NEW YORK: Having stayed close to his native New York for much of his career, writer-director James Gray has lately been making up for lost time. His last...
NEW YORK: The insanely winning “Booksmart” boasts too many breakthroughs to count. There are the two leads, Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein, both of whom...
NEW YORK: Taika Waititi’s Nazi Germany-set satire “Jojo Rabbit” won the People’s Choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival, a prize that has...
TORONTO: As a big-budget original movie made largely with practical effects, “Ford v Ferrari” isn’t so much pointed against headwinds in Hollywood as it is...
TORONTO: It took Eddie Murphy more than a decade to get a movie made about Rudy Ray Moore. Judging by the response to the film at the Toronto International...
TORONTO: The 44th Toronto International Film Festival kicked off Thursday with a documentary celebration of Canada’s The Band and the premiere of Armando...
NEW YORK: It can be a cheesy thing when a novel is split up and spread out over a handful of films, but Stephen King’s “It” is not one of those books. Andy...
NEW YORK: When 20th Century Fox greenlit James Mangold’s “Ford v. Ferrari” - an original movie with a nearly $100 million budget - the director’s agent had...
NEW YORK: Quentin Tarantino has, for a while now, been reminding us what’s so great about movies - or at least, what he thinks is so great about them. He’s...
NEW YORK: “Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark” is a likable Frankenstein of a movie that stitches together tales from the cultishly beloved 1980s book series...
NEW YORK: Add an “e’’ and “Hobbs & Shaw” might have been a time-traveling thriller about George Bernard Shaw and 17th century philosopher Thomas Hobbes....
NEW YORK: Martin Scorsese’s big-budget mafia epic “The Irishman” will premiere as the opening night film at the 57th New York Film Festival, Film at Lincoln...
NEW YORK: Life moves in a circle, “The Lion King” tells us, and, so does studio moviemaking. Hard on the heels of “live-action” remakes of “Aladdin” and...
NEW YORK: In 1964, Stanley Kubrick, on the recommendation of the science-fiction author Arthur C. Clarke, bought a telescope. “He got this Questar and he...
NEW YORK: If you’re going to see one comedy starring Kumail Nanjiani as an Uber driver, please make it the 2017 film he co-scripted, “The Big Sick.” In...
NEW YORK: What a spell for sentient toys. A week after the child-crafted plaything Forky found life in “Toy Story 4” and with Chucky retooled in “Child’s...
NEW YORK: Whatever you say about Dexter Fletcher’s glossy, glittering, blinged-out Elton John biopic “Rocketman,” it doesn’t lack for sparkle. Like its...
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...