Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2023

Of all the ways that a relationship can end, a fundamental disagreement about a work of art is in some ways extremely silly. And yet, a film or a book exposing an irreparable rift in a love that perhaps wasn't as compatible, as symbiotic or as caring as one might have thought is also, somehow,...

Friday, Oct. 6, 2023

Jamie Foxx deploys his movie star charm judiciously and skillfully as a litigator with swagger to spare in " The Burial," a very entertaining courtroom drama.

Foxx is one of those actors, blessed with an allure and glamour that runs so deep that it's almost tempting to dismiss a...

Thursday, Oct. 5, 2023

The disquieting root of Chloe Domont's slinky, slick feature debut "Fair Play" lies in the face of Luke (Alden Ehrenreich) as he learns that his fiance Emily (Phoebe Dynevor) has been given the promotion at their Wall Street hedge fund he thought was his.

"Congratulations," he says with a...

Wednesday, Oct. 4, 2023

Bob Dylan called it her "heart-stopping soprano," and it's true that when Joan Baez unleashed that pure, angelic voice on the protest song "We Shall Overcome," you could believe we would, indeed, overcome.

The celebrated folk singer and activist was singing about civil rights, of course....

Thursday, Sep. 28, 2023

The artificial intelligence in Gareth Edwards' " The Creator," a visually magnificent if by-the-books epic, is not the AI making headlines at the moment. This is AI in the classic sci-fi mold — the Roy Battys of "Blade Runner," the Avas of "Ex Machina," the ones whose sentience we question and...

Thursday, Sep. 21, 2023

John Carney, the Irish filmmaker of "Once," "Sing Street" and "Begin Again," makes the movie version of "three chords and the truth."

His films, unabashedly earnest, feel-good movies for cynical times, are lo-fi musicals that tell simple stories, charmingly. There are love interests,...

Tuesday, Sep. 19, 2023

The little guy — or at least the little guy with a few hundred bucks to sink into the stock market — gets a movie to cheer with "Dumb Money," the real story of a very recent financial rebellion that shook Wall Street to its loafers.

Paul Dano plays our hero here, Keith Gill, a new dad...

Thursday, Sep. 14, 2023

Anyone who has eagerly followed Gael Garcia Bernal since his breakthrough roles in "Amores Perros" and "Y tu mamá también" likely never foresaw him one day in the world of lucha libra wrestling.

Bernal, far from the most brawny actor, has been a slyer shape-shifter, whether in heels as a...

Wednesday, Sep. 13, 2023

Kenneth Branagh indulges in the kind of macabre theatricality that only a crumbling Venetian palazzo on a stormy Halloween night can provide in "A Haunting in Venice."

Moviegoers probably long ago made up their mind one way or another about Branagh's stately and flawed Hercule Poirot...

Wednesday, Sep. 6, 2023

The Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet is not dead in Pablo Larraín's "El Conde." He is instead a 250-year-old vampire living in semi-exile and wishing for death in this audacious allegory about history's tendency to repeat itself, shot in sublime, otherworldly black and white.

It is...

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