster's adaptation of Fredrik Backman's bestseller and a remake of the 2016 Swedish film "A Man Called Ove." Tom Hanks...
Published on January 6, 2023 - Page 7
The Korean drama "Broker" begins like a noir. A young woman walks slowly in the pouring rain in the middle of the night in Busan. Soon we see her...
Published on December 30, 2022 - Page 7
Akira Kurosawa's 1952 film "Ikiru" concerns the late-in-life redemption of an old man. There's a good case to be made "Ikiru" ought to be staged and...
Published on December 25, 2022 - Page 23
A young woman enters a passionless marriage among the top echelon of royalty, then suffers eating disorders and depression as she fascinates the...
Published on December 24, 2022 - Page 23
A young woman enters a passionless marriage among the top echelon of royalty, then suffers eating disorders and depression as she fascinates the...
Published on December 23, 2022 - Page 7
Guess how long it's been since there's been a Shrek movie or even a Shrek-adjacent one. More than a decade seems too long for such a popular...
Published on December 23, 2022 - Page 7
Whitney Houston's voice was one of a kind and the creative team behind a new big-budget biopic of the singer had to agree.
Naomi Ackie turns in a...
Published on December 23, 2022 - Page 7
Damien Chazelle's "Babylon" is not a strictly accurate history. Chazelle draws partly from the pre-code scandals and myths of Kenneth Anger's "...
Published on December 23, 2022 - Page 7
Sarah Polley knows the truth about sexual assault and the criminal and civil justice system: In her book "Run Towards the Danger" she writes about a...
Published on December 18, 2022 - Page 24
Next time you arrive home with aching, blistered feet after a long day, take heart: It's not your feet that are the problem. It's your shoes.
That...
Published on December 16, 2022 - Page 7
James Cameron's "Avatar: The Way of Water" is a truly dazzling cinematic experience that will have you floating on a blockbuster high.
No matter if...
Published on December 9, 2022 - Page 10
The center of gravity of "The Whale" is a 600-pound man with a soul as light as a feather.
Charlie (Brendan Fraser) is a reclusive, morbidly obese...
Published on December 9, 2022 - Page 11
It comes as some relief Antoine Fuqua's "Emancipation," starring Will Smith as a runaway slave in Civil War-era Louisiana, is not an Oscar movie....
Published on December 9, 2022 - Page 11
In one of the more effective moments of "Spoiler Alert," the camera leaves the room. At the very moment a dining-table conversation becomes...
Published on December 9, 2022 - Page 11
Olivia Colman plays the manager of a movie theater in Sam Mendes' "Empire of Light." It's a cinema palace in a small town on England's south coast....
Published on December 2, 2022 - Page 8
The holiday season is upon us and how better to celebrate than watching Santa slip several pool balls into a Christmas stocking, swing them in the...
Published on December 2, 2022 - Page 8
Elegance Bratton is certainly not the first person to turn to the military to fill a hole in his life. But the filmmaker also knew he had a boot camp...
Published on December 2, 2022 - Page 8
A gentle and mournful spell is cast by Joanna Hogg's "The Eternal Daughter."
The film begins enchantingly with fog drifting through barren tree...
Published on December 2, 2022 - Page 18
The lovely and magnetic Emma Corrin plays a beaming bride at the start of "Lady Chatterley's Lover." It's a new adaptation of the once-scandalous...
Published on November 26, 2022 - Page 18
Is Searcher Clade the most millennial dad in all of animated moviedom? He has that telltale hipster beard. A sensitive voice sorta like Jake...
Published on November 26, 2022 - Page 18
Glen Powell kicks off "Devotion" with an entrance that's pure cocksure, smirking golden boy, a replay of his earlier role as Jake "Hangman" Seresin...
Published on November 26, 2022 - Page 18
"The Son" will leave you shaken and deeply moved.
Writer-director Florian Zeller's second installment in his trilogy examining mental health is an...
Published on November 25, 2022 - Page 8
Zombies had a good run. Now, it seems to be cannibals' turn for their bite at the apple.
Luca Guadagnino's "Bones and All" gives them that, and more...
Published on November 25, 2022 - Page 8
"Knives Out" was Rian Johnson's love letter to and send-up of Agatha Christie-style whodunnits. Netflix paid $450 million for two follow-ups to his...