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Arthur Carter was devoted to quality, and he cared more about writers than their editorial opinions.
Director Matt Whitaker guides a perfect cast.
Like almost every other actor of renown in today's diminished world of second-rate movies, Emma Thompson is forced to face the challenge of inventing...
The film has a few moments of failed splendor but, overall, Jay Roach's remake of the 1989 smash is a complete yawn.
It's like one of those boring, incomprehensible Wes Anderson films that they make up, scene by scene, as they go along.
It’s not a disaster, but any play about Ava Gardner that is this dull is definitely a disappointment.
Kristin Scott Thomas assembles a starry cast—including Scarlett Johansson and Sienna Miller—for her directorial debut, a heartfelt if uneven...
The director is Polly Steele, a lady with an unquenchable passion for long, lingering shots of wet beaches and dry emotions.
A bloody, brainy debut about two fathers on opposite sides of the law, 'Sovereign' pits paranoia against authority in modern-day America.
Thirty-two years after Jurassic Park, Hollywood’s favorite dinosaurs return for another round of nonsense—this time with flying raptors, heart...
To miss it would be to overlook one of the most honest, heartfelt performances of this or any other year in motion picture history.
Smart deserves roles that deserve her. Izzy is not one of them.
Penelope Skinner’s provocative script explores the emotional weight of identity and the shifting terrain of gendered expectations.
Jonathan Groff delivers a whirlwind, show-stopping performance that redefines what a Broadway star can be. Though the musical's biographical details...
National treasure and Broadway's last great hope Adam Guettel is back onstage—but not with something new. Rex Reed reviews the revival with a wince...
What could have been another dusty spousal biopic becomes a sly takedown of political ego, staged with couture precision. Léa Domenach delivers the...
In a season littered with sequels and soulless reboots, A Nice Indian Boy is that rare thing: a romantic comedy with actual charm and emotional...
Leaden direction and limp gags almost derail 'Sondheim’s Old Friends,' a tribute show that feels as uneven as it is ambitious. But with Bernadette...
Two decades after the film first flattered Oscar voters, 'Good Night, and Good Luck' returns—this time as a Broadway spectacle, complete with...
What begins as a melancholy expat's teaching stint in 1970s Buenos Aires morphs into a quietly powerful tale of friendship, fascism and feathered...
An endearing but inconsistent exploration of love, loss and motherly meddling.
The acting is so bad that it’s a favor to the cast not to mention any names.
Leigh Whannell's Wolf Man manages to strip the genre of its last shreds of dignity, replacing suspense with an onslaught of gore and nonsense.
At its heart, the documentary is a celebration of resilience, reinvention and the kind of unfiltered honesty that only Liza herself can deliver.
In ‘The Last Showgirl’, Pamela Anderson trades in beach bounces for Vegas blues, playing Shelly—a washed-up showgirl who discovers that sequins...
Peter Sarsgaard as Roone Arledge in September 5, a film that unveils the decisive moment that forever changed media coverage and continues to...
Angelina Jolie’s committed performance as Maria Callas glimmers amid a lackluster script that reduces the operatic legend’s life to a drawn-out...