It’s an injustice that duds like “Joker: Folie a Deux” and “Megalopolis” played on thousands of screens around the country while Clint Eastwood’s engrossing new film about justice, “Juror...

But rarely is that workplace taboo as scintillating as it is in “Babygirl,” a captivating psychological drama starring Nicole Kidman that had its North American premiere Tuesday at the Toronto International...

One question repeatedly popped into my mind during “The Substance,” an outrageous and beyond bizarre horror movie that had its North American premiere Thursday night: What’s wrong with these people?...

Our blockbuster drought is over, thanks to a brilliant sequel set on a sweltering desert planet. That’s “Dune: Part Two,” the captivating and complex followup to director Denis Villeneuve’s grand...

If you’re on the fence about catching yet another “Color Purple” adaptation, I get it.  Since Alice Walker’s novel was published in 1982, the world has experienced Steven Spielberg’s Oscar-nominated...

Now that 11 years have passed since “The Hunger Games” first hit theaters, it’s impossible to spoil these movies anymore.  So, I can reveal to you without any shame whatsoever that in the fifth...

Depicting one of the most consequential figures in all of European history as a sourpuss clown who crazily rattles off nonsense is a brow-raising choice by Ridley Scott, screenwriter David Scarpa and the...

During the 1980s and ‘90s, Meg Ryan was the Queen of Rom Coms. She was the luminous star of “When Harry Met Sally,” “You’ve Got Mail” and “Sleepless in Seattle,” but after experiencing...

Even for Martin Scorsese, a master of turning true stories into hot movies, “Killers of the Flower Moon” is a high-wire act of filmmaking.  Its subject is a lot trickier than the rise and fall of...

What a shame that the major controversy surrounding the movie “Maestro,” the Leonard Bernstein biopic that had its North American premiere Monday night at the New York Film Festival, was over its director-and-star...

Hollywood, by and large, portrays bars as the most fun and chummy places on earth. At “Cheers” and “Coyote Ugly,” everybody knows your name and you can grow into a better person by sexy dancing....

On his third try, Kenneth Branagh gets an Agatha Christie movie right. I had mostly given up on the once-heinous mystery series, dragging myself to his new “A Haunting in Venice” like I was the poor...

It’s been a chilly summer at the movies. Stories about retail products, the atomic bomb, a revisionist doll and CGI Harrison Ford have gobbled up our attention, for better or worse, but not because any...

It’s been a banner year for underdog movies about seemingly unremarkable real-life events. The excellent “Air” and “BlackBerry” made the genesis of the Air Jordan sneaker and the world’s first...

“The Boy and The Heron,” director Hayao Miyazaki’s latest animated fantasy that had its North American premiere Thursday at the Toronto International Film Festival, could be the legendary filmmaker’s...

It’s never a good sign when the most rousing part of a movie is the end credits. But that’s the way it is, in the totally unnecessary “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny,” where John Williams’...

“The Flash” made a splash its first night in theaters. DC’s highly anticipated superhero film starring Ezra Miller took in $24.5 million on its opening night Friday, according to IMDB’s Box...

How many more everyday objects can Pixar possibly give googly eyes and mouths to? The answer, as Buzz Lightyear would say, appears to be “to infinity and beyond!” Because for their new “Elemental,”...

Everybody has known it for ages: Optimus is way past his Prime.  The first “Transformers” film in 2007, starring Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, was frivolous enough; the next four were appalling;...

One piece of advice must have been on repeat inside the heads of the creators of “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse”: With great first film comes great responsibility.  Because the superb sequel...