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...
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...