‘The Marksman’ Review: Cowboys vs. Cartels, Liam Neeson-Style
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The Irish actor goes full metal Eastwood in this Western-flavored “Action Movie Dad” thriller
‘Locked Down’ Review: Once Upon a Crime in Quarantine
Posted in: Movie ReviewsDoug Liman’s guerilla project uses a real-life pandemic as background for a rom-com heist movie — and a display of movie-star chemistry
‘Shadow in the Cloud’ Review: Gremlins and Gaslighting at 20,000 Feet
Posted in: Movie ReviewsChloë Grace Moretz is a WWII pilot with a mysterious package, a misogynistic flight crew and a monster on the wing in this frantic genre mash-up
‘News of the World’ Wants to be a New Classic Western
Posted in: Movie ReviewsTom 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
