Reviews
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‘The Front Runner’ Film Review: Hugh Jackman Is Gary Hart in Jason Reitman’s Enjoyable, Slight Political Saga
Hart’s implosion over infidelity allegations in 1988, setting up the tabloidization of politics, makes for a snappy if thin dramatization
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‘Better Angels’ Film Review: Propagandistic Doc Avoids Tough Questions About US-China Relations
Oscar-winner Malcolm Clarke focuses on individual success stories but includes no context that might be unflattering to either superpower
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‘Maria by Callas’ Film Review: Opera Legend Maria Callas’ Life, Told in Her Own Words
Tom Volf’s documentary delivers what Callas fans want most: passionate arias and personal access
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‘A Private War’ Film Review: Rosamund Pike and Jamie Dornan Give Searing Performances as Real-Life War Correspondents
In his fiction debut, documentarian Matthew Heineman captures the necessity and the danger of journalist Marie Colvin’s essential work
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‘Postcards from London’ Film Review: Gay Escort Contemplates Beauty in Skin-Deep Indie
Harris Dickinson plays a gorgeous rent-boy in a movie that pays lip service to art without ever becoming it
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‘Boy Erased’ Film Review: Gay Conversion Drama Has Powerful Moments But Also Rote Ones
Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman play Baptist parents who send Lucas Hedges to “ex-gay” therapy in Joel Edgerton’s drama
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‘The Other Side of the Wind’ Film Review: Orson Welles’ Final Film Is Worth the Wait
Lovingly assembled after 40 years, the master’s swan song is a winking satire drawing on his own love-hate relationship with Hollywood
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‘Johnny English Strikes Again’ Film Review: Rowan Atkinson’s Third 007 Spoof is Shaky, Not Stirring
The returns are very much diminished in the continuing saga of Atkinson’s bumbling British super-spy
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‘Indivisible’ Film Review: Faith-Based True Story Champions Communication and Self-Care Over Easy Answers
Religion isn’t a cure-all in this real-life tale of an Army chaplain and his wife and their joint recovery from his tour of combat duty
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‘Hunter Killer’ Film Review: Gerard Butler Stalks Around a Submarine in Passable Thriller
The kind of movie you find in a $2 bargain-DVD bin and feel like you got your money’s worth
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‘A Bread Factory’ Film Review: Small-Town Theater Struggles to Survive in Two-Part Ode to the Arts
Over two films and four hours, “In the Family” director Patrick Wang brings a matrix of searching souls to memorable life
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‘Shirkers’ Film Review: Search for a Lost Film Leads to Awkward, Illuminating Truths
Sandi Tan returns to Singapore to find the movie she directed at 19, bringing her to terms with old friends and old mentors
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‘1985’ Film Review: Retro AIDS Tale Earns Its Tears
Cory Michael Smith (“Gotham”) exquisitely plays a closeted gay man making one last trip home for Christmas
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‘Viper Club’ Film Review: Susan Sarandon Spy Drama Packs a Punch
The Oscar winner stars as a nurse whose journalist son has been captured by Syrian terrorists
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‘Life and Nothing More’ Review: Sensitive Neorealist Indie Charts a Black Family’s Struggles
Antonio Méndez Esparza’s understated drama features a commanding, Spirit Award-nominated turn by first-timer Regina Williams
