In "Lost Illusions," an aspiring writer wends his way through a gantlet of sex workers en route to meet a second-rate publisher keeping shop in the red light district of the big city. But this isn't the story of some pulp novelist trying to get his foot in the door of 1970s Times Square. Thi…
We can stipulate that Jenny Slate, the stand-up comedian and creator and star of the beguiling 2014 comedy "Obvious Child," is adorable. In "M… Read more
CARCAVELOS, Portugal — In superhero blockbuster "Aquaman," popular Hollywood actor Jason Momoa plays the role of protector of the deep, but wi… Read more
EDITOR'S NOTE: Contains spoilers for "Obi-Wan Kenobi." Read more
There's been a flood of throwback tween terror on movie screens and streaming services for the past few years: from "Stranger Things" to the n… Read more
The ridiculous yet often revered art of make-believe peculiar to the business of moviemaking is somehow simultaneously skewered and held up in… Read more
Writer, director and actor Cooper Raiff delivers an ingratiating turn as a cheerful lost soul in "Cha Cha Real Smooth," a post-college coming-… Read more
The most revealing 20 seconds of Jennifer Lopez's new Netflix documentary, "Halftime," don't happen until after the footage ends. After a triu… Read more
In "Good Luck to You, Leo Grande," Emma Thompson plays Nancy Stokes, a widow and retired religion education teacher who has endured a lifetime… Read more
It's the craziest movie of the year, an explosive three-hour historical action musical epic about liberation, friendship and patriotism. Read more
After focusing the first "Jurassic World" movie on a lab-concocted dinosaur called the Indominus rex and the follow-up "Fallen Kingdom" on the… Read more
It's the end of an era – the Jurassic Era. After six "Jurassic Park" and "Jurassic World" movies and almost 30 years, it's apparently the end … Read more
Kate Bush loves "Stranger Things" almost as much as "Stranger Things" fans love Kate Bush. Read more
Actor and screenwriter Joel Kim Booster gives Jane Austen a brisk, lighthearted refresh in "Fire Island," a hedonistic – but disarmingly since… Read more
With their bitter defamation trial now over, Johnny Depp and Amber Heard are left to pick up the pieces of their careers. But how exactly they… Read more
He played psychopaths, gangsters, corrupt cops and guys you don't want to mess with. A lot of times in those roles, he was so convincing that … Read more
Fox's animated TV series "Bob's Burgers," which centers on restaurateur Bob Belcher (voice of H. Jon Benjamin) and his titular beachside burge… Read more
From the first dulcet tones of its synthesized score to the Univers Ultra Condensed font used in its opening credits, "Top Gun: Maverick" anno… Read more
Fox's animated TV series "Bob's Burgers," which centers on restaurateur Bob Belcher (voice of H. Jon Benjamin) and his titular beachside burge… Read more
"The Valet" starts with a "fake lovers" premise routine in rom-coms, but this Hulu original film doesn't park in the wide-open spot. The funny… Read more
A kids' movie for adults who like to pretend they're still kids, "Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers" is an exceedingly clever riff on the late '80s… Read more
Best friends Sean and Kunle are about to have one of those nights that college comedies are built around: they're going to hit parties at all … Read more
"Visionary" is liberally used to describe directors these days, but if any filmmaker has earned the title, it's writer/director Alex Garland, … Read more
The new "Downton Abbey" film proclaims that it's "A New Era," but in actuality, it's a real throwback. It's not just that "Downton Abbey: A Ne… Read more
Set against the monumental backdrop of Montana's Paradise Valley, and evoking the look of classic cowboy movies, "Montana Story" tells an inti… Read more
The Consulate of the Republic of Korea in Hagåtña has announced Korean Movie Night, set for this Friday, which aims "to promote cultural inter… Read more
Talk about senioritis. Read more
There are no comfort zones in the second season of "Hacks," and that's by design. When the two female comedians at the heart of the HBO Max dr… Read more
Repeat after “Percy Jackson” author Rick Riordan: “Leah Jeffries is Annabeth Chase.” Read more
With any war movie, the safe audience bet typically favors the immediate, graphic horrors of battle. That way, when you see a title such as “H… Read more
'Monstrous' morphs from haunted-house thriller Read more
Early on in the Pixar animated fantasy “Turning Red,” 13-year-old Mei Lee is subjected to a ghastly public humiliation when her mother, Ming (… Read more
I like Michelle Monaghan – even in an entirely fungible action thriller like "Black Site," in which she portrays a CIA analyst playing a deadl… Read more
LOS ANGELES — Even with nearly 80% of Californians at least partially vaccinated, hospitalizations down from their highs and eased mask mandat… Read more
In the fantastical Finnish horror fairytale "Hatching," the directorial debut of Hannah Bergholm, a young girl hatches a murderous bird monste… Read more
Not to jinx it, but it's been a pretty good year at the movies so far. Read more
Based on the bestselling books by Australian author Aaron Blabey of "Pig the Pug" and "Thelma the Unicorn" fame, computer-generated animated a… Read more
By the end of "Russian Doll's" first season, when Natasha Lyonne's character, Nadia, finally figures out why she keeps dying and being brought… Read more
"Great Freedom" takes place between 1945, in the immediate aftermath of the Allies' liberation of Nazi concentration camps, and 1969, when the… Read more
The documentary "White Hot: The Rise and Fall of Abercrombie & Fitch" does more than look at the financial ups and downs of a retail chain… Read more
Who among us doesn't harbor an abiding love for Nicolas Cage? As an actor, he's been consistently mesmerizing, if occasionally confounding – c… Read more
"Paris, 13th District" tells an old, interlinking, romantic story of several young people from the same neighborhood. Read more
The new East Wing drama, "The First Lady," exists to illustrate a fact most of us intuitively know: The women asked to play hostess, decorator… Read more
The latest installment in the "Fantastic Beasts" series of movie prequels based on characters from the Harry Potter universe – the third of fi… Read more
The multiverse is an alluring concept, both to storytellers and the characters they dream up. Writers may find the tool liberating; the multiv… Read more