‘Howard’ Review: Meet the Lyricist Behind Your Favorite Disney Tunes
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The late, great songwriter for the House of Mouse, Howard Ashman, gets a deserved and long overdue tribute
‘She Dies Tomorrow’ Review: Paranoia, One Person-to-Person Contact Away
Posted in: Movie ReviewsA woman suddenly becomes convinced that she only has one more day to live — an idea which becomes contagious — in what may be the eeriest horror movie of 2020
‘Summerland’ Review: Love, Childcare and the Joys of Comfort-Food Cinema
Posted in: Movie ReviewsCloying British drama about an iconoclastic woman looking after a boy during the Blitz will either be an annoyance or a balm, depending on your mood
‘Radioactive’ Review: Madame Curie Gets Her Electro-Charged Biopic
Posted in: Movie ReviewsRosamund Pike does wonders with the Nobel-winning scientist and her legacy
Miss Eurovision This Year? Will Ferrell Comes to the Rescue
Posted in: Movie ReviewsWith the actual competition canceled, ‘Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga’ on Netflix is the next best thing
‘Artemis Fowl’ Review: When YA-Classic Adaptations Go Wrong
Posted in: Movie ReviewsThis bland Disney version of the popular pint-sized-evil-genius books loses the feel of the perversely pleasurable kids-lit series
‘Da 5 Bloods’ Review: Spike Lee’s Vietnam Epic Brings the Heat
Posted in: Movie ReviewsPart war film and part heist thriller, the director’s story of black veterans returning to old battlegrounds feels made for our current moment
‘Tommaso’ Review: A Filmmaker’s Exorcism, Italian Style
Posted in: Movie ReviewsWriter-director Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe turn a semi-autobiographical character study of an ex-pat in Rome into a troubled fever dream
‘The Vast of Night’ Review: Meet Your New Lo-Fi Sci-Fi Classic
Posted in: Movie ReviewsFirst-time director Andrew Patterson delivers a stunning debut about two ’50s teenagers who may (or may not) have stumbled across an alien invasion
‘Shirley’ Review: Who’s Afraid of Shirley Jackson?
Posted in: Movie ReviewsElisabeth Moss gives a bravura performance as the horror author behind “The Lottery” in a compellingly cracked biopic
