movie review

by Guy Lodge Anyone who has seen her seething Oscar-nominated performance in Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Phantom Thread” knows that Lesley Manville can be hard as nails on screen — though it’s a register the British veteran tends to play…

Two of the best actors of their generation, plus a very funny script from "The Favourite" writer Tony McNamara, aren't quite enough to fix the chemistry deficit between an English couple at war. by Peter Debruge There have been 36…

by Dennis Harvey MPA rating: R. Running time: 93 MIN. “Rageaholic meets schizophrenic” may not sound like a very enticing hook for a buddy comedy, but that dysfunctional duo proves pretty good company in “Neighborhood Watch.” Duncan…

by Dennis Harvey MPA Rating: R. Running time: 99 MIN. Ambition outstrips expertise in writer-director Phil Blattenberger’s “Laws of Man,” whose serpentine plot winds up seeming a wild goose chase — one whose execution should have…

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…

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…

by Todd McCarthey Kathryn Bigelow's latest effort is a docudrama about the 1967 Detroit riots, focusing on a specific incident of police violence against a group of black men at a hotel. Rated R, 143 minutes A particularly…

by William Belle If somebody says "spy movie" the first thing which comes to mind is James Bond. Yep, car chases, million dollar gambling in Monte Carlo and gadgets that do all sorts of nifty things. But did the movie producers of the Bond…

by William Belle I'm repeating myself. (Repeating yourself is a sign of senility. If I've said that once, I've said it a thousand times.) The best films I've seen do not necessarily involve a car chase scene. The special effects are…