Young theater people are among the most enthusiastic artists, especially as they get older. Director Jon S. Baird gracefully curbs this optimism in “Everything’s Going to Be Great,” by imposing reality on seemingly impossible dreams.
Many women are asked to be a bridesmaid at least once in their lives, and the call does not always come at the most convenient time, especially if you are a secret agent…
The world is going crazy. As liberties erode and missiles streak across skies, we don’t know who we can trust. The terrain is ripe for Danny Boyle’s “28 Years Later,” a sequel…
Relationships have always been much more complicated than just attraction or personality. Looks and money can indeed count for more, a lot more, than personality. Celine Song’s “Materialists” uses the rules of…
It must be quite something to near the end and look back. Does our brain truly turn our lives into a kind of montage that flashes by? In Mike Flanagan’s “The Life…
Chad Stahelski’s “John Wick” franchise is one of the great modern action vehicles, defining aesthetic richness with the kind of craft that delivers the best of its genre. That puts quite a lot…
Jonathan Entwistle’s “Karate Kid: Legends” is a combination of two sides to the 41-year-old franchise. One half borrows from the usual plot beats of the 1984 original “The Karate Kid,” the other…
Fathers and father figures are almost always at the center of Wes Anderson’s films and “The Phoenician Scheme” is no exception. This time, Benicio Del Toro wows as our imperfect specimen of…