NEW YORK: For a festival that prides itself on remaining outside of the fray, the 56th New York Film Festival kicked off with a royal feast of savagery and...
Malcolm D. Lee’s “Night School” brings together the potent combo of Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish, but this tepid if amiable sitcom-stretched-into-a-movie...
TORONTO: To play any brother, by blood or not, of John C. Reilly is an intimidating prospect given just how firmly entrenched Will Ferrell is as Reilly’s...
NEW YORK: What evil lurks behind the mommy vlogger with an “oopsie jar”? Paul Feig’s “A Simple Favor” is a suburban noir about two mothers with grade-school...
TORONTO: Once one of the most toxic properties in Hollywood, James Frey’s “A Million Little Pieces” has been reborn on the big screen, thanks to director Sam...
TORONTO: Lynda La Plante’s 1980s British crime series “Widows” had a curious hold over filmmaker Steve McQueen as a 13-year-old boy. The show was about a...
NEW YORK: The Toronto International Film Festival is an overwhelming omnibus of moviegoing that every year, through an onslaught of Oscar contenders and...
NEW YORK: In the teen sci-fi thriller “Kin,” a shy 14-year-old kid finds unearthly powers in the vacant warehouses of Detroit – an intriguing if standard...
NEW YORK: In “The Old Man and the Gun,” the elderly bank robber Forrest Tucker, played by Robert Redford, walks up to a bank teller, smiles, says...
NEW YORK: Oh, bother. The misfortunes of “Christopher Robin” are many.Not only does it come a year after “Goodbye Christopher Robin” – an earnest if...
NEW YORK: We’re going to need a bigger boat for all these shark movies. On the tail of “The Shallows,” “47 Meters Down,” “Dark Tide” and, of course, the...
NEW YORK: “Blindspotting,” the directorial debut of Carlos Lopez Estrada, stalks the streets of Oakland with a heightened, spoken-word flow. Passionately...
NEW YORK: A film series at Lincoln Center is asking a provocative question. Is there such a thing as a “female gaze” in movies? The perspective by which women...
NEW YORK: Scarlett Johansson has announced her withdrawal from the film “Rub & Tug,” after her plans to portray a transgender man prompted a backlash. In a...
NEW YORK: I like to imagine what King Kong, as a popcorn-chomping moviegoer, might make of “Skyscraper,” the latest summer actioner staring Dwayne Johnson....
NEW YORK: For anyone who has ever read “Crime and Punishment” and then really wanted to see a frat boy version – Bro-stoyevsky, if you like – your movie has...
NEW YORK: Scarlett Johansson’s plans to portray a transgender man have sparked a backlash from many who object to cisgender actors playing trans roles....
NEW YORK: Not since Animal ingested Insta-Growth pills – against the advice of Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker – has a movie had as much fun with...
NEW YORK: The first time that brothers David Kellman, Bobby Shafran and Eddy Galland were in the public eye, it was joyous. Separated at birth, the...
NEW YORK: There’s an oppressive bleakness to the brutal action-thriller “Sicario: Day of the Soldado,” but with the faces of Josh Brolin and Benicio del Toro...
NEW YORK: Shaquille O’Neal is already known by many names. Superman. The Diesel. The Big Aristotle. He would like to add Movie Star to the list.In...
NEW YORK: Pitiful men and their delusions of romance is the stuff of David and Nathan Zellner’s clever and melancholy-western movie “Damsel,” an offbeat...
NEW YORK: In “Hereditary” Annie (Toni Collette), an artist and mother of two teenagers, sneaks out to a grief support group following the death of her mother,...
NEW YORK: Regal and commanding even in his youth, Christopher Plummer has turned into an even mightier force in old age. The 88-year-old Plummer earlier this...
NEW YORK: Nearly 80 percent of film critics are male, according to a new study that has analyzed the movie reviews to last year’s top box-office hits. The...