The recent “Planet of the Apes” series feels like a miracle. Starting with “Rise of the Planet of the Apes” in 2011, followed by “Dawn of the Planet of the Apes” in 2014...
What to make of the curious, ridiculous horror-lite “Wish Upon”?
This is a spooky teen story that’s not particularly heavy on the scares and over-delivers on the uninten...
Everyone knows the back-arching twists that Peter Parker uses when swinging skyscraper to skyscraper across New York City. But never have you seen your friendly neighbor...
Yes, that catchy Simon & Garfunkel song “Baby Driver” comes into play during Edgar Wright’s zippy thrill ride of a movie; no, it will not easily leave your head (I’ve be...
Sofia Coppola’s “The Beguiled,” particularly in its early scenes, eerily captures a mood of ominous beauty. It’s the summer of 1864 in rural Virginia, several years into...
A young girl walks down a deserted wooded road, swinging a basket of mushrooms and singing a battle song. Her feet crunch in the gravel, a steady march, and cannons rumb...
Somewhere in a bar, as the hands on the clock struggle toward closing time, there’s a half-drunken, almost Talmudic argument raging about which “Transformers” movie is t...
LOS ANGELES — “Wonder Woman” fell to second place in its third weekend in theaters, but it’s still doing the heavy lifting for the otherwise lackluster summer box office...
Great actors just don’t play roles, they morph in such a way to become the character. In some cases that means taking on characteristics completely alien to the performe...
Admit it. You weren’t missing Lightning McQueen all that much. There are only so many times you can watch cartoon speed competitions between talking cars with eyeball wi...
