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‘Christopher Robin’ a return to Hundred Acre Wood
Oh, bother. The misfortune of “Christopher Robin” is not only that it comes a year after “Goodbye Christopher Robin,” an earnest if sentimental tale ... -
Tom Cruise thwarts the apocalypse on a broken ankle
And so, fellow moviegoers: Ask not what your country can do for you. Ask what Tom Cruise can — and will — do for ... -
‘Adrift’ is a woman vs nature tale for the MeToo era
Woman vs. nature. It certainly has a ring to it, especially when woman wins. But there are too few such stories in our popular ... -
Denzel Washington kills in ‘The Equalizer 2’
You won’t usually find Denzel Washington in a movie sequel. He just doesn’t do them. Something about not wanting to repeat himself. So there ... -
Click ‘like’ for Bo Burnham’s ‘Eighth Grade’
Not even Joseph Conrad had the courage to venture into that darkest of hearts: middle school. Bo Burnham’s “Eighth Grade,” however, plunges us into ... -
‘The First Purge’ is depressingly prescient
This Fourth of July, we’ve got a chance to celebrate America’s birth in a very American way — watching internecine warfare, spasms of savage ... -
In ‘Day of the Soldado,’ an equally bleak ‘Sicario’
There’s an oppressive bleakness to the brutal action-thriller “Sicario: Day of the Soldado.” But with faces like Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro, what ... -
‘Jurassic World 2’ leans on nostalgia, contrivances
Here’s the good news: “Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom “ is more fun than “Jurassic World.” It’s not exactly a high bar, but still a ... -
FAMILY FUN AND INSIGHT IN SPRIGHTLY ‘INCREDIBLES 2’
The Incredibles writer/director Brad Bird has said that his characters’ powers are all born of stereotypes. Dad is strong, mom is stretched in a ... -
By-the-numbers ‘Ocean’s 8’ covers familiar territory
Steven Soderbergh’s “Ocean’s Eleven” remake is a hard movie to live up to. Its starry charm was backed by a breezy and deceptively dense ... -
In ‘American Animals,’ a library heist goes awry
For anyone who has ever read “Crime and Punishment” and then really wanted to see a frat boy version — Bro-stoyevsky, if you will ... -
In ‘Ibiza’ a summer comedy, streaming at home
So long a staple of the moviegoing experience, the summer comedy has fallen on hard times. There are hardly any on this season’s release ... -
The tormented souls of Schrader’s ‘First Reformed’
Harrowing, but with a wry humor, and utterly transporting, Paul Schrader has synthesized his complex religious upbringing with modern anxieties into a trenchant portrait ... -
‘The Seagull’ a lively but uneven Chekhov adaptation
Productions of Anton Chekhov’s “The Seagull” almost always tip too far into farce or wade too deeply into tragedy, unable to sustain the play’s ... -
In ‘Avengers: Infinity War,’ Marvel goes nuclear
After 10 years of lean, threadbare, Lilliputian tales, Marvel Studios has, thank heavens, finally decided to go big. The scale of “Avengers: Infinity War,” ... -
McAdams, Weisz give searing turns in ‘Disobedience’
Disobedience is a slow-burn drama that reveals its true self patiently to the audience. From director Sebastián Lelio (“A Fantastic Woman”) and based on ... -
Road trips and redemption in Netflix’s ‘Kodachrome’
The characters in the new film “Kodachrome ,” a good-natured if by-the-numbers road trip and relationship drama with Jason Sudeikis, Elizabeth Olsen and Ed ... -
Plenty to love in film about Borg versus McEnroe
Let’s begin this review of “Borg Vs. McEnroe” with a huge spoiler alert. The final score of the 1980 Wimbledon men’s final between Bjorn ... -
‘Chappaquiddick’ examines the ripples of a scandal
Ambiguous and damning at once, John Curran’s “Chappaquiddick” plunges us back into the summer of 1969: the season of Woodstock, the moon landing, the ... -
Slick neo-noir ‘Gemini’ stays surface level
Writer-director Aaron Katz’s “Gemini “ is a very stylishly executed and well-cast attempt at a Lynchian neo-noir that doesn’t really work. Glum and meandering, ... -
Soderbergh’s ‘Unsane’ is pulp seen through an iPhone
Steven Soderbergh, who briefly retired from Hollywood after lamenting its timid small-mindedness, has shot his second post-hiatus film entirely on an iPhone. “Unsane,” a ... -
‘Love, Simon’ a fresh and classic take on first love
Some things are universal about being a teenager: The budding sexuality and sense of identity, the dramatic emotions, the profound need for acceptance and ... -
‘Annihilation’ is a trippy and frightful fantasia
“The Shimmer” is the name given to the mysterious phenomenon that, after a meteor strike, settles along a swampy coastline in Alex Garland’s “Annihilation.” ... -
Israeli family/military drama ‘Foxtrot’ is a stunner
Watching the Israeli film “Foxtrot “ is like watching a dream play out. Writer-director Samuel Maoz’s (“Lebanon”) excellent film is of course more structured ... -
Bateman, McAdams anchor lively and fun ‘Game Night’
A murder mystery party goes sideways when violent kidnappers arrive before the fake ones in “Game Night,” which seems on the page to be ... -
Lean and mischievous, ‘The Party’ is worth your time
Sally Potter’s new film “The Party” is 71 minutes long. That fact alone shouldn’t necessarily be a selling point — stories need as long ... -
‘Black Panther’ is dazzling grand-scale filmmaking
The supposedly cosmically vast Marvel Cinematic Universe, as it’s called, spans planets peppered throughout the galaxy, but Ryan Coogler’s Earth-bound “Black Panther,” glittering and ... -
A star is born in Oscar-nominee ‘A Fantastic Woman’
The lead character of Sebastian Lelio’s film “A Fantastic Woman “ is named Marina. She is a nightclub singer and a waitress. She has ... -
A provocative drama in Oscar-nominated ‘The Insult’
In the provocative Lebanese film “The Insult ,” a minor conflict over a gutter between two ordinary men in Beirut spirals and escalates to ... -
With Hugh Grant, ‘Paddington 2’ is simply wonderful
Paddington 2” is that rare creation that somehow improves on its already charming predecessor. Maybe it’s the addition of Hugh Grant as a lunatic ... -
In ‘In the Fade,’ a seldom seen face of terrorism
It’s startling how few filmmakers have tried to tackle terrorism with anything beyond a standard procedural account. It’s less surprising that one of the ... -
‘Phantom Thread’ spins a rich showcase for Day-Lewis
With echoes of “Rebecca” and lavish Max Ophuls productions, writer and director Paul Thomas Anderson spins the tale of an obsessive fashion designer and ... -
‘Downsizing,’ a big-picture film about little people
It’s hard to say what’s better about the first half of Alexander Payne’s wonderfully weird — or is it weirdly wonderful? — “Downsizing”: the ... -
‘Bright’ is when Harry Potter vomits on a cop flick
That old Hollywood standby, the venerable buddy cop movie, may have met its anguished demise this holiday season. Will Smith just killed it. Virtually ... -
Spielberg, Streep and Hanks deliver in ‘The Post’
The Post” is kind of like the Yankees of movies. A Steven Spielberg directed film about the Pentagon Papers starring Tom Hanks, Meryl Streep ...
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