How does director Jon Favreau update Rudyard Kipling's classic story “The Jungle Book,” already a Disney animated favorite from 1967? He looks to “Planet Earth.” The ani...
“The Boss” is not just the title of Melissa McCarthy's latest but also the take-charge attitude she brings to the project. Her part allows the actress to stretch, turnin...
What if a young man who just lost his young wife in a car accident experienced none of the stages of grief? What if he felt nothing? What if he, instead, started writing...
“Miles Ahead,” an ambitious, experimental biopic about jazz legend Miles Davis, actually states its mission twice over the course of the movie.
Basically: “If you’re go...
Richard Linklater’s ’80s collegiate baseball film “Everybody Wants Some!!” can only be described in the same way you might talk about college jocks — attractive, dumb an...
Ever been to a wedding where you don’t know anyone very well? It’s pretty deadly, no matter how good the food or the band might be. Everyone’s laughing really hard at jo...
A near-total drag, “Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice” plays like a loose, unofficial quarter-billion-dollar remake of “The Odd Couple,” in which Oscar and Felix are li...
“Midnight Special” is one of those rare, stimulating creations that grabs you and penetrates your bloodstream from start to finish. This unique tale about a kid with spe...
Of all the post-apocalyptic young adult trifles, the “Divergent” series has been the sexiest — thanks to the steamy makeouts between stars Theo James and Shailene Woodle...
Omniscient high-definition views from above have done nothing to penetrate the fog of war in Gavin Hood’s drone drama “Eye in the Sky.”
It’s a lean, Lumet-like thriller...
