The first two films in legendary filmmaker James Cameron’s “Avatar” saga broke box office records and introduced technological breakthroughs in cinema. While audiences had to wait 13 years between those movies, Cameron now…
Bradley Cooper takes blending comedy and tragedy quite seriously in “Is This Thing On?” It is a welcome downscaling for the actor-director, whose previous work profiled relationships within the grand world of…
When legendary American composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim’s “Merrily We Roll Along” first opened on Broadway in 1981, the results were quite disastrous. Critics thrashed the production and it closed after only two…
When “Downton Abbey” first premiered 15 years ago, probably no one at the time could have predicted that it would go on to become the culture juggernaut it is today. After six seasons…
The films of Brazilian director Kleber Mendonça Filho are driven by a rich sense of place and time. His stories occupy a space so fully that they truly feel recovered from some distant…
Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) faces his toughest case yet in “Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.” In the third installment of Rian Johnson’s comedic murdery mystery franchise, an earnest…
Chloé Zhao is a filmmaker with a particularly special cinematic language. She can capture stark experiences with an almost ethereal glow. In 2020, the Bejing-born director made history by becoming the first woman…
Making a true friend is special. Sustaining that friendship can sometimes be the hard part. Disney’s “Zootopia 2” reminds us that animated family films can still tackle such subject matter with breezy…