‘THEATER CAMP’ HAS SURPRISES IN STORE
This endearing faux documentary will appeal to anyone who has been, or known, or given birth to a theater kid (as my wife and I did). They are a breed apart and cling to one another like long-lost cousins…
MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE – DEAD RECKONING, PART ONE
The latest installment in this blockbuster espionage series shares some of the same assets and liabilities as Indiana Jones: The Dial of Destiny, but this one scores higher in my tally because it’s better paced, funnier, and genuinely exciting. Tom…
INDIANA JONES AND THE DIAL OF DESTINY
There’s an old, old show-business maxim that encourages performers to leave their audiences wanting more. Apparently that concept is unknown to many of today’s movers and shakers. Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny has everything money can buy and…
THE FLASH: TOO MANY COOKS
Blame the ancient Greeks for inventing the general idea of the multiverse. Blame DC for propagating the concept in one of its Flash comics in 1961. And blame anyone you like for this hot mess of a film, directed by Andy…
NO HOLDS BARRED IN ‘NO HARD FEELINGS’
I am about to recommend a mildly raunchy R-rated comedy for one simple reason: I had fun watching it. I am so sick and tired of overlong, overproduced, formulaic “content” that this insignificant movie looks like a work of…
‘YOU HURT MY FEELINGS’: A NEW YORK STATE OF MIND
As a dyed-in-the-wool fan of Nicole Holofcener’s work I enjoy spending time in the world she creates and the characters who populate it. I may not be the most reliable person to assess her new feature, which reunites her…
‘BLACKBERRY’ IS TRUE TO LIFE
As the passing parade rushes by there is a danger of forgetting events of the recent past. To his credit, Canadian actor and filmmaker Matt Johnson has dramatized the rise and fall of a hand-held device that was a…
