We have a complex relationship with disaster movies. Just look at the discussion about a “Twisters” poster, which became a perfect encapsulation of our love-hate tendenci...
The force is not strong in “Skywalkers: A Love Story,” a shallow “Man on Wire” for social media influencers about a pair of Russian daredevils who stealthily scale urban ...
A chilling, half-remembered encounter from childhood looms over “Longlegs,” Osgood Perkins’ stylishly composed 1990s-set horror film about a young FBI agent (Maika Monroe...
“Fly Me to the Moon” is better than it looks.
This is not a slam against the marketing campaign for the space race rom-com about a straight-laced NASA man and the Madiso...
If anything, “MaXXXine” is a love letter to the Los Angeles movie.
The third film in this unlikely trilogy (following “X” and “Pearl”) finds Mia Goth’s Maxine Minx in Ho...
Should a review of a “Despicable Me” movie be a thoughtful analysis or just a list of the funny stuff the Minions do in it? As much as I might believe in the value of fil...
There's a scene deep into Kevin Costner’s new Western when he and a woman are fleeing bad guys on horseback. They pause at a jaw-dropping vista and he turns to her: “You ...
Not all successful movies need to be franchises. Most really shouldn’t be. That’s not how Hollywood works, of course, but it’s worth repeating. Because in the case of “A ...
Still images have been a source of wonder and mythology in the films of Jeff Nichols.
“Mud,” Nichols’ Twain-soaked Mississippi fable, seemed derived from the magical sig...
There are a lot of bad comedies about, and supposedly for, senior citizens. It’s especially depressing because the worst offenders, the ones that don’t just feel cheap an...
