“Super Troopers 2” defines throwback. 16 years after its predecessor premiered in theaters, it is practically oblivious to the passage of time. The Broken Lizard comedy team brings…
“Blumhouse’s Truth or Dare” is another round of that classic parable about good looking students who party in the wrong place, with the wrong people, and somehow stumble…
This is a movie where the title literally captures what it’s all about. “Rampage,” roughly based on the video game of the same name, seeks to do nothing…
Joe Paterno had become an emperor of college football by the time a sexual abuse scandal took him down in 2011. In HBO’s “Paterno” he becomes a shell…
The new film “Spinning Man” opens with enough promise that one temporarily forgets that we’re in “TV episode turned feature film” zone, and by the mid-way point, it’s…
Joaquin Phoenix, an actor known for eccentric tendencies both on and off the screen, and Lynne Ramsay, a Scottish filmmaker known for thinking outside the…
“Lean on Pete” has the authenticity of lives being experienced on the screen. It could have chosen to tell its story with a dozen clichés and a hundred…
How astounding the lengths to which the powerful can go to cover up their own, bloody tracks. “Chappaquiddick” hauntingly recreates one of the great American political tragedies of…
“A Quiet Place” builds an overwhelming sense of tension by relying on absolute silence, then shattering it with bursts of sheer terror. Director John Krasinski…
“Blockers” wants to use idiocy to make a decent point. At its heart (which is in the right place), it deals with the clash between progressive sexual values…
First-time feature filmmaker Olivia Newman has delivered a startling debut with “First Match,” taking the viewer on a hostile journey through the challenging life…
There is no question that Taraji P. Henson provides a marquee name. The “Empire” actress has no problem attracting large crowds to her pleasurable awards-season fare, most recently…