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You know all those series on Disney+ that expand on the Marvel Cinematic Universe and connect their feature films? Yeah, “Peacemaker” isn’t really that ambitious. Sure, it could have an impact on future DC projects, I suppose,...

Initially I wondered why acclaimed actor Rebecca Hall (“Vicky Cristina Barcelona”; “Christine”; “Professor Marston and the Wonder Women”; “The Night House”) chose Nella Larsen’s 1929 book “Passing” to make her debut as a director.  The phenomenon of “passing,”...

Hearing the sad news late last night of the passing of film critic Michael Wilmington, I thought immediately of another self-made, unflappable, larger than life figure. Like Augie March, Wilmington “touched all sides.” “He was a...

To quote Yogi Berra, “The Tender Bar” is “déjà vu all over again.” This is the same “young man’s coming-of-age story” you’ve seen over and over. Nothing new has been added. The poster calls this “a...

“You have written the truest thing ever published about me…in English.” Those were the words that started Peter Bogdanovich’s life. They made him a world-renowned author and storyteller, a writer and director, a highly sought actor,...

“The 355” amasses some of the most talented and electrifying actresses in the world, then squanders them in a generic and forgettable action picture. Jessica Chastain is among them, and she helped shepherd the film from...

The terror of “The Wasteland” is awfully familiar, albeit in a surprising setting: it’s a quarantine horror movie (made during the pandemic) that takes place in 19th century Spain, using a sparse cast of mostly three. A beast lurks in the...

Sometimes a comedy is more about casting than anything else. The truth is that writing can always shift to match performers, but a bad ensemble usually isn’t going to ever find the right rhythm. The art...

A solid if somewhat staid docudrama recounting the murder of Emmett Till and the subsequent legal proceedings, the six-part limited series “Women of the Movement” is the sort of edutainment programming in which the drive to inform...

Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi crafts engrossing, nagging moral tales without stooping to overt moralizing. Eric Rohmer did the same but set his subtle parables in the provinces of romance and sex. Even Farhadi’s 2011 marriage drama,...