People are upset that a little-known Brit named Andrea Riseborough in a little-seen movie called “To Leslie” got nominated, and two actresses who were expected to get a nod – Viola Davis (“The Woman King”) ...
There are a few sure things scattered among the potential candidate for the 2023 Oscar nominations, so here goes. Please just pretend (as usual) I know what I’m talking about.
If you’re going to dive into Don DeLillo’s lower depths, best take a skilled guide. Like, say, Noah Baumbach. Not that Baumbach has totally succeeded. DeLillo’s 1985 dystopian novel, “White Noise,” is one of those ...
The Golden Globes, the awards show whose ongoing mission is to make all the other awards show seem respectable, is back.
Who’s the killer in “Glass Onion,” the new “Knives Out Mystery?” As someone who wasn’t quite all in on the first “Knives Out,” my expectations weren’t especially high. Still, who doesn’t look forward to ...
At first, I thought it was just me. Admittedly, I haven’t seen as many films this year (or last year or the year before) thanks to the pandemic.
Perhaps not the sins, but certainly the shortcomings of the fathers are visited where you might expect in “The Son,” a sharply-observed, smartly-acted follow-up of sorts to “The Father” which recently won Anthony Hopkins his ...
The sizable wonder at the center of, “The Wonder,” is its star, Florence Pugh. Her perfectly-pitched performance holds together a film that often feels like a horror movie while flirting with questions of faith and ...
Julia Roberts and George Clooney are huge stars whose on-screen presence has an iconic glow. But when you think about it – you’re reminded that one thing they don’t have is a shared history of ...
Sometimes a documentary sets out to tell you one thing and unwittingly ends up telling you something entirely different.
Closing any theater is sad – more theaters = more movies usually. However, the Tara seems a special loss.
If a British detective named Inspector Stoppard doesn’t make you think of a certain hugely famous playwright, well, “See How They Run” is probably not the movie for you. But if you have a soft ...
Based on the true story of Charlie Cullen, a nurse who may have killed anywhere from 29 to 400 (!) patients, “The Good Nurse” is a face-off between superb acting and sub-par storytelling.
“The Good House” isn’t a great movie but until its overly melodramatic final 10 or so minutes, it’s a pretty darn good one.
For those of us of a certain age, be we black or white or something in-between, the miracle of Sidney Poitier remains as indisputable as it is somewhat inexplicable.
My instinctive dislike of Lena Dunham’s self-created public persona has admittedly gotten in the way of my evaluation of her new feature, “Catherine Called Birdy.”
Her much-celebrated body has been cold for well over half a century. Yet Marilyn Monroe still enthralls.
What a week for royalty it’s been. First, Queen Elizabeth II was put to rest with the all the impressive pomp and circumstance the Brits can somehow still summon when needed.
For George Miller, the filmmaker who’s had a hand in such fantastical beasts as Babe, the sheepherding pig, and Imperator Furiosa (aka, Charlize Theron), the one-armed warrior, the tale of an academic and the djinn ...
I still don’t know what a crawdad is or, for that matter, if it indeed sings. But that matters less to me than how surprisingly wispy “Where the Crawdads Sing” is. Delia Owens’s debut novel was ...