If there's one axiom about the kinds of people who make a life entertaining other people, it's this one from the musical Chicago: "None of us got enough love in our childhoods. And that's showbiz, kid."...
Ghostbusters: Afterlife is a remarkably innovative movie in one respect: It takes a famously crazy farce as its wellspring and uses it as the source material for a relatively earnest teen drama. I’ve...
“Yellowstone” is America’s latest hit TV show because it appeals to common Americans instead of catering to elites and liberals on Twitter, John Podhoretz writes
Woke Racism, the new book from social critic and Columbia linguist John McWhorter, has a simple thesis: Contemporary elite progressivism (aka "wokeness") is a religion. "I do not mean that these people's...
There's no reason to criticize Belfast, writer-director Kenneth Branagh's autobiographical film set at the outset of the sectarian civil war that wracked Northern Ireland for decades. It's a loving depiction...
I mean it as high praise when I say that Finch, the new Tom Hanks movie available for streaming on Apple TV Plus, is like the best Twilight Zone episode never made. Finch would have been one of those...
The secret sauce that has made the Marvel Cinematic Universe the most successful franchise in the history of the movies is the casting, overseen by the MCU's majordomo, Kevin Feige. From the jump, Feige...
The dazzling new movie Last Night in Soho is a bizarro-world version of Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood. Both movies are about the power of nostalgia. Tarantino's wonderful picture took one of modern...
The French Dispatch is bananas, and that’s what’s wonderful about it—when it is wonderful, which isn’t all the time. Wes Anderson’s almost indescribable new movie is a takeoff of a spoof of...
Dune does something I’ve never seen a movie do. It stops. It. Just. Stops. In the middle. It’s not a cliffhanger. It’s not a heart-swelling climactic moment that leaves you wanting more....
I have to confess that The Last Duel takes a little getting used to. It's set in medieval France and it features a scar-riddled Matt Damon sporting facial hair that's almost comically unbecoming—not...
I didn’t think the Bond movies had it in them any longer. After his sensational debut in 2006’s Casino Royale, Daniel Craig starred in two catastrophic duds by anyone’s reckoning (Quantum of Solace...
In The Many Saints of Newark, a man beats his father to death and later drowns his beloved girlfriend in the ocean. And you feel nothing. In this, as in so many other ways, David Chase's new motion picture,...
Venom: Let There Be Carnage is like the second-season premiere of a Neil Simon buddy-clash TV sitcom in the guise of a comic-book-superhero-monster movie. You can hear the intro to the show in your head:...
There are people for whom eating is no more special than brushing teeth. It’s just a necessity—sustaining the body with nutrients to get through the rest of the day. And then there are those whose...
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Space Jam 2 is a movie in the way "processed cheese food" is...
Black Widow is a superhero movie without a superhero, and therefore easily the oddest Marvel product yet. It's the origin story of a pretty boring secondary character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe—a...
For more than four decades, screen mavens have been eagerly awaiting the time when Steven Spielberg would bite the bullet and make a full-blown movie musical. Now he’s done it. It comes out at Christmastime...
I will always be grateful to Tom Hanks for wandering into a used bookstore in New York City, where (as he explained on Conan O'Brien's sensationally good podcast) he spotted a haunting dust jacket of a...
Birds of Prey wants to be like Deadpool, and it is, except that it's also very bad. Deadpool rewrote the comic-book-movie script with its wild depiction of a fast-talking, foul-mouthed, nihilistic brute...
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