When teenage Margot (Michelle La) goes missing, her widowed father, David (John Cho), with whom she has always enjoyed a close relationship, realizes […]
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All is tranquil at the beginning of We the Animals before it evolves into a gentle, aching coming-of-age story for 10-year-old Jonah […]
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As we’ve seen, the end of Adolf Hitler didn’t mean the end of the Nazis. Those suckers are hardy! Operation Finale recounts […]
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The Happytime Murders is a dismal execution of a great premise, in which puppets (think Muppets) live alongside humans in Los […]
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A.X.L., a wholesome boy-and-his-dog adventure and an inoffensive PG trifle, is patterned after The Iron Giant — a good role model for […]
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Papillon is based on the memoirs of Henri Charrière, a 1930s French safecracker who was sent to an inescapable penal colony […]
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Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood is the movie version of the 2012 memoir Full Service, in which George Albert […]
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They don’t make a lot of movies that are set in 18,000 B.C. and told entirely in made-up caveman languages, perhaps […]
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Peter Berg, director of good movies like Friday Night Lights and The Rundown, has fallen in with a bad crowd lately, and […]
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There are two things about Crazy Rich Asians that separate it from most romantic comedies. One is that it’s good. Based on […]
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Even by the low standards of lame PG-13 horror movies about teenage girls being harassed by supernatural entities, Slender Man is quite […]
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Summer of 84 is by the trio of Canadian directors — François Simard, Anouk Whissell, and Yoann-Karl Whissell, known collectively as RKSS […]
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