‘RBG’ Film Review: Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s Life Makes for a Snappy But...
Thanks to the unpredictable whims of the internet, there’s no telling where the next pop-cultural obsession will come from. In recent years, medieval portraiture, a tragic trip to the zoo (RIP...
View Article‘Izzy Gets the F*ck Across Town’ Film Review: Mackenzie Davis Wanders...
There’s a very good probability that the story of how first-time writer-director Christian Papierniak finagled the (rather impressive) cast for his feature debut is vastly more interesting than the...
View Article‘Superfly’ Film Review: Remake Updates Blaxploitation Genre With Wit and...
It doesn’t matter how smart you are if you’re constantly surrounded by armed stupidity. That’s the wise revelation that launches “SuperFly,” the new remake of the 1972 blaxploitation classic starring...
View Article‘The Misandrists’ Film Review: Bruce LaBruce Sends Up Feminist Ideology in...
Tell me if you’ve heard these before. How does a radical feminist end each prayer? A-wo-men. What does a radical feminist need to put together her Ikea furniture? A wo-manual. What’s the most humorless...
View Article‘Book Club’ Film Review: Women-of-a-Certain-Age Sex Comedy Has Poignancy...
It’s a credit to TV’s greater curiosity and openmindedness that when I beheld the four stars of “Book Club” — actresses ranging in age from 65 to 80 — my thoughts turned to how recently I’d seen them...
View Article‘Terminal’ Film Review: Margot Robbie’s Silkiness Wasted in Polyester Movie
The vision board for “Terminal” must have been incredible. It’s certainly easy to picture: the cold geometry of Stanley Kubrick married to the sleazy neons of Nicolas Winding Refn, a pair of smirking...
View Article‘Breaking In’ Film Review: Gabrielle Union Battles Burglars and Script...
After Wonder Woman, the most famous super-powered woman in America is the mythical mother who can lift a car to save her child. I’ve always wondered where’s the movie about her, that remarkable...
View Article‘Disobedience’ Film Review: Two Rachels Don’t Make a Right in Unfocused Drama
A clumsily assembled film can remind us that every narrative feature is like a Jenga tower, with each block building on the foundational ones under it and faulty, minor-seeming pieces poised to upset a...
View Article‘I Feel Pretty’ Film Review: Amy Schumer Teaches a Despicable Lesson in...
“I Feel Pretty” makes a lot of sense on paper. After becoming America’s foremost chronicler of female self-esteem issues through her Emmy- and Peabody-winning Comedy Central sketch series, Amy Schumer...
View Article‘Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero’ Film Review: Dog Loves His Doughboys in...
During his decade or so on earth, Stubby the terrier accomplished far more than some people (including me) will achieve in their human-length lifetimes. A Connecticut stray that became the most...
View Article‘Chappaquiddick’ Film Review: Ted Kennedy Scandal Makes for Searing Drama
From “Veep” to “Scandal,” “Wag the Dog” to “Our Brand is Crisis,” Hollywood has no shortage of cautionary tales about media manipulation by politicians. It’s tempting to see the plague of fake news and...
View Article‘First Match’ Film Review: Netflix’s Female-Wrestler Drama Needs Breathing Room
The premise of “First Match,” lamentably, is an all-too-believable one. Fifteen-year-old Monique (Elvire Emanuelle), a foster kid in ungentrified Brooklyn, makes impulsive mistake after impulsive...
View Article‘Paul, Apostle of Christ’ Film Review: Passive Piety Stifles Biblical Drama
It’s difficult to make compelling cinema out of saintliness. That’s why so many Biblical biopics from the contemporary Christian-movie industry land with a thunk. Faith-based films are often literal...
View Article‘Thoroughbreds’ Film Review: Preppie Girls Go Homicidal in Taut, Toxic Comedy
Anya Taylor-Joy’s compellingly incongruent face is the best effect in the new thriller “Thoroughbreds.” Best known for playing the Puritan teen accused of practicing dark magic in the 2015 arthouse...
View Article‘Oh Lucy!’ Film Review: Japanese Woman’s Coming-of-Middle-Age Makes...
There’s plenty to mourn about the plunge in middlebrow, mid-budget features, but the decline of the midlife-crisis movie isn’t one of them. Arguably no other genre is as schmaltzy, banal, out-of-touch,...
View ArticleAll 7 Aardman Animations Features Ranked, From ‘Wallace & Gromit’ to ‘Chicken...
In the same way that we look to France for fashion and Japan for electronics, we look to England for coziness. That’s at least in part due to Bristol-based Aardman Animations, the 46-year-old studio...
View Article‘Samson’ Movie Review: Old Testament Tale Collapses Like a Philistine Temple
If you take the Old Testament literally, strongman Samson has a body count of at least 4040 men (and one lion) to his name. His biography — full of sex, lies, and disastrous haircuts — is a grisly one....
View Article‘La Boda de Valentina’ Film Review: Mexican Rom-Com Political Satire Nearly...
You can blame Trump, at least in part, for the fact that “La Boda de Valentina” (“Valentina’s Wedding”) is a better political satire than it is a romantic comedy. Set mostly in Mexico City, this...
View Article’12 Strong’ Film Review: Chris Hemsworth Leads the Charge in a Powerful...
Now in its 17th year, the war in Afghanistan is the longest armed conflict in U.S. history. The new military drama “12 Strong,” whose primary visual draw is U.S. troops on horseback shooting at the...
View Article‘Proud Mary’ Film Review: Taraji P. Henson Shoulda Kept Her Good Job in the City
The action-drama “Proud Mary” exists mostly for its climactic fight sequence, in which Taraji P. Henson’s avenging assassin shoots a bunch of bad guys and occasionally crushes them with her Maserati...
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