Columns
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‘Love’ Review: Gaspar Noe’s Sexually Explicit Romance Stays Too Long in the Sack
This gorgeously shot and conceived picture can’t help flagging the longer it goes on
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‘Miss You Already’ Review: Drew Barrymore, Toni Collette Elevate Cancer Drama
Actresses are hilarious and heart-breaking as friends contending with lady parts that fail them
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‘Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict’ Review: Portrait of an Influential Collector Needs More Depth
Lisa Immordino Vreeland’s doc is comprehensive, yet never gets to the core of her subject
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‘CodeGirl’ Review: Feminism – There’s an App for That in This Disappointing Doc
Documentarian Lesley Chilcott has good intentions, but not enough tension or well-developed characters to sustain a film
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From ‘Bridge of Spies’ to ‘Suffragette’: Historical Fall Movies That Could Be Ripped From Today’s Headlines (Guest Blog)
“As Americans go to the movies in the coming weeks they cannot help but be struck by how much art is imitating life,” Aviva Kempner says
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Harold Perrineau: Stop Saying My Daughter’s Not Black Enough for ‘Jem and the Holograms’ (Guest Blog)
“Can we stop looking to Hollywood to define who we are and find ways that we can define ourselves?” the “Lost” actor writes
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‘Suffragette’ Review: Carey Mulligan Fights for Women’s Rights in Nuanced Drama
The first women’s movement of the 20th century finally gets the big-screen treatment it deserves
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‘The Last Witch Hunter’ Review: Vin Diesel Casts a Boredom Spell in Effects-Driven Action-Fantasy
Rose Leslie, Michael Caine, and Elijah Wood appear in a derivative supernatural epic in which the biggest star is the special effects
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‘I Smile Back’ Review: Sarah Silverman Reinvents Herself in Dour Drama
The comedian goes dark in a film that illuminates its protagonist too little
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Why Movie Studios Should Make the Jump to New York Comic Con (Guest Blog)
San Diego Comic-Con “has become such a spectacle, studios must now pull out all the stops,” Alisha Grauso, Moviepilot Editor at Large, says
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‘Room’ Review: Brie Larson’s Abduction-Escape Drama Walls Itself In
Flawed narrative diminishes the film’s potency, despite powerhouse performances from Larson and young Jacob Tremblay
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‘Victoria’ Review: Single-Take Drama Makes for a Night to Remember
Far from a mere stunt, the drama transports and transfixes despite the main character’s implausible naivete
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Jake Gyllenhaal, Paul Dano Eyed to Join Tilda Swinton in ‘Snowpiercer’ Director’s Monster Movie (Exclusive)
Kelly Macdonald and Bill Nighy are also poised to star in Bong Joon-ho’s “Okja”
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‘Goosebumps’ Review: Jack Black Horror Spoof Is Nostalgia Done Right
Black stars as author (and monster hunter) R.L. Stine in a silly, rollicking adventure that doesn’t take itself too seriously
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How I Made Yogi Berra Sore (Guest Blog)
Filmmaker Aviva Kempner sought a personalized Yogism from the Yankees Hall of Famer and got more — and less — than she bargained for
