The best way to enjoy “John Wick: Chapter 3 — Parabellum” is as an experience of exhilarating aesthetic pleasure. It’s all about the style. It continues the ridiculously…
The immigrant experience gets the young adult romantic treatment in “The Sun Is Also a Star.” In the spirit of the title, this is the kind of film…
All it took was their beloved pet dog to inspire documentarian John Chester and wife Molly to leave the concrete jungle of Los Angeles for its surrounding farmlands.
“Pokémon Detective Pikachu” is a total nostalgia job. Those who remember the Pokémon phenomenon from the dawn of the millennium will cheer the return of recognizable characters in…
A comedy classic gets a makeover with “The Hustle,” a gender-swapped remake of the 1988 Steve Martin and Michael Caine film about two very different con artists who…
The best thing about third act comedy “POMS” is how its good-hearted sincerity raises it above the potential pitfalls of cornball predictability. Instead, it’s a sweet comedy with…
“Tolkien, not Tolkine” is the first great debate of the biopic “Tolkien.” Deep within this seemingly trivial contention is the thematic foundation of Dome Karukoski’s…
For her feature film directorial debut, Amy Poehler tells the funny and heartfelt story of a group of women facing 50 in Netflix’s “Wine Country…
“El Chicano” is both a throwback and a sign of progress. It gives us a genuine, big screen Latinx superhero while basking in a classic midnight movie style.
The pairing of Seth Rogen and Charlize Theron for a romantic comedy is one that is bound to roll a few eyes. However, “…
A ragtag group of misfit toys get their chance to shine in the animated musical film “UglyDolls.” Based on a line of plush playthings, the movie follows Moxy…
“Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile” stands back and observes with confused tension how people gravitate around demented charisma. When we hear about serial killers or the current…
“The Intruder” joins the ongoing trend in genre movies of pitting a young city couple against a menacing, rural threat. There seems to be some kind of social…
It has all come down to this. “Avengers: Endgame” makes the bold attempt of combining every element that has turned Marvel into the great movie franchise of our…
La Llorona, the weeping woman of Mexican folklore is one popular ghost. She has been the subject of over twenty feature films, fourteen plus shorts, and over a dozen TV episodes, including a…
“Teen Spirit” features one of those characters we can’t help but root for. Shimmering with color and the beat of pop music, it’s a classic rags-to-riches story with…