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Published on August 15, 2025 - Page 8
The workaholic assassin Hutch Mansell is in a funk as "Nobody 2" opens. He's sick of the daily grind, by which we mean he spends hours a day grinding...
Published on August 15, 2025 - Page 8
Spike Lee's "Highest 2 Lowest" takes some time to find its groove. But once it does, when the film leaves the high rises and puts its feet on the New...
Published on August 8, 2025 - Page 7
It's a tale as old as time: Body-swapping. It's magical. It's comical. It carries heartwarming messages about walking in another's shoes, and...
Published on August 8, 2025 - Page 7
An enduring image from "Weapons" comes early: The sight of elementary school students running out of their homes and onto the suburban grass, moving...
Published on August 8, 2025 - Page 7
Before Kristin Scott Thomas turned 12, she lost her father and stepfather. Both were Royal Navy pilots who died in crashes. Thomas uses this kind of...
Published on August 1, 2025 - Page 6
Some say directing is 90% casting. In the case of Leslie Nielsen as Lt. Frank Drebin, it was more like 110%.
The choice of Nielsen for "Police Squad...
Published on August 1, 2025 - Page 6
The good news for fans of "The Bad Guys" is the sequel is stellar. But that's because a good portion is actually set in outer space. "The Bad Guys 2...
Published on August 1, 2025 - Page 6
The Spice Girls anthem "2 Become 1" takes on a whole new, horrifying meaning in "Together."
Written and directed by Australian filmmaker Michael...
Published on July 25, 2025 - Page 8
More than six decades after Jack Kirby and Stan Lee created a superhero team to rival the Justice League, the Fantastic Four finally gets a worthy...
Published on July 25, 2025 - Page 8
We wonder what happened to the romantic comedy.
How can we have fun with stories about romance when it is so bleak out there?
But thank goodness...
Published on July 18, 2025 - Page 7
Justin Timberlake had "Trolls." Rihanna has "Smurfs."
Like "Trolls," "Smurfs" gets as much mileage as it can from its pop singer-voice actor....
Published on July 18, 2025 - Page 7
The new "I Know What You Did Last Summer" pretty much follows the plot of the 1997 film of the same name: Well-to-do young people are stalked and...
Published on July 18, 2025 - Page 7
"Eddington," Ari Aster's latest nightmare vision, opens on the aggravated ramblings of an unhoused man and doesn't get much more coherent.
In "...
Published on July 11, 2025 - Page 8
It's a bird, it's a plane, it's a ... a purple and orange shape-shifting chemical compound?
Writer-director James Gunn's "Superman" was always going...
Published on July 11, 2025 - Page 8
"Are we racists?" That's the blunt question posed by Bobo, a White girl living on a farm in Africa, to her horrified mother.
It feels thoroughly...
Published on July 3, 2025 - Page 20
If you've been feeling the "Jurassic Park" franchise jumped an even more ancient creature -- the shark -- hold off any thoughts of extinction....
Published on July 3, 2025 - Page 20
About 80 minutes into "The Old Guard 2," there were a lot of threads dangling with Charlize Theron's gang of immortal warriors. She had yet to face...
Published on July 3, 2025 - Page 20
The Idris Elba-John Cena vehicle "Heads of State" is surely the first buddy comedy about the fraying bonds of NATO.
The potential collapse of the...
Published on June 27, 2025 - Page 8
The wide-screen spectacle of Formula One gets a gleaming, rip-roaring workout in Joseph Kosinski's "F1." It's a fine-tuned machine of a movie that in...
Published on June 27, 2025 - Page 8
If you want to know how big an upgrade the "M3GAN" sequel has on the original, look no further than the first scene. "M3GAN" was mostly set in a...
Published on June 27, 2025 - Page 8
The first thing to love about writer-director-star Eva Victor's extraordinary debut "Sorry, Baby" is how she, as the young professor Agnes, tries and...
Published on June 20, 2025 - Page 8
Elio is a lonely 11-year-old just looking for big answers about life.
He's recently lost his parents, the only people who understood him and wanted...
Published on June 20, 2025 - Page 8
Take your average wedding flick, shotgun a hostage situation into it and add some anarchic energy from Rebel Wilson and you get "Bride Hard," which...
Published on June 20, 2025 - Page 8
Danny Boyle's 2002 dystopian thriller "28 Days Later" managed to be on the cutting edge of two trends: global pandemic and fleet-footed zombies.
Add...
Published on June 13, 2025 - Page 8
Ever wanted to soar through the skies on the back of a friendly dragon? The new "How to Train Your Dragon" may be the ticket, from a decidedly safer...
Published on June 13, 2025 - Page 8
The problem with so many rom-coms is how often we're asked to conveniently dismiss our knowledge of life's realities. Particularly economic ones.
How...
Published on June 13, 2025 - Page 8
NICE, France -- An ominous chain unspools through the water. Then comes chaos. A churning cloud of mud erupts as a net plows the seafloor, wrenching...
Published on June 6, 2025 - Page 8
Watch a bunch of John Wick movies all in a row, and you start to think everyone's an assassin.
So it shouldn't be too surprising that in "From the...
Published on June 6, 2025 - Page 8
"Life of Chuck" teases out a cosmic mystery about life and some guy named Charles Krantz (Tom Hiddleston) in a story told in reverse chronological...
Published on June 6, 2025 - Page 8
As if a movie about sharks wasn't scary enough, the filmmakers behind "Dangerous Animals" added a serial killer.
The result is taut and well crafted...