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In ‘Poor Things,’ Emma Stone takes an unusual path to enlightenment
It is sickly hilarious to make a movie in which so much consensual sex is had, often so gleefully, that is not the least ... -
‘Eileen,’ a wonderful novel about an ‘invisible’ young lady becomes a oddball film
Something strange has happened to Eileen Dunlop, and we don’t just mean the plot of “Eileen.” The adaptation of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh’s delicious coming-of-age ... -
In Ridley Scott’s ‘Napoleon,’ the emperor has no clothes but plenty of ego
In Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon,” Joaquin Phoenix portrays the legendary French emperor in a film that defies the traditional grandeur of historical epics. With a ... -
Taika Waititi’s ‘Next Goal Wins’ is a sweet, frothy diversion but no knee slide
In “Next Goal Wins,” a soccer coach comes from far away to lead a hapless group of athletes. He’s a fish-out-of-water type, ill-suited for ... -
Nicolas Cage finds fame to be highly overrated in chillingly funny ‘Dream Scenario’
Quick: What’s a good adjective for Nicolas Cage’s screen presence? Mercurial, perhaps? Volcanic? Volatile? How about mundane, schlubby, average? Not the page we’d think ... -
‘Rustin’ with an outstanding Colman Domingo terrific look at March on Washington
The 1963 March on Washington drew an estimated 250,000 people from across the country — the largest march at that point in American history ... -
Teen dreams and adult nightmares in Sofia Coppola’s ‘Priscilla’
Dreamily gazing at the album covers of Elvis Presley was not, statistically speaking, a rare habit among American teen girls in the late 1950s ... -
Scorsese’s epic ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is sweeping tale of greed, richly told
There tends to be lots of fast talking and fast moving in Martin Scorsese films, often from shifty types trying to get away with ... -
Jamie Foxx leads a crowd-pleasing courtroom drama in ‘The Burial’
Jamie Foxx deploys his movie star charm judiciously and skillfully as a litigator with swagger to spare in “ The Burial,” a very entertaining ... -
In ‘Fair Play,’ a battle of the sexes on Wall Street
The disquieting root of Chloe Domont’s slinky, slick feature debut “Fair Play” lies in the face of Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) as he learns that ... -
‘Dumb Money’ recalls GameStop squeeze, when regular folk put the screws on Wall Street
The little guy — or at least the little guy with a few hundred bucks to sink into the stock market — gets a ... -
A star-making turn for Eve Hewson in the feel-good ‘Flora and Son’
John Carney, the Irish filmmaker of “Once,” “Sing Street” and “Begin Again,” makes the movie version of “three chords and the truth.” His films, ... -
‘Cassandro,’ with Gabriel Garcia Bernal as a liberated luchador, is a winner
Anyone who has eagerly followed Gabriel Garcia Bernal since his breakthrough roles in “Amores Perros” and “Y tu mamá también” likely never foresaw him ... -
Pinochet as a vampire in surreal, frightening ‘El Conde’
The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not dead in Pablo Larraín’s “El Conde.” He is instead a 250-year-old vampire living in semi-exile and wishing ... -
Gal Gadot turns superspy in ‘Heart of Stone’
It’s turning out to be quite a summer for superspies and supercomputers. A month after the action feast of “Mission: Impossible — Dead Reckoning ... -
‘Bottoms’ is a gonzo gay high-school comedy that comes out on top
The rites and rituals of the raunchy high-school comedy can be as prescribed as a class syllabus. But what makes Emma Seligman’s “Bottoms” such ... -
The movie version of a beach read arrives in Amazon’s ‘Red, White & Royal Blue’
Red, White & Royal Blue “ is a harmlessly enjoyable fantasy rom-com. It’s not Nora Ephron or Nancy Meyers, nor is it really trying ... -
Horror flick is a hand-some high-five for twin Australian filmmakers
You’ve got to hand it to the Philippou brothers. They’ve taken an old horror cliche — a severed hand — and made something worth, ... -
Passion and love get messy in Ira Sachs’ smoldering ‘Passages’
If you’ve been wondering where all the sex has gone from the movies, you’re in luck: The new film “Passages” does not hold back ... -
A bomb and its fallout in Christopher Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’
Christopher Nolan’s “Oppenheimer” is a kinetic thing of dark, imposing beauty that quakes with the disquieting tremors of a forever rupture in the course ... -
Musical theater meets mockumentary in ‘Theater Camp’
Among the low-hanging fruits of satire, sleepaway theater camps would dangle about as low as social-media influencers and Def Leppard cover bands. But “Theater ... -
‘The Lesson’ provides a spicy literary thriller
The egos are as vast and thorny as the gardens on the lush estate of a prominent author in “ The Lesson,” an entertaining ... -
Harrison Ford gets a swashbuckling sendoff in ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’
The magic of Indiana Jones belongs wholly to Harrison Ford. Apparently, he doesn’t even necessarily need Steven Spielberg behind the camera, though, to be ... -
Movie Review: A fantasy adventure with riot-grrrl energy in ‘Nimona’
A powerful, shapeshifting teenage girl and a disgraced knight-in-training suspected of killing a beloved queen are at the heart of “ Nimona,” a vibrant ... -
The giddy splendor of ‘Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse’
Let’s get this upfront: “Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse” was the best comic-book film of the last decade. With an animation blizzard blown straight in ... -
‘About My Father’ is a messy, limp rom-com with Robert De Niro as bait
If you were to resurrect the tired storyline of a young couple having to meet their partners’ parents and were looking around for someone ... -
Smelling dirt with Joel Edgerton in Schrader’s murky ‘Master Gardener’
Paul Schrader plants the seeds of an intriguing melodrama in his latest creation “ Master Gardener.” Sigourney Weaver is a wealthy dowager with a ... -
In ‘Still,’ Michael J. Fox movingly tells his story
I’ve always liked Michael J. Fox and always will. I suspect most people feel the same way. That’s surely partly because, as Marty McFly ... -
‘Beau Is Afraid’ is stuck in a one-note nightmare
Beau may be afraid but Ari Aster certainly isn’t. Of the many words used to describe the writer-director’s previous two films — “Hereditary” and ... -
‘Polite Society’ is a punk blast of pure delight
Coming-of-age comedies about young protagonists with esoteric dreams are not exactly a rarity. What is less common, though, are films as spirited and charming ... -
Blood sloshes and Nicolas Cage feasts in ‘Renfield’
“Renfield” is not Nicolas Cage’s first blush with a vampire. In 1988’s “Vampire’s Kiss,” he played a New York literary agent who thought he ... -
John Wick gets even more stylish in fourth episode
A trip to Paris should be on everyone’s bucket list, even John Wick. The Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre — what ... -
A compassionate immigrant drama in ‘Tori and Lokita’
It’s one of the great ironies of cinema that many — not all, but many — of the most seemingly arthouse filmmakers make some ... -
U2 documentary marred by an oddball American
David Letterman joins Bono and The Edge in a new streaming documentary about U2 and one obvious question soon jumps out: What exactly is ... -
Idris Elba returns as Luther in grisly Netflix film
For anyone holding on to some latent hope that Idris Elba will be the next James Bond, I have some bad news: “ Luther: ...
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