Weekend Box Office: Thanksgiving Stuffing
The long holiday weekend bore box office gifts for several holdover movies, but only one of the new releases found success. One saw so-so returns, one flopped, and one really flopped.
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‘Rules Don’t Apply’ Review: Megalomania Squared
Warren Beatty has been obsessed with making a Howard Hughes movie for decades and it’s not hard to see why. After all, Beatty is a notorious control freak who meticulously supervises all aspects of any film he’s involv...
‘Allied’ Review: Old Fashioned, Not Nostalgic
Robert Zemeckis is a talented filmmaker. The guy has an ability to tell a story in purely cinematic terms that comes close to his mentor, Steven Spielberg. Yet somewhere around the time he stopped writing his own movies to become ...
Thanksgiving Weekend Movies: Perhaps Some Rules Should Apply
This Thanksgiving offers a cornucopia of variety within its new movie releases. The centerpiece is Disney latest animated musical. Alongside that are Robert Zemeckis’ new World War II drama, Warren Beatty’s first direc...
‘Manchester by the Sea’ Review: 2.5 Hours of Grief, b
‘Manchester by the Sea’ is unquestionably a good movie, at times even a great one. However, it’s also incredibly difficult to watch. Not that there are any horrible images to send viewers fleeing from their scree...
‘Bad Santa 2’ Review: Been There, Sworn That
‘Bad Santa’ was a delightful lump of comedy coal delivered in the 2003 holiday season. Somehow, the R-rated X-mas piss-take became a theatrical hit and a perennial holiday favorite on cable channels without content reg...
‘Moana’ Review: Watch, Smile, Repeat
Arriving just in time for the holidays, ‘Moana’ is a Disney princess tale hidden within a thrilling adventure picture with a spattering of fantastic songs to make it all go down smoothly. If you aren’t charmed by...
‘Nocturnal Animals’ Review: Meta Tragedy
Weaving stories within stories within pretty pictures, Tom Ford’s ‘Nocturnal Animals’ is an immaculately constructed cinematic contraption that just might be a little empty inside. Like the fashion designer-turne...
Weekend Box Office: Oh Oh, It’s Magic!
The fans turned out this weekend for the latest offering in J.K. Rowling’s wizarding world, but that was the only movie to perform as expected. Not only did the other wide releases miss the mark, but the expanding limited re...
‘Elle’ Review: She Done Bad
Few internationally revered filmmakers seem to enjoy naughty provocation quite as much as Paul Verhoeven. The Dutch auteur hasn’t worked quite as much since he left Hollywood and returned to Europe, but when he does, fans ca...
‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ Review: Heigh
‘Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk’ is a curious effort for Ang Lee. The director does some genuinely experimental visual work that can be rather brilliant. At the same time, the film’s script often can’...
Weekend Movies: Gotta Catch ‘Em All
Thanks to Marvel’s latest superhero flick and this week’s biggest release, November is shaping up to be a massive month at the box office. In theaters today are a return to the Wizarding World of Harry Potter as well a...