In ‘The Mule,’ Clint Eastwood’s Cocaine Smuggling Curmudgeon Is In it For the...
We don't want to see Clint Eastwood in handcuffs—and neither does he
View ArticleIn ‘Bird Box,’ Sandra Bullock Is on Temporary Leave From Hit Movies (and Her...
Who needs monsters to drive you over the edge of sanity, when all you have to do is watch 'Bird Box'?
View ArticleAaron’s Sorkin’s Talky ‘Mockingbird’ Has a Fresh Tune, Even if Jeff Daniels...
This is the first time I have not been moved to tears by 'To Kill a Mockingbird,' but that's my can and I'll carry it.
View ArticleBarry Jenkins’‘Beale Street’ Is Better Than ‘Moonlight,’ But That’s Faint...
When the end credits do at last begin to roll, there is no happy ending in sight.
View Article‘Mary Poppins Returns’ Is a Surprising Spoonful of Delight That Surpasses the...
Guided by the rich imagination and keen musical savvy of Rob Marshall, 'Mary Poppins Returns' is so light and airy that there's nowhere to go but down.
View ArticleJ-Lo and a Bunch of Talentless Meatheads Just Made the Stupidest Film of the...
I don't know anybody with one hour and 43 minutes to waste in a busy holiday season, so a cinematic disaster called 'Second Act' has nothing to recommend it, even as a temporary refuge from traffic...
View ArticleOscar Contender ‘Cold War’ Tells a Haunting Tale of Star-Crossed Lovers and...
A passionate love affair begins that will last until the end, which, under the circumstances, we are assured will be tragic. Polish films always are.
View ArticleDespite the Role’s Lack of Range, Felicity Jones’ Ruth Bader Ginsburg Grows...
For an authentic hero for the ages, you could hope for a livelier and more colorful celebration, but the indestructible icon is now celebrating her 25th year as a Supreme Court justice, so I raise a...
View ArticleIn Memoriam: Rex Reed Says Goodbye to the Biggest Stars of 2018
Looking back at a catastrophic year, 2019 has got to be better.
View ArticleIncoherent Thriller ‘State Like Sleep’ Drags on With the Pace of a Dripping...
The dialogue is inane, the characters lack definition and the director hasn't got a clue how to tell a story coherently.
View Article‘Stan & Ollie’ Is an Irresistibly Charming Memoir of Laurel and Hardy’s Final...
'Stan & Ollie' meticulously reconstructs many of the songs, dance routines and goofy Laurel and Hardy sketches that kept audiences from 9 to 90 in hysterics for decades.
View ArticleYou Won’t Understand a Word of the Trite, Mumbly Holocaust Drama ‘Ashes in...
Another dreary Holocaust drama with no regard for narrative trajectory and an overwhelming lack of verbal coherence, 'Ashes in the Snow' challenges its audience to stay awake between atrocities to no...
View ArticleIn ‘The Upside,’ Kevin Hart Is an Ex-Con Nurse Who’s About as Funny as a Case...
'The Upside' runs two hours and five minutes, which is two hours too long.
View ArticleTalky Gun Control Thriller ‘The Standoff at Sparrow Creek’ Will Put You to Sleep
There is nothing new in 'The Standoff at Sparrow Creek' except the title.
View ArticleJames Franco Is a Convincing Deadbeat Dad in the Grim ‘Don’t Come Back From...
The movie has a literary sensibility about lonely feelings and empty longings, illustrated by recurring shots of butter sizzling in skillets to fry a staple diet of grilled cheese sandwiches.
View ArticleSo-Called Comedy ‘Adult Life Skills’ Is 96 Minutes of Unfocused, Idiotic...
Few overworked movie themes are more exasperating than grown people who refuse to mature beyond adolescence.
View ArticleFamily Road-Trip Comedy ‘I Hate Kids’ Is a Long, Unfunny Slog to Nowhere
Skip 'I Hate Kids' and stay home with a good book or real family film instead.
View ArticleMatthew McConaughey’s Butt Shots Can’t Save ‘Serenity,’ a Hammy Bomb About...
'Serenity' is a pointless bomb about the biggest tuna in the Caribbean and the drunken fishing boat captain who devotes his life to catching it.
View Article‘The Invisibles’ Tells the Harrowing, Heroic True Stories of Four Holocaust...
The survivor testimonies in 'The Invisibles' offer an authenticity that draws the viewer into the terror and chaos of a city falling to ruin.
View ArticleMichael Caine Is a Smooth Criminal in the Sly Geriatric Heist Flick ‘King of...
The clever, unpredictable heist film 'King of Thieves' is not much of a vehicle for Michael Caine, but his old cockney twinkle remains.
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