“The Shimmer” is the name given to the mysterious phenomenon that, after a meteor strike, settles along a swampy coastline in Alex Garland’s “Annihilation.” It’s an area...
A murder mystery party goes sideways when violent kidnappers arrive before the fake ones in “Game Night,” which seems on the page to be like all the other disappointing ...
“Just because something works does not mean it cannot be improved.”
So says the tech-wizard sister of the title character in “Black Panther.” It's an apt credo for this ...
In his latest film, “The 15:17 to Paris,” Clint Eastwood has taken his famously no-frills filmmaking further than ever before. Having already dispensed with many of the ...
With warm nostalgia for Beatrix Potter’s classic children’s tale, “Peter Rabbit” director, producer and co-writer Will Gluck channels the author’s earnestness into a swe...
There’s an interaction in the middle of Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman” that perfectly describes the film’s conflict and asserts its core thesis....
The German thriller “In the Fade” puts us face to face with loss, and with what happens when a world shatters, leaving only darkness in its wake. Katja (Diane Kruger) li...
NEW YORK — Moviegoers who come late to the “Maze Runner” franchise, which now numbers three, will doubtless have one very reasonable question: Where, pray tell, are all ...
In Ziad Doueiri’s searing “The Insult,” a small slight spirals wildly out of control. It seems unreal that such a minor event can spark such a firestorm, but using the i...
Proudly and narrowly, “12 Strong” is a good-news war story, produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by first-time feature director Nicolai Fuglsig, of Denmark. He tra...
