TORONTO: As the cast and makers of “Stronger” collectively rose to take a bow after the film’s TIFF premiere, Jake Gyllenhaal realized that Jeff Bauman, whom...
TORONTO: Though seldom a smash on the big screen, tennis took center court at the Toronto International Film Festival Thursday, opening with “Borg/McEnroe.”...
NEW YORK: Most things have changed in George Clooney’s life since he and wife Amal had twins in July but, as he prepares to unveil his latest directorial...
NEW YORK: Does any other actor so fully embody the high-octane thrills, the colorful language, the sheer bigness of American movies as Samuel L. Jackson? He’s...
NEW YORK: Kathryn Bigelow hasn’t forgotten the out-of-body experience she felt when she won the best director Academy Award for her 2009 “The Hurt Locker.” At...
NEW YORK: Ah, August. It’s that time of year when you can head to your local multiplex to see Matthew McConaughey as an interplanetary David Copperfield who’s...
NEW YORK: People don’t usually move very fast in Cold War thrillers. Mostly, the only time anyone runs is right before they get shot in the back. Most...
NEW YORK: When even most of the good spectacles carry a strong whiff of prepackaging, try taking in the air of Luc Besson’s sci-fi extravaganza...
NEW YORK: A concussed serenity sets in somewhere in the midst of the ceaseless ballet of metal and machismo in Michael Bay’s “Transformers: The Last Knight.”...
NEW YORK: George Romero, whose classic “Night of the Living Dead” and other horror films turned zombie movies into social commentaries – and who saw his...
NEW YORK: “Dunkirk” director Christopher Nolan recently sat to discuss his film with the Associated Press. Here are some excerpts. AP: Because...
NEW YORK: “Unsex me here” was Lady Macbeth’s plea to the spirits for manly ferocity in Shakespeare’s tragedy. In “Lady Macbeth,” William Oldroyd’s austere but...
NEW YORK: Days before the opening of the Will Ferrell-Amy Poehler comedy “The House,” producer Adam McKay could see the writing on the wall. The film’s...
NEW YORK: So-called heroes sling into action just about every weekend of the summer movie season, but if you want to see the genuine article, you’ll have to...
NEW YORK: Three films in, it’s time to ask some hard questions about the world of “Cars.” What are their interiors like? Brains and a heart or plush leather...
NEW YORK: A fatal, off-screen car crash interrupts the picturesque, suburban lives of a young married couple in David Lowery’s “A Ghost Story,” marooning the...
NEW YORK: Of all the CGI-ed supernatural forces slung in Alex Kurtzman’s “The Mummy” (and, believe me, there are plenty), none can compete with the spectral...
NEW YORK: Has any lion in winter ever really roared like Christopher Plummer? In British theater director David Leveaux’s WWII thriller “The...
CANNES: You walk along a high metal fence that once divided Arizona and Mexico and into a small holding cell where you are asked to take off your shoes and...
CANNES: Netflix's entry into the Cannes Film Festival produced new drama Friday as the first screening of its film "Okja" was met with boos for...
NEW YORK: Ah, the siren song of John Denver. Who among us can resist it? Certainly, not the crew of the Covenant, a vessel powered by a golden sail cruising...
NEW YORK: The Cannes Film Festival, which celebrates its 70th anniversary this year, has historically been about cool to change. As its screens light up with...
NEW YORK: In James Gunn’s sequel to his swashbuckling space Western, the Guardians of the Galaxy do their version of “The Empire Strikes...
NEW YORK: Does the summer movie season still exist? It was once an air-conditioned oasis that drew lines around the block of audiences eager for the...
NEW YORK: Modest and majestic at once, the films of James Gray patiently burrow their way into the souls of their characters and, maybe, into you. Gray is...