NEW YORK: Theodore Melfi’s buoyant “Hidden Figures” is an old-fashioned feel-good movie with powerful contemporary relevance, spearheaded by...
NEW YORK: With its dramatic swings of fortune, Hollywood’s 2016 awards season has often resembled a confounding morality play. Hailed as an Oscar sure-thing...
NEW YORK: Say what you like about Gore Verbinski’s “The Lone Ranger.” It didn’t lack for ambition. Verbinski’s $215 million film was a bid to reorient the...
NEW YORK: In all the kinked knots and twists of satin that adorn “Fifty Shades Darker,” none is more worthwhile to uncoil than the tangled absurdities of its...
NEW YORK: Even as Iranian writer-director Asghar Farhadi layers his films with complexity – with characters whose intimacies are crowded by politics, society...
NEW YORK: Melissa McCarthy lampooned White House press secretary Sean Spicer in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch where she taunted reporters as “losers,” fired...
NEW YORK: The cast of “Hidden Figures” rocketed to the Screen Actors Guild top award at a fiery, protest-laden ceremony dominated by defiance over Trump’s...
NEW YORK: The Reformation is said to have toppled the Renaissance but the decline of the McConaissance is harder to delineate. It was probably inevitable that...
NEW YORK: History was made across Tuesday’s 89th Academy Awards nominations: The musical “La La Land” reaped a record-tying 14 nominations, and a wave of...
NEW YORK: Ketchup, mustard, two pickles. In John Lee Hancock’s “The Founder,” about Ray Kroc and the making of McDonald’s, the ingredients for success are...
NEW YORK: Bombs detonated in Boston are disarmed by bonds of family and community in Peter Berg’s “Patriots Day,” a stirring ode to civic...
LOS ANGELES: “La La Land” steamrolled, “Moonlight” swooped in at the last minute and Meryl Streep offered a stirring rebuke to President-elect Donald Trump at...
NEW YORK: John Berger, the British art critic, intellectual and prodigious author, whose pioneering 1972 book “Ways of Seeing,” and the BBC series...
NEW YORK: “Make sure they know to play it loud,” the filmmaker Maren Ade advises ahead of a screening of her film, “Toni Erdmann.” Since its rollicking debut...
NEW YORK: We seem to be shooting our best movie stars into outer space with alarming frequency. George Clooney, Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey, Matt...
TORONTO: A movie has a way of sitting up straight whenever Sigourney Weaver is in it. With her intelligence and commanding presence, she jolts any film alive....
NEW YORK: Movie-wise, the office Christmas party is the great dismantler of white-collar worker-bee life. Set out the booze, turn down the lights, and...
NEW YORK: A melee has broken out in the boxing film. The genre’s ring is so crowded, a fighter leaning back for a left hook might inadvertently sock the...
NEW YORK: Deeply nostalgic moviemaking is rendered with digital precision in Robert Zemeckis’ highly manicured World War II romance...
NEW YORK: The filmmaker and playwright Kenneth Lonergan, a self-described “ultranaturalist” whose eloquently empathic stories tremble with the richness of...
NEW YORK: It’s starting to look a lot like the ’50s at the movies. That was when theaters, alarmed by the rise of television and newly freed from the...
NEW YORK: There are some wonderful idealistic films about American politics, warm with optimism and belief in Washington’s system. None of them resemble...
NEW YORK: “Cutting through the noise” is a phrase often uttered around Hollywood, where mammoth marketing budgets are routinely expended to reach...
NEW YORK: By a twist of fate, there are two infernos you can submerge yourself in this weekend. You can either take the Dan Brown audio tour of Florence and...
NEW YORK: The bean counter cometh. In Gavin O’Connor’s “The Accountant,” Ben Affleck stars as a paper-pushing CPA – roughly the exact opposite of...