We are living through the golden age of the cinema of Sacramento. Oh, you didn’t know there was such a thing?
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Last summer, to prepare for the upcoming movie version, I reread Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express.
In Brad’s Status, a 47-year-old man takes his 17-year-old son on a tour of Boston’s colleges.
The propulsively entertaining but problematic new movie I, Tonya reminds us that it’s been nearly a quarter-century since the figure skater Nancy Kerrigan was whacked on the back of the knee by a...
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a “reboot,” whatever that means, of a 1995 Robin Williams movie about kids magically transported inside the world of a board game.
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In this latest micro episode, the Substandard discusses the nominees for this year's Academy Awards. Sonny thinks The Shape of Water is in great shape to win. JVL wonders if a movie that's not woke even...
Black Panther is the least superhero-y of the Marvel superhero movies. T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman), its protagonist, gets some unearthly abilities from drinking the juice of a plant, but I can’t...
It's rare—vanishingly rare—to get the feeling in a movie theater that the people who made the film you’re seeing know exactly what they’re doing, know exactly what they’re...
| 6:59 "Selma" | 14:23 "Spotlight" | 17:36 "Straight Outta Compton" | 31:30 "Hamilton the Musical" | 42:00 "Nixon" | 44:00 "Primary Colors" | 47:50 "Lincoln" | 53:40 "Hail, Caesar!" |
<img src="http://cdn.weeklystandard.biz/cache/w640-40ef1a1f10d77e10e3691cd75f006d42.jpg"/>Can there be such a thing as a great movie that is also unsatisfying? It would seem like a contradiction...
<img src="http://cdn.weeklystandard.biz/cache/w640-4d6caede2f49bf63d0bcb9ca4d03a4d9.jpg"/>So, The Mummy. The question that bedevils me as I begin this review is how I can get to the end...
<img src="http://cdn.weeklystandard.biz/cache/w640-ad92bc97ffce2e604b600553c70b7651.jpg"/>The Arthurian legends are among the most enduring stories in history. But when a $175 million film...
<img src="http://cdn.weeklystandard.biz/cache/w640-8078fd2f00fddad181e1b547bb9f9311.jpg"/>This discussion of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 will feature spoilers, so I don't want to hear...
<img src="http://cdn.weeklystandard.biz/cache/w640-42251728c567bfc75e16e457760827c9.jpg"/>Well, of course Moonlight won the Academy Award. Who’s kidding whom in the year following the...
<img src="http://cdn.weeklystandard.biz/cache/w640-c4546f52eb4ff7bbaddf025d6ed76cf1.jpg"/>Imagine for a moment that Arnold Schwarzenegger's agent received a script called The Accountant...
<img src="http://cdn.weeklystandard.biz/cache/w640-c33c87b55a66a8891cfa6a3e095d2ece.jpg"/>There was a recurring sketch on the late, great, still-underrated comedy show SCTV in which two...
<img src="http://cdn.weeklystandard.biz/cache/w640-73b63103a30a70b106ccf29d622d4cd7.jpg"/>My friend the movie producer is a major fan of Mad Max: Fury Road . He says it’s the best film...
<img src="http://cdn.weeklystandard.biz/cache/w640-05ef4245877416077c133e8bad86a646.jpg"/>There s no upside for me in reviewing Star Wars: The Force Awakens . If I say anything interesting...
<img src="http://cdn.weeklystandard.biz/cache/w640-08a54b7102d304b8caa3825b97e74c9f.jpg"/>I went to see Spotlight out of a sense of dreary duty. The movie is being touted as an Oscar possibility...
<img src="http://cdn.weeklystandard.biz/cache/w640-d6a07c5abba041c9f276051f22805b2c.jpg"/>William Butler Yeats might have described an old person as a “paltry thing, a tattered coat upon...
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