Reviews
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‘Photograph’ Film Review: Mumbai Romance Feels Sweet but Slight
There’s plenty of charm — and contrivance — in the latest from Ritesh Batra (“Our Souls at Night,” “The Lunchbox”)
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‘John Wick 3′ Film Review: Keanu Reeves’ Assassin Returns for Mostly Enjoyable Threequel
The strain is starting to show in this franchise, but there’s still a kick to much of its action choreography and body-count brashness
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‘See You Yesterday’ Film Review: Sprightly Teen Time-Travel Comedy Reveals Dark Truths
Tribeca 2019: What starts as a “Back to the Future” homage eventually becomes a look at police violence against black Americans
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‘The Sun Is Also a Star’ Film Review: Star-Crossed Teen Romance Offers Plenty to Like, But Never Earns Love
There’s delight in this interracial love story, but the YA adaptation suffers from director Ry Russo-Young’s odd choices
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‘Trial by Fire’ Film Review: Death Row Drama Skirts Important Issues
Laura Dern is perfection, but this true story avoids going too deep into questions about class and race
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‘The Professor and the Madman’ Film Review: Mel Gibson and Sean Penn Lack Definition in OED Biopic
The book about the creation of the Oxford English Dictionary thrilled readers, but this screen adaptation is listed under “boring”
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‘Pasolini’ Film Review: A Great Director’s Death, Delivered in Pieces
Willem Dafoe stars as legendary (and legendarily murdered) filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in Abel Ferrara’s fragmented, frustrating film
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‘The Biggest Little Farm’ Film Review: Inspirational Farm Tale Avoids Complicated Issues
This gorgeous portrait of a family farm never digs into details about specifics like money, droughts or migrant workers
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‘The Hustle’ Film Review: Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson Are Robbed of a Worthwhile Comedy
This remake of “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” and “Bedtime Story” opens with larcenous bite but ultimately loses its distinctly feminist POV
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‘Poms’ Film Review: Diane Keaton and Jacki Weaver Bring Good Cheer to Senior Sports Comedy
A talented ensemble leaps over the occasional lapses of the writing and directing in this retirement-community underdog charmer
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A Pokemon Superfan Reviews ‘Detective Pikachu’: Problems Come Out to Play in Disappointing Film (Guest Blog)
Unfortunately, the mechanics that often make a video game fun and meaningful don’t always translate to a good story
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‘Tolkien’ Film Review: Laughable Biopic Indulges in Infinite Great-Artist Clichés
Nicholas Hoult is set adrift in a film seemingly more interested in Tolkien as a spawner of blockbusters than as a man of letters
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‘My Son’ Film Review: Efficient French Thriller Sends Divorced Father to Find Missing Kid
Guillaume Canet’s portrayal energizes this familiar but tight entry in the vigilante-dad genre
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‘All Is True’ Film Review: Kenneth Branagh’s Shakespeare Biopic Aims High, Falls Flat
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff, particularly with this much talent on both sides of the camera
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‘Charlie Says’ Film Review: Drama Explores Charles Manson From the POV of His ‘Girls’
“American Psycho” adapters Guinevere Turner and Mary Harron re-team in an attempt to understand the women Manson manipulated
