The best parts of the “Ocean's Eleven” movies aren't the big heists. They're when the crew, that motley assortment of raw talent, is being put together. And that's perhap...
When I came down with a cold the day after I saw the third and latest “Avatar” film, “Fire and Ash,” I half-wondered if I had picked it up on Pandora.
The promise of Cam...
“I can’t trust my brain right now,” says our hero, Ella, deep into James L. Brooks’ bafflingly disjointed, uneven, unfunny and illogical “Ella McCay.”
And finally, nearl...
Michelle Pfeiffer plays a mom on the edge at Christmastime in the new movie “Oh. What. Fun.” If the sarcastic punctuation wasn’t enough of a tipoff, Pfeiffer’s charac...
How do you top “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” the video game movie adaptation about murderous anthropomorphic robots? If it’s a battle for insipid nonsense, the answer is bli...
After two installments of his “Knives Out” franchise skewered old and new money, director and writer Rian Johnson targets religion in his third, a gloomy and clunky outin...
“Tell me a story,” the earthy young woman asks the shy Latin tutor early in Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet.” What story, he asks? “Something that moves you.”
She’s made a shrewd c...
The original “Zootopia” was a minor miracle. Here was a Disney animated film that took themes of race and prejudice and managed to make a sensitive-to-all-sides tale, ant...
“Give us a clock tick” is an expression uttered several times in “Wicked: For Good.” But Jon M. Chu’s two-part musical has asked for quite a bit more than that.
Together...
During his glittering career, George Clooney has played a casino thief, a Batman,
a chain-gang convict, an assassin and a high-flying layoff artist. This fall, he's s...