Movie Reviews

‘Miller’s Girl’ offers twisty drama but occasionally falls into cliche. Playwright-turned-filmmaker Jade Halley Bartlett here crafts the story of a flirtatious relationship between...

‘The Underdoggs’ has Snoop Dogg fumbling a rude football comedy. Tika Sumpter and Mike Epps are also among the cast for the movie, which aims to do for American Football what ‘The...

Dolph Lundgren directs and stars in low-cost action thriller ‘Wanted Man’. Aging action star Dolph Lundgren brings a somber touch of humanity and no-nonsense direction to a standar...

Ava DuVernay’s ‘Origin’ is emotionally devastating and complex. The film not only explores the personal journey of Isabel Wilkerson but also takes a deeper dive into the topic of ‘...

‘I.S.S.’ is a thriller that gets lost in space (and melodrama). Gabriela Cowperthwaite directs the new science fiction thriller, which begins plausibly, but descends into pulp even...

‘The Beekeeper’ finds Jason Statham on predictable form in new thriller. David Ayer directs the new movie, which goes to often ridiculous lengths to make its main character a badas...

‘The Book of Clarence’ is an epic and bold retelling of the biblical story. Director Jeymes Samuel's revisionist story of Jesus is both epic and entertaining, but will no doubt be...

‘Mean Girls’ brings music to the comedy but doesn’t always make the grade. Opening in theaters on January 12th, ‘Mean Girls’ is just the latest example of a movie that represents t...

Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard find an unexpected bond in ‘Memory’. What we remember, what we forget, and whether we can choose those or not are at the heart of ‘Memory,’ a p...

‘Night Swim’ is a watery new horror thriller that has some depths. The movie from filmmaker Bryce McGuire was inspired by the director’s short film, which also featured something n...

A superb Adam Driver and Penelope Cruz keep ‘Ferrari’ on the road. Director Michael Mann gets behind the wheel for the uneven ‘Ferrari,’ with Adam Driver as the race car legend and...

Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom’ is a damp squib of a sequel. Jason Momoa is back as watery hero Arthur Curry, who here has to balance the demands of fatherhood with a resurgent nemes...

Bradley Cooper becomes Leonard Bernstein in the lush biopic. ‘Maestro,’ Bradley Cooper’s second effort as a director, is an expansive if perplexing look at an iconic musical figure...

Illumination’s ‘Migration’ is a mildly fun flight. Kumail Nanjiani, Elizabeth Banks, Danny DeVito and Awkwafina are among those lending their voices to this duck-centric family com...

‘The Color Purple’ adapts Alice Walker’s book on screen in musical form. Fantasia Barrino, Taraji P. Henson and Danielle Brooks are among the cast for the new movie, adapted from t...

‘The Family Plan’ is a mostly generic Mark Wahlberg action comedy. The actor plays a former assassin who has swapped wet work for suburban life in a movie that has a few inventive...

‘American Fiction’ is a smart, satirical take on the portrayal of African-Americans on the page and screen. Cord Jefferson’s movie boasts a winning central performance by Jeffrey W...

‘The Boys in the Boat’ finds George Clooney rowing in a very safe lane. George Clooney’s latest directorial effort is such a strait-laced historical biopic that you wonder whether...

‘Rebel Moon – Part One: A Child of Fire’ is ‘Star Wars’-lite. Zack Snyder’s latest genre outing borrows from other, better treatments of similar ideas but eventually finds its own...

Julia Roberts and Mahershala Ali Star in thriller ‘Leave the World Behind’. Ethan Hawke and Kevin Bacon also star in the somewhat confused and not always satisfying mystery movie f...