It’s a multiplex mystery: Who killed the whodunit? Writing at Cracked, David Christopher Bell named 2001’s “Gosford Park” the last good whodunit film. I would add Edgar Wright’s...
The subgenre of movies dealing with military veterans returning home is fairly limited. On the one hand are the action films featuring pumped-up actors portraying veterans who come home with a skill-set...
As much as we may love to complain about being inundated with superhero movies, we should just get over it and enjoy them for the humor, visuals, action, and positive themes. “Thor: Ragnarok”...
An important rule about New York City to keep in mind is that nobody here is successful. Instead, everyone is either unsuccessful or about to be unsuccessful. I imagine there are places in the country...
Art has been, is, and will always be political. We are often under a misconception that artists are rebels with the courage to challenge accepted truths. While there are artists like this, probably many,...
For a number of years beginning when I was around 11 years old, I had a mild obsession with Stephen King’s horror opus “It,” to the extent that I could finish any quoted passage from...
In the summer of 1982, John Carpenter’s “The Thing” landed in the theaters, and in the eyes of critics and the public alike it was a dud. Prominent New York Times movie critic Vincent...
Even before “Wonder Woman” opened at the top of the box office on June 1 with more than $38 million in ticket sales, the superhero flick’s female-empowerment theme garnered the attention...
Spoilers follow.
Many of Hollywood’s best actors and directors have been moving away from the silver screen and toward the small screen, out of the perception that television shows offer more...
The weekend after July 4, another Marvel blockbuster is headed to a $120-million debut: “Spider-Man: Homecoming.” Happy birthday, America—millennial America, that is. This is a spontaneous...
Major spoilers included.
“Baby Driver” is an easy movie to like. Edgar Wright has directed a film that’s refreshing, exciting, and innovative. Ansel Egort, Lily James, and Kevin Spacey...
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Walter White from “Breaking Bad.” Kint from “The Usual Suspects.” Dexter. Pope Pius XII from “The Young Pope.” Michael Corleone,...
Every time I told someone I planned to see a movie called “Baby Driver,” the response was the same. Everyone told me, “That sounds terrible,” and I had to agree. It does sound terrible....
The “Transformers” franchise is back with its fifth movie in a decade, and possibly its last. Neither Mark Wahlberg, the star of the last two films, nor the director, the remarkable Michael...
Mild spoilers below.
I wasn’t planning to see “Wonder Woman.” The plethora of superhero offerings we’ve had over the past decade or so—thanks to Christopher Nolan,...
I’m not mad. I’m just disappointed.
This is what happens when a duo I love gives me a movie I don’t. Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Zac Efron teamed up for a summer reboot...
Mild spoilers.
There’s life in the old xenomorph yet: “Alien: Covenant” is the sixth (or eighth, depending on how you’re counting) entry in the franchise that...
Spoilers below.
I walked into Guy Ritchie’s new film, “King Arthur: Legend of the Sword,” expecting a couple of hours of stupid entertainment. It had had a poor opening weekend, and...
Contains major spoilers.
I’ve never been a fan of comic books, and rarely get to the movies because we have Netflix and popcorn at home (though I’m tempted to go more often now that theaters...
Ridley Scott, who is turning 80 this year, is back to unleashing his favorite monster. He is in the middle of an alien trilogy that means to adapt horror, a ‘70s genre, to the social realities of...
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