The hunky, sweet hero in the new romantic drama “Reminders of Him” at one point turns to the movie’s heroine and tells her: “I’m starting to wonder if you’re the saddest ...
Writer-director Ian Tuason’s feature debut, the sonic-driven horror “Undertone,” has, at least at the outset, an appealingly stripped-down quality.
The 30-something Evy ...
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts. But I’ll say this for it: It’s al...
“Hoppers” might be built with familiar parts, but Pixar’s latest isn’t trying to hide its various influences. Instead, this buoyant, freewheeling adventure about a spirit...
Early in “Scream 7,” in one of those blasts of the franchise's signature, self-mocking irony, Neve Campbell is taunted for sitting out “Scream VI.”
“It's not the same wi...
If Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back” was the supreme document of the Beatles’ final moments together and of their dissolution, Morgan Neville’s “Man on the Run” is ...
“How to Make a Killing,” starring Glen Powell as a working-class man who sets out to murderously reclaim his inheritance, has a clear inspiration: the great Ealing black ...
It’s hardly a surprise that filmmaker Emerald Fennell, who possesses a particular interest in shocking and riling her audience, was drawn to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Hei...
You’d expect an animated basketball movie with four-time NBA champion Stephen Curry in the producer’s chair to be an easy layup. So why is “GOAT” such a brick?
Despite a...
It’s not often we get to pay tribute, in full, to our giants while they’re still with us. But in “Mel Brooks: The 99 Year Old Man!” Judd Apatow dutifully and affectionate...
“I haven’t eaten in centuries,” says the stooped, wrinkled man knocking at a convent door, seeking food and shelter.
LOL! It’s a funny line, given that this is a disguise...
Jason Statham lives in a Scottish lighthouse when we meet him in “Shelter,” and that’s a pretty good analogy for Statham’s usual movie role these days: Tall, cold, alone...
The poster for “Send Help” advertises the film as, “from the director of ‘The Evil Dead’ and ‘Drag Me to Hell’” — notably not “Spider-Man” (or its two sequels). No, the k...
It’s a bold filmmaking choice to have a countdown clock on the screen for most of your movie.
In the best-case scenario for a movie like “Mercy,” in which a Los Angeles d...
Jodie Foster plays a self-assured psychoanalyst whose composure unravels after a patient unexpectedly dies in the genre-bending French film “A Private Life.”
Rebecca...
You know what zombie movies never seem to have enough of? Dancing. They’ve got gore and screaming and lots of guttural snarling, but no boogie. That all changes with “28 ...
Let’s get the obvious thing out of the way first, shall we? There may never have been a better week in the history of the modern world — or at least recent cinema — to re...
It plays a little loose with facts but the righteous rage of “Dog Day Afternoon” is present enough in Gus Van Sant’s “Dead Man’s Wire,” a based-on-a-true-tale hostage thr...
The undercurrents of adolescent cruelty churn queasily in Charlie Polinger’s stylish first feature, “The Plague.”
The title of Polinger’s film might bring to mind Stephe...
Movies that begin with a wedding often don’t bode well for the couple. Starting with the so-called happy ending can only really guarantee a reversal of fortune. In th...
“Everybody wants to rule the world,” goes the Tears for Fears song we hear at a key point in “Marty Supreme,” Josh Safdie’s nerve-busting adrenaline jolt of a movie starr...
The best parts of the “Ocean's Eleven” movies aren't the big heists. They're when the crew, that motley assortment of raw talent, is being put together. And that's perhap...
When I came down with a cold the day after I saw the third and latest “Avatar” film, “Fire and Ash,” I half-wondered if I had picked it up on Pandora.
The promise of Cam...
“I can’t trust my brain right now,” says our hero, Ella, deep into James L. Brooks’ bafflingly disjointed, uneven, unfunny and illogical “Ella McCay.”
And finally, nearl...
Michelle Pfeiffer plays a mom on the edge at Christmastime in the new movie “Oh. What. Fun.” If the sarcastic punctuation wasn’t enough of a tipoff, Pfeiffer’s charac...
How do you top “Five Nights at Freddy’s,” the video game movie adaptation about murderous anthropomorphic robots? If it’s a battle for insipid nonsense, the answer is bli...
After two installments of his “Knives Out” franchise skewered old and new money, director and writer Rian Johnson targets religion in his third, a gloomy and clunky outin...
“Tell me a story,” the earthy young woman asks the shy Latin tutor early in Chloé Zhao’s “Hamnet.” What story, he asks? “Something that moves you.”
She’s made a shrewd c...
The original “Zootopia” was a minor miracle. Here was a Disney animated film that took themes of race and prejudice and managed to make a sensitive-to-all-sides tale, ant...
“Give us a clock tick” is an expression uttered several times in “Wicked: For Good.” But Jon M. Chu’s two-part musical has asked for quite a bit more than that.
Together...
