Bandersnatch is both a throwback to and is inspired by those classic ‘80s and ‘90s Choose Your Own Adventure games and books, and in a quiet nod to George Orwell, […]
‘Ocean’s 8’ drops all the men in favour of a scintillating cast of women. The new all-women setup puts a fresh perspective on this heist franchise. As you’d expect from […]
In “Archive,” an isolated scientist methodically pursues an artificial-intelligence ideal, developing a sequence of human-android beings and recycling their various parts until the ultimate prototype is achieved. In his handsome […]
The Hate U Give opens with a father giving his children The Talk — not the birds and the bees, but the heartbreaking one parents of black children eventually must have […]
Sam Worthington plays Ray Monroe, driving cross-country with his wife and young daughter to celebrate Thanksgiving with his parents. At a rest stop along the way, little Peri Monroe has […]
Robert McCall (Washington) enjoys a quiet, rigid life. He wakes up early, times his morning routine, works at a Home Depot-like store, is friendly with his co-workers, eats a simple dinner, […]
Summer and sharks have proven to be a pretty potent combination, which is the main draw in “47 Meters Down,” an old-fashioned “B” movie that offers its share of reasonably […]
On a cross-country drive, a pregnant woman and her companion (revealed to be her brother later on, but not before allowing you to presume he’s the father) stop on the […]
Journeyman director Kevin Macdonald is a master at crafting dependably watchable dramas across a variety of genres. Like his compatriot David Mackenzie, he doesn’t make movies that are connected by shared […]
Based on a true story (reported in a 2013 article in the Wall Street Journal), this comedy foillows a group of fortysomething manchildren who meet up one month out of every […]
The first thing we see here is a restaurant worker bicycling home from work, only to be sideswiped by an SUV on a dark country road and left for dead. […]
Same Kind of Different as Me is earnest to a fault and soft-edged in its approach to faith (God is more in the margins here than he is a central, narrative-driving […]
Acrimony is not like a Tyler Perry film, at least it doesn’t start that way. In so many of Perry’s films, the women are stripped down to their stereotypes, which he […]
Examining the cult of high-profile criminals Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow through the prism of two ageing lawmen hired to track them down, The Highwaymen is the opposite of 1967’s Bonnie And Clyde. […]
“The Clapper”, directed by Dito Montiel, is an adaptation of his 2007 novel Eddie Krumble is the Clapper, about a guy who makes a sparse living as a professional “clapper,” those people hired to […]
The self-assured blonde beauty Julie (Kathryn Newton), daughter of the regretful single mom Lisa (Leslie Mann), makes plans with her steady boyfriend (Graham Phillips). The jock Kayla (Geraldine Viswanathan), whose […]