Category: Reviews

The John Wick movies have a hotel, The Continental, that’s exclusively for assassins, where a code of conduct (e.g., no “working” on […]

Remember how Danny Ocean needed 10 friends (and then 11, and then 12) to pull off his heists? In Ocean’s Eight, […]

I didn’t grow up with Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (or Sesame Street, for that matter). We didn’t have cable yet when I was […]

Would you like to watch Toni Collette have a nervous breakdown for two hours? Hereditary is many things — a haunting story […]

Ian McEwan’s novel On Chesil Beach and the movie based on it (which he also wrote) tell a story set in 1962 […]

Remember the Robert Redford movie All Is Lost, where he was stranded at sea? Adrift, with teen-romance veterans Shailene Woodley (The […]

If the absence of Johnny Knoxville’s Jackass has left a concussion-shaped hole in your life, it may be partially filled by Action […]

Upgrade is an offbeat futuristic techno-thriller in the tradition of B-movies about scientists tampering in God’s domain, made with enthusiasm (by Saw and […]

“This is not based on a true story,” say the onscreen titles at the beginning of American Animals. “This is a […]

While I’ve always liked the original Star Wars trilogy, I don’t have the depth of knowledge (i.e., memorization) that some do, so […]

Supreme Court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg started to become a pop-culture icon a few years ago, when the court shifted rightward […]

The imaginatively titled Book Club, about four women in their late 60s whose love lives are rekindled by reading the Fifty […]