The Girl in the Spider’s Web erases the angry avenging angel elements of Lisbeth Salander to make way for a bland-washed pastiche of the character, only to then embroil her…
Paul Dano’s directorial debut puts a 1960s nuclear family under the burner and watches them squirm with three strong performances from Carey Mulligan, Jake Gyllenhaal and Ed Oxenbould lending this…
An inoffensive literary-tinged distraction well-suited for older crowds and book clubs on hiatus, ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me’ finds Melissa McCarthy flexing more dramatic muscles than we’re used to seeing,…
‘Boy Erased’ takes a difficult subject - a teen's experience with gay conversion therapy - and turns it into a lulling, don’t-rock-the-boat drama, devaluing the trauma of the subject matter…
Daring to make an American remake even less accessible to mainstream audiences, Luca Guadagnino’s 'Suspiria' is a tedious, overreaching chore.
‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ might not be the cat’s meow for those looking for a serious deep dive docu-drama about Freddie Mercury and Queen but Rami Malek’s fantastic starring turn, a totally-toe-tapping…
This new ‘Halloween’ is killer, plain and simple; the archetypal slasher movie, perfected. Smart, funny, and with a higher body count than ever, David Gordon Green has perfected the slasher…
‘Beautiful Boy’ smuggles two top-shelf performances into an otherwise benign chapter book story of addiction that hits all the familiar notes. Though Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet deserve legitimate attention…
Harmless ’The Old Man and the Gun’ is a happy-go-lucky example of otherwise pedestrian geriatric drama made amiable by two delightful lead performances. Pleasant but not worth rushing out to…
“Trigger Warning: ‘The Hate U Give’ adorns its audience with a vital deconstruction of race and police aggression in America in remarkably challenging but highly entertaining, evocative, and moving fashion.…