‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’: The smoldering lesbian romance snubbed by the Oscars
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…
‘The Lodge’ review: Riley Keough learns that family bonding is hell
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,…
Oscars 2020: Animated shorts nominees are heart-wrenching
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 Assistant’ is Julia Garner in a Weinstein-esque nightmare
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…
Tommy Chong: Nicolas Cage is ‘one of the finest actors in America’
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…
Robert Downey Jr.’s ‘Dolittle’ is a little extra
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…
Heavy teen angst is the forecast in ‘Weathering with You’
In the Japanese animated film “Weathering with You,” teenage emotions are so strong that they can, like, change the world. Of course!
Even in bad movies, Kristen Stewart’s crushing it
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,…
‘Like a Boss’ movie review: Another witless chick flick
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,…
‘The Grudge’ review: Why do good actors do bad horror movies?
For connoisseurs of the “Grudge” series, the brief prelude of this fourth installation links it to the ones that came before. Everybody else, good luck…