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Published on January 9, 2026 - Page 9
"Greenland 2: Migration" is a serviceable but rather low-key, even grim affair starring a sturdy, understandably melancholy Gerard Butler. It would...
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"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 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 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 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 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 24, 2025 - Page 7
It sounds rather like a mixed compliment to say an actor's persuasive at playing, well, a mediocre actor.
But then, this is Brendan Fraser. It is his...
Published on November 16, 2025 - Page 7
"Welcome to the delicious hell that is high society," beckons the trailer for "The Seduction," HBO Max's steamy new French-language drama inspired by...
Published on November 7, 2025 - Page 9
"Christy," directed by David Mich?d, begins as a solid sports biopic, the based-on-true-events story of boxer Christy Martin (played by Sydney...
Published on October 24, 2025 - Page 19
Colleen Hoover's "Regretting You," a tragicomic intergenerational romance adapted by Susan McMartin, has its share of grief. But the strange way the...
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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 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 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 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 January 9, 2026 - Page 9
"Greenland 2: Migration" is a serviceable but rather low-key, even grim affair starring a sturdy, understandably melancholy Gerard Butler. It would...