Film


With humor, 鈥榁enom 2鈥 leans into relationships

鈥淰ENOM: Let There Be Carnage鈥 is at its best when it鈥檚 not trying to be a comic book movie. That fact may not bode especially well for future spinoffs and integrations within the so-called 鈥淪pider-Verse,鈥 ...

October 17, 2021, Sunday


A wrenching dialogue after tragedy

The piercing traumas of school shootings, when they鈥檝e made it into the movies, have seldom carried quite the right tone. Even the best intentions in wading into such tragic horrors can come off as insincere, ...

October 17, 2021, Sunday


Gyllenhaal 鈥榞uilty鈥 of commanding performance

AN emergency dispatch center doesn鈥檛 exactly sound like the most visually exciting place to set an entire film. But the technical limitations of being imprisoned in a soulless office while high-stakes ...

October 10, 2021, Sunday


Going from great heights to subterranean

In 鈥淭he Rescue,鈥 filmmakers E. Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin, who won the 2019 Best Documentary Feature Academy Award for 鈥淔ree Solo,鈥 trade climbing peaks for watery depths. The documentary, which ...

October 10, 2021, Sunday


A disorienting fall film season in flux

FILMMAKER Cary Fukunaga has been waiting more than a year and a half for the biggest movie of his career, the James Bond film 鈥淣o Time to Die,鈥 to arrive in theaters. It has been a strange and surreal ...

September 26, 2021, Sunday


Marvel鈥檚 鈥楽hang-Chi鈥 jabs, flips Asian American film cliches

LIKE a lot of Asian actors, Simu Liu has played the nameless guy who can do martial arts but inevitably loses out to a more skilled white guy. It was one of his very first stunt jobs. 鈥淵eah, I took my ...

September 12, 2021, Sunday


鈥楾ogether鈥 is an actor鈥檚 dream for James McAvoy & Sharon Horgan

JAMES McAvoy and Sharon Horgan didn鈥檛 know one another prior to this year, but the two actors got very familiar very quickly thanks to the new film 鈥淭ogether,鈥 a cutting examination of a failing relationship ...

September 5, 2021, Sunday


A past-obsessed underwater world in peril

JUST as surely as climate change is scarring the land and warming the seas, it is also flooding our movies. The planet鈥檚 imperiled future has been in the DNA of disaster movies like 鈥淭he Day After Tomorrow鈥 ...

August 29, 2021, Sunday


鈥楾he Protege鈥 aims high but falls on its pretty face

Maggie Q should really be the star of 鈥淭he Protege.鈥 She鈥檚 in virtually every scene, whether covered in blood or couture. But top billing for this thriller goes to Michael Keaton, who saunters in by the ...

August 29, 2021, Sunday


Welcome to a family you may never forget

THEY say silence is golden. It鈥檚 a silly phrase, but it takes on an urgent poignancy for three stunning minutes in 鈥淐ODA,鈥 Si芒n Heder鈥檚 refreshing, loving and altogether irresistible film about a deaf ...

August 22, 2021, Sunday


 

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