Warner Bros. got off to a shaky start with some of the early films in their DC Extended Universe: Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice underperformed…
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Three years ago, Dees Rees wowed audiences at the Sundance Film Festival with Mudbound, a haunting examination of racial and familial relations in the 1940s Deep…
Adrift in the complacency of long-term marriage, Pete (Will Ferrell) and Billie (Julia Louis-Dreyfus) embark on a vacation to an upscale European ski resort with their…
Once upon a time, Cassie (Carey Mulligan) was a med school student at the top of her class, but dropped out after a mysterious event and…
To the best of my knowledge, I’ve never seen a film based on a series of Tweets before today, but Aziah “Zola” Wells’ epic recounting of…
Writer-director Guy Ritchie burst onto the scene at the end of the millennium with a pair of densely-plotted gangster comedies, 1998’s Lock, Stock and Two Smoking…
The story of John Dolittle, a physician with a unique ability to understand and communicate with animals, has gone through numerous adaptations for the stage and…
The fact that Bad Boys for Life actually made it to the big screen feels like a small miracle. The previous film, Bad Boys II, was…
The sprawling fantasy world of The Witcher is probably best known from its critically acclaimed videogame adaptations, but Geralt of Rivia was first introduced in a…
2019 has been marked by several major cinematic events, including the release of Avengers: Endgame, which capped off nearly a decade of Marvel storytelling with an…
Two years removed from Rian Johnson’s divisive The Last Jedi, director J.J. Abrams returns to the franchise to cap off this latest trilogy with Star Wars:…
One of the most celebrated films of the year finally comes to home video with the Blu-ray release of Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time… in…
Franchise reboots are something of a risky proposition, with many beloved properties failing to connect with audiences in the same way as their original counterparts (see…
After cutting his teeth on 2006’s Brick, a brilliant throwback to Dashiell Hammett detective noir set in a suburban high school, writer-director Rian Johnson is back…
Over the past few weeks, acclaimed director Martin Scorsese should have been making the press rounds and discussing his monumental new film, The Irishman, about a…
For an in-depth look at the life and legacy of Fred Rogers, the beloved host of long-running children’s show Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood, you can’t do much…
Walt Disney Animation Studios boasts something of a shaky record when it comes to sequels: we’re not terribly far removed from the mostly dreadful straight-to-video releases…
After shaking up the superhero status quo with 2017’s violent and visceral neo-Western Logan, director James Mangold is back with something a bit more by the…
“It’s been very consuming,” says Daniel Jones (Adam Driver) in the opening moments of The Report. He’s just been asked about his work leading a Senate…
As if the streaming wars weren’t combative enough, a new player is entering the fray this week as the Walt Disney Company throws open the curtains…
Film critics, connoisseurs and historians may disagree on many fronts, but one universally accepted truth is that Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 horror film The Shining is a…
After multiple disappointing entries over the past couple of decades, you wouldn’t expect the latest installment of the Terminator franchise to warrant much excitement. But unlike…
It’s been two decades since Eddie Murphy headlined an R-rated comedy (the last was 1999’s Life, with Martin Lawrence), but lest there be any fear the…
A frantic fog-enveloped fever dream about isolation, paranoia and madness, The Lighthouse is director Robert Eggers’ follow-up to his acclaimed feature debut, The Witch. Set in…
With a worldwide gross of $1.6 billion, Disney’s remake of The Lion King –which eschewed hand-drawn animation in favor of the same digital rendering technology used…
After a commercially and critically successful foray into big-time Hollywood filmmaking with Thor: Ragnarok, director Taika Waititi is back with Jojo Rabbit, a film that hews…
Comedy sequels — particularly those arriving more than a decade after the original film — can be something of a risky proposition, often landing with a…
After Maleficent grossed $758 million worldwide — building the foundation for the seemingly endless parade of remakes, revisions and reimaginings of the studio’s animated catalog –…
Much of the buzz surrounding Ang Lee’s Gemini Man has focused on the revolutionary new technology that allows for Will Smith to face off against a…
Todd Phillips’ Joker has been courting controversy since its premiere at the Venice Film Festival, where it took home the prestigious Golden Lion award. But while…
Since the age of seven, Payton Hobart (Ben Platt) has been fixated on becoming the President of the United States. As an Ivy League dean notes…
Mickey (Bill Skarsgard) and Jules (Maika Monroe) aren’t so different from other young couples in their mid-twenties: crazy in love and overflowing with libido, with heads…
Hustlers, the latest from writer-director Lorene Scafaria (Seeking a Friend of the End of the World), is one of those rare “inspired by a true story”…
Two years after director Andy Muschietti’s acclaimed adaptation of Stephen King’s IT, which narrowed the massive scope of the novel to focus solely on the first…