Our blockbuster drought is over, thanks to a brilliant sequel set on a sweltering desert planet. Thatโs โDune: Part Two,โ the captivating and complex followup to director Denis Villeneuveโs grand...
If youโre on the fence about catching yet another โColor Purpleโ adaptation, I get it.ย Since Alice Walkerโs novel was published in 1982, the world has experienced Steven Spielbergโs Oscar-nominated...
Those chatty British chickens have been supersized.ย Now, instead of the quaint country cry of โI donโt want to be a pie!โ from the 2000 claymation classic โChicken Run,โ the fed-up poultry battles...
Now that 11 years have passed since โThe Hunger Gamesโ first hit theaters, itโs impossible to spoil these movies anymore.ย So, I can reveal to you without any shame whatsoever that in the fifth...
Depicting one of the most consequential figures in all of European history as a sourpuss clown who crazily rattles off nonsense is a brow-raising choice by Ridley Scott, screenwriter David Scarpa and the...
During the 1980s and โ90s, Meg Ryan was the Queen of Rom Coms.ย She was the luminous star of โWhen Harry Met Sally,โ โYouโve Got Mailโ and โSleepless in Seattle,โ but after experiencing...
Even for Martin Scorsese, a master of turning true stories into hot movies, โKillers of the Flower Moonโ is a high-wire act of filmmaking.ย Its subject is a lot trickier than the rise and fall of...
What a shame that the major controversy surrounding the movie โMaestro,โ the Leonard Bernstein biopic that had its North American premiere Monday night at the New York Film Festival, was over its director-and-star...
Hollywood, by and large, portrays bars as the most fun and chummy places on earth. At โCheersโ and โCoyote Ugly,โ everybody knows your name and you can grow into a better person by sexy dancing....
On his third try, Kenneth Branagh gets an Agatha Christie movie right. I had mostly given up on the once-heinous mystery series, dragging myself to his new โA Haunting in Veniceโ like I was the poor...
Itโs been a chilly summer at the movies. Stories about retail products, the atomic bomb, a revisionist doll and CGI Harrison Ford have gobbled up our attention, for better or worse, but not because any...
The greatest asset of the movie โOne Life,โ starring Anthony Hopkins, is the harrowing true story itโs based on. You might not immediately recognize the name Sir Nicholas Winton, but you have probably...
Itโs been a banner year for underdog movies about seemingly unremarkable real-life events. The excellent โAirโ and โBlackBerryโ made the genesis of the Air Jordan sneaker and the worldโs first...
โThe Boy and The Heron,โ director Hayao Miyazakiโs latest animated fantasy that had its North American premiere Thursday at the Toronto International Film Festival, could be the legendary filmmakerโs...
Itโs never a good sign when the most rousing part of a movie is the end credits. But thatโs the way it is, in the totally unnecessary โIndiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,โ where John Williamsโ...
โThe Flashโ made a splash its first night in theaters. DCโs highly anticipated superhero film starring Ezra Miller took in $24.5 million on its opening night Friday, according to IMDBโs Box...
How many more everyday objects can Pixar possibly give googly eyes and mouths to? The answer, as Buzz Lightyear would say, appears to be โto infinity and beyond!โ Because for their new โElemental,โ...
Everybody has known it for ages: Optimus is way past his Prime.ย The first โTransformersโ film in 2007, starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, was frivolous enough; the next four were appalling;...
One piece of advice must have been on repeat inside the heads of the creators of โSpider-Man: Across the Spider-Verseโ: With great first film comes great responsibility.ย Because the superb sequel...
โKandahar,โ starring Gerard Butler, is the sort of textureless action thriller that sounds like itโs been musically scored by a subwoofer.ย The bass never stops booming as grizzled men frown...
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