The great recession didn’t just eliminate jobs, it also erased an entire town. Six months after U.S. Gypsum closed its doors in Empire, Nevada, a company town since 1948...
An air of mystery surrounded Rosamund Pike in “Gone Girl,” but there's no mistaking her in “I Care a Lot.” Sporting designer suits and a bob cut so sharp that you trembl...
’Tis the season of great Aubrey Plaza performances, apparently. The “Parks and Recreation” and “Legion” alum has been long overdue for a breakout film role, something fi...
When it’s at its best, “I’m Your Woman” feels like you’ve slipped through a trap door, revealing a hidden pathway in an old genre apparatus. Everything looks familiar — ...
If it didn’t actually exist, “Holidate” would sound like one of those fake movies within a movie. A couple of attractive singles decide on a low-stakes, no-commitment ar...
More than a few Halloweens ago — two dozen to be exact — came a film that looked like a treat but ended up as a trick.
“The Craft” was about four teenage witches who ev...
Watching Mark Rylance play a man of basic decency getting swallowed up by an evil world — and a sadistic Johnny Depp — in “Waiting for the Barbarians,” I absent-mindedly...
The new Seth Rogen vehicle, “An American Pickle,” is a lot like the foodstuff for which it's named: a quick, tart, satisfying bite, and of course, kosher. The film heral...
The revolution is finally being televised, thank goodness.
The long-awaited live-capture of Lin-Manuel Miranda's shake-the-rafters musical “Hamilton” is now streaming on...
There's a great moment in the documentary “We Are Freestyle Love Supreme” when Lin-Manuel Miranda and “Hamilton” director Thomas Kail talk about how people are often dis...
