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…
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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…
If you think beloved children’s cartoon Dora the Explorer seems like an odd choice for the big-screen live-action treatment, you’re not alone. The series was always…
The Fast and Furious franchise has always enjoyed a somewhat tenuous relationship with the laws of physics, and that relationship has grown more strained with each…
As Quentin Tarantino lurches ever closer to his self-imposed maximum of ten films — an arbitrary limit meant to ensure the revered writer and director hangs…
Four years after a subway bomb claimed the lives of 23 people in Copenhagen, right-wing extremism is not only on the rise, it’s quickly becoming mainstream…
25 years after the release of The Lion King, one of the most successful animated films of all time and arguably the pinnacle of the “Disney…
An unapologetic throwback to the R-rated action comedies of the 1980s, Stuber finds hulking, vengeful narcotics detective Vic (Dave Bautista) hijacking a mild-mannered Uber driver named…
Ari Aster turned heads and churned stomachs with his 2018 horror offering Hereditary, an unflinching examination of grief through a particularly unsettling lens that also boasts…
As Avengers: Endgame prepares for a brief re-release at the box office this weekend — a move that seems destined to propel it to the highest-grossing…
Disney may be enjoying the box office success of the updated Aladdin, but the House of Mouse still known how to monetize their classic catalog. This…
A heart-wrenching chronicle of the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, new documentary 5B gets its title from the ward of the same name, established at San…
Fans of the Toy Story series have long been apprehensive about the notion of a fourth installment. The series had seemingly wrapped up on such a…
If you had told me the onscreen pairing of Tessa Thompson and Chris Hemsworth, who showcased tremendous comedic chemistry in Thor: Ragnarok, would scarcely elicit a…
When Emmy Award-winning talk show host Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) finds herself on the verge of being replaced by a smug young standup (Ike Barinholtz) whose…
When 20th Century Fox first plucked the X-Men from the pages of Marvel comic books and thrust them onto theater screens around the world, no one…
The notion of condensing Elton John’s storied 50-year career into a two-hour film seems like an insurmountable task, one that could only lead to failure. Thankfully,…
I was largely a fan of the 2014 Godzilla reboot, thanks in no small part to the efforts of director Gareth Edwards, who eschewed the big-budget…
When HBO’s acclaimed Western drama Deadwood signed off in 2006 at the end of its third season, the cliffhanger ending seemed to promise plenty of bloodshed…
Let’s get this out of the way right from the beginning: as the exuberant magic wielder in Disney’s live-action remake of Aladdin, Will Smith is perfectly…
A hilarious story about a pair of overachievers trying to party with the cool kids at the end of their senior year, Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart is…
The three key elements of the John Wick franchise are bullets, bloodshed and badassery, a simple yet effective recipe that generated a considerable amount of box…
Confession: I’ve never really been a Pokemon fan. Sure, I got caught up in the Pokemon Go craze a few years back, just like pretty much…
A period drama about the early years of the celebrated author who penned The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings, Tolkien stars Nicholas Hoult as…