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Thursday, Jun. 15, 2023
Review: Pixar's "Elemental" Directed By Peter Sohn
Pixar's "Elemental" conjures a diverse metropolis where the elements — fire, water, earth and air — live like ethnicities mostly ghettoized from one other. For fire and water, especially, mingling can be combustible. A bad splash could consume fire; a strong flame could evaporate water. This is the...
Thursday, Jun. 15, 2023
Review: Director Sam Hargrave's "Extraction 2"
Tyler Rake was clinically dead when we last saw him at the end of "Extraction," tumbling over a bridge in Bangladesh with a fatal, burbling bullet wound to his neck. But death is no match for Netflix. Chris Hemsworth returns as the sad-sack, gun-for-hire Rake in "Extraction 2" and you'll thank the...
Wednesday, Jun. 14, 2023
Review: Wes Anderson's "Asteroid City"
Wes Anderson gets back to the heart of things in "Asteroid City," a film about grief, performance, storytelling, the cosmos and, well, everything. Or, as one character, a playwright played by Edward Norton, says when asked what his work is about: "It's about infinity and I don't know what else."...
Tuesday, Jun. 13, 2023
Review: Director Andy Muschietti's "The Flash"
"It's not nice to fool Mother Nature," went a famous '70s commercial catchphrase. But we learn in "The Flash" — the much awaited, long gestated new DC Studios offering — that it's Father Time one musn't cross. Because trying to change the past can really mess you up when you get back to the future...
Wednesday, Jun. 7, 2023
Review: "Flamin' Hot" From Director Eva Longoria
Flamin' Hot Cheetos get an origin story worthy of any Marvel superhero with Hulu's totally engrossing "Flamin' Hot." It's the tale of how a struggling Mexican American janitor came up with the idea of adding spice to the cornmeal, forever saving after-school snacking. Is it true? Probably not. Don'...
Thursday, Jun. 1, 2023
Review: Tina Satter Makes Directorial Debut With "Reality"
"Reality," a new movie starring Sydney Sweeney, is largely set in one empty room. There is nothing on the walls. There are no chairs or rugs, just a stark and ugly room in a nondescript rental property in a downtrodden neighborhood. Its script is as minimalistic — lifted directly from the...
Thursday, Jun. 1, 2023
Review: "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse"
Let's get this upfront: "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" was the best comic-book film of the last decade. With an animation blizzard blown straight in from the pages of comics, "Into the Spider-Verse" took a supercollider to all the conventions of the superhero movie. Solemnity was out. Gone,...
Friday, May. 19, 2023
Nicole Holofcener, Julia Louis-Dreyfus Reunite For "You Hurt My Feelings"
Nicole Holofcener has learned a few things about Hollywood over the years. That attending the Oscars is more fun as a guest than a nominee. That when someone just says "congratulations" after a film, they didn't like it and don't want to tell you. That getting to work with your idols is one of the...
Wednesday, May. 17, 2023
Review: Director Louis Leterrier's "Fast X"
Fans and critics may disagree over when exactly the "Fast & Furious" franchise jumped the shark, but there is only one correct answer: When the Pontiac Fiero went into space. Weightless and violating every physical law, the floating car — tasked with bumping a satellite in the ninth installment...
Wednesday, May. 10, 2023
Review: Director Davis Guggenheim's "Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie"
I've always liked Michael J. Fox and always will. I suspect most people feel the same way. That's surely partly because, as Marty McFly in "Back to the Future" and Alex P. Keaton in "Family Ties," Fox was a fixture of so many childhoods. But there's also a way that Fox remains forever boyish — a...