Movie

Most of the interesting Blu-ray and DVD releases of late landed last month in time for the holidays, so that section is a little slight this week. But Netflix just dropped dozens of movies on their service...

The first season of HBO’s “True Detective” was a true cultural phenomenon, earning rave reviews, loyal viewers, and multiple awards. The second season was … not. Arguably rushed by HBO to get to air to capitalize...

On May 10, 2018, the vast dome of the internet rang with the cacophony of countless voices, as TV lovers everywhere suddenly sang out as one. It was a moan of grief, a keen almost, and...

For a period of about five years in the late ‘90s and early 2000s, Americans had a chance to see Iranian films regularly at arthouses and festivals. That dropped off quickly, with the nation’s cinema getting...

Andrew Goldsmith and Bradley Slabe’s stop-motion animated “Lost & Found” is the kind of tear-jerking crowd-pleaser one would expect to find at the front of a Pixar feature, which I mean as a high compliment. The...

As Film Twitter comes to terms with the fact that “Bohemian Rhapsody” and “Green Book” won Best Picture awards at the Golden Globes on Sunday night, Oscar pundits are scrambling to read the tea leaves as to...

Jimmy and Gretchen would hate me expressing this about fictional characters, but I’ll miss them. They’d hate the perception of faux sentimentality at saying goodbye to characters who aren’t real people and that I never really...

To find out what works, you have to try things. Some of those things will be awkward. Some will fail. Some will work, and so maybe you lean into those things. To learn what’s right for...

Oscar-nominated character actor John C. Reilly has played only a handful of historical personages in his career, among them Noah Dietrich in “The Aviator,” Nikola Tesla on an episode of “Drunk History” and the Ghost of...

“Escape Room,” a new PG-13-rated horror film, is a sometimes diverting, but overly familiar series of set pieces in search of a good melodrama. There’s not much of a plot: six disposable protagonists try to solve...