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March 31, 2023 GMTReview: Sandler, Aniston reteam in ‘Murder Mystery 2’
March 31, 2023 GMTYou would have a hard time defending the limp plotting, the bland action-adventure set pieces or the Agatha Christie-light whodunit twists of the first “Murder Mystery.” And, yet, it was kind of good.
Review: Charming ‘Rye Lane’ is a rom-com to celebrate
March 29, 2023 GMTYas and Dom meet-cute in the best possible way in the new rom-com “Rye Lane.”
They're paired up at a karaoke bar by chance and simply slay, leaving the crowd demanding more and chanting their names.
Review: A vibrant portrait of NYC, family in Sundance winner
March 29, 2023 GMTThere is a dread that hovers over “ A Thousand and One,” writer-director A.V. Rockwell’s remarkably vivid and tender debut feature about a mother and son in New York in the 1990s.
Review: ‘Dungeons & Dragons’ puts the funny in fantasy
March 27, 2023 GMT“You’re not a lot of fun, are you,” notes barbarian Holga (Michelle Rodriguez) to brave fighter Xenk (Regé-Jean Page) in the new “Dungeons & Dragons” film, making two jokes at once.
The first is that Xenk, a paladin (or holy knight) in “D&D” lingo, is everything BUT fun — gorgeous, noble, heroic, smart, and did we mention gorgeous?
Review: John Wick gets even more stylish in fourth episode
March 24, 2023 GMTA trip to Paris should be on everyone’s bucket list, even John Wick. The Eiffel Tower, the Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre — what better way to refresh your soul, even as you kick everyone else’s bucket?
Review: Rehabilitating Richard III in ‘The Lost King’
March 23, 2023 GMTRichard III didn't need a horse for his kingdom. He just needed Philippa Langley.
Langley, a single mother and amateur historian living in Edinburgh, Scotland, became increasingly obsessed with the late English monarch, long portrayed as one of the great villains of history.
Review: A compassionate immigrant drama in ‘Tori and Lokita’
March 22, 2023 GMTIt's one of the great ironies of cinema that many — not all, but many — of the most seemingly arthouse filmmakers make some of the most approachable films.
Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are imposing names in cinema.
Review: Despair in Jersey in Zach Braff’s ‘A Good Person’
March 22, 2023 GMTAll filmmakers should be so lucky to have Florence Pugh in their movies. She so consistently delivers the best version of whatever she’s handed — whether good, mediocre or downright preposterous — that you may even start to wonder if the quality of the film around her really matters in the end.
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March 22, 2023 GMTReview: New ‘Shazam!’ has more everything, but less charm
March 15, 2023 GMTSequels, by nature, are more. Whatever the original had, just add more, the rule seems to be. Even more words in the title — how often is a sequel’s title shorter than the original?
Review: Tomlin, Fonda anchor darkly comedic ‘Moving On’
March 15, 2023 GMTThe on-screen pairing of Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin is not exactly a novelty at the moment. Seven seasons of “Grace and Frankie” and the movie “80 for Brady” has, perhaps, spoiled us a little lately.
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March 9, 2023 GMTXi accuses US of trying to hold back China’s development
March 9, 2023 GMTBEIJING (AP) — Is the United States out to sabotage China? Chinese leaders think so.
President Xi Jinping accused Washington this week of trying to isolate his country and hold back its development.
Russian forces claim progress in Bakhmut but no end in sight
March 8, 2023 GMTKYIV, Ukraine (AP) — The owner of Russia's Wagner Group military contractor claimed Wednesday that his troops have extended their gains in the Ukrainian stronghold of Bakhmut, but it remained unclear how long the grinding fight might go on.
Review: ‘Scream VI’ goes to the big city and strikes out
March 8, 2023 GMTIn “Scream VI,” the psychotic, knife-wielding serial killer known as Ghostface is set loose on the streets of New York City. Yawn.
The former terror of the fictional California town of Woodsboro has made the cross-country trip to the City That Never Sleeps, bringing his creepy mask, black cloak and impressive supply of daggers.
Review: Idris Elba returns as Luther in grisly Netflix film
March 7, 2023 GMTFor anyone holding on to some latent hope that Idris Elba will be the next James Bond, I have some bad news: “ Luther: The Fallen Sun ” puts (another) nail in that very firmly sealed coffin.
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March 3, 2023 GMTReview: ‘Operation Fortune’ is a by-the-numbers spy caper
March 2, 2023 GMTSo what the heck is in the shiny alligator briefcase?
That essential question lingers over much — too much — of the running time of “Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre,” Guy Ritchie’s stylish but ultimately frustratingly half-baked spy caper.
Review: Michael B. Jordan delivers a brawler in ‘Creed III’
February 27, 2023 GMTIt must be a daunting prospect to pick up a franchise on the third movie. Add in the pressure of following filmmakers like Ryan Coogler and Steven Caple Jr. in your directorial debut that you’re also starring in and it’s enough to make you wonder what on earth Michael B.
Review: ‘Cocaine Bear,’ 100% pure, uncut junk with no high
February 24, 2023 GMTYes, there's a giant bear and, yes, it does a ton of coke. And, yes, just as you probably suspected, the movie blows.
Review: Irish Oscar nominee ‘The Quiet Girl’ speaks clearly
February 23, 2023 GMTThough gently restrained and delicately crafted, “The Quiet Girl” has managed to make plenty of noise. Colm Bairead's modestly scaled drama, his narrative directorial debut, is the highest-grossing Irish-language film of all time.
Review: ‘Emily’ gives new life to the ‘strange’ Brontë sis
February 16, 2023 GMTThat name on the book cover is our first warning bell.
Only two minutes into “Emily,” a bold and audacious retelling of Emily Brontë’s life starring an uncommonly compelling Emma Mackey, we spy freshly bound volumes of “Wuthering Heights,” her only novel and life’s achievement.
Review: ‘Marlowe,’ with Neeson, resurrects a vintage gumshoe
February 15, 2023 GMTThe richly hard-boiled terrain of detective Philip Marlowe has always been, to quote Raymond Chandler, “a nice neighborhood to have bad habits in.”
Chandler's Los Angeles gumshoe has stretched across some of the most fertile decades of American cinema, from Howard Hawks' seductively cryptic “The Big Sleep” (1946) to Robert Altman's “The Long Goodbye” (1973).
Review: A Marvel villain comes into focus in ‘Ant-Man 3’
February 14, 2023 GMTPeyton Reed’s “Ant-Man” films have generally served as a kind of palate cleanser to the world-ending stakes of the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe. Paul Rudd’s Scott Lang is just an ordinary dude, or so they keep telling us, who still can’t really believe that he’s part of the Avengers at all.
Review: Reese Witherspoon, Ashton Kutcher shine in a rom-com
February 10, 2023 GMTIf you decide to settle in and watch “Your Place or Mine” to see the sparks fly between Reese Witherspoon and Ashton Kutcher, you'll be initially disappointed.
Review: Reminding us of a classic rom-com we ‘Used to Know’
February 9, 2023 GMTAt least Julia Roberts was invited to the wedding.
I heard myself saying that out loud, rather indignantly, about halfway into “Somebody I Used to Know,” the new wedding-crashing rom-com directed by Dave Franco and starring real-life partner (and co-writer) Alison Brie, in which parallels to “My Best Friend’s Wedding" come early and often.
Review: Magic Mike bids farewell with a ‘Last Dance’
February 9, 2023 GMTThe words Magic Mike may conjure up images of sweaty, sculpted, undulating men, dancing unthreateningly for hoards of screaming women, but there has always been a backdrop of brutal economic reality looming over the fantasy world.
Review: Con artists accumulate in the slinky ‘Sharper’
February 8, 2023 GMTAlmost invariably, we root for the con artist.
Seldom does the ingenuity and cleverness of a good hustler, card sharp or con man not win us over. They are, of course, walking metaphors for the movies.
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February 8, 2023 GMTReview: ’80 for Brady’ is a sports film fumble for the ages
February 2, 2023 GMTTom Brady has officially — and finally, he insists — retired from the National Football League. Based on his new movie “80 For Brady,” it's also time that he immediately retire from filmmaking.
Review: ‘Knock at the Cabin’ twists the home invasion horror
February 1, 2023 GMTKnock. Knock.
It being mid-winter (typically a doldrums in movie theaters), it's a cozy relief to be able to throw open the door and find M. Night Shyamalan standing there with his near-annual helping of high-concept thriller.
Review: Pamela Anderson captivatingly tells her own story
January 30, 2023 GMTPamela Anderson was always a bit of an open book in interviews. No one ever told her not to be, or that because she talked about some things that she didn’t have to talk about everything. She didn’t know that she could draw her own line in the sand if a question made her feel uncomfortable.
Review: Cannes breakout ‘Close’ tells of innocence and grief
January 26, 2023 GMT“ Close ” is a crushing story of grief told with grace by Belgian director Lukas Dhont.
Review: Even J.Lo can’t save this ‘Shotgun Wedding’
January 26, 2023 GMTSpoiler alert: J.Lo looks fantastic in a wedding dress.
You surely knew that, given not only the plethora of wedding-themed movies Jennifer Lopez has made over the years, from “The Wedding Planner” to “Monster-in-Law” to the recent “Marry Me,” but also her own offscreen life, of course.
Review: Fleeting joys in the sublime ‘One Fine Morning’
January 25, 2023 GMTLike most things, the title of Mia Hansen-Løve's “One Fine Morning” sounds better in French.
“Un Beau Matin" doesn't have that same rom-commy ring.
Review: Star-crossed lovers tackle history in ‘You People’
January 24, 2023 GMTEzra Cohen and Amira Mohammed don't exactly meet cute. He jumps into the backseat of her red Mini Cooper, mistaking it for his Uber and she starts punching him, thinking he's an intruder. “Help I’m being attacked!” she screams.
Review: Anna Kendrick in the chilling ‘Alice, Darling’
January 18, 2023 GMTEmotional abuse rarely gets the subtle, sensitive treatment on screen as it does in Mary Nighy's thoughtful if uneven drama “Alice, Darling,” starring Anna Kendrick.
Review: Jesse Eisenberg directs a moving mother-son tale
January 18, 2023 GMTIn Jesse Eisenberg’s smart directorial debut, “ When You Finish Saving the World,” Julianne Moore plays a Good Person, at least on paper. Evelyn runs a women’s shelter for the victims of domestic abuse and other kinds of horrors.
Review: Hacking, not shoe-leather, solves thriller ‘Missing’
January 18, 2023 GMTJune Allen’s mother has vanished during a romantic vacation with her boyfriend to Colombia when “Missing” starts gaining steam. The FBI are supposedly on it, with one special agent telling June: “The best thing you can do is wait by the phone.” Wait by the phone?
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January 17, 2023 GMTReview: Spellbinding ‘Saint Omer’ straddles truth, fiction
January 14, 2023 GMTFirst, the real-life facts of the case, more shocking than you’ll find in most fiction: In November 2013, a mother took a train from Paris to the northern French coast, along with her 15-month old daughter.
Review: Glossy ‘House Party’ remake falls short on the fun
January 13, 2023 GMTIt’s never a good idea to promise too much, either in an invitation to a house party held in a stranger’s mansion, or in a reboot of a three-decade old hit.
But the new “ House Party ” does just that, starting out with a romantic voiceover about Los Angeles, where we’re told “a party can change your life” as we’re shown a loving montage of storefronts and people in South LA.
Review: Gerard Butler keeps ‘Plane’ grounded
January 11, 2023 GMTAfter “Airplane!” “Airport,” “Up in the Air,” “Flight," “Snakes on a Plane," “Non-Stop” and “The Terminal," we have finally arrived, like weary passengers reaching an unexotic destination, at “Plane.”
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January 11, 2023 GMTReview: A grumpy Tom Hanks stars in ‘A Man Called Otto’
January 4, 2023 GMTSentimental tales about grumpy old men and American decline have, until recently, typically been the domain of Clint Eastwood.
But in “A Man Called Otto,” Marc Forster's adaptation of Fredrik Backman's bestseller and a remake of the 2016 Swedish film “A Man Called Ove,” it's Tom Hanks prowling the neighborhood and irritably grumbling about how things used to be.
Review: A baby for sale in Korean drama ‘Broker’
December 28, 2022 GMTThe Korean drama “ Broker ” begins like a noir. A young woman walks slowly in the pouring rain in the middle of the night in Busan, her flimsy hood doing little to keep her dry.
Review: Two publishing power brokers in ‘Turn Every Page’
December 26, 2022 GMTCivil wars over semicolons and heated debate over the word “looms” would not, on the face of it, seem like the stuff of a gripping big-screen movie.
Review: Clumsy Whitney Houston biopic mars its star’s skill
December 22, 2022 GMTWhitney Houston’s voice was one of a kind and the creative team behind a new big-budget biopic of the singer had no choice but to agree.
Review: Whodunit ‘The Pale Blue Eye’ chills and satisfies
December 22, 2022 GMTGrab a jacket or a blanket before you watch Netflix's engrossing “The Pale Blue Eye.” I don’t care if you’re already in a warm place. You could be on the surface of the sun and still feel chilly watching it.
Review: Remake ‘Ikiru’? ‘Living,’ with Bill Nighy, tries
December 22, 2022 GMTIt's probably not fair, this season especially, to recoil at the remaking of a classic. “A Christmas Carol," for one, has been told and retold countless times, and who among us won't jump at the chance to watch the Muppets or Bill Murray do their version of Dickens.
Review: In ‘Corsage,’ a real-life empress gets a new story
December 21, 2022 GMTA winsome young woman marries into the top echelon of royalty, becomes lonely in a passionless marriage, and suffers eating disorders and depression even as she fascinates the outside world. Decades after her untimely death, they’re still making movies and TV shows about her.
Trump tax audits required by IRS were delayed, panel says
December 21, 2022 GMTWASHINGTON (AP) — The IRS failed to pursue mandatory audits of Donald Trump on a timely basis during his presidency, a congressional panel found on Tuesday, raising questions about statements by the former president and leading members of his administration who claimed he could not release his tax filings because of the ongoing reviews.
Review: The silent film era roars again in ‘Babylon’
December 20, 2022 GMT“Perhaps the ballyhoo meant nothing,” Kevin Brownlow wrote in his defining history of the silent film era, “The Parade’s Gone By…”
Review: Sarah Polley’s ‘Women Talking’ is a revelation
December 20, 2022 GMTWhat happens when your home no longer feels like a home? When the rules of your life no longer make sense? When your body is not your own? When your children are not safe and neither are you? Do you look for justice?
Review: ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ is purrfectly fun
December 20, 2022 GMTQuick, without looking, guess how long it’s been since there’s been a Shrek movie or even a Shrek-adjacent one. Over a decade seems too long for such a popular franchise, right? And yet here we are, 11 years later, welcoming back Antonio Banderas’s swashbuckling feline in “ Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,” which opens in theaters Wednesday.
Review: ‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ is a big screen blast
December 13, 2022 GMTIt is impossible to talk about “Avatar: The Way of Water” without sounding hyperbolic. But James Cameron’s sequel is a truly dazzling cinematic experience that will have you floating on a blockbuster high.
Review: Del Toro takes his ‘Pinocchio’ to very dark places
December 9, 2022 GMTLet’s face it, “Pinocchio” has always been an odd choice for a children’s morality tale.
Of course, lying is wrong. But that’s not the only message the story sends. Even the classic 1940 Disney version — lighter and more kid-friendly than the 1883 Collodi tale — still sends the message that if you’re not “good,” you don’t deserve to be human.
Review: ‘The Whale’ is a hard but astounding film to watch
December 8, 2022 GMTThe center of gravity of “The Whale” is obviously the 600-pound man at its center. Look closely, though, and he's the one with a soul as light as a feather.
Review: Lonely souls at the cinema in ‘Empire of Light’
December 7, 2022 GMTOlivia Colman plays the manager of a movie theater in Sam Mendes’ new film “ Empire of Light.” It’s a cinema palace in a small town on England’s south coast that is showing its age.
Review: ‘Spoiler Alert’ — You’re gonna need those Kleenex
December 6, 2022 GMTIn one of the more effective moments of “Spoiler Alert,” the camera does something unexpected and wise: it leaves the room. At the very moment a dining-table conversation becomes unbearably painful, the viewer is moved outside, where we can only watch the characters in shadows through a window, hearing nothing.
Review: Will Smith-led ‘Emancipation’ is an action thriller
December 1, 2022 GMTIt comes as some relief that Antoine Fuqua's “Emancipation,” starring Will Smith as a runaway slave in Civil War-era Louisiana, is not, at least traditionally speaking, an Oscar movie.
Review: Emma Corrin gives us a vibrant new ‘Lady Chatterley’
November 30, 2022 GMTThe lovely and magnetic young actor Emma Corrin certainly has a thing for characters who marry unwisely.
We cringed when Corrin’s winsome, affection-starved Diana married Charles in “The Crown,” knowing the heartbreak that lay ahead.
Review: In ‘The Inspection,’ boot camp from a fresh gaze
November 30, 2022 GMTElegance Bratton is certainly not the first person to turn to the military to fill a hole in his life.
Review: A haunting ghost story in ‘The Eternal Daughter’
November 30, 2022 GMTA gentle and mournful spell is cast by Joanna Hogg’s “The Eternal Daughter,” a ghost story where memory is manifested – visited, intruded upon and, finally, made to glow.
NATO allies vow to back Moldova, Georgia, and Bosnia
November 30, 2022 GMTBUCHAREST (AP) — Apart from Ukraine, Moldova has been hit hardest by Russia’s invasion of its neighbor, the Moldovan foreign minister said Wednesday, as NATO offered fresh support to three countries shaken by the effects of Moscow’s 10-month-old war.
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November 30, 2022 GMTReview: Slice into the holiday spirit with ‘Violent Night’
November 30, 2022 GMTThe holiday season is upon us and how better to celebrate than watching Santa slip several pool balls into a Christmas stocking, swing them in the air menacingly and see him cave in someone's face?
Review: A portrait of an artist in Venice-winning doc
November 26, 2022 GMTNan Goldin, the subject of Laura Poitras’ Venice Film Festival-winning documentary “ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,” is a name you probably either know well or not at all.
Review: ‘Strange World’ explores big themes in bold colors
November 23, 2022 GMTIs Searcher Clade the most millennial dad in all of animated moviedom? He has that telltale hipster beard. A sensitive voice sorta like Jake Gyllenhaal. And he feeds his kid avocado toast, with an egg on top.
Review: Wrenching and riveting, ‘The Son’ leaves you shaken
November 22, 2022 GMTIf you don't have children, you will likely walk out of “The Son” shaken and deeply moved. If you do have kids, you may have to be eventually pulled to your feet after collapsing into a fetal ball for several hours.
Review: Back to DeLillo’s doomed future in ‘White Noise’
November 22, 2022 GMTLike Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, the heart of Noah Baumbach’s “White Noise” is in the supermarket. There, in the gleaming aisles of neatly arranged cereal boxes and produce, DeLillo found America’s church: an over-lit spectacle of abundance and artificiality.
Review: A crowdpleasing whodunnit in Netflix’s ‘Glass Onion’
November 22, 2022 GMTThe business of making original movie sequels is often a thankless job. You can’t just do the same thing again, but you also can’t be too different either. And many watching will have their guard up from the outset, suspicious that it is ultimately just a shameless cash grab.