Brie Larson’s promotional push for “Captain Marvel” couldn’t be more woke.

The Oscar winner railed against too many white male reporters, trumpeted the film’s...

Could an all-Asian cast bring the rom-com back from the grave? It won’t be for lack of trying.

“Crazy Rich Asians” clings to rom-com formulas like Kathy Griffin embracing her...

It’s hard to parody a genre already given its last rites.

Hollywood unofficially gave up on rom-coms a while ago, having failed to find a formula to satisfy our cravings. Last year’s...

Trey Edward Shults pulls a Babe Ruth with “Waves.”

The writer/director metaphorically points to the fences, asking us to buy into his ripe tale of love, loss, hope and redemption.

Shults...

Martin Scorsese picked a terrible time to trash comic book movies.

The Oscar winner mocked Marvel films earlier this year, proclaiming they weren’t “cinema.” The comments...

The “Get Out” formula isn’t as easy as it looks.

Jordan Peele’s instant classic fused bigotry, horror and social awareness in a way that brought everyone to the table. An excellent...

Jo Koy is ready for his close up, and it’s about time the same can be said for Filipino-Americans.

Koy’s “Easter Sunday” doesn’t reinvent culture-clash yuks. It’s formulaic and mostly safe,...

Don’t let “Barbie’s” dreamy, Day-Glo visuals fool you.

The film runs on hate, not affection.

“Barbie,” inspired by the Mattel toy dating back to 1959, loathes men to a degree that would...

Will Smith buries his natural charisma, and still youthful visage, under a blanket of whiskers to play the title role in “King Richard.”

It must be Oscar season!

Yes, biopics exponentially...

Hollywood loves to celebrate journalism, but the profession isn’t easy to nail on screen.

Endless phone calls. Shoe leather reporting. Rejection after rejection until that key source finally comes...

Quentin Tarantino’s “Reservoir Dogs” inspired a flood of flashy copy-cats.

His imitators aped his blend of hot action and cool banter. Suffice it to say few could come close to the real deal.

That’s...

One of the greatest works of criticism about the Coen brothers comes from Screentakes’s Jennine Lanouette in her review of “Inside Llewyn Davis.”

The 2013 drama is arguably one of Joel and Ethan...

With the progressive championing of diversity in Hollywood, there’s always the risk of pandering and needlessly pushing the racial divide.

I remember when Disney brought out Moana as a...

You just know the end of “Five Feet Apart” would wrestle the tears out of your eyes, by force if necessary.

The movie’s premise – two dying teens make an improbable...

It’s impossible to watch “Rocketman” without comparing it to last year’s “Bohemian Rhapsody.”

Both films cover rock gods who came of age in the 1970s....

On-screen chemistry is the elixir Hollywood would kill to reproduce.

Bogie and Bacall. Roberts and Gere. Hanks and Ryan. It comes along once every generation, sometimes less, but the results...

We break down why critics loathe 'Rambo: Last Blood,' recommend a new horror film from the 'Quiet Place' scribes and talk to New York Post columnist Karol Markowicz about the truth behind those PC scolds...

Anyone watching “Promising Young Woman” should get college credit toward their Gender Studies degree.

Few films wear their activism on their sleeve quite like Emerald Fennell’s directorial...

“Wonder Woman 1984” director Patty Jenkins sought inspiration from an unlikely source.

“Superman III.”

Yes, that scorned sequel leaned into the franchise’s funny bone...

“Triangle of Sadness” roasts the filthy rich for 90 glorious minutes.

The problem? There’s still a good hour of film left, and the final act is interminable.

This year’s Palme d’Or at Cannes.winner...