Movies
Published on May 10, 2024 - Page 16
Fans of the "Planet of the Apes" franchise may still be mourning the 2017 death of Caesar, the first smart chimp and the charismatic ape leader. Not...
Published on May 10, 2024 - Page 16
In sibling directors Bill and Turner Ross ' latest, "Gasoline Rainbow," five Oregon teens just out of high school make their meandering way some 500...
Published on May 10, 2024 - Page 16
Romantic comedies are in a destination wedding rut. Between "Ticket to Paradise," "Anyone But You," "Shotgun Wedding" and now Netflix's "Mother of...
Published on May 5, 2024 - Page 2
1925: Schoolteacher John T. Scopes was charged in Tennessee with violating a state law prohibiting teaching the theory of evolution. (Scopes was...
Published on May 3, 2024 - Page 11
One of the worst movie sins is when a comedy fails to at least match the natural charisma of its stars. Not all actors are capable of being...
Published on May 3, 2024 - Page 11
In the warmly charming rom-com "The Idea of You," Anne Hathaway plays a 40-year-old divorcee and Silver Lake art gallery owner. After taking her...
Published on May 3, 2024 - Page 11
The films of Ryusuke Hamaguchi unspool with elegant everyday ease -- yet anything can happen.
Lives take sudden detours. Seemingly minor characters...
Published on May 3, 2024 - Page 11
In "I Saw the TV Glow," Jane Schoenbrun offers a tale centered on those angsty school years when you're trying to fit in, or merely realizing you don...
Published on April 26, 2024 - Page 7
"Challengers" is a bit of a tease. That's what makes it fun.
There is plenty of skin, sweat, close-ups of muscled thighs and smoldering looks of lust...
Published on April 26, 2024 - Page 7
In writer-director-star Joanna Arnow's "The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed," Ann (Arnow), a 30-something New Yorker, tells an...
Published on April 26, 2024 - Page 7
PASADENA, Calif. -- When Jon Bon Jovi agreed to let director Gotham Chopra follow him with a documentary camera to delve into the history of his band...
Published on April 19, 2024 - Page 8
The latest Guy Ritchie flick "The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" has a spine of true story to it, even if it does all it can to amplify a long-...
Published on April 19, 2024 - Page 8
Two 11-year-olds navigate school, friendship, family and change in Minhal Baig's "We Grown Now." It's wistful and honest, and a different kind of...
Published on April 19, 2024 - Page 8
If you always thought your garden-variety heist movies could do with a bit more blood-sucking vampire, have we got a flick for you.
"Abigail,"...
Published on April 19, 2024 - Page 8
Participant, the activist film and television studio that financed Oscar winners like "Spotlight" and socially conscious documentaries like "Food,...
Published on April 19, 2024 - Page 8
NEW YORK (AP) -- Kevin Costner's multi-episode epic "Horizon, An American Saga" will premiere at the Cannes Film Festival next month, festival...
Published on April 12, 2024 - Page 7
The United States is crumbling in Alex Garland's sharp new film "Civil War." It's a haunting big-screen experience.
The country has been at war with...
Published on April 12, 2024 - Page 7
Do you reckon Sasquatches snore? Of course, they do. They snore and eat noisily and pick bugs out of each other's fur then eat those bugs, noisily....
Published on April 12, 2024 - Page 7
LAS VEGAS (AP) -- "Barbie" producer and star Margot Robbie is making a Monopoly movie, with Hasbro and Lionsgate behind it, the companies announced...
Published on April 5, 2024 - Page 7
Dev Patel, the endearingly earnest, scrawny kid of "Slumdog Millionaire" has steadily grown into an intense and sensitive leading man. It's a...
Published on April 5, 2024 - Page 7
"Housekeeping for Beginners" begins with a shot of a painting on a wall hanging just a little askew. It's an apt metaphor for writer and director...
Published on April 5, 2024 - Page 7
What would an all-female government look like? For the ambitious high school students in the Girls State program -- given the spotlight in a new...
Published on April 5, 2024 - Page 7
TJ Ballantyne is a working-class, middle-aged man trying to eke out a living.
Ken Loach and screenwriter Paul Laverty address the migrant crisis...
Published on March 29, 2024 - Page 16
There are two kinds of people: Those who like their movies with a giant evil ape swinging a vertebrae like a lasso while riding a kaiju controlled by...
Published on March 29, 2024 - Page 16
The term "movie magic" applies to Alice Rohrwacher's wondrous "La Chimera." It's a grubbily transcendent folk tale that finds its enchantment buried...
Published on March 29, 2024 - Page 16
Directed by Thea Sharrock "The Beautiful Game," is about a real international soccer tournament called the Homeless World Cup.
Don't go in expecting...
Published on March 22, 2024 - Page 8
Forty years after "Ghostbusters" and following a string of sequels that never measured up, it's fair to wonder who else ought we to call?
As easy as...
Published on March 22, 2024 - Page 8
Elwood P. Dalton is a classy sort of bouncer. While five tough guys circle him outside a bar looking to bash his skull in, he has a question for them...
Published on March 22, 2024 - Page 8
Sydney Sweeney is everywhere. In the past four months, she's been in a romantic comedy that turned into a sleeper hit, a superhero movie that didn't...
Published on March 15, 2024 - Page 7
The new Mark Wahlberg movie "Arthur the King" is rather generic -- an underdog story that hits the expected beats.
Wahlberg plays an adventure racer...