‘Live by Night’ Review: Sleep by Cinema
On a purely technical level, ‘Live by Night’ is probably the finest “film de Ben Affleck” to date. The period gangster melodrama is filled with beauty shots and carefully crafted costumes and eye-grabbing l...
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‘Patriots Day’ Review: Docu-phony
Peter Berg’s latest feature, ‘Patriots Day’, does enough right that its flaws are easy enough to ignore, if not excuse. It’s likely as good a mainstream film about the Boston Marathon bombing as was likely ...
’20th Century Women’ Review: Pointed Portraiture
’20th Century Women’ makes a strong case for filmmakers indulgently wallowing in memory and autobiography. It’s a sweet and touching little picture that suggests writer/director Mike Mills might just be transform...
Weekend Box Office: The Space Race
Two movies are battling for the top spot at this weekend’s box office, and it won’t be until the final numbers are tallied that we’ll know which walks away with the title. Unsurprisingly, neither of them were thi...
Weekend Movies: Bite Me
The first Friday of 2017 only offers one new movie hitting theaters nationwide – but after a few weeks of collecting terrible reviews overseas, Sony is sweeping it under the rug stateside and hoping press won’t review it. As...
‘Silence’ Review: A Masterful Catholic Guilt Trip
The great Martin Scorsese spent decades struggling to make ‘Silence’. Many casts signed on and then departed once the cash flow dried up. It took the combined forces of putting Spider-Man and Han Solo, Jr. in the lead ...
‘Underworld: Blood Wars’ Review: Stop It
Hey, remember when everyone was obsessed with those ‘Underworld’ movies? I’ll bet you don’t because that never actually happened. Yet here we are, 14 years later, and there are still sequels being made. ...
‘A Monster Calls’ Review: Fairy Tale Horrors
‘A Monster Calls’ is one of those movies for children designed to impart a life lesson through CGI fantasy – you know, those ones that use the label “fairy tale” as a compliment. The movie is simple and dir...
‘Julieta’ Review: The Bad Kind of Melodrama
Spanish stylist Pedro Almodóvar isn’t particularly interested in the real world. While he’ll set stories in contemporary settings and shoot on location, his movies are always oversized and exploding with vibrant color....
Weekend Box Office: Nothing New
2016 may not have delivered the number of amazing movies we’re used to seeing each year. However, box office-wise, it definitely went out on a high note – especially for Disney.
Christmas Weekend Box Office: The Force Is Still Strong with This
There were no major surprises with the Christmas box office. However, with movies opening on Wednesday, Friday and even Sunday, this weekend’s numbers aren’t exactly as they appear at first glance.
‘Fences’ Review: Stuck on the Stage
‘Fences’ is based on the Pulitzer Prize winning play of the same name by August Wilson. Even if you hadn’t heard of that before, you’d be instantly aware of the project’s stage-bound origins. Adapting...