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Byline: Amy Nicholson If you're catching a movie at the mall this year, be prepared for Nicole Kidman to prove her passion for the cinema, twice over. After you've been [...]

A hunky snowman comes to life in this Netflix holiday rom-com that strikes a certain muscle tone. Here's the pitch for 'Hot Frosty': A widow wraps an enchanted scarf around [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson "Red One" is a sour sugarplum of a Christmas treat, a cheerfully cynical action comedy for kids - especially the ones who asked Santa Claus for ninja [...]

A hunky snowman comes to life in this Netflix holiday rom-com that strikes a certain muscle tone. Here’s the pitch for “Hot Frosty”: A widow wraps an enchanted scarf around [...]

Pierce Brosnan plays a man who sneaks out of his retirement home to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in this charming, but corny drama. 'The Last Rifleman' [...]

Pierce Brosnan plays a man who sneaks out of his retirement home to attend the 75th anniversary of the D-Day landings in this charming, but corny drama. “The Last Rifleman” [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson âMemoir of a Snail,â by the Oscar-winning Australian animator Adam Elliot, is a grubby delight, a stop-motion charmer that feels like falling into a dumpster and discovering [...]

Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite onscreen for a drama that showcases generations of existence. ''Here'' is an aeon-spanning experimental collage by Robert Zemeckis that plants the camera in one [...]

Playing both Eddie Brock and the alien parasite who possesses him, Tom Hardy gives another roiling one-man-band of a performance in this third installment of the franchise. With the 2018 [...]

An art gallery owner (Michael Keaton) gets a shock when his second wife (Laura Benanti) goes to rehab and he has to take care of their twins. ''Goodrich,'' by Hallie [...]

A brisk documentary by Barnaby Thompson counters that the tuxedo-wearing playwright hid his insecurities under a platinum-plated veneer. When Ian Fleming asked him to play the villainous Dr. No in [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson Check out this car trick. âTransformers One,â an energetic charmer by director Josh Cooley (âToy Story 4â), takes the brand that's been, variously, a trinket from Japan, [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson âLook Into My Eyes,â an oddly dry and lovely documentary by the director Lana Wilson, opens with a montage of New Yorkers and the questions they've come [...]

Joey King plays a teenager in a dystopian world where cosmetic surgery seems to be the cure for inequality. ''Uglies,'' based on the young adult book series by Scott Westerfeld, [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson âSpeak No Evilâ is the rowdiest horror flick in ages, a hilarious and venomous little nasty that cattle-prods the audience to scream everything its lead characters choke [...]

This crime drama from Jeremy Saulnier stars Aaron Pierre as a man whose run-in with small-town police officers uncovers uncomfortable secrets. A veteran arrives in a rural town to find [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson Twenty-five years ago, the superstar starred in 'Eyes Wide Shut' and 'Magnolia,' and opened himself up for the camera in ways he rarely has since. 'Eyes Wide [...]

Lee Daniels directs Andra Day and Glenn Close in an exorcism tale that includes melodrama along with the scares. The director Lee Daniels frees his actors to exorcise their demons [...]

Twenty-five years ago, the superstar starred in ''Eyes Wide Shut'' and ''Magnolia,'' and opened himself up for the camera in ways he rarely has since. ''Eyes Wide Shut'' had a [...]

Lee Daniels directs Andra Day and Glenn Close in an exorcism tale that includes melodrama along with the scares. The director Lee Daniels frees his actors to exorcise their demons [...]

You'll want to pass the ketchup, and the hankies, for this buffet of tear-jerking deep-fried decadence. ''The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat'' is a melodrama sampler platter of adultery, alcoholism, cancer, [...]

You’ll want to pass the ketchup, and the hankies, for this buffet of tear-jerking deep-fried decadence. “The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat” is a melodrama sampler platter of adultery, alcoholism, cancer, [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson Gena Rowlands had just shut her locker at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts when she first noticed John Cassavetes. He was the best-looking man she had [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson Josh Hartnett stars as a father with a secret in this M. Night Shyamalan film set at a concert. 'Dad, this is the literally the best day [...]

In Eli Roth's caper movie, based on the best-selling video game franchise, Cate Blanchett plays a bounty hunter who is tasked with finding a tycoon's daughter. In Eli Roth's ''Borderlands,'' [...]

In Eli Roth’s caper movie, based on the best-selling video game franchise, Cate Blanchett plays a bounty hunter who is tasked with finding a tycoon’s daughter. In Eli Roth’s “Borderlands,” [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson Millions of readers swooned over Colleen Hoover's thorny romance âIt Ends With Us,â the No. 1 best-selling novel of 2022 AND 2023. They'll come prepared for the [...]

Josh Hartnett stars as a father with a secret in this M. Night Shyamalan film set at a concert. ''Dad, this is the literally the best day of my life,'' [...]

Josh Hartnett stars as a father with a secret in this M. Night Shyamalan film set at a concert. “Dad, this is the literally the best day of my life,” [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson âSing Sing,â directed by Greg Kwedar, is a tenderhearted, heavy-handed dramedy that stars recent Academy Award nominee Colman Domingo as John âDivine Gâ Whitfield, a maximum-security inmate [...]

This raunchy comedy features Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Megan Mullally on a bachelorette weekend. 'The Fabulous Four' stars Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph and […]

This raunchy comedy features Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph and Megan Mullally on a bachelorette weekend. “The Fabulous Four” stars Bette Midler, Susan Sarandon, Sheryl Lee Ralph and [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson Marvel is sorry. Sorry about those confusing multiverse movies, sorry about the characters it's hyped and abandoned, sorry that its parent company, Disney, gobbled up Twentieth Century [...]

In Levan Akin's fascinating drama, two strangers connect in Istanbul. 'Crossing,' by Levan Akin, is a marvelous travelogue about two Georgian strangers who team up for a trip to Turkey […]

In Levan Akin’s fascinating drama, two strangers connect in Istanbul. “Crossing,” by Levan Akin, is a marvelous travelogue about two Georgian strangers who team up for a trip to Turkey [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson The French provocateur Catherine Breillat gets her kicks with unnerving tales of sexual coercion, but a clothed, close-up first kiss in âLast Summerâ may be her most [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson Faye Dunaway took risks, racking up three best actress Oscar nominations (and one win) for playing a string of problematic women who dared the audience to have [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson Almost nothing said about Shelley Duvall's Wendy Torrance in 'The Shining' is the truth. The lies start as soon as she enters the Overlook Hotel and the [...]

Cara Mones and Caroline Suh's earnest and frustrating documentary, produced by The New York Times, has a bitter punchline. In the fall of 2017, The New York Times published sexual [...]

Cara Mones and Caroline Suh’s earnest and frustrating documentary, produced by The New York Times, has a bitter punchline. In the fall of 2017, The New York Times published sexual [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson Jake Paltrow's soul-searching âJune Zeroâ starts in 1961 Israel with reports that Holocaust architect Adolf Eichmann has been sentenced to death. Eichmann was found guilty of crimes [...]

Movie Review Alert ‘Hot Frosty’ Review: The 8 Abs of Christmas Here’s the pitch for “Hot Frosty”: A widow wraps an enchanted scarf around a hunky snowman who springs to [...]

Movie Review Alert ‘The Last Rifleman’ Review: A World War II Veteran Hits the Road “The Last Rifleman” is a sporadically affecting drama that stars Pierce Brosnan as a World [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson âA Quiet Place: Day One,â the startlingly effective prequel to the 2018 blockbuster about noise-sensitive aliens that devour anyone who's ever annoyed a librarian, hits Manhattan with [...]

Byline: Amy Nicholson âJanet Planetâ is a phenomenal debut by Annie Baker, a MacArthur genius grant-winning playwright who has notched so many theater prizes that she may have grabbed a [...]

A new documentary follows the Swiss tennis star from his 2022 retirement announcement to his final match. Roger Federer retired from tennis at 41 having achieved everything there was to [...]