Yearly Archives: 2023

The effortlessly cool actor and jazz pianist Jeff Goldblum becomes literally animated for the Fernando Trueba doc about the late ’50s Bossa Nova craze, the world’s love affair with Brazilian music and a seminal figure in that movement whose life … Continue reading →

A couple of hard and fast rules of the cinema are proven again in “Adventures of the Naked Umbrella,” a dark screwball conspiracy thriller set along California’s wildly eccentric Salton Sea “coast.” One rule says you should never ever set … Continue reading →

Veteran takes a road trip for “one last mission” is such a common plot that such missions have included not just visiting a fellow soldier or a fallen comrade’s family, but Channing Tatum playing a soldier delivering a service “Dog.” … Continue reading →

Jan. 12, Fey and Jon Hamm and Jenna Fischer join the “Mean Girls” for the musical made from the Tina Fey/Lindsay Logan hit comedy of a long time time ago. Fresh? “Fetch.” Jan.12.

By now, the studio-as-multiverse that is Marvel has so cluttered up its franchises, timelines, characters and platforms those characers are seen on that only hardcore devotees can come close to keeping it all straight. God knows Marvel isn’t. As their … Continue reading →

Who knows what goes on in a marriage and how others might interpret that? That’s the crux of the French drama “Anatomy of a Fall (Anatomie d’une chute),” a “Marriage Story/Scenes from a Marriage” examined by the legal system via … Continue reading →

There’s undeniable pleasure in sitting back and taking in the witty, overlapping banter, the chemistry and the “history” — pleasant and uncomfortable — that screen veterans Meg Ryan and David Duchovny serve up in “What Happens Later.” But that’s basically … Continue reading →

“The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes” is a poetic, understated anime romance about “first love” and fulfilling your heart’s desire via a supernatural tunnel. That’s a place where time stands still as you reconcile yourself with your past, … Continue reading →

Christmas is an apt time for any movie about Christianity’s most eloquent apologist. Anthony Hopkins has played both real people in this story about a meeting between the “Narnia” novelist (Matthew Goode) and the esteemed Dr. Freud. Looks promising. No, … Continue reading →

Well here we go, hoping for the best. Embargo for reviews of this title ends at noon Wed.