The plotline of the music mockumentary “Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping,” by the sketch comedy group The Lonely Island, is a journey that could be extrapolated onto t...
“Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows” is a Saturday morning cartoon on Michael Bay steroids. For the under 12 set, that's fine. For the rest of us? It's som...
The last two “X-Men” movies — “Days of Future Past” (2014) and “First Class” (2011) — were wonderful surprises that didn’t conform to the notion that sequels are, more t...
When Tim Burton’s 2010 live-action version of “Alice in Wonderland” raked in a billion dollars there was no question that Disney would pounce on the opportunity for a se...
Take two charismatic actors. Give them characters that are, on the surface, totally incompatible. Plunk them into your basic whodunit, a mismatched team fighting fill-in...
LOS ANGELES — Heaven help the next generation of American women if “Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising” represents what Hollywood thinks of them. In Nicholas Stoller’s sequel ...
Does anything break through the glum satire and unremitting deadpan that cover “The Lobster” like the gray Irish skies that hover over it?
Greek director Yorgos Lanthimo...
How do you like your Teddy Roosevelt — sliced and diced, or the whole megillah? If big books about America's larger-than-life 26th president are your thing, there are pl...
There’s always the possibility that the audience will lose interest in a movie where the plot is deeply entangled in money matters. But Director Jodie Foster cashes in o...
Conventional movie wisdom would suggest that there can only be diminishing returns with long-running franchises. There must be a breaking point, right? Especially at mov...