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‘The Zone of Interest’: Don’t Even Think of Missing This Movie
Fresh, original and deeply unsettling, The Zone of Interest is this year’s Oscar-competing entry from the UK. It is one of the year’s best films from anywhere. I saw it in September at the Toronto...
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Barry Keoghan’s Jaw-Dropping ‘Saltburn’ Performance Can’t Be Over-Praised
Courtesy of Prime The actors’ strike is over, the Hollywood studios are in full swing, turning out new products as fast as they can, and a new season begins. This doesn’t mean the new movies will be...
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‘Poor Things’: See It And Hate Yourself in the Morning
Poor Things, a surreal mix of science-fiction and pornographic fairy tale by the loopy Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos, may not be the worst commercially intended movie ever made. But it is...
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Rex Reed’s Best & Worst Films of 2023
Observer In 2023, Rex Reed reviewed over 60 movies for Observer. Regardless of the rating, the instant his reviews hit our inbox (even when they’re late), the day is better. Nobody writes like Rex,...
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‘Mean Girls’: Nothing to Come in 2024 Can Possibly Be Worse
Vapid, tasteless and monumentally stupid, the new and decidedly unnecessary version of Mean Girls proves Tina Fey is still not above trashing her talent to make money*. This testament to bad taste is...
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A Clumsy, Clueless, Colossal Bore: ‘Sometimes I Think About Dying’ Review
In the dull, inert drama Sometimes I Think About Dying, Daisy Ridley, the British-born actress who displayed much more animation, personality and range in the 2015 Star Wars film The Force Awakens,...
View Article‘American Star’ Is a Worthless Thriller Without Thrills
Another in a long line of post-epidemic potboilers searching for space on empty movie marquees, American Star is a worthless thriller without thrills about a hit man named Wilson (Ian McShane) who...
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Will More Than 10 People See the Genre-Defying ‘Disco Boy’? Probably Not.
Big World Pictures It won a Silver Bear in Berlin for “outstanding artistic contribution,” whatever that means, so somebody must have considered the bizarre curiosity Disco Boy worth sinking some...
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‘The Taste of Things’ Is the Best Foreign Film of the Year
Do not see The Taste of Things on an empty stomach. It’s a French film about gourmet French cuisine, magnificently photographed and meticulously prepared for both the camera and the palate, and raised...
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‘Suncoast’ Is Another Mediocre Coming-of-Age Movie That Makes Too Many Wrong...
It’s one damned thing after another in Suncoast, a leaden, melodramatic soap opera with forced comedic elements inserted to drag out the playing time. Memorable only for a handful of nicely dedicated...
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‘Bleeding Love’ Is Ewan McGregor’s Vanity Project to Launch His Daughter’s...
In the unpleasantly named Bleeding Love, an estranged father (Ewan McGregor) and his deeply disturbed 20-year-old daughter (played by his real-life daughter, Clara McGregor) share a 14-hour road trip...
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‘Red Right Hand’ Review: Orlando Bloom Tries and Fails
Red Right Hand, another routine crime-thriller with a title that makes no sense, is a violent and nauseating excuse to entertain the portion of what is left of that dwindling movie audience that lives...
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‘Ordinary Angels’ Is Touching, Pure and Positive
Sometimes, a movie with no extraordinary cinematic merits wins your heart because of the touching way it shows the pure, positive, feel-good actions of one human being to another. Ordinary Angels is...
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‘American Dreamer’ Review: Shirley MacLaine and Peter Dinklage Are a Perfect...
It’s always a treat to welcome the fiery, versatile and almost always surprising Shirley MacLaine back to the screen, although now, in happy retirement at age 89, the roles are smaller and she seems...
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Keep Your Barbie. I’ll Take Mother Cabrini.
Mother Cabrini, one of the most powerful, influential and inspirational women who ever lived, has always been one about whom much is guessed and almost nothing is known. Now, with the meticulously...
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Anthony Hopkins Is a Magnificent Centerpiece in ‘One Life’
Of all the recurring themes at the movies, none is less constant or more prolific than the Holocaust. Every year introduces a few new ones. But although the subject is forever a sober and thoughtful...
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Michael Keaton Proves He’s Forgotten Nothing in ‘Knox Goes Away’
Agreeable, multifaceted Michael Keaton has been away from the screen for a while, but as both star and director of Knox Goes Away, his fresh and sophisticated new crime thriller, he proves he’s...
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Theater Review: Broadway’s ‘The Notebook’ Is Shallow, Boring and Slow
The Notebook | 2hrs 20mins. One intermission. | Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre | 236 West 45th Street | (212) 239-6200 Why are Broadway musicals suddenly so lousy? Many reasons, I can safely assume:...
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‘Water for Elephants’ Theater Review: “I’ve Never Hated Any Show More”
After suffering through the new Broadway musical The Notebook, I thought I had seen the worst of what the 2024 season would bring. I was wrong. I had not seen Water for Elephants yet. Now I have. It...
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‘Coup de Chance’ Is Woody Allen’s Best Film in Years
Unfairly derailed by obvious, headline-demanding personal problems, Woody Allen’s phenomenal career returns to where it should never have paused in the first place with this languidly paced but...
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