Both major releases this week are dinosaur-forward, so as usual I'll start with a disclaimer: Any movie with dinosaurs starts at an advantage with me. Take what I say about any dinosaur movie with a grain of salt.
Exciting as this Odyssey is, however, there’s a sadness to it as well, a sense that we're seeing the end of a Golden Age and the beginning of an era of disillusionment brought about through the brutality of war and the flouting of social and civic norms.
By the standards of big summer blockbusters, this Supergirl is relatively modest in scope, which I found agreeable.
Tall and imposingly fleshy, Fraser also manages to give us a human Eisenhower.
After the eye-crossing political backstory of the much-lamented Star Wars prequel and sequel trilogies, it was refreshing.
Debuting as a video game in the early ’90s, Mortal Kombat became both popular and notorious for its violent and gory death scenes. This renown led to feature films in 1995 and 1997; onward to TV shows, both animated and live-action; comic books and other incarnations; to a 2021 movie reboot; and now to a sequel, Mortal Kombat II. Not being a video game guy, I was unfamiliar with the franchise when I saw the reboot. Having no...
The Marc in Marc by Sofia is Marc Jacobs; the Sofia is Lost in Translation director Sofia Coppola, who directed this documentary about the fashion designer. The two are close friends, and the title is a reference to "Marc by Marc Jacobs," the designer's former side line of handbags, perfumes and the like.
Evy hosts a podcast on eerie paranormal subjects. She's the skeptic; her co-host Justin, based in London, is the believer, a la Scully and Mulder. She's currently hosting from the house of her mother, who is unconscious in her deathbed upstairs, and for whom Evy is the sole caregiver.
A Private Life (or Vie Privée in its native tongue) shifts into a low-key Hitchcockian mystery with a sly edge of stinging, acerbic comedy.
Slated for 7 p.m. on Saturday, January 24 is The Fire Brigade, a 1926 MGM epic about firefighters and firefighting.
The strange, sad episode is dramatized in Dead Man’s Wire by Gus Van Sant, from a script by Austin Kolodney.
“May you live in interesting times” is supposedly an ancient Chinese curse. Well, 2025 has unquestionably been an interesting year. A curse that may be in real life, but this was also an interesting year in movies, and that’s less accursed. So, let’s get ’25, and the first quarter of the 21st century, in the rear view with that traditional annual movie-critic indulgence, the Top 10 List. Here are the 10 movies that...
Song Sung Blue It would be hard, for me at least, not to like Song Sung Blue, a jukebox musical about love and family set against the backdrop of working-class show business. It’s based on the true story of Mike and Claire Sardina, small-potatoes entertainers who launched a Neil Diamond tribute act together they called Lightning & Thunder in Milwaukee in the ’90s. Charismatic performers, they built their own regional following, eventually packing houses, playing...
The Marty in Marty Supreme is Marty Mauser, a Lower East Side kid in the early ’50s. The supremacy in question is at – of all things – table tennis, or ping-pong. He is already an insolently prodigal talent at the sport, with designs on becoming a world champ. Marty himself wouldn’t limit his supremacy merely to table tennis; he’s already intolerably cocksure about his ability to do pretty much anything he wants. Even though he could,...
It may leave you with an appetite for crabs.
