Funny, heartwarming, and thematically potent, 'Zootopia 2' is one of the better animated movies of the decade—but more importantly, it marked a pivotal moviegoing experience for this critic: my daughter’s…
'A House of Dynamite' is a technically assured, well-acted thriller that wants to say something urgent about power, crisis, and global fragility, but its constantly shifting character focus and refusal…
A visually-arresting story about a scholar and the djinn who offers her three wishes, ‘Three Thousand Years of Longing’ doesn’t quite bring the magic. Idris Elba and Tilda Swinton are…
Man vs. Lion B-movie ‘Beast’ doesn’t rewrite the creature feature playbook but nor does it need to. Strong pacing, gnarly animal action, and a worthy lead in Idris Elba make…
James Gunn's 'The Suicide Squad' is a marked improvement over the original feature in nearly every quantifiable sense but for a movie that's all about offbeat characters bucking convention, the…
Even for a franchise that requires the numbing of one’s cerebral activity, 'Hobbs & Shaw' is the country bumpkin of the Fast & Furious bunch, the star’s frenemy tough guy antics…
Pulsing with side-splitting energy, 'Thor: Ragnarok' thrives working outside the boundaries of the tightly wound, hawkishly overlorded Marvel Cinematic Universe. A neon-plated smear of laughs bursting with colorful characters and jaw-dangling…
Leads Idris Elba and Kate Winslet are thoroughly solid in ‘The Mountain Between Us’ but the romantic angles of the film feel forced and awkward and as the film pivots…
Synopsis: “Raised by a family of wolves since birth, Mowgli (Neel Sethi) must leave the only home he’s ever known when the fearsome tiger Shere Khan (Idris Elba) unleashes his mighty roar. Guided by a no-nonsense panther (Ben Kingsley) and a free-spirited bear (Bill Murray), the young boy meets an array of jungle animals, including...
'Star Trek Beyond' is featherweight science fiction fare content not using its noggin that is as hectic as it is - to quote the time-honored Spock - illogical. Marginally better…