‘Emma.’ movie review: Anya Taylor-Joy is an Austen heroine to remember
All Jane Austen’s heroines are clever, but Anya Taylor-Joy brings an unusually sharp edge to her rendition of Emma Woodhouse in “Emma.” Maybe it’s the lingering influence…
All Jane Austen’s heroines are clever, but Anya Taylor-Joy brings an unusually sharp edge to her rendition of Emma Woodhouse in “Emma.” Maybe it’s the lingering influence…
Racy lesbian sex scenes put the French movie “Blue Is the Warmest Color” on the map back in 2013. The director of a new French…
It’s prime horror-movie season, and psychological chiller “The Lodge” does not disappoint. The follow-up to 2014’s “Goodnight Mommy,” from writer-directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala,…
Don’t sit down to watch this year’s batch of animated shorts without a handful of Kleenex. The five Oscar-nominated films, featuring a remarkable range of style…
The mood of “The Assistant,” with its sparse soundtrack of copier machines, phones and dinging elevators, is deceptively banal. Yet I’ll bet any woman who’s…
A trippy horror movie about an alien-borne pink hue that drives everyone crazy might seem a natural fit for stoner legend Tommy Chong — but…
There’s got to be a moment, as an actor watches himself on-screen pulling bagpipes out of a CGI dragon’s rear end, that he thinks, “Have…
In the Japanese animated film “Weathering with You,” teenage emotions are so strong that they can, like, change the world. Of course!
Kristen Stewart’s latest movie, “Underwater,” is not what you would call great art. Or even a decent movie. Still, like many a film before it,…
Sometimes Hollywood feels hopelessly out of touch, like a movie’s director and writers haven’t set foot outside the studio walls in years. It’s rare, though,…