‘The Comedian’ has one-ill-conceived set piece after another
With “The Comedian” arriving in theaters, it’s safe to say I now have only nine spaces left on my list of the 10 worst movies of 2017. What’s more painful…
With “The Comedian” arriving in theaters, it’s safe to say I now have only nine spaces left on my list of the 10 worst movies of 2017. What’s more painful…
All the best dog movies make you cry — but it’s usually because by the time we say goodbye to the beloved canine, we’ve shared an amazing journey with the…
The writer-director M. Night Shyamalan shook up the movie world in the late 1990s and early 2000s with beautifully constructed, breathtakingly original films such as “The Sixth Sense,” “Unbreakable” and…
We go from breaking news alerts to “based on a true story” movies in fairly rapid fashion these days. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill off the coast of New Orleans…
Even with all the special effects and practical effects wizardry available to the movie world, sometimes you see a fable brought to live action on the big screen and you…
Raise a glass of holiday cheer to “Hidden Figures,” the “Rocky” of math movies. You might just find yourself applauding during certain moments of dramatic triumph in Theodore Melfi’s unabashedly…
One night in the near future, you’ll be on the sofa, surfing at-home movie viewing options, and you’ll come across “Passengers.” Hey, you’ll say to yourself or to the person…
If you’ve somehow lived your whole moviegoing life outside of the “Star Wars” galaxy and you wouldn’t know a Lord Vader from a droid from a Rebel Alliance, I believe…
Have you ever worked for a company that failed miserably, despite all the wonderful and talented people working there? “Office Christmas Party” is the holiday comedy movie version of such…
Ho Ho No. If you were thinking of checking out “Bad Santa 2” in a movie week where some truly wonderful films are arriving in theaters, this is me, standing…
Indeed, Moana IS a princess in that she is next in line to become the ruler of a Polynesian island where the people live in harmony, with only one rule…
What a wonderful wizard world. Some 15 years after the release of the first “Harry Potter” movie, the J.K. Rowling cinematic universe expands to the past and to the spin-off…
No sense in pretending Denis Villeneuve’s “Arrival” isn’t as loopy as it is lofty, as confounding as it is exhilarating, as confusing as it is enlightening. I’m not gonna tell…
Note: This review contains SPOILERS. Even though the story is based on well-documented true events from some 70 years ago, fair warning. When the young Desmond Doss is growing up…
This might not be the golden age of stand-up comedy (you could make an argument for every decade from the 1950s through the 1980s), but there’s no shortage of sharp…
WARNING: This review contains semi-major SPOILER ALERTS, especially if you haven’t seen a single action movie in the last 25 to 30 years. Thank you. Let’s start with the cinematically…
Madness abounds in “The Accountant,” an intense, intricate, darkly amusing and action-infused thriller that doesn’t always add up but who cares, it’s BIG FUN. The next time Ben Affleck runs…