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The motor of the main plot this time is the galactic destroyer Thanos, of whom we've heard whispers over the course of the last 18 Marvel movies. I must admit having been a little worried about Thanos after seeing him in the trailer for this film. He's about 10 feet tall, with a puzzlingly striated chin (ported over ...

'Kings' Review: Halle Berry, Daniel Craig Deliver Royal L.A.-Is-Burning Dud ... Welcome to #Movies 101 where nobody knows nothin'. ... The movie begins with a recreation of an igniting incident – the acquittal of South Korean convenience store owner Soon Ja Du for shooting 15-year-old Latasha Harlins ...

The movie goes unusually far out of its way to justify its far-fetched conceit while showing complete disregard for natural laws at every turn — not that popcorn audiences will mind. Half the pleasure of giant-monster movies is allowing our suspension of disbelief to buckle like a bridge in Godzilla's path, and ...

The movie's opening scene, which is also the best action set piece in this Brad Peyton-directed picture, depicts the lone survivor of a space station catastrophe trying to return to Earth with her scientific samples intact. This doesn't work out. Instead the bad gene stuff winds up hitting ecosystems across this ...

And he directed two films before this, neither of which gave you any inkling that he had this movie in him. I mean, he's - this movie's directed with, you know, a very skillful, old-school-Hollywood-craftsman kind of style. And you just - you don't think John Krasinski, Jim from "The Office," terrific horror director.

I will get right to the point — “Love, Simon” tops my list as my favorite movie I have seen all year, and I see a lot of movies. Now it probably is not Oscar-worthy, but it was happy, funny, sad and devastating all at the same time. Directed by Greg Berlanti, “Love, Simon” was released on March 16 and is a ...

Nor is it an accident that the blonde wig, sunglasses and trenchcoat that Jill dons as a disguise as she searches for answers is the universal uniform for noir femme fatales, or that a movie named Gemini is going to feature a lot of doubles and mirrors. Like Search Party, the TBS show that could be this ...

... This Hack Job Will Make You Angry. Why can no one figure out how to properly use the amazing Taraji P. Henson in a movie? 'Tyler Perry's Acrimony' is likely to make you enraged in how it wastes the amazing Taraji P. Henson – read Peter Travers' one-star review. Credit: Chip Bergmann. By Peter Travers. 4 hours ago ...

And as is so often the case with movies that are in any way connected with or focused on video games – but as is not usually the case with Spielberg – the movie itself too often resembles, or even turns into, a video game. So, given the film's video game lineage, it's no surprise that characterization is so ...

In The Last Movie Star, Reynolds looks frail at 82, but his eyes are alive with witty challenge as he plays Vic Edwards, a superstar who started as a ... Now a virtual recluse, Vic is coached out of his shell by his friend Sonny (Chevy Chase) to accept a Life Achievement Award at a Nashville festival of his films.

If you've ever wanted to watch the DeLorean race against King Kong and a T-Rex, this is your movie. As Kong pounds the pavement, it feels like you're on a Universal Studios ride, while the revving engines and green lights recall “Mario Kart,” revealing a clue to crack the code like a “Super Mario” warp pipe ...

Shelton's directorial filmography is full of quasi-mumblecore, low-key relationship movies which tend to be better than that description might imply (I'd particularly recommend Your Sister's Sister, which stars Mark Duplass, the other Duplass brother). And that goes doubly for Outside In, whose premise at first ...

Movie Review: “God's Not Dead 3” ... (For the previous two films, see my reviews of GND1 and GND2.) ... These films were persecution porn, allowing Christians to wallow in how mean everyone is to them and how tough it is being a Christian in America these days, but that's okay because Jesus promised ...

The “dark comedy” film directed by Nash Edgerton and starring the — wasted — talents of David Oyelowo, Sharlto Copley, Amanda Seyfried and Charlize Theron never follows through on its promises of humor or drama and is instead an utter chore to sit through. The premise is simple. After he learns he's ...

During a Q&A following the AFI screening of Aaron Katz's Gemini, the director explained that the feature was inspired by “Showtime movies” commonly seen in the '80s and '90s, and that's the best summation of the feature. Gemini's Hollywood story has its roots in chintzy made-for-TV “mistaken identity” ...

A CIAMBRA. Jonas Carpignano directs this drama, cast with non-actors and family members playing versions of themselves, set in a Romani community in Calabria, Italy. The film's focus is on 14-year-old Pio Amato, who is eager to grow up and thus challenged when his older brother and mentor goes ...

Black Panther This Ryan Coogler film, about a young African king (Chadwick Boseman) with special powers, breaks the pattern of most Marvel superhero movies, with its leisurely opening, story-driven plotting and general aura of seriousness. There's probably less action in this film than in any other recent ...

It is a movie that will be admired by many, loved by few and is the cinematic equivalent of swallowing castor oil. While there aren't a great many, there are a handful of movies about divorce (“The War of the Roses,” “Husbands and Wives,” “Enough Said,” “Kramer vs. Kramer”) that make their uneasy points ...

And if the consumers are listening to a gatekeeping system that consists of primarily older, Caucasian males, and has been for years, then what they're told is worth buying and spending money on is put through that lens. And so I hope that with CherryPicks, and with females talking about movies ... that ...

If you're one of those people who only reads the first sentences of movie reviews, here you go: Love, Simon is FANTASTIC, and you should see it IMMEDIATELY. Still here? Okay! Because Love, Simon being as good as it is was hardly a given. It's based on Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda, which is ...

To be fair, the last quarter century hasn't given much room to think otherwise: from Super Mario Bros. to the Angelina Jolie Tomb Raider movies, all the way to Assassin's Creed, it's just difficult to translate the rhythms and mechanics of a video game to the intricate, character-driven dynamics of cinema.

I realized we'd arrived at this point recently, while reading a rapturous review of The Strangers: Prey at Night. Written by Mark Dujsik, the critique is so incredibly, obsessively dense with references to technique that it makes almost no sense at all. Unsurprisingly, it appeared on the site overseen by Seitz.

Mr. Padilha, the Brazilian director of the “Elite Squad” movies, the “RoboCop” reboot and the superb documentary “Bus 174,” balances some of the pomp and stiffness of those old made-for-TV extravaganzas with the lean, politically nuanced objectivity of recent films about '70s terrorism. There have been a ...

Tomb Raider, the 2018 movie — an adaptation of that very game — has the opposite effect, favoring the reproduction of gameplay over story, fumbling its exposition, and dropping ... Translating those video game moments back into cinema only serves to make them ... unoriginal action movie sequences.

Blockers is the directorial debut of Kay Cannon, who previously wrote the Pitch Perfect movies and brings over a sharp understanding of young female friendships. Their girls' expectations for the evening vary wildly – Julie (Kathryn Newton) looks forward to a romantic night with her boyfriend, Sam (Gideon ...

While Hess's more recent films rank higher—“Don Verdean,” at thirty per cent, and “Masterminds,” at thirty-four per cent—neither is a masterwork to rival ... The grief that critics give movies still allows a movie to live a shadow-life as a film maudit, whereas unreleased movies are like cinematic phantom limbs ...

An homage to the golden age of cheese-ball slasher movies? Other soundtrack offerings include such 1980s power ballads as “Kids in America” by Kim Wilde and Air Supply's “Making Love Out of Nothing at All.” Talk about scary. Despite such flashes of originality, the whole thing has the air of a cynical, ...

You've seen Ganz as a chillingly credible Hitler in “Downfall;” Murphy as the shell-shocked pilot rescued by Mark Rylance in “Dunkirk;” and Clarkson in “House of Cards,” “Pieces of April” and “The Maze Runner” movies. Mortimer's credits range from “Shutter Island” to “Hugo” to “The Newsroom” while ...

Annihilation This attempt at a thinking person's action movie devolves into a motiveless slog, in which a group of women soldiers go on a suicide mission, ... about a young African king (Chadwick Boseman) with special powers, breaks the pattern of most Marvel superhero movies, with its leisurely opening, ...

If there were a special place for middling cultural products—the so-so pop song, the not-entirely-bad book—that would be the proper destination for a movie like Gringo. There's nothing really dislikable about the picture, but that's partly because there's not really much to it. You'd expect any movie featuring ...

The comedy of cruelty is rarely funnier or more brutal than when it comes from Armando Iannucci, a virtuoso of political evisceration. A comic talent who should be household famous, he is best known for “Veep,” the HBO series about Washington politics that was a satire when it first hit in 2012 but now ...

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Foxtrot begins and ends with a sustained shot of a truck rattling down a dusty desert road. But nearly everything that happens in between upends any conventional idea of what a movie is supposed to be, in the astonishing ways that it bends and swerves and seems to invent an entirely new way of seeing ...

But then the movie also allows her to get violently raped, stripped and beaten bloody with a club, and, in a scene set in a sort of spy-sex classroom, to be positioned on a desk naked, with her legs spread, ordering one of the observing students to approach and have his way with her, writes Kurt Loder.

It's a crass thing to say at the outset of a review, I know, but this unusually brutal spy movie traffics so heavily in Lawrence's nudity that it has to be a factor in any ... glowers onto the scene as if she'd just stepped out of one of those old women-in-prison films—Love Camp 7, maybe, or one of the Ilsa movies.

We could use a solid movie right now to take on gender politics with literate precision and blunt provocation. Submission is definitely not it. Early in the film, Ted's agent, played with phony flourish by Peter Gallagher, tells him: "Have you considered a memoir? You don't need me to tell you that what's selling ...

Finding an opportune moment to release a high-profile movie celebrating a vigilante shooter is becoming a real challenge in the United States. Yet timing isn't the only reason the new “Death Wish,” a so-called reimagining of Michael Winner's 1974 thriller of the same name, is an imbecilic misfire.

Those films weren't what anyone would ever call subtle. But they did tap into a simmering rage and anxiety in the culture — especially the Wild West frontier of Ford-era New York City — that gave them a sort of gutter seismography. People were scared. The movies just expressed that fear writ large on the ...

At its best, Annihilation is heady experimental cinema with "future cult classic" written all over it. At its worst, it drags a little, torn between marketable Hollywood horror movie tropes and terror of a more elemental kind. By the end, though, the best parts of this cinematic chimera dominate. It's a must-see for ...

Disobedience isn't packed with surprises, but that's not why you go to a movie like this. You go to watch humans with wayward emotions labor to make peace with (or opt to war against) a formal, ritualized way of life. You go to see them argue over such words as “freedom” and “choice.” You go to see the ...

Movie review: “Red Sparrow” wastes good performances on a terribly boring film ... Sure, spy movies can be great, but with “Atomic Blonde” being rather lackluster and tropes of the genre being used far too often, I entered the theater with minimal expectations for the film, but hoped to be pleasantly ...