Latest by Jocelyn Noveck

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 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 April 18, 2025 - Page 14
In the last few months, we've had Robert Pattinson, Theo James and the great Robert De Niro playing opposite each other on screen. Now we have by far...
Published on April 4, 2025 - Page 7
Writer-director Ryan Fleck, with partner Anna Boden, has produced a "very weird" love letter to his former home of Oakland in "Freaky Tales." What's...
Published on March 21, 2025 - Page 8
"You're the actor!" shouts Anna Genovese at her estranged spouse, gangster Vito Genovese, in a courtroom where he's implausibly claiming he lacks...
Published on March 7, 2025 - Page 8
However crummy you think your 9-5 job is, it'll never be as bad as Robert Pattinson's in Bong Joon Ho's "Mickey 17." Mickey is an "expendable." His...
Published on February 21, 2025 - Page 8
It's not a toy. Whatever you do, do NOT call it a toy. That's the chilling message from the spooked airline pilot (Adam Scott) who arrives at a pawn...
Published on February 14, 2025 - Page 8
It is a truth universally acknowledged, as Bridget Jones herself might write in her diary, that at the end of any "Bridget Jones" movie, our heroine...
Published on February 9, 2025 - Page 5
LOS ANGELES -- In the hit movie "Wicked," those famous magical shoes are silver. But if you want to see them in all their ruby-red glory from "The...
Published on January 31, 2025 - Page 8
"Iris, wake up!" Early in "Companion," lovely Iris and her nerdy-nice boyfriend Josh are driving to a secluded lake house for a stay with friends....