Tag: Drive In
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Alice Rohrwacher’s tombaroli tale is pure magic
When we talk about “movie magic,” the first thing that comes to mind is often something like the bikes achieving liftoff in “E.T.” But it applies ... -
Things get scary for Sydney Sweeney in a creepy Italian convent
It’s not your imagination: Sydney Sweeney is everywhere. In the past four months, she’s been in a romantic comedy that turned into a sleeper hit, a ... -
A remake of ‘Road House’ with Gyllenhaal turns into a muscular, Florida romp
Elwood P. Dalton is a classy sort of bouncer. While five tough guys circle him outside a bar looking to bash his skull in, he ... -
‘Love Lies Bleeding’ is peak Kristen Stewart
Muscles ripple, veins pop and electronic music throbs in “Love Lies Bleeding,” a heaving, hyper-sexy neo-noir drenched in sweat, blood and bug guts. If that last ... -
Writer-director Julio Torres proves a storyteller to cheer with awesome ‘Problemista’
The hero of “Problemista” sees the world differently. He’s an aspiring toy designer named Alejandro who thinks today’s toys are too fun. He proposes a toy ... -
Dakota is fun enough, but ‘Madame Web’ is repetitive and messy
There is a lot of pretty niche comic book mythology swirling around “Madame Web,” the inspiration for the newest of Sony’s “Spider-Man” spinoffs. This is a ... -
Wim Wenders’ ‘Perfect Days’ is sublime
Wim Wenders’ “Perfect Days” is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks that Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) traverses daily in his job ... -
In ‘How to Have Sex,’ the party suddenly stops being fun
For women of a certain age who grew up being told that if they wore the wrong thing, drank a little too much, or gave the ... -
In ‘The Teachers’ Lounge,’ one middle school as microcosm of a troubled world
What happens in the teachers’ lounge, anyway? When we were kids, that closed door seemed so tantalizingly forbidding, though it probably only hid some coffee-sipping, light ... -
Kaluuya builds a compelling near-future dystopia in ‘The Kitchen’
The near-future is bleak for the working class of London in “The Kitchen,” a well-executed film about a familiar kind of urban dystopian nightmare. It is, ... -
Anthony Hopkins shines in ‘Freud’s Last Session’
Freud’s Last Session,” starring Anthony Hopkins as Sigmund Freud, adds to a string of sterling late-chapter performances by the 86-year-old actor. He was the soul of ... -
Clooney’s ‘Boys in the Boat’ is an underdog saga that’s both stirring and a tad stodgy
Director George Clooney both begins and ends “The Boys in the Boat “ on a sun-dappled lake. It’s a seductive sight, calm and soothing, and ... -
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 bit sexy. ... -
‘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 heroine has ... -
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 runtime of ... -
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 the job, ... -
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 to turn ... -
‘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 — and ... -
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 and early ... -
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 something. Or ... -
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 courtroom drama. ... -
‘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 movie to ... -
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, unabashedly earnest, ... -
‘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 one day ... -
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 Part I,” ... -
‘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 an anarchic ... -
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 of human ... -
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 Camp,” a ... -
‘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 and erudite ... -
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 fair, the ... -
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 from the ... -
‘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 to play ... -
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 stately name ... -
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 in “Back ... -
‘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 “Midsommar” — ...
