Tag: movie reviews
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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: ‘Tag’ is a fun yet forgettable bromantic comedy with a nimble cast
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save “Tag,” a genial comedy about best buds who have been playing the same game of tag for 30 years, is about arrested adolescence at its core. And this haphazard collection of setups, stunts and gags…
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Movie review: This new flick gets right everything that ‘Mother!’ got wrong
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Philip Ettinger, Cedric the Entertainer; directed by Paul Schrader; 113 minutes; R for some disturbing violent images. “First Reformed,” an austere drama of one man’s apocalyptic crisis of faith, feels…
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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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‘Thoroughbreds’ is a ‘Double Indemnity’ subbing in two calculating Connecticut girls
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Olivia Cooke, Anya Taylor-Joy, Anton Yelchin; directed by Cory Finley; 90 minutes; R for disturbing behavior, bloody images, coarse language, sexual references and some drug use. The first feature from writer-director Cory Finley, “Thoroughbreds”…
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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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Riveting ‘Deepwater Horizon’ captivates throughout
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin, John Malkovich, Gina Rodriguez, Kate Hudson; directed by Peter Berg; 107 minutes; PG-13 for prolonged intense disaster sequences and related disturbing images, and brief strong language We…
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Movie Review: Wee, weird heroes star in ‘Miss Peregrine’s Home’
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Starring Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Terence Stamp; directed by Tim Burton; 127 minutes; PG-13 for intense sequences of fantasy violence and peril. Fall has officially just started, but there’s still one more…