From the opening credits, it’s clear that director Fede Alvarez hopes audiences will draw comparisons between The Girl in the Spider’s […]
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Fifty years ago, at the height of their popularity as television personalities and platinum-selling recording artists, The Monkees — Micky Dolenz, […]
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I’m far from the first one to point this out, but Bohemian Rhapsody — a biopic of Freddie Mercury (and, to a […]
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My understanding of battle rap — informed entirely by Joseph Kahn’s Bodied, a devastatingly funny social commentary — is that it’s […]
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Though written and directed by Tyler Perry, Nobody’s Fool starts out bearing little resemblance to a Tyler Perry film. For one thing, […]
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In Mexico, the Día de Muertos tradition celebrates life, but also the travels of the dearly departed. Here are three death-themed […]
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For maximum nostalgia, Mid90s is presented not in widescreen but in 4:3, the way it would have looked on TV or videotape […]
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Johnny English, Rowan Atkinson’s bumbling James Bond character who is a more talkative version of his Mr. Bean character, returns for […]
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The premise behind Ike Barinholtz’s dark comedy The Oath is ripe with possibilities: A liberal man and his wife host his conservative […]
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In the 35 years Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes were married (from 1954 until his death in 1989), she starred in […]
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The rather arbitrarily titled Hunter Killer is a submarine movie for dads, based on a novel called Firing Point (another random title) that […]
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It takes its time getting there, but you know The Hate U Give is going to turn serious on us because it […]
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