‘News of the World’ Wants to be a New Classic Western
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Tom Hanks, the Henry Fonda of our moment, clears the hurdles in director Paul Greengrass’ movie set in post-Civil War America
Carey Mulligan Is a Vigilante With a Mission in ‘Promising Young Woman’
Posted in: Movie Reviewsin Emerald Fennell’s directorial debut, which skewers rape culture, no innocent bystanders are allowed
‘The Midnight Sky’: It’s the End of the World and Clooney Takes It in (Too-Serious) Stride
Posted in: Movie ReviewsIf only George Clooney, the director, could allow himself to get ridiculous and have a little more fun
‘Wonder Woman 1984’: A Superhero Takes on Greed, Misogyny, Shoulder Pads
Posted in: Movie ReviewsThe villainy represented here indeed feels Eighties: A dark riff on entrepreneurial self-help-y logic in its most bastard state
‘Crock of Gold’ Review: The Eternal Lost Weekend of Shane MacGowan
Posted in: Movie ReviewsJulian Temple’s portrait of the Pogues singer is a rambling, messy, wild, sad and inspirational doc — in other words, a fine tribute to its subject
In ‘Red White, and Blue,’ Steve McQueen Exhibits One of His Most Exciting Modes as a Director: Cool Anger
Posted in: Movie ReviewsThe third film in his pentalogy stars John Boyega as a representation of frustrated, upstanding, rational black masculinity
The Dance Floor Is Always at the Center of Steve McQueen’s ‘Lovers Rock’
Posted in: Movie ReviewsThe second chapter of the five-film Small Axe, in which Steve McQueen attempts to excavate glimpses of black British life from the Sixties through the Eighties, is rooted in reggae
‘Zappa’ Review: A Modernist Mozart Who Happened to Be a Rock Star
Posted in: Movie ReviewsAn exhaustive new documentary on Frank Zappa offers up a portrait of an artist as a walking contradiction
‘Stardust’ Review: Rock & Roll Biopic Suicide
Posted in: Movie ReviewsA what-if look at David Bowie’s brief tour of America at a pivotal, pre-Ziggy point in his career is a textbook case of how not to make a rock movie
Viola Davis Goes BIG and BOLD in ‘Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom’
Posted in: Movie ReviewsGeorge C. Wolfe’s screen adaption of the seminal August Wilson play also stars a stunning Chadwick Boseman, in his final film role, as ambitious horn player Levee
