Movie Reviews

Originally intended for streaming, Greg Berlanti's Apollo 11 crowd-pleaser is the rare 21st-century rom-com to boast the brains and heart to support repeat viewing. by Petwer Debruge Trailers make “Fly Me to the Moon” look cute at…

by Tomaris Laffley MPA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 96 MIN. It happens to many of us above a certain age. You wake up one day, and realize that your life involves neither your childhood besties, nor the carefree bliss you once took…

Russell Crowe Plays an Ex-Cop with Alzheimer’s in a Scrappy Piece of Dementia Noir MPA rating: R. Running time: 111 MIN. by Owen Glieberman “Sleeping Dogs,” starring Russell Crowe as a retired cop with Alzheimer’s…

After dedicating a decade to his pet secret-service franchise, the 'Kingsman' helmer enlists an American cast (and one cute kitty) in a convoluted plot that puts a fiction writer at the center of the action. by Peter Debruge What…

It leaps in time but lands on a Scottish archipelago that symbolizes its heroine's inner state. by Owen Glieberman “The Outrun,” the story of a 29-year-old Scottish woman in the throes of, and recovery from (though not necessarily in…

Timothée Chalamet Makes a Winning Willy Wonka in a Fun Prequel That’s One of the Squarest Movie Musicals in Decades His candymaker is a wistful young dreamer in a film where even the dark side is wholesome. MPA Rating: PG. Running…

George Clooney Directs His Best Film in a While, a ’30s Rowing Saga That’s an Old-Fashioned Movie Daydream MPA Rating: PG-13. Running time: 124 MIN. by Owen Glieberman If the day ever arrives when a smart director decides to make…

By Leslie Felper The British production company Aardman, best known for award-winning shorts such as the evergreen Creature Comforts and short-to-feature franchises like Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep, specializes in…

A handful of terrific actors make the pilgrimage to the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Lourdes, hoping for a miracle but settling for a fairly standard pot of art-house pudding. by Peter Debruge “The Miracle Club” may not be a faith-based…

The Argentine slow-cinema formalist explores tensions between Indigenous culture and the modern world in a languid curio that will delight his acolytes and bemuse others. by Guy Long By the brazenly esoteric standards of Argentine…