Movies
Published on October 17, 2025 - Page 14
Not far into Kelly Reichardt's "The Mastermind," the title's irony becomes painfully clear.
Because J.B. Mooney, the mediocre art thief played by...
Published on October 17, 2025 - Page 15
Guillermo del Toro has been telling monster stories for as long as he's been making films. A romantic with keen appreciation for the macabre, his...
Published on October 17, 2025 - Page 15
One senses Linda, the overburdened mom embodied by Rose Byrne in Mary Bronstein's "If I Had Legs I'd Kick You," is nobody's priority.
She's certainly...
Published on October 17, 2025 - Page 15
Richard Linklater's "Blue Moon," about lyricist Lorenz "Larry" Hart, takes place at Sardi's, in New York, on March 31, 1943. Down the street, "...
Published on October 17, 2025 - Page 15
Aziz Ansari's "Good Fortune" is about wealth disparity and the shackles of the gig economy. Ansari, who wrote, directed and stars, is attempting...
Published on October 10, 2025 - Page 20
Kathryn Bigelow's "A House of Dynamite" is an urgent, if heavy-handed nuclear wake-up call.
Words across the screen open the film, noting global...
Published on October 10, 2025 - Page 20
"Tron: Ares" is the third entry in a cult franchise somewhat trapped between the human and digital worlds.
Ride-or-die Tron-iacs are going to need...
Published on October 10, 2025 - Page 20
Luca Guadagnino's "After the Hunt" is set among a well-educated, self-involved class. It takes place around Yale University. His cocktail party...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 15
Benny Safdie's "The Smashing Machine" would seem to bear all the hallmarks of something grittier, darker and more disturbing than it is.
It's the...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 15
Filmmaker Raoul Peck uses George Orwell's writings to weave together a biographical portrait of the author and a dispiriting picture of power and...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 15
It is often said our greatest actors could compellingly recite the phone book.
There's no doubt Daniel Day-Lewis is one of our greatest living actors...
Published on October 3, 2025 - Page 15
HOLLYWOOD (AP) -- Aaron Sorkin is diving back into Facebook with a "Social Network" follow-up featuring Jeremy Strong as Mark Zuckerberg and a newly...
Published on September 26, 2025 - Page 13
There is a lovely story of friendship, grief and starting over at the heart of "Eleanor the Great." The film, directed by Scarlett Johansson in her...
Published on September 26, 2025 - Page 13
There's something about Laura Sharp and Simon Tavistock. Close friends since college, they share jokes no one else understands and instinctively know...
Published on September 19, 2025 - Page 11
Early on in "Adulthood," siblings Meg and Noah Robles learn why they never got to have a dog growing up.
There was a body walled up in the basement....
Published on September 19, 2025 - Page 11
Political struggles never die in Paul Thomas Anderson's gloriously messy "One Battle After Another."
Paranoid, pot-smoking, pajama-wearer Bob...
Published on September 19, 2025 - Page 11
On Nov. 8, 2018, the day the Camp Fire burned the town of Paradise, California, and killed 85 people, a school bus driver was sent to pick up 22...
Published on September 12, 2025 - Page 11
Change comes slowly to the Downton Abbey universe and its Crawley family. Just watch Robert Crawley (Hugh Bonneville) go flat-hunting in London.
It's...
Published on September 12, 2025 - Page 11
"The History of Sound" finds Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor in a romantic affair. It's a lyrical meditation on fleeting first love and the questions...
Published on September 12, 2025 - Page 11
In an early scene from "Spinal Tap II: The End Continues," the obtuse Nigel Tufnel asks his wife a question after he and his bandmates have reunited...
Published on September 5, 2025 - Page 11
"The Conjuring: Last Rites" seems to finally nail the coffin shut, saying goodbye to a series that revels in timeless scary stuff -- swing sets that...
Published on September 5, 2025 - Page 11
James Sweeney never had a twin, though he wanted one. The filmmaker dreamed of a having a twin that would serve as a kind of built-in best friend....
Published on September 5, 2025 - Page 11
Director Jay Duplass' "Baltimorons" is one of those little movies you might stumble across and be surprised it hooks you. It does so despite -- or...
Published on August 29, 2025 - Page 6
In "The Thursday Murder Club," an amiable, cozy, pleasantly entertaining adaptation of Richard Osman's mystery novel, the lucky club members live in...
Published on August 29, 2025 - Page 6
"The Roses" begins in a marriage therapist's office, where Theo Rose has something interesting to say about his longtime wife, Ivy: "I would rather...
Published on August 29, 2025 - Page 6
Darren Aronofsky has made several indelibly New York movies. But his latest, "Caught Stealing," is easily the director's most affectionate portrait...
Published on August 22, 2025 - Page 11
The skies are blue, the sun unrelenting and the body count escalating in the Bakersfield, California, of "Honey Don't!" It's where Margaret Qualley's...
Published on August 22, 2025 - Page 11
Following their 2020 breakout film, "The Climb," Kyle Marvin and Michael Angelo Covino offer "Splitsville." It likewise kicks off with heartbreak on...
Published on August 22, 2025 - Page 11
Based on a true story, Ron Howard's "Eden" retraces what happened when a group of Europeans attempted to start anew on the remote island of Floreana...
Published on August 16, 2025 - Page 14
Filmmaker Kate Beecroft points her lens toward the real cowgirls of the Badlands in the lyrical new film "East of Wall."
The film blends fact and...