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How do you pick the best performance in a film defined by literally dozens of them? Christopher Nolan assembled a murderer’s row of talent for “Oppenheimer,” his grand historical drama about the birth of the atomic...

10 NEW TO NETFLIX “Annihilation””Bridesmaids””The Karate Kid””Miami Vice””Pride & Prejudice””Puss in Boots: The Last Wish””Ray””The Squid and the Whale””Star Trek Into Darkness””Titanic” 10 NEW TO MAX “20th Century Women””American Sniper””Blue Valentine””Dunkirk””Election””Good Will Hunting””Lethal Weapon””Pulp Fiction””Shoplifters””Under the...

In my previous dispatch about Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), I talked about how it’s difficult to spot patterns in the programming this early in the festival. The sample size just hasn’t been big enough, at...

The murder is a good one. Like the first season, the second season of Netflix’s “The Lincoln Lawyer” pivots around one particular crime. Here, it’s the killing of Mitchell Bondurant (Clint Carmichael), a greedy and potentially...

Last summer, Tom Cruise was given credit for saving the theatrical experience with the widely beloved “Top Gun: Maverick.” One of our last true movie stars returns over a year later as the blockbuster experience seems...

Whether you still know every word to “Wham Rap!” four decades later or only remember the British pop duo as “George Michael and that other guy,” you’ll find everything you want in the Netflix documentary “Wham!”...

For the second year in a row, I’m at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (KVIFF), and oh, how I have missed its winding cobblestone streets, its canals, and its resplendent Renaissance style. But most of...

Aaron Hughes’ animated “Five Cents” tells the story of a consumer being overwhelmed by the constant need for money. We can all relate to that. Whether making a film, buying a house, planning a wedding, or...

The name Stuart Rosenberg will never be forgotten by a certain breed of film lover. To others, he may never gain any kind of a foothold at all. Rosenberg was a solid craftsman of sturdy dramatic work but he...

To make an impact on two different generations for two completely disparate films takes a remarkable actor. Alan Arkin was that kind of actor.  Growing up, I watched the 1982 animated film “The Last Unicorn” obsessively,...