‘ALLIED’: TRUE-BLUE HOLLYWOOD STORYTELLING
I wish there was another way to say “old-fashioned” and not make it seem like a putdown. I faced…
ARRIVAL: A PUZZLE WORTH…
A movie doesn’t have to spell everything out for me if I get a sense that the filmmaker is…
THE LESS-THAN-MAGNIFICENT SEVEN
If you’ve never seen a Western before, Hollywood’s latest effort to revive the genre may divert and even entertain…
OLIVER STONE’S SNOWDEN: TOO…
Does the world still need a primer on Edward Snowden? If the answer is yes, then Oliver Stone has…
BRIDGET JONES’S BABY: JUST…
How is the new Bridget Jones movie? Just good enough to satisfy its target audience. Fifteen years after the…
A MUSICAL LIKE NO…
You may have read about the early success of a new musical on the festival circuit called La La…
LILY RABE SCORES TOP…
Miss Stevens is a small-scale but entertaining film that’s worth seeing for an incandescent performance by its star, Lily…
THE RIGHT MAN FOR…
All I knew about Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger is that he safely landed a plane in the Hudson River and…
‘THE LIGHT BETWEEN OCEANS’…
Based on M.L. Stedman’s best-selling novel, The Light Between Oceans is mesmerizing, at first. It is a physically beautiful…
FOR FAMILIES AND FANBOYS:…
Kubo and the Two Strings is one of the most original animated films to come along in a while.…
