No matter how hard they try, people who tell stories for a living inevitably wind up producing tales with popular conservative characters and conservative themes.

The Harder They Fall – a terrific film – is an utterly conventional Western, almost to the point of cliché.

In the missing episode, the Simpsons visit Tiananmen square and see a placard that says, ‘Tien An Men Square: on this site, in 1989, nothing happened.’

HBO Max’s The Sex Lives of College Girls is a window into our cynical, burned-out culture.  

The Gossip Girl reboot features a teacher villain among boring teenagers to shockingly bad effect.

Sean Baker’s Red Rocket asks why we keep falling for charming but horrible rogues.

Three entertainments that left a mark in 2021.

The Wheel of Time has the potential to be great, but for now, good enough will have to do.

The Charlton Heston dystopian thriller was way off on some things — but eerily accurate about others.

Joel Coen’s movie The Tragedy of Macbeth is a fitting tribute to the original masterpiece.

In a version of Fight Club now streaming in China, we are informed that the police thwart Tyler Durden’s plot to blow up credit-card company buildings.

‘Dune’ deserves every nomination it received, as well as ones it didn’t. Whether it wins them is a different story.

Is the director’s next movie, a historical biopic about J. Robert Oppenheimer, a make-it-or-break-it-moment for adult-oriented drama in theaters?

This has been described as a ‘passion project’ for Wahlberg, who financed the movie himself as a way of paying back for the blessings in his life.

I don’t watch the Oscars and don’t care about the Oscars, but I am fervently rooting against any more recognition for this terrible movie.

The new multidimensional action comedy is unique — and uniquely enjoyable.

Americans have politically and emotionally moved on from jihadism and Islamism. The people of India do not have that luxury.

The Northman heaves with furious medieval energy. Too bad Ethan Hawke and Nicole Kidman are in it.

Better Call Saul is immensely rewarding viewing.

Audiences, ignoring the critics, are captivated by Hamaguchi’s vivid, adult characters, and for good reason.