This week’s roundup includes reviews of “The Housemaid” with Amanda Seyfried and Sydney Sweeney; the heartbreaking documentary “Holding Liat”; “Black Phone 2” with Ethan Hawke; “Visions” with Diane Kruger; and “Good Fortune” with Keanu Reeves and Keke Palmer. In...
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This week’s roundup includes new releases in theaters and on streaming (“Blue Moon” with Ethan Hawke, the Norwegian family drama “Sentimental Value”); on UHD/4K (“David Byrne’s American Utopia,” “Boogie Nights”); and on Blu-ray (the tragic “Martin Roumagnac”). In...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of new films including an Oscar frontrunner, “Hamnet”; a very promising first feature by Slovenia’s Urška Djukić, “Little Trouble Girls”; Lucy Liu giving the performance of her career in “Rosemead”; and Julia Roberts in a messy...
My latest roundup includes reviews of a new French film with Jodie Foster (“A Private Life”), a romcom with real-life couple Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick (“The Best You Can”), the latest Stephen King adaptation (“The Long Walk”), and even a rockin’ Christmas EP...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of new movies (Diane Lane in “Anniversary,” Del Toro’s “Frankenstein,” British swimming biopic “Vindication Swim,” the latest “Conjuring” entry) along with an Oscar-winning re-release (James Ivory’s adaptation of “Howards End”)...
This week’s digital roundup includes reviews of new and vintage films, series and concerts, from Diane Keaton’s lone documentary, 1987’s “Heaven,” and a 1982 doc about director Werner Herzog, “Burden of Dreams,” to a 1995 Luciano Pavarotti concert and a pair of 2023...
This week’s Digital Week roundup includes reviews of several new films (“Nouvelle Vague,” “Edda,” “A House of Dynamite,” “Downton Abbey—The Grand Finale”) and re-releases of older films, both classic (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”) and not “(1955’s “Lady...
This week’s Digital Week roundup includes a couple of interesting French films (“Auction” and “Niki”), an excellent Iranian film (“It Was Just an Accident”), and a pair of middling American films (“Weapons” and “The Mastermind”). In-Theater Releases of the WeekAuction...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of several new films on disc, including the Brad Pitt car-racing vehicle, “F1,” and the latest twisty tale from France’s Francois Ozon, “When Fall Is Coming.” There’s also the 4K release of the complete “Nightmare on Elm Street”...
This week’s Digital Week roundup includes reviews of several new films—documentaries about comedian-podcaster Marc Maron (“Are We Good?”) and the right-wing book-banning movement (“The Librarians”); a chilly thriller (“Bone Lake”); a strange Marion Cotillard vehicle...
