Director Marielle Heller frames “ A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood “ as if it were an episode of “Mister Rogers' Neighborhood,” with miniature sets of cars and bridge...
Paul Feig's “Last Christmas” looks every bit like your standard holiday romantic-comedy, but it has some surprises under its gauzy wrapping.
Kate (Emilia Clarke) works ...
Longtime creative collaborators and writing partners Hannah Pearl Utt and Jen Tullock tackle the messy business of parenting and parentage in their family drama “Before ...
Movie magic has the power to give a hopeful spin to a murder mystery, and Jacob Estes’ somber thriller “Don’t Let Go” harnesses the elasticity of cinematic time to allow...
Writing team maintains light, amusing tone
Your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man has a new spring in his step. After the critical and commercial success of Sony's third c...
What a spell for sentient toys. A week after the child-crafted plaything Forky found life in “Toy Story 4” and Chucky was reborn in “Child’s Play,” the evil vintage doll...
Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is a soulful if brooding young man, with a very pleasant singing voice. But when we meet him, the fledgling songwriter and supermarket clerk fr...
Summarizing the quality of “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” is simple: This “Godzilla” is god awful.
This latest big-screen tale of Godzilla features writing that has mo...
Engaging critically with Dog Movies can be a challenge for a critic. Who wants to be the crank who scoffs that the heartwarming animal movie is just too contrived and se...
Movies can be blessedly simple. As the first “John Wick” showed, all you really need is a car, a gun, a dead dog and Keanu Reeves. Who needs “kiss kiss” when you’ve got ...
