‘Madame Web’ review: An itsy-bitsy spider of a Marvel hopeful
Dakota Johnson stars as New York paramedic Cassie Webb, the central figure in Sony's attempt to get a new franchise going. Best of luck.
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‘How to Have Sex’ review: A teen holiday frames an arresting portrait of trust and consent
Mia McKenna-Bruce stars in "How to Have Sex," debut filmmaker Molly Manning Walker's incisive answer to every losing-virginity teen comedy in existence.
Hits and misses from the 2024 Super Bowl commercials
Love that Dunkin' Affleck sequel! But the Squarespace UFO invasion? Some high and low points from Sunday's Super Bowl of advertising.
‘Origin’ review: From the unfilmable bestseller ‘Caste,’ Ava DuVernay finds the only possible movie
“Caste” came out in 2020 — a provocative and elegantly intertwined examination of America’s racial history and structural biases.
On Netflix: Four short Roald Dahl tales adapted by Wes Anderson add up, splendidly
The new Wes Anderson adaptations of Roald Dahl stories, now streaming on Netflix, outpace and out-satisfy so many of Anderson’s feature-length projects, the question simply is this: Why?
‘August Wilson: A Life’: A theater giant’s symphony of 20th century Black lives, captured by biographer Patti Hartigan
In her absorbing, richly detailed biography recently published by Simon & Schuster, Patti Hartigan calls “Joe Turner” Wilson’s greatest achievement. She has plenty of company in that opinion.
‘Bottoms’ review: In a queer ‘Fight Club’ with a side of ‘Heathers,’ the jokes and punches fly
Director Emma Seligman set out to create a “campy queer high school comedy in the vein of ‘Wet Hot American Summer’ but more for a Gen-Z queer audience,” as she...
Column: The ‘Flash’ that didn’t: How many franchise ‘sure things’ will it take for the movie industry to rethink its future?
How much longer can this recycling continue?