“You might know me from Saltburn, not from seeing the film, just from seeing the TikToks,” heartthrob Jacob Elordi said during a Saturday Night Live monologue over the weekend. “If you saw the movie...
“Barbenheimer” was not a winning team at the Golden Globes last night, as one film exploded in awards while the other fell behind.
Barbie, which had been expected to perform big at the Golden...
Leonard Bernstein may have been the greatest American cultural creation of the 20th century. I don’t mean that he was the greatest creator of culture, because he was not—for while he certainly composed...
The British director Ridley Scott has made an American film about the French dictator Napoleon Bonaparte. Reactions to Scott’s Napoleon divide in two ways. First, there is the division between the French...
Oppenheimer is a landmark picture in many ways, not least because it’s a total throwback. We’re talking about a self-conscious middlebrow epic about America, once a subgenre of its own and relatively...
I have a hard-and-fast rule: I don’t see movies in which children are shown to suffer or are in jeopardy. But I’m also 62, and sometimes I forget my own hard-and-fast rules the way I forget words here...
Steven Spielberg directed the first four Indiana Jones movies. He told James Mangold, the director of the just-released fifth installment, that the secret to making such a picture is that it's "a trailer...
Twenty years ago, adult comedies were more reliable performers at the box office than horror movies—or superhero movies, for that matter. Will Ferrell, Adam Sandler, Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, the writer-directors...
In 2018, a cartoon called Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse won the Academy Award for best animated feature—and rarely has any Oscar been as deserved. It was, and is, dazzling. Multiple versions of the...
Boy, is Guy Ritchie’s The Covenant good—a riveting, intense, heart-pounding military thriller that packs more punch than any such movie since The Hurt Locker in 2008. And that’s a huge surprise coming...
One of the funniest American contributions to the tradition of the campus novel is Richard Russo’s Straight Man (1997), which follows the middle-aged English professor William Henry Deveraux Jr. during...
Like many stars of yore, Russell Crowe has reached the age for exploitation movies, as we used to call them. Hollywood as a whole has reached that age, and horror has gradually become the most profitable...
Dwight Frye gave one of the greatest performances in cinema history, and you've never heard of him. It's Frye on screen in the opening minutes of 1931's Dracula, playing the mild-mannered lawyer who has...
When I was watching Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, I found myself wondering at the strange and somewhat unfamiliar feeling it was inducing in me. I couldn’t place it until it suddenly hit...
John Wick: Chapter 4 opens with an homage to the most famous shot in Lawrence of Arabia, as Laurence Fishburne blows out a match in New York and the movie slam-cuts to a shot of the desert in North Africa....
For much of its running time, Avatar: The Way of Water resembles nothing so much as one of those screensavers from the early 2000s that turned your computer monitor into a simulated aquarium. Remember?...
For decades, in interviews, Steven Spielberg spoke slightingly of his father Arnold. He said his father had never shown him affection, and "I don’t want to repeat that error. I know that I always felt...
What happened? MSNBC's Morning Joe invited Al Sharpton to discuss his thoughts on Adidas cutting ties with Kanye West in response to the rapper's blatantly anti-Semitic comments. "‘Do you have a...
Like Tom Cruise, Brad Pitt has appeared to be on the verge of reversing the irreversible rules of time. Three years ago, when he was 55, he looked positively Greek-godlike as he completed a roofing job...
The new movie Vengeance is very intelligent, it goes in unexpected directions, and it sticks with you. The problem is that it strains credulity in a weird way. But it’s still worth seeing.
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