This week’s roundup includes reviews of Steven Soderbergh’s latest, the spy thriller “Black Bag,” along with several other new releases in theaters, including two sci-fi dramas (“Ash” with Eiza González and “The Assessment” with Alicia Vikander) and the feel-good “Bob...
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This week’s roundup includes reviews of “Queen of the Ring,” a wrestling movie made by the son of the director of a famous boxing movie you may have heard of, in theaters; and 4K releases of the “Den of Thieves” sequel with Gerard Butler, the over-the-top Santa action...
This week’s roundup includes reviews of the Oscar-nominated drama “September 5,” the first UHD release of the Oscar-winning “Amadeus,” and new films that explore family dynamics, “Riff Raff” and “Ex-Husbands.” In-Theater/Streaming Releases of the WeekSeptember 5...
This week’s roundup includes a trio of new releases by major filmmakers, two of them quite disappointing (Paolo Sorrentino’s “Parthenope” and Robert Eggers’ “Nosferatu”) and the other a welcome return to form (Catherine Breillat’s “Last Summer”). In-Theater Release of...
This week’s roundup includes my reviews of the long-awaited documentary, “Becoming Led Zeppelin”; the endearing family drama by first-time director Alessandra Lacorazza, “In the Summers”; and a blurry study of a liberal family during the Nixon era, “Three Birthdays.”...
My latest roundup includes reviews of three of this year’s Oscar nominees for best picture (the Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown,” the bloated musical “Wicked” and the best of the bunch, “I’m Still Here”) along with Clint Eastwood’s latest directorial effort (“Juror...
This week’s roundup features reviews of a classic by neglected director Lina Wertmuller (“Swept Away”); an Oscar-nominated doc about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict (“No Other Land”); a trio of Russ Meyer spectacles starring his vixens; and a new spy flick by director...
This week’s roundup features reviews of several new releases, including Pedro Almodovar’s latest, “The Room Next Door,” with Julianne Moore and Tilda Swinton, and “Rose,” a drama showcasing the legendary French actress Françoise Fabian. In-Theater Releases of the...
This week’s roundup features reviews of Jean Eustache’s long-unavailable 1973 classic, “The Mother and the Whore,” out on 4K; the smash-hit Broadway musical adaptation, “Wicked,” still in theaters and now on streaming; and a pair of engrossing documentaries—“Every...
My latest Digital Week roundup includes my reviews of David Fincher’s crime classic “Seven” (on 4K) as well as several new films in theaters and on streaming, including award-season contenders like Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist,” Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths” and RaMell...
