Author: Michael O’Sullivan The Washington Post
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Movie review: ‘Hearts Beat Loud’ is sweet drama about learning to love — and when to let go
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The theme of longing fulfilled and denied comes to the fore in “Hearts Beat Loud,” Brett Haley’s third feature collaboration with screenwriting partner Mark Basch. The movie centers on Frank (Nick Offerman), a widower and former musician who is coming to terms with the decline…
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Movie review: The scent of love is in the air in’Beast’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Beast” is the kind of movie where, when a sexy stranger tells a woman he has just met that he’s “good with his hands,” you can bet he isn’t talking about carpentry. Pascal, the hunky young man in question, is played by British actor Johnny…
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Movie review: ‘American Animals’ proves true crime can be both entertaining and profound
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Barry Keoghan, Ann Dowd, Evan Peters, Blake Jenner, Jared Abrahamson; directed by Bart Layton; 116 minutes; R for strong language throughout and some drug use. There are a few intriguing questions raised by “American…
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Movie review: ‘The Seagull’ is bloodless but brilliantly acted
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Is it a contradiction to call “The Seagull,” the authoritative film adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s 1895 stage play, a peerlessly wrought interpretation of a theater classic, while also less than a great movie? It’s certainly…
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Movie review: After 14 years, a heroic, and meta, return in ‘Incredibles 2’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Fourteen years have passed since the animated superhero comedy “The Incredibles” burst into theaters. But when fans of the hit Pixar film sit down to the sequel – about a family of suburban crime-fighters who…
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Movie review: Yes, ‘Ocean’s 8’ is a heist movie, but it’s also an empowering, cheeky comedy
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Helena Bonham Carter, Mindy Kaling; directed by Gary Ross; 110 minutes; PG-13 for strong language, drug use and some suggestive material. Most every successful heist movie, like a…
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A true story about a hijacking with an unexpected motif
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Seven Days in Entebbe” is, as its name suggests, a pretty conventional ticktock of the 1976 hijacking of an Air France jetliner en route from Tel Aviv to Paris by members of the Popular Front…
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Movie review: ‘The Strangers: Prey at Night’ a simple, stupid homage to cheesy horror
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Bailee Madison, Emma Bellomy, Lewis Pullman, Christina Hendricks, Lea Enslin, Damian Maffei; directed by Johannes Roberts; 81 minutes; R for horror violence and terror throughout and for coarse language. A follow-up to the 2008…
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Movie review: Too bad ‘Masterminds’ wastes one of the year’s better comedy casts
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig, Kate McKinnon, Jason Sudeikis, Owen Wilson, Leslie Jones; directed by Jared Hess; 94 minutes; PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, some language and violence. If there is a single shot…