The hilarious buddy comedy “Golden Arm” manages to combine all the things we love most about a sports comedy with a theme of female empowerment and the unique comic stylings of stars…
As the age of franchise-building continues, “Tom Clancy’s Without Remorse” is one great-looking franchise-starter, and feels like it all the way through. Impeccably filmed, strongly performed, and convincingly staged in terms of…
The opioid epidemic consumes the life of a mother, Deb (Glenn Close), in the movie “Four Good Days,” but it is not her who is the addict. It is her 31-year-old…
It’s up to a quirky Michigan family to save the human race from an artificial intelligence takeover in the Netflix animated feature “The Mitchells vs. the Machines,” a family comedy from producers…
“About Endlessness” defies categorization. It is not a drama or a documentary, yet it is a narrative. Swedish director Roy Andersson has made a meditation on the very rhythms of everyday…
Since around the ‘90s, turning video games into movies has been one of the toughest challenges faced by countless screenwriters and directors. “Mortal Kombat” is the latest attempt and it succeeds and…
“Stowaway” is the latest entry in an emerging genre of space thrillers that put an emphasis on both simplicity in the storytelling and hyper realism in the aesthetic. The environment of the…
The most evocative cinematic biography of the season does not belong to a major historical figure, but to a pig raising her offspring in a deceptively serene landscape. “Gunda” is a documentary…
“Gunda” basks in the very rhythm of the natural world from an almost microscopic angle. The life of a pig can possess all of the intimacy, warmth and heartbreak we associate with…
A weekend of bliss turns into a trying relationship for two American expats living in Greece in romantic drama “Monday.” Sebastian Stan, best known for a slew of Marvel films, and…
Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer become a force to be reckoned with in Netflix’s “Thunder Force.” Written and directed by Ben Flacone, McCarthy’s husband and frequent collaborator, this action…
A young military man’s journey as he comes of age and grapples with his sexuality is at the center of “Moffie,” a South African drama set during apartheid. Kai Luke Brummer…
A cardinal rule in storytelling is that the moment you leave the kids alone they go wild. “Voyagers” raises the stakes by setting the hormonal chaos in space. Writer-director Neil Burger…
Westerns tend to be defined by vast, stretching landscapes in a romanticized 19th century America. Netflix’s “Concrete Cowboy” is an excellent western set in the present, and not in some Montana frontier…
A Jewish mourning ritual provides the setting for one of the most awkward afternoon’s of a young New York woman’s life in the indie feature “Shiva Baby.” Rachel Sennott stars as…
Every year around this time, a film comes along that deals with faith, but this year’s biggest Easter weekend offering, “The Unholy,” contains more frights than we are used to seeing in…