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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...
Jude Law in The Order. Courtesy of Vertical With a strong cast, tight script, and exemplary direction, The Order is first-rate filmmaking above and...
Fool that I am, I was excited to hear of a new Broadway play called Swept Away, figuring it would be a sexy adaptation of the great 1974 Italian...
A new Broadway musical about people in love? OK. A new Broadway musical about people in love who are robots? I don’t think so. That’s what I feared...
So much junk has already been written about the risky change of pace Hugh Grant exhibits in an overrated, undercooked fright flick called Heretic...
If you think Tom Hanks cannot make a bad movie, you haven’t seen Here. This phony, gimmicky and tedious waste of time might not be the first film...
Politically, we might be on different planets, but my admiration and respect for director Clint Eastwood is boundless when it comes to movies. Now...
If you’re a veteran theatergoer lamenting the absence of good, old-fashioned love stories on Broadway, hope has arrived. Left on Tenth— the new...
One of the things I like best about watching Michael Keaton on the screen in movies, good or bad (and especially in human and often hilarious...
One of the things I like best about watching Michael Keaton on the screen in movies, good or bad (and especially in human and often hilarious...
Great biopics about great people demand great writing and great centerpiece performances. The splendid film Lee, a riveting, honorable and...
A state of desperate deprivation that signifies the lack of imagination that plagues most movies today and deprives decent performers from doing...
Mia Farrow has not been on a Broadway stage for so long that we forgot how much we missed her. Now she’s back in a new play called The Roommate,...
Mia Farrow has not been on a Broadway stage for so long that we forgot how much we missed her. Now she’s back in a new play called The Roommate,...
Remakes are odious, but Speak No Evil, while thoroughly unneeded and unasked for, is an Americanized remake of a 2022 thriller from Denmark that...
The search never ends for ways to make old genres like cowboy movies look fresh and different. To this purpose, there is a shoot-em-up called The...
Does anyone know how to make a movie these days that makes sense, with enough plot, narrative coherence and character development to keep a viewer...
I’m no stranger to lament when it comes to the disintegration of quality in what passes for movies today, but then along comes a bucket of swill...
After a triumphant splash in Juno, lovely, appealing Elliot Page got Oscar nominated, was on his way to a promising career as an important film...
At a time when mature women are making giant strides toward honor, respect and dignity in every walk of life, progress to gain equal footing is...
Before tornado movies threaten to become a cottage industry, just remember that in spite of both the bad ones and the forthcoming plans for more...