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‘Maybe I Do’ Review: Seasoned Pros Can’t Save This Alleged Romantic Comedy
Talky, labored and lost in mediocrity, Maybe I Do is another sad example of what happens to seasoned pros when they hang around long enough to end up in material that is regrettably beneath them. They...
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Review: ‘Close’ And ‘The Quiet Girl’ Are Oscar-Nominated Gems
With so many bad American movies cluttering the market, I find it more interesting and rewarding to take a look at some of the foreign films that will be competing in the forthcoming Academy Awards....
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‘Sharper’ Review: One Of The Classiest Thrillers In Ages
A total (but entertaining) contrivance from start to finish, the noir thriller Sharper is a monument to pretense without being pretentious, a puzzle without a pattern, an equation without an equal...
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‘Your Place or Mine’ Review: About As Romantic And Funny As A Root Canal
Amid today’s endless junk pile of filthy, violent and unwatchable films about crime, vampires and war, the romantic comedies are saved for Valentine’s Day. This year Netflix brings us a stale rom-com...
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‘Devil’s Peak’ Review: Billy Bob Thornton (Almost) Carries A Southern Gothic...
After a brief hiatus, Billy Bob Thornton returns to the screen in Devil’s Peak, another backwoods Southern Gothic crime thriller, playing the kind of menacing, two-fisted role that made him famous....
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‘Marlowe’ Review: Liam Neeson Is The Dullest Denizen Of A Noir Lacking Energy...
I thought Raymond Chandler’s famous, fictional private dick and gimlet-eyed tough guy Philip Marlowe, who prefers nibbling on a pretty girl’s ear to plugging her crooked boyfriend, had packed up his...
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‘Juniper’ Review: Charlotte Rampling Burns A Hole In The Screen
Confession: I love Charlotte Rampling. I have always loved her, since I first grew entranced while watching her early screen appearances as Lynn Redgrave’s bitchy roommate in Georgy Girl (1966), and,...
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‘Emily’ Review: The Story of Emily Brontë Makes For Paralyzing Tedium On The...
The movies just can’t get it right about the Brontë sisters. The family story of a strict, disciplinary, widowed Anglican vicar with a wild, uncontrollable son and a trio of repressed daughters who...
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’65’ Review: A Waste Of Time, And Adam Driver
Bad movies waste time, but a contrived, empty-headed dinosaur movie called 65 wastes more of it than anything I’ve seen lately. The only thing worth mentioning here is the initial idea, which nobody...
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‘Righteous Thieves’ Review: Stealing Art Back From The Nazis, But Sluggishly...
Another film about the long-reaching effects of the Holocaust, Righteous Thieves chronicles the efforts of a secret syndicate dedicated to righting a major wrong by tracking and stealing works of art...
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‘Inside’ Review: Willem Dafoe Trapped In An Interminable Slog Of A Movie
A lumbering bore called Inside is a crucially wooden and mechanical vehicle for the peculiar talents of Willem Dafoe that amounts to nothing more than nearly two hours of pretentious bilge. He plays a...
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‘Moving On’ Review: Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin Captivate In A Black Comedy...
The third feature-length chapter in the Jane Fonda-Lily Tomlin franchise (excluding their Netflix comedy series Grace and Frankie), is called Moving On. Because it is directed and written by Paul...
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‘Sweeney Todd’ Review: Sondheim’s Masterpiece Endures In An Aimless Revival
Sweeney Todd | 2hr 45mins. One intermission. | Lunt-Fontanne Theatre | 205 W. 46th Street | (212) 575-9200 He’s back. Stephen Sondheim’s masterpiece about the “Demon Barber of Fleet Street” has just...
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‘Everything Went Fine’ Review: A Life-Affirming Examination of Death
At a particularly bleak time in movie history when a good 90% of everything I see on the screen is regrettably dumb, pointless and forgettable, leave it to the French to elevate the cinema with...
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‘Renfield’ Review: Zero Stars for Loud, Obnoxious, Violent Junk
Although the length of Renfield is mercifully brief, an hour and a half of total garbage is more torture than a sane mind deserves. The worst film since Babylon, this surfeit of loud, obnoxious,...
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Shailene Woodley Delivers Another Blockbuster Punch in ‘To Catch A Killer’
Shailene Woodley, the versatile, dedicated and realism-drenched actress who never makes a wrong move (I’m still haunted by her galvanizing performances as both a spirited young cancer patient in The...
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‘Chevalier’ Review: An Opulent Footnote to Black History
Set in Paris in the days before the French Revolution, Chevalier is an opulent footnote to black history about Joseph Bologne, born in Guadeloupe as the illegitimate son of an aristocratic French...
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Review: Sean Hayes Is a Miracle In ‘Good Night, Oscar’
Good Night, Oscar | 1hr 40mins. No intermission. | Belasco Theater | 111 W 44th St | (212) 239-6200 “And the Tony award goes to . . . Sean Hayes!” I hope I don’t jinx it, but if my prediction is...
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‘New York, New York’: Come For The Songs, Everything Else Is A Mess
New York, New York | 2hrs 30mins. One intermission. | St. James Theatre | 246 W 44th St | (888) 985-9421 Any Broadway musical with a score by the ace songwriting team John Kander and Fred Ebb sounds...
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‘Love Again’ Review: Phoned-In Rom Com About Text Messages
As lousy, amateurish rom-coms go, a disaster called Love Again doesn’t go fast enough. I take that back. As I write this, it’s probably gone already. LOVE AGAIN ★ (1/4 stars) Directed by: James C....
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