Movies

3.5/4 stars “Licorice Pizza” Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson  Rated R (Drug Use, Sexual Material, Language) 133 minutes Now playing at Laemmle Newhall and Regal Edwards Valencia  Full disclosure: I’m a sucker for teen movies

3.5/4 stars “Last Night in Soho” Focus Features Directed by Edgar Wright Rated R (Brief drug material; bloody violence; brief graphic nudity; language; sexual content) 117 minutes  I always look forward to new releases from

4/4 stars  “Dune” Warner Brothers Directed by Denis Villeneuve Rated PG-13 (some disturbing images; sequences of strong violence, suggestive material) 155 minutes Now playing at Laemmle Newhall and Regal Edwards Valencia   A couple of summers ago, I watched every

1 star  “Halloween Kills” Universal Pictures Directed by David Gordon Green Rated R (language/grisly images/some drug use/strong bloody violence) 105 minutes  When it was announced in 2017 that the talented director David Gordan Green (“George Washington,”

If you’re of a certain age, as I am, you might remember drive-in movies, a place where you could enjoy a double feature from the comfort of your car’s front seat. Accompanying the main feature, starring

A good biopic can be judged by a fairly simple rubric: If you know nothing about the subject matter going in, is the movie still an interesting and well-told story? The best person to judge an effective film biography is the one

Toward the end of the new musical “Dear Evan Hansen,” Julienne Moore sings  “So Big/So Small,” a lament for the difficulty of parenthood and especially single parenthood. It’s the best song in the film and the only

On a recent podcast, Quentin Tarantino mused about how the creative reputations of aging film directors would have been improved if they had just stopped directing before the quality of their films began to