It’s a tale as old as time — or at least as old as 1957, when Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas! was first published: A mean, green,...

From the opening credits, it’s clear that director Fede Alvarez hopes audiences will draw comparisons between The Girl in the Spider’s Web and...

I'm far from the first one to point this out, but Bohemian Rhapsody -- a biopic of Freddie Mercury (and, to a lesser extent, the band he fronted,...

My understanding of battle rap — informed entirely by Joseph Kahn’s Bodied, a devastatingly funny social commentary — is that it’s like a...

Though written and directed by Tyler Perry, Nobody's Fool starts out bearing little resemblance to a Tyler Perry film. For one thing, it's just...

For maximum nostalgia, Mid90s is presented not in widescreen but in 4:3, the way it would have looked on TV or videotape back in the day. "Maximum...

Johnny English, Rowan Atkinson's bumbling James Bond character who is a more talkative version of his Mr. Bean character, returns for a third outing...

The premise behind Ike Barinholtz's dark comedy The Oath is ripe with possibilities: A liberal man and his wife host his conservative relatives for...

The rather arbitrarily titled Hunter Killer is a submarine movie for dads, based on a novel called Firing Point (another random title) that looks...

It takes its time getting there, but you know The Hate U Give is going to turn serious on us because it starts with our narrator, 16-year-old Starr...

See, they're a couple of brothers whose last name is Sisters. "The Sisters brothers." Get it? As a novel, much of what made The Sisters Brothers so...

In the parlance of rock-climbers, to "free solo" means to climb alone and without a rope -- basically, to remove all margin for error. If you make a...

An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn is Jim Hosking's followup to his infamously irritating/amusing The Greasy Strangler, which I enjoyed as a...

The Guilty is a tight, efficient, 85 minutes set in a single location: the 911 call center in Copenhagen. (Except it’s not 911 over there, it’s...

Lee Israel was a journalist who made a living writing well-regarded biographies before falling on hard times after the failure of her unauthorized...