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'The Inventor: Out for Blood in Silicon Valley': Elizabeth Holmes, Queen of Lies Mar. 15, 2019
Looking back, it's puzzling that more people didn't wise up to Elizabeth Holmes more quickly. The St... Read More
'How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World': The Money-Minting Trilogy Comes to a Close Feb. 22, 2019
Kids these days, what do they want? I mean 7-year-olds, 8-year-olds, down in that diminutive demogra... Read More
'Lords of Chaos' and 'The Man Who Killed Hitler and Then the Bigfoot': Black-Metal Murder Boys and a Failed Sam Elliott Fable Feb. 08, 2019
You might say Jonas Akerlund's "Lords of Chaos" is attempting to do for the Norwegian black-metal sc... Read More
'Serenity': Matthew McConaughey and Anne Hathaway in a Boldly Preposterous Noir Jan. 25, 2019
In "Serenity," we see that director Steven Knight has fully internalized the first rule of stark mad... Read More
'Glass': M. Night Shyamalan Ends His Makeshift Superhero Trilogy With a Dull Thud Jan. 18, 2019
Unusually for an M. Night Shyamalan project, the real plot twist in "Glass" comes not at the end of ... Read More
'The Upside': Kevin Hart and Bryan Cranston in a Surprising Comedy Jan. 11, 2019
"The Upside" tells a feel-good story with no real surprises. But that's OK. The movie's pleasures li... Read More
'Stan & Ollie': John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan Capture Laurel and Hardy Toward the End of Their Days Jan. 04, 2019
In recounting the story of Laurel and Hardy, whose Hollywood career spanned 24 years and more than a... Read More
'Aquaman': Jason Momoa Drowning in a Sea of Cheesy CGI Dec. 21, 2018
"Aquaman" is fun for a while. It starts out in 1985, in Maine, where a lonely lighthouse keeper name... Read More
'Mary Queen of Scots': Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie in an Awkward Royal History Dec. 07, 2018
Who knew that 16th-century Scotland was so very much like our own time and place? At the rather grim... Read More
The House That Jack Built Nov. 30, 2018
Lars von Trier's blithely vile new serial-killer movie, "The House That Jack Built," made its one-da... Read More
'Suspiria': Tilda Swinton and Dakota Johnson in a Long, Witchy Horror Remake Oct. 26, 2018
There's a wonderfully ghastly sequence in Luca Guadagnino's new "Suspiria" that is guaranteed a pede... Read More
'Peppermint' and 'The Nun': Jennifer Garner, Born-Again Butt-Kicker; Taissa Farmiga in Search of Scary Sep. 07, 2018
'Peppermint' I can't think what kind of movie would merit the dumb-bunny title of this one, but it's... Read More
'Kin': Jack Reynor, Zoe Kravitz and James Franco in an Underdog Sci-Fi Feature Aug. 31, 2018
It would be nice to see this offbeat little movie get the sequel it wants and kind of deserves. The ... Read More
'The Happytime Murders': Melissa McCarthy in a Not-So-Great Puppet Caper Aug. 24, 2018
You'd never expect to hear even the sultriest Muppet explain an affliction from which she suffers &#... Read More
'Crazy Rich Asians': Culturally Important, Fine -- But Mainly a Very Funny Movie Aug. 17, 2018
We are all brothers and sisters beneath the skin, my people, united in our need to laugh, to cry and... Read More
'BlacKkKlansman': Spike Lee Gets His Groove Back Aug. 10, 2018
Back in the mid-1970s, Ron Stallworth became the first black police officer in the town of Colorado ... Read More
'The Spy Who Dumped Me': Kate McKinnon and Mila Kunis Stuck in a Strangely Dull-Witted Comedy Aug. 03, 2018
This might have been a stylish little spy movie. Not a lot of expense has been spared in flying cast... Read More
'Mission: Impossible -- Fallout': Tom Cruise Still on the Run Jul. 27, 2018
Spy-movie plots are such a chore, especially at this late date. Another nut-job villain? Another kno... Read More
'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again': A New Director and Fresh Young Stars Make the ABBA Experience New Again Jul. 20, 2018
Does this movie signal the onset of Too Much ABBA? Of course not. There's no such thing as too much ... Read More
'Ant-Man and the Wasp': Let's Get Small Jul. 06, 2018
"Ant-Man" movies offer a welcome respite from the endless gush of Marvel super-product. The action i... Read More
