Reviews
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‘Colette’ Film Review: Keira Knightley Offers a Tasteful Look at a Rebellious Artist
The boundary-pushing French author becomes the subject of an effective but tame biopic from Wash Westmoreland (“Still Alice”)
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‘Life Itself’ Film Review: Canned Tear-Jerker About Destiny Is a Jaw-Dropping Mess
“This Is Us” creator Dan Fogelman’s gimmicky play for your heartstrings wastes good actors and overdoses on tragedy
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‘Love, Gilda’ Film Review: Gilda Radner Lives Again in Touching Documentary
First-time director Lisa D’Apolito captures the comedy and the tragedy of the beloved “SNL” star
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‘House With a Clock in Its Walls’ Film Review: Eli Roth Directs a Fun, Family-Friendly Halloween Frolic
Cate Blanchett and Jack Black are clearly having a blast as a friendly witch and warlock, and their joy is infectious
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‘Bel Canto’ Film Review: Julianne Moore Thriller Hits All the Wrong Notes
Moore (as an opera diva) and Ken Watanabe are held captive in a flailing, pointless adaptation of Ann Patchett’s best-seller
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‘American Chaos’ Film Review: Day-Late, Dollar-Short Doc Traces Trump’s Rise to the White House
After endless profiles in The New York Times about What Trump Voters Really Think, the last thing we need is a movie on the same subject
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‘Mandy’ Film Review: Nicolas Cage Takes a Big Bite Out of This Mad, Metal Midnight Movie
Panos Cosmatos’ follow-up to “Beyond the Black Rainbow” is a death-metal album cover and van painting brought to ultraviolent life
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‘Unbroken: Path to Redemption’ Film Review: Low-Budget Sequel Oversells Its Message
This in-name-only follow-up to Angelina Jolie’s biopic accentuates the conversion narrative, pushing racism and slamming psychiatry along the way
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‘A Boy. A Girl. A Dream.’ Film Review: New Lovers Clash on Election Night 2016
Meagan Good and Omari Hardwick star in an underwritten one-take film that’s like like an irritating, combative “Before Sunrise”
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‘The Predator’ Film Review: Shane Black Further Dumbs Down This Sci-Fi/Horror Franchise
The worst movie in the “Predator” series that doesn’t have the words “Alien vs.” in the title
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‘Where Hands Touch’ Film Review: Amandla Stenberg Packs Emotion in Earnest Holocaust Drama
Toronto Film Festival 2018: Director Amma Asante (“Belle”) shares an intimate story of Afro-German persecution during WWII
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‘The Land of Steady Habits’ Film Review: Nicole Holofcener Turns Her Sharp Eye Toward Masculine Identity Crises
Toronto Film Festival 2018: Ben Mendelsohn and Edie Falco star as unhappy suburbanites, in an “Ice Storm” for our age
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‘White Boy Rick’ Film Review: Real-Life Drug Saga Bolstered by Strong Performances
Even if Richie Merritt never acts again, he’s made an indelible mark with his naturalist turn as a teenage drug dealer and FBI informant
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‘A Simple Favor’ Film Review: Anna Kendrick and Blake Lively Mix Martinis and Murder in Disappointing Comedy-Mystery
Paul Feig’s cocktail of suburban noir and modern laughs misfires when its thriller elements ramp up
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‘God Bless the Broken Road’ Film Review: Faith-Based Drama Offers More Facile Homilies
The creator of “God’s Not Dead” returns with another preachy, bigoted sermonette that values messaging over drama
