Star Rating: 4 StarsCast: Jeremy Irons, George MacKay, Jannis NiewöhnerRelease Date: Friday, January 21, 2022MPAA Rating: PG-13Brought to you by www.michaelmedved.com
In 1996, a wonderfully clever take on horror movies began with a dazzling sequence. A high school kid played by Drew Barrymore answers the phone in her empty house. A flirty caller asks her if she...
Star Rating: 1.5 StarsCast: Keanu Reeves, Carrie-Anne Moss, Yahya Abdul-Mateen IIRelease Date: Wednesday, December 22, 2021MPAA Rating: RBrought to you by www.michaelmedved.com
The new movie Licorice Pizza isn't autobiographical; it's set in 1973, when its writer-director, Paul Thomas Anderson, was three years old. But it feels lived-in, familiar, as though it's full of stories...
Star Rating: 3.5 StarsCast: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Bertie CarvelRelease Date: Saturday, December 25, 2021MPAA Rating: RBrought to you by www.michaelmedved.com
Star Rating: 2.5 StarsCast: Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Jessie BuckleyRelease Date: Friday, December 17, 2021MPAA Rating: RBrought to you by www.michaelmedved.com
In 1999, The Matrix caused a sensation in large measure because it had some of the best fighting sequences ever filmed—scenes that featured a remarkable understanding of how to frame, stage, and film...
There are two kinds of people in the world. First, there are the ones who think Cate Blanchett is the greatest actress of her time, capable of anything—not only winning an Oscar for playing Katharine...
Spider-Man: No Way Home isn't going to save moviegoing, because I'm not sure anything can, but it sure makes one hell of an effort. After the horrendous misfire that was Eternals, Marvel has not only...
Star Rating: 4 StarsCast: Ansel Elgort, Rachel Zegler, Ariana DeBoseRelease Date: Friday, December 10, 2021MPAA Rating: PG-13Brought to you by www.michaelmedved.com
Before I begin to pile on the superlatives about Steven Spielberg's new version of West Side Story—and oh, yes, there will be superlatives, many, many superlatives—let me talk to you about the 1961...
Star Rating: 4 StarsCast: Nicole Kidman, Javier Bardem, J. K. SimmonsRelease Date: Friday, December 10, 2021MPAA Rating: RBrought to you by www.michaelmedved.com
Star Rating: 2.5 StarsCast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Kirsten Dunst, Jesse Plemons (NETFLIX)Release Date: Wednesday, December 1, 2021MPAA Rating: RBrought to you by www.michaelmedved.com
They used to make movies like House of Gucci every year, like clockwork, back in the day—glossy melodramas about rich and powerful people behaving badly and having lots of sex. Usually they were thinly...
Star Rating: 2.5 StarsCast: Lady Gaga, Adam Driver, Jared LetoRelease Date: Wednesday, November 24, 2021MPAA Rating: RBrought to you by www.michaelmedved.com
The Only Living Boy in New York
Cast: Callum Turner,...
An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power
Cast: Al Gore
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Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a remarkably innovative movie in one respect: It takes a famously crazy farce as its wellspring and uses it as the source material for a relatively earnest teen drama. I’ve...
After France recalled its ambassador from Washington last September to protest a submarine deal between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States, many remarked that we had reached the lowest...
Star Rating: 2.5 StarsCast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Andrea Riseborough (Prime Video)Release Date: Friday, November 5, 2021MPAA Rating: PG-13Brought to you by www.michaelmedved.com
