Movies
Published on January 2, 2026 - Page 7
Movies that begin with a wedding often don't bode well for the couple. In the case of "We Bury the Dead," something cosmically catastrophic is coming...
Published on January 2, 2026 - Page 7
The undercurrents of adolescent cruelty churn queasily in Charlie Polinger's stylish first feature, "The Plague."
"The Plague" is set entirely around...
Published on January 2, 2026 - Page 7
"The Testament of Ann Lee" is a stirring and difficult movie that features a blazing Amanda Seyfried as the Shaker leader. It's a performance that...
Published on December 28, 2025 - Page 7
Leaves and bodies fall in "No Other Choice," Park Chan-wook's masterfully devilish satire.
"Come on, fall," urges You Man-su (Lee Byung-hun) as he...
Published on December 26, 2025 - Page 6
The story of Mike and Claire Sardina -- a struggling husband-and-wife Neil Diamond tribute act from Milwaukee -- was never the stuff of Hollywood...
Published on December 26, 2025 - Page 6
"Everybody wants to rule the world," goes the Tears for Fears song we hear at a key point in "Marty Supreme." It's Josh Safdie's nerve-busting...
Published on December 26, 2025 - Page 6
"The Choral" is a very gentle, very British movie about the importance of art, set against World War I. It's powerful in a decidedly non-flashy way....
Published on December 26, 2025 - Page 6
Jim Jarmusch invites audiences into three family gatherings of adult children in "Father Mother Sister Brother."
In the first chapter, siblings Jeff...
Published on December 19, 2025 - Page 8
The promise of James Cameron's 3D "Avatar" trilogy has always been immersion in a science-fiction world, in technological wonder, in the possible...
Published on December 19, 2025 - Page 8
Santa left us a present: A twisty, psychological horror-thriller with nudity all wrapped up in an empowerment message.
"The Housemaid" is Paul Feig's...
Published on December 19, 2025 - Page 8
Bradley Cooper's third feature as director -- "Is This Thing On?" -- is a deeply felt film about a teetering marriage. It's a work whose power sneaks...
Published on December 19, 2025 - Page 8
SpongeBob SquarePants just wants to be a big guy. For our bubble blowing, Bikini Bottom resident (voiced by Tom Kenny), that means being 36 clams...
Published on December 12, 2025 - Page 15
It's hard to understand how "Ella McCay," the first original feature from writer-director James L. Brooks in 15 years, goes so utterly haywire. Is...
Published on December 12, 2025 - Page 15
In Japanese writer-director Mamoru Hosoda's latest, "Scarlet," the filmmaker's enviable reach exceeds his grasp.
His female protagonist is a...
Published on December 6, 2025 - Page 18
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...
Published on December 5, 2025 - Page 8
After two installments of his "Knives Out" franchise skewered old and new money, director and writer Rian Johnson targets religion in his third, a...
Published on December 5, 2025 - Page 8
Michelle Pfeiffer plays a mom on the edge at Christmas time in "Oh. What. Fun." Pfeiffer's character Claire is not having the best time.
Claire's...
Published on November 28, 2025 - Page 8
The original "Zootopia" was a minor miracle. The Disney animated film took themes of race and prejudice and managed to make a sensitive-to-all-sides...
Published on November 28, 2025 - Page 8
Joan Cutler has an impossible decision to make in "Eternity." The newly deceased character (Elizabeth Olsen) has one week to decide who she wants to...
Published on November 28, 2025 - Page 8
"Tell me a story," the earthy young woman asks the shy Latin tutor early in Chloe Zhao's "Hamnet."
This awkward young man seems to have a way with...
Published on November 28, 2025 - Page 8
"The Secret Agent" is a stylish, slow-burn thriller about radicals and mercenaries in 1977 Brazil. Filmmaker Kleber Mendon?a Filho begins his film...
Published on November 21, 2025 - Page 8
"Give us a clock tick" is an expression uttered several times in "Wicked: For Good."
Together, the two halves of Jon M. Chu's "Wicked" adaptation...
Published on November 21, 2025 - Page 8
There is nothing particularly grand about Robert Grainier's existence. The main character of "Train Dreams," portrayed by a bearded, contemplative...
Published on November 21, 2025 - Page 8
Reality and fiction beautifully weave in and out in "Jay Kelly," director Noah Baumbach's love letter to Hollywood.
The script by Baumbach and Emily...
Published on November 14, 2025 - Page 8
Ten years or so between installments of a successful Hollywood franchise is a lifetime. When it comes to the third "Now You See Me" movie -- poof...
Published on November 14, 2025 - Page 8
In Stephen King's 1982 novel "The Running Man," the United States has fallen into a totalitarian state, divided between haves and have-nots, where...
Published on November 7, 2025 - Page 5
Lynne Ramsay's "Die My Love" is a jagged, go-for-broke psychodrama starring Jennifer Lawrence as an increasingly unhinged new mother and Robert...
Published on November 7, 2025 - Page 8
The Nuremberg trials have inspired filmmakers before. For the latest take, "Nuremberg," writer-director James Vanderbilt focuses on a lesser-known...
Published on November 7, 2025 - Page 8
Joachim Trier's "Sentimental Value" is about life in the arts, fulfillment and forgiveness, stories true and falsely remembered, home, trauma and...
Published on November 7, 2025 - Page 8
Any time a notable figure of the French New Wave is introduced in Richard Linklater's "Nouvelle Vague," we're treated to a momentary straight-on shot...