Tuesday, Mar. 12, 2024

There's a scene in the new Peacock drama "Apples Never Fall " in which Annette Bening 's character weeps after having too much to drink at a family party. "Nobody can break your heart like your own children," she laments.

Bening, a mother of four with husband Warren Beatty, understands...

Sunday, Nov. 5, 2023

Filmmakers Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin have given audiences thrilling and sometimes terrifying front-row seats to incredible feats of human ambition in their documentary work.

From Alex Honnold's white-knuckle climb up Yosemite's El Capitan in the Oscar-winning " Free Solo "...

Thursday, Oct. 19, 2023

In "Nyad," there are two feats of perseverance on display. First, there is the ceaseless determination of Diana Nyad (Annette Bening) to accomplish a marathon swim from Cuba to Florida across 103 miles of open, shark-infested waters. Then there is the mettle of Nyad's support team to tolerate...

Wednesday, Dec. 27, 2017

Annette Bening gives Gloria Grahame a nobility rarely shown to faded Hollywood actresses in "Film Stars Don't Die in Liverpool," a tender if generic portrait of aged glamour.

Based on the 1986 memoir by Peter Turner, Paul McGuigan's film joins the dubious movie genre about close...

Friday, Dec. 30, 2016

In 1979, Annette Bening was 21-years-old. A year earlier she had moved from San Diego to San Francisco to study classical drama. She remembers it as a time of tremendous change and uncertainty and the big moments like the day Harvey Milk and George Mascone were killed, but, for the most part her...

Wednesday, Dec. 28, 2016

Way too many films out there are heavy on plot and exposition, light on atmosphere and character development. It's safe to say "20th Century Women" isn't one of them.

Indeed, this new film from Mike Mills, a loving nod to the director's own 1970s California youth, is precisely the...

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