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Following the triple home run act of the Jon Watts/Tom Holland era of Spider-Man movies — 2017’s Homecoming, 2019’s Far From Home and 2021’s No Way Home — would seem quite daunting on the surface of it. And coming back with a movie that has anywhere near…

Last night, both Rosie O’Donnell, performing her new Off Broadway solo show Common Knowledge, and Donald Trump, making his first appearance as president at the White House Correspondents' Association Dinner, took to their respective stages to share their thoughts on, among many other things, one…

Christopher Nolan has always thought about time as a malleable object. In Nolan's worlds, its linearity is merely a suggestion. The clock may move forward, but its effect is omnidirectional. As early as Memento, Nolan wondered if, perhaps, we exist as constant possibilities of ourselves. In his…

Bulgarian-language cinema is enjoying a moment this year, starting with Valeska Grisebach's extraordinary crime drama The Dreamed Adventure, which won the Jury Prize at Cannes back in May. The similarly incisive Black Money for White Nights, by Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov, is very much cut…

Disney's remake of Moana, a film a mere 10 years old, dares to question what "live-action" even means. Thomas Kail's 2026 edition is neither alive nor particularly propulsive in any discernible way, with the vast majority of scenes filmed against garish and poorly done backdrops or else with…

While we knew when 70mm IMAX tickets were selling out a year ago that Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey would be a hit, we now have some confirmation that the film itself lives up to the standard we’ve come to expect from the Oscar-winner director of Oppenheimer. Early reactions dropped…

London noir is a rare subgenre — and an especially difficult one to pull off — but Michele Fiascaris' debut Rain Catcher is a satisfying, seductively atmospheric addition to the canon that will keep even the most jaded of viewers on the alert. The largely unfamiliar cast lend an air of…

"Family is family," notes a character at the beginning of Danish director Mads Mengel's low-key but emotionally gripping three-hander The Guest, at a point in time when the biggest problem facing Karl (Simon Bennebjerg) and Emilie (Mette Klakstein…

When I looked at the lineup for last month’s Tribeca Film Festival, one movie title really caught my eye: Death Boom. And once I discovered it was not just another horror film but actually a documentary predicting an impending crisis for Baby Boomers (those born between 1946 and 1964), of which I am…

It is a time-honored practice in cinematic history to slap the word “young” in front of future historical icons in order to milk their early years and tell a story of how they survived the struggles of relative youth to become the uber-famous person we got to know. Think Young Mr. Lincoln, Young Winst…

While the Toy Story movies look to the digital future of entertainment, the Despicable Me franchise is going way, way back into its analog past. Even movie buffs will be surprised just how much of a deep dive into Hollywood history Pierre Coffin's latest animated offering, Minions & Monsters, is…

I approached seeing director Rod Davis Lurie’s new WWII-set film Lucky Strike with a little apprehension because at this point I had a hard time imagining seeing another movie set during this war of wars that could possibly feel like something I hadn’t already seen. From all those films actually made…