LOS ANGELES — Given its premise, “Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day” could have been a lot more horrible and no good than it is.
In fact, at a...
Just put Robert Downey Jr. and Robert Duvall in a room together and you’ll have a movie, a truism that “The Judge” does its hardest to disprove.
David Dobkin’s film does...
The predominant image throughout David Fincher’s films, from the uncovered horrors of “Se7en” to the Machiavellian maneuverings of “House of Cards,” has been a flashligh...
If you were lucky enough to catch Denzel Washington in “A Raisin in the Sun” on Broadway, you saw the hugely charismatic actor portray, in an iconic role, the full compl...
Somebody dies. Family gathers to mourn. Everybody’s stuck in one house, with all their quirks and foibles and enough emotional baggage to fill an aircraft carrier. What ...
It’s hard to top the story of how a wounded dolphin is saved by a prosthetic tail and a team of heroes.
“Dolphin Tale 2” tries to recapture the spirit of the original ba...
There are many differences between America’s troubled exit from Iraq and its ramshackle retreat from Vietnam. But the U.S. flight from Saigon as seen in Rory Kennedy’s d...
Tana French is irrefutably one of the best crime fiction writers out there. Her latest, “The Secret Place,” is a mesmerizing story set in a girls’ boarding school in Dub...
In “The Longest Week,” Jason Bateman plays a privileged, pampered, narcissistic New Yorker whose sole effort at productivity in life is his meandering work on a novel ca...
It’s been a dozen years since Pierce Brosnan played Bond, James Bond, in “Die Another Day.”
In “The November Man,” he comfortably slips back into the world of internatio...