Tag: Film
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In ‘The Baltimorons,’ emergency dental work prompts an unlikely rom-com
There are all kinds of movies that are either endangered or practically extinct. The big-studio comedy. The original musical. But the sweet and shaggy regular-people movie ... -
Murder, she solved: Mirren channels Lansbury in ‘Thursday Murder Club’
First of all, is this really what retirement looks like? If so, perhaps we should all sign up. In “The Thursday Murder Club,” an amiable adaptation ... -
Ron Howard’s ‘Eden’ brings 1920s chaos on a Galápagos island to life
Ron Howard’s “Eden” opens with a bold statement: “Fascism is spreading.” It’ll surely carry weight in modern society, but the phrase is referencing events from nearly ... -
‘Dead to Rights’ turns photos into weapons against forgetting
If “Schindler’s List” left you shattered, prepare for a different, yet equally profound, kind of devastation with “Dead to Rights,” which opened in Macau and across ... -
Horror master Kiyoshi Kurosawa to bring eerie storytelling to his first samurai film
Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa, known as a master of horror films set within the neurotic realism of the modern day, will bring his signature edge-of-your-seat storytelling ... -
‘Oh, Hi!’ Is a sharp, silly take on modern romance
Modern dating can feel like a psychological minefield. Filmmaker Sophie Brooks leans into that disarray with “Oh, Hi!” – a dark comedy about expectations, miscommunication, and ... -
‘Superman’ and DC Studios fly to a $122 million opening
In a bid to kickoff a new era for DC Studios, James Gunn’s “Superman” opened with $122 million in U.S. and Canada ticket sales over the weekend, according ... -
In ‘Heads of State,’ a buddy comedy with statesmen
Say what you will about the Idris Elba-John Cena vehicle “Heads of State,” but it’s surely the first buddy comedy about the fraying bonds of NATO. ... -
Charlize Theron and Uma Thurman get half a movie
About 80 minutes into “The Old Guard 2,” you may start to wonder how it’s going to wrap up. Charlize Theron’s gang of immortal warriors is ... -
In ‘Sorry, Baby,’ Eva Victor makes a disarming debut
The first thing to love about writer-director-star Eva Victor’s extraordinary debut “Sorry, Baby” is how she, as the young professor Agnes, tries, and fails, to hide ... -
Asian Film Awards Academy announces second edition of International Film Camp
The Asian Film Awards Academy announced the second edition of the International Film Camp (IFC) and opened applications at a press conference on Friday at The ... -
Ana de Armas is better at killing than ballet, in a John Wick spinoff
Watch a bunch of John Wick movies all in a row, and you can get pretty paranoid. You start to think everyone’s an assassin. The guy ... -
Mr. Miyagi’s absence is felt in ‘Karate Kid: Legends’
Mr. Miyagi was known for waxing poetic. So the fact that “Karate Kid: Legends” has nothing to say is all the more disappointing. One of the ... -
Schmaltzy and sweet, Vince Vaughn leads Netflix’s ‘Nonnas’
The new Vince Vaughn movie “Nonnas” aspires to be a bit of cinematic comfort food. It’s based on a heartwarming true story, features a lot of ... -
The sweep of history courses through Jia Zhangke’s ‘Caught By the Tides’
Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides” is less than two hours long and yet contains nearly a quarter-century of time’s relentless march forward. Few films course ... -
‘April’ is shattering and essential
Whatever cruelness you might assign to the month, Dea Kulumbegashvili’s “April” probably has it beat. Kulumbegashvili’s shattering, sensational film is set in a hardscrabble, provincial region ... -
‘The Accountant 2,’ with Ben Affleck, isn’t quite a write-off
Hordes of horror films line up for Halloween and a sleigh full of Christmas movies arrive annually in December, but there is slightly less competition around ... -
Rami Malek wants revenge in starry, globetrotting action pic
Before Jack Ryan was introduced into the culture, Robert Littell imagined Charlie Heller, a quiet, CIA cryptographer who goes rogue on a quest for vengeance after ... -
Naomi Watts and a Great Dane mourn Bill Murray in ‘The Friend’
Having it all means different things to everyone, but a rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan is probably pretty close to a universal dream — even for non-New ... -
‘Novocaine,’ with Jack Quaid, is a shot of bloody action-comedy
Nathan Caine may not be able to feel pain, as the tagline for the new action-comedy “Novocaine” reads, but the same does not apply to audiences. ... -
A reckoning in surreal, riveting ‘On Becoming a Guinea Fowl’
Shula is driving home from a fancy dress party one night when she encounters an unusual sight in the middle of a country road: her Uncle ... -
A gripping deep-sea rescue mission in ‘Last Breath’ with Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu
A routine deep-sea diving mission in the North Sea goes terribly wrong when a young diver is stranded some 300 feet below the surface in the ... -
Captain America soars toward a $100 million holiday weekend
Captain America: Brave New World” infused some blockbuster cash into the North American box office, bringing in $88.5 million in ticket sales over the weekend, according ... -
‘Conclave’ wins best picture as ‘The Brutalist’ takes directing and acting prizes
Papal thriller “ Conclave ” won four prizes including best picture yesterday [Macau time] at the 78th British Academy Film Awards, where genre-bending musical “ Emilia Pérez ” proved that ... -
Bloody and witty, ‘Companion’ explores what humanity means in an AI-powered world
“Iris, wake up!” Early in “Companion,” lovely Iris and her nerdy-nice boyfriend Josh are driving to a secluded lake house for a stay with friends. Iris ... -
‘No Other Land’ is a shocking look at Palestinian life under occupation
The irony shouldn’t be lost on anyone that “No Other Land,” a documentary about the systemic demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank, cannot find ... -
Steven Soderbergh’s eerie haunted house drama ‘Presence’ packs a punch
The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.” The filmmaker traps the audience in a beautiful suburban home, letting ... -
‘Wolf Man’ is a toothless reboot that’ll make you bark at the moon
Blake Lovell thinks taking his wife and young daughter to rural Oregon to pack up his dead father’s belongings is a good idea. It’s a break ... -
Robbie Williams has always lived to entertain. In ‘Better Man,’ he’s still doing it
I came out of the womb with jazz hands,” pop star Robbie Williams recounts in “Better Man,” his new biopic. “Which was very painful for my ... -
With ‘The Room Next Door’, Almodóvar makes a lively movie about death
Films that are straightforwardly about death are rare, but movies that are about both death and sex are rarer, still. In Pedro Almodóvar’s “The Room Next ... -
A wordless Latvian cat parable about climate change is the year’s best animated movie
Of all the post-apocalyptic landscapes we’ve been treated to over the years, none is as beautiful nor peaceful as that of “Flow.” In Gints Zilbalodis’ wondrously ... -
‘Gladiator II,’ with Denzel Washington, goes back into the arena
Rome teeters on the brink in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II.” Its fall is said to be imminent. The dream it once symbolized is dead. The once ... -
Angelina Jolie is graceful and sharp as opera star Maria Callas in ‘Maria’
Angelina Jolie glides through the final days of Maria Callas’ short life in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” a dramatic, evocative elegy to the famed soprano. It’s an ... -
Netflix’s ‘Joy’ is a loud cheer for fertility, for never giving up — and science
Toward the end of Netflix’s “Joy,” the muffled cry of a newborn baby prompts a man and woman in a hospital to embrace out of pure ... -
‘Interior Chinatown’: Its cast has faced Hollywood struggles uncannily like its characters
Jimmy O. Yang once played “Chinese Teenager #1.” He’s now No. 1 on the call sheet in “Interior Chinatown” — despite playing downtrodden background actor Willis ...
