NEW YORK: Movies can be blessedly simple. As the first “John Wick” showed, all you really need is a car, a gun, a dead dog and Keanu Reeves. Who needs “kiss...
CANNES, France: South Korean director Bong Joon-ho’s raucous social satire “Parasite,” about a poor family of hustlers who find jobs with a wealthy family,...
CANNES, France: If you’re going to earnestly shout “Vive le cinema!” the Cannes Film Festival is the place to do it. That’s what Quentin Tarantino declared...
CANNES, France: Kleber Mendonca Filho’s Cannes entry “Bacurau” is a feverish and violent Western about a Brazilian rural community defending itself from a...
CANNES, France: The Jim Jarmusch zombie movie "The Dead Don't Die" includes masses of flesh-eating zombies and an Earth thrown off its axis by "polar...
CANNES, France: The Cannes Film Festival opened Tuesday with the premiere of Jim Jarmusch’s zombie movie “The Dead Don’t Die,” passionate words from jury...
NEW YORK: Phillip Youmans was just 17 and finishing high school when he completed his lyrical debut feature film, “Burning Cane.” Now, his movie has won the...
NEW YORK: Jim Jarmusch didn’t have to look far for zombies. “I see a lot of soulless ghouls on the streets at night walking along staring into their phone and...
NEW YORK: The universe belongs to Marvel. “Avengers: Endgame” shattered the record for biggest opening weekend with an estimated $350 million in ticket sales...
NEW YORK: Satisfaction is a complicated concept in Marvel Land. On the one hand, every morsel of prerelease information is obsessively pored over in feverish...
NEW YORK: Since Hailee Steinfeld rode into town in “True Grit,” we’ve been fairly blessed by the big-screen breakthroughs of teenage actresses. To name just a...
NEW YORK: There is always an asteroid, real or imagined, bearing down on Turner Classic Movies. Fears that something might befall the commercialless bastion...
NEW YORK: Hollywood, in its infinite irony, has resurrected a tale of the unholy perils of resurrection. The mean roads and mangy cats of Stephen King’s “Pet...
NEW YORK: The original “Dumbo” was released in the summer of 1941 while Germany was spreading across Europe and war was breaking out in the Pacific. Crafted...
NEW YORK: Jordan Peele has tightened his grip in “Us,” a less satirical, more slaughterhouse horror parable than the writer-director’s astonishing debut, “Get...
NEW YORK: Even the most eccentric passions of working-class England - long a favored reservoir of feel-good underdog tales - have seldom featured as much...
LOS ANGELES: When the segregation-era road-trip drama “Green Book” was crowned best picture at the 91st Academy Awards, it delighted those who see the film as...
NEW YORK: Born in the 3D land rush, “How to Train Your Dragon” has never quite shrugged off the bland corporate sheen attached to it from the start. Almost a...
NEW YORK: The art installation, so often a playground in the contemporary art museum, is, in Dan Gilroy’s gloriously gory satire “Velvet Buzzsaw,” a terror...
NEW YORK: The elevator pitch for Steven Knight’s “Serenity” might be “‘Key Largo’ meets ‘Westworld,’” and it’s every bit as ridiculous as that sounds. Seven...
NEW YORK: A different Nicole Kidman stares out at us under the harsh Los Angeles sun of the neonoir “Destroyer.” Kidman, who donned a prosthetic nose for “The...
NEW YORK: Both tender apologia and vigorous justification, Clint Eastwood’s “The Mule” is a fascinatingly personal meditation from the 88-year-old director...
NEW YORK: Thunderbolt and lightning rocked the 76th Golden Globes, where a string of upsets culminated with the Freddie Mercury biopic “Bohemian Rhapsody”...
Wash Westmoreland’s “Colette” is a very British movie about a very French feminist icon. A handsome and lively period film, it’s too timid to capture the...
Coyle says:1. “Burning”: It was, for sure, an extraordinary movie year. Little to nothing separates my favorite 10 films - for that matter, my top 20 or 30....