‘Cats’ review: Wrong animal. It’s a dog.
In a world laden with movies dramatizing the serious, painful divisions threatening so much of the planet, along comes the film version of "Cats" with the express intention of ignoring...
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The best — and worst — movies of 2019
The most astounding performance on film in 2019 came from Lupita Nyong'o, whose double act as Adelaide and her underworld doppelganger, Red, in the thriller "Us" dazzled even those who...
‘Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker’ review: The space saga straightens up and flies right, more or less
"Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" does the job. It wraps up the trio of trilogies begun in 1977 in a confident, soothingly predictable way, doing all that is cinematically...
Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker review: The space saga straightens up and flies right, more or less
"Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker" does the job. It wraps up the trio of trilogies begun in 1977 in a confident, soothingly predictable way, doing all that is cinematically...
‘Bombshell’ review: Fox News has its #MeToo moment with Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie
One week after the tepid box office reception for "Richard Jewell," a well-acted, sneakily political, fact-adjacent drama of no little controversy, here comes "Bombshell" — another well-acted, sneakily political and...
‘Richard Jewell’ review: Clint Eastwood’s seething, flawed reminder that sometimes the fake-news rap is legit
"Richard Jewell" is a sincere and extremely well-acted irritant from 89-year-old director Clint Eastwood. It's destined to get under the hides of different moviegoers in radically different ways. You may...
‘Knives and Skin’ review: A girl, gone, and a Chicago filmmaker’s eerie pursuit
A film of slow dissolves and lots of ironic pinks, tinged with darker, crimson hues, Chicago filmmaker Jennifer Reeder's dreamlike reverie of blood-soaked adolescence "Knives and Skin" can be described,...
Commentary: Do Clint Eastwood and ‘Richard Jewell’ paint their Atlanta reporter character honestly? Hell, no.
Movies make stuff up all the time. You have a problem with that? I don't. But I do have trouble with movies handing us the same lazy, loaded, misogynist line...
Golden Globes fail to recognize Lupita Nyong’o in ‘Us’, Ava DuVernay’s ‘When They See Us’, Greta Gerwig
Monday morning's announcement of the 77th Golden Globes nominations can be summed up in four little words: When they see us. Those words refer to more than director Ava DuVernay's...
‘Two Popes’ review: Anthony Hopkins and Jonathan Pryce enliven a papal buddy film
I'd love to live in a world where the collective citizenry could agree on a set of facts, historical or present-day, to guide our way forward. I'd love to, and...