All those film geeks who grew up wanting to make movies like Steven Spielberg are now old enough to make movies like Steven Spielberg. Along the way, they’ve picked up other influences, especially…
The opening scene of “The Sisters Brothers” shows an unadorned house standing on barren plains in the darkness. Shadowy figures hide behind nearby rocks introducing themselves as…
“Life Itself” wants to be a hipster romance, celebration of diversity and Oscar bait all at once, but with fatal insincerity. The writer and director is…
“The Predator” is a comic book film but not a good one. For the first half of the movie, the director Shane Black…
Crime does pay, at least for a while. Such was the lesson learned by Richard Wershe Jr., who at 14 started his life as a hustler in the streets of Detroit, first with…
If you have ever wondered what kind of an adult girl detective Nancy Drew grew up to be, Paul Feig’s delightful murder mystery “A Simple…
In Paul Weitz’s new film “Bel Canto,” world famous opera star Roxanne Coss (Julianne Moore) agrees to sing…
Few female criminals have achieved the notoriety of Lizzie Borden, the New England woman who was accused of hacking to death both her father and stepmother one fateful morning in in 1892. In…
Some notable talents walk amongst the greats, but for whatever reason stumble and fall before receiving their proper admiration. Blaze Foley had a natural talent for writing songs of almost folk poetry, which…
“Peppermint” gleefully and brutally celebrates street justice. This revenge fantasy throws away proper transitions, logic and plausibility. It just wants to show someone taking the law into their…
If Hollywood films offer any real indication, the road to becoming a nun is often a bumpy one, and young novitiate Irene (Taissa Farmiga) has an especially challenging…
Behind nearly every iconic name we gaze upon in museum halls there are countless untold stories of struggle and heartbreak. “Kusama: Infinity” is a documentary chronicling the life…
“Cyrano de Bergerac,” Edmond Rostand’s beloved 1897 play about unrequited love, gets a modern update, thanks to Netflix, in the teen rom-com “Sierra Burgess Is a Loser.” This…
In the movie “Kin,” “a good man does the right thing even when it’s not easy.” That’s what grizzled Hal (played by Dennis Quaid)…