The best way to approach “10 Cloverfield Lane” is to put all that “Cloverfield” business out of your mind and enjoy the movie for what it is: a taut, expertly-calibrated...
LOS ANGELES — Just when it was looking like animated animal movies had run out of anything original to say, along comes the smartly amusing, crisply relevant “Zootopia” ...
In Hollywood’s hands, combat can be stirring, heartbreaking or amusing.
The tradition of the satirical war film is a rich one: “Dr. Strangelove,” “Catch-22,” “M A S H” a...
“Triple 9” has everything going for it, and that’s it biggest handicap.
This tale of gangsters and crooked cops in Atlanta has got a murderer’s row of acting talent — C...
A cheery tale of unlikely sporting triumph, “Eddie the Eagle,” directed by Dexter Fletcher, offers up a retro feel-good yarn about the power of determination. While it’s...
Robert Eggers’ directorial debut “The Witch” opens with the subtitle “A New-England Folktale,” which is an apt promise. More fable than horror flick, the film is a somet...
“Risen” is more “The Last Temptation of Christ” than “The Greatest Story Ever Told.” It’s a film that comes wrapped in the theological teachings of the Bible but is real...
“Deadpool” hates its audience, and that's not necessarily a bad thing.
Nothing is sacred to either this film or this character (played with “I'm so naughty” abandon by R...
A film cannot live on celebrity cameos alone. But “Zoolander 2” is certainly going to try. Because cameos are low in calories, and “Zoolander 2” hates calories, because ...
Author Seth Grahame-Smith has dined out on the winning combination of stitching together two incongruous things, one high-brow, one low, and letting the concept do the h...
