Thursday, Mar. 28, 2024

When we talk about "movie magic," the first thing that comes to mind is often something like the bikes achieving liftoff in "E.T." But it applies no less to Alice Rohrwacher's wondrous "La Chimera," a grubbily transcendent folk tale of a film that finds its enchantment buried in the ground....

Tuesday, Mar. 26, 2024

"The Beautiful Game," a new movie starring Bill Nighy and Micheal Ward, is about a real international soccer tournament called the Homeless World Cup.

Don't go in expecting documentary realness or grit, however. This is a movie-movie (debuting on Netflix on Friday, tidily constructed to...

Thursday, Mar. 21, 2024

Forty years after "Ghostbusters" and following a string of sequels that never measured up to the 1984 original — beginning all the way back with 1989's "Ghostbusters II" — it's fair to wonder, well, who else ought we to call? It may be time to, if not give up the ghost entirely, at least give a...

Wednesday, Mar. 20, 2024

It's not your imagination: Sydney Sweeney is everywhere. In the past four months, she's been in a romantic comedy that turned into a sleeper hit, a superhero movie that didn't and, as of this weekend, a bloody horror. Results have varied, quality-wise, but for someone the culture seems to want...

Tuesday, Mar. 19, 2024

Elwood P. Dalton is a classy sort of bouncer. While five tough guys circle him outside a bar looking to bash his skull in, he has a question for them: "Before we start, do you have insurance?" And after savagely beating each up, he kindly drives them to the hospital.

Dalton — played by a...

Thursday, Mar. 14, 2024

By the time Nicholas Winton died in 2015 at the ripe age of 106, the former London stockbroker and self-proclaimed "ordinary man" had been widely recognized for his extraordinary deeds — rescuing 669 Jewish children from the Nazis, saving them from certain death.

But for most of his life...

Friday, Mar. 8, 2024

Throughout the billion-dollar "Barbie" film, an instrumental version of Billie Eilish's hit "What Was I Made For" weaves in and out, soundtracking the famous doll's existential crisis. In the final scene — no spoilers! — Eilish's crackling, saccharine falsetto is finally heard atop the familiar...

Thursday, Mar. 7, 2024

Muscles ripple, veins pop and electronic music throbs in "Love Lies Bleeding," a heaving, hyper-sexy neo-noir drenched in sweat, blood and bug guts.

If that last one seems a touch less expected, that moment, courtesy of a beetle-chomping Ed Harris, is far from the only off-the-wall...

Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2024

Nuri Bilge Ceylan makes long films, by movie standards, but short ones by Russian literature standards.

There may be no filmmaker more consciously working in a novelistic tradition. The Turkish director counts reading "Crime and Punishment" as a formative experience. His Palme d'Or-...

Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024

Noora Niasari's delicately moving "Shayda" puts the viewer in the shoes of an Iranian woman in Australia living in a women's shelter with her 6-year-old daughter.

The violence happens before we enter the story, and yet actor Zar Amir Ebrahimi's face and body tells us everything we need to...

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