Doctor Sleep is a decent, satisfying Stephen King horror movie, and also a sequel to both King’s novel The Shining and the 1980 Stanley Kubrick...
Terminator 2: Judgment Day regularly makes the lists of sequels that surpass the original film, usually alongside The Godfather, Part II and Aliens. The three...
The Irishman may not be the final gangster film that Martin Scorsese ever directs, but it feels like it very well could be. It is...
Countdown starts with a very reasonable assumption, that people never read the End User License Agreements that pop up every time a person downloads an...
In the horror-thriller Countdown, Elizabeth Lail, who starred in the first season of the surprise Netflix sensation You, stars as Quinn, a young woman who...
It would be inaccurate to call Frankie a plotless movie, since it clearly and demonstrably traces a significant day in the life of its title...
Some people can get away with almost anything. Mel Brooks was — and probably still is — one of those people whose ability to get...
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil is an unnecessary movie, and that makes it one of the more interesting films that Disney has released in recent times....
For the grandparents of the kids who will see the animated version of The Addams Family, the definitive version of the creepy, kooky family is...
Seven years ago, Ang Lee fulfilled the promise of 3-D technology in film with Life of Pi, which still remains the finest use of the...
It is so easy to lament the effects of films on society that it is actually a surprise when a movie like Joker comes along...
François Truffaut once said, “Today, I demand that a film express either the joy or agony of making cinema. I am not at all interested...
Breaking Bad ended six years ago, and its conclusion was widely heralded as one of the best television has ever offered, exceeded perhaps only by Six Feet...
The appeal of Downton Abbey has always been nostalgia, since the British series now given a big-screen treatment has always ached for a past that...
To understand what makes Hustlers work, it helps to understand the difference between Jennifer Lopez and J. Lo. The former is an actress not without...
A supernatural homicidal clown isn’t even necessary to make It: Chapter 2 into a terrifying film, because for anyone who left a small town to...
Ready or Not never holds out the promise of being a great movie, but in a similar way to something like Ma, it aims to...
Cate Blanchett can play almost any role, to an almost absurd degree. She famously had a two year period in which she played Bob Dylan,...
Some titles just announce how ironic they are meant to be. Happiness is possibly the most miserable movie ever made, and give a film the...
Widows premiered at the Toronto film festival in early September of last year, around the time that The Kitchen was about to finish principal photography....
Most horror movies, the hard-core art house ones like Midsommar aside, are really meant for kids. Perhaps not young children, but it’s not exactly adults...
Julianne Moore and Bart Freundlich, who met on the set of his film The Myth of Fingerprints in the late nineties and married in 2003,...
Julianne Moore and Michelle Williams are probably the two best criers in Hollywood, and they get to do a lot of that emoting in After...
Olivia Colman, fresh off her surprise Oscar victory over Glenn Close, has made a career out of playing sensible detectives on British television and when...
Hobbs & Shaw is a big, dumb, loud action movie, and given that it’s a spinoff of the Fast and the Furious franchise, that is...
Some great filmmakers – the Coen brothers or Billy Wilder, for example – make perfectly crafted movies where every piece fits squarely with one another....
The demands of an audience are often difficult for an actor, particularly one who is difficult to classify. Jeff Goldblum is one of those actors,...