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“The Brand New Testament” rewrites the Good Book, with endless playfulness
For sheer inventiveness of story, language, visuals and theme, "The Brand New Testament" is, quite nearly, a divine comedy.
National Film Registry honors “Breakfast Club,” “Rushmore” and other teen angst movies
On Wednesday, the Library of Congress announced that the first film in Spheeris' "The Decline of Western Civilization" trilogy -- 聽a controversial look at the burgeoning Los Angeles punk rock...
“Office Christmas Party” review: comedy, made by smutty elves
The film's success is due to the twinkly commitment of the large and talented cast.
An ex-husband writes his revenge tale in “Nocturnal Animals”
Art can make us squirm. That's the theme of "Nocturnal Animals," a theme telegraphed with almost sadistic clarity as we watch, under the opening credits, a series of obese naked...
“Allied”: Suspenseful spy setup bogs down in mawkish melodrama
"Allied" takes its sweet time constructing a solid, suspenseful, well-executed setup, and I do mean sweet.
“Doctor Strange”: Love? Like is closer to the truth
The character introduced to film audiences in "Doctor Strange" may seem, in the broad contours of his personality and circumstance, strangely familiar, even to those who have only been paying...
“Inferno”: Adaptation of Dan Brown thriller fails to raise a temperature
After "The Da Vinci Code" and "Angels & Demons," who would expect "Inferno" - the latest movie to be adapted from novelist Dan Brown to be anything other than schematic,...
Too bad “Masterminds” wastes one of the year’s best comedy casts
"Masterminds" never quite works as a feature film, but it does feel like it might have been hilarious on a sketch-comedy show 20 years ago.
“Command and Control” asks what we’ve learned from a 1980 missile accident
Cutting between a minute-by-minute breakdown of a notorious 1980 accident involving a Titan II nuclear missile in rural Arkansas and a deep, contextual history of the U.S. nuclear weapons program,...
Review: “Miss Peregrine” an engagingly oddball fantasia from Tim Burton
In a story involving time travel, scary monsters and a group of quirkily charismatic English orphans blessed (or cursed) with such fantastical gifts as one boy's ability to control the...