Movie Reviews

Hugh Grant is devilishly good in cerebral horror flick ‘Heretic’. The creepy ‘Heretic’ pits a jovial, sinister Hugh Grant against a pair of religious missionaries in a battle of wi...

‘Red One’ Delivers a Lump of Coal in Your Holiday Movie Stocking. Dwayne Johnson and director Jake Kasdan labor hard to make ‘Red One’ an instant Christmas classic, but it feels li...

‘Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ is a Delightful Return for the Stop-Motion Duo. Aardman Animation –– and particular the characters’ creator Nick Park –– have lovingly craft...

‘We Live in Time’ Charts the Course of a Relationship in Quiet if Predictable Style. Andrew Garfield and Florence Pugh star as a couple who fall for each other and start a family a...

Funny and Moving, ‘A Real Pain’ Explores Grief, Family, and History Jesse Eisenberg’s confident direction steers the poignant, acerbic ‘A Real Pain,’ with Eisenberg and...

Clint Eastwood’s ‘Juror #2’ Is An Absorbing If Flawed Courtroom Thriller. Nicholas Hoult is ‘Juror #2,’ who may have a deeper connection to the trial he’s assigned to than anyone k...

Bland and Irritating, ‘Here’ Will Make You Wish You Were Anywhere But. The time-bending ‘Here’ is director Robert Zemeckis’ latest experiment in filmmaking, but again he sacrifices...

‘Your Monster’ Has a Shy Actress Finding Her Voice in a Funny, Dark Rom-Com. Melissa Barrera and Tommy Dewey shine as the mismatched pair in this story of self-confidence, relation...

‘Conclave’ Makes Electing a New Pope as Suspenseful as Any Spy Thriller. Ralph Fiennes is superb as the cardinal who must oversee the election of a new Pope, an event that fills th...

‘Venom: The Last Dance’ is Sillier Than Ever – But Slightly More Fun. With each movie in the ‘Venom’ trilogy getting progressively dumber than the last, the threequel goes all-in a...

‘Anora’ is manic, gritty, sexy, and emotionally resonant all at once. Mikey Madison gives a star-making performance as a sex worker in ‘Anora,’ a romantic comedy-drama that’s as so...

‘Smile 2’ Changes Things Up But Also Keeps to a Similar Pattern of Terrifying Tricks. The horror sequel from writer/director Parker Finn continues the curse storyline from the firs...

‘The Silent Hour’ is a Mostly Generic Cop Thriller With One Interesting Gimmick. Joel Kinnaman stars as a police detective with hearing loss trying to protect a deaf witness in the...

‘The Apprentice’ Looks to Chart The Roots of Donald Trump’s Business and Beliefs. The new movie from director Ali Abbasi features excellent performances from Sebastian Stan and Jer...

'Saturday Night' is a Fun Look at the Making of the Popular TV Series. Director Jason Reitman takes some dramatic license yet creates an entertaining account of the 90 minutes lead...

‘A Different Man’ Tackles Issues of Identity with Compassion and Humor. Sebastian Stan stars in the new film from writer/director Aaron Schimberg, which sees a man undergoing facia...

‘Hold Your Breath is a Bleak, Slow-Burn Horror Thriller About Motherhood and Paranoia. Sarah Paulson anchors the new thriller as Margaret, a woman trying to survive in the 1930’s d...

‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ is a well-shot but ultimately soulless musical courtroom drama. Todd Phillips’ follow-up to his 2018 effort smacks of self-indulgence, and largely wastes the...

Kate Winslet is great, but ‘Lee’ follows a stock biopic formula. ‘Lee’ tells the story of a very unconventional woman in the most conventional terms possible, stopping Kate Winslet...

‘The Wild Robot’ is a sweet, slight story of a robot bonding with nature. Lupita Nyong’o is the main voice here, in the story of Roz, the ‘bot who ends up accidentally arriving on...