Yearly Archives: 2023

Christopher Nolan turns his considerable talents back to World War II era history for “Oppenheimer,” a biography that plumbs the genius, foibles and moral and ethical dilemmas faced by “The Father of the Atomic Bomb.” It’s an all-star revisiting of … Continue reading →

A cynical, snarky semi-musical about womanhood and marriage from the Latvian director of “Rocks in my Pockets. Oct. 6.

It begins all conjunto cute and jaunty and finishes with a banda band flourish. But it’s the dull, cluttered and formulaic middle acts that let down “The (Almost) Legends,” a tale of half-brothers and a Mexican band/Mexican road rally racing … Continue reading →

No “Minions,” but birds in flight. And a family having relationship and “vacation” issues. Looks good, vegetarian and “green.” Dec. 22.

Disney Springs AMC. Here we go. The only way to see this. My review is here.

The Japanese Boy Band brawlers “media franchise” “High & Low” may be the craziest thing you ever drop in on as you travel Around the World with Netflix. It is, in many ways, the classic Japanese “give the people (teen … Continue reading →

“This Happy Breed” is a middling if affectionate domestic melodrama that spun out of the creative fervor of playwright Noël Coward‘s most productive years, the 1920s and ’30s. It was Coward’s attempt at peeking in on the working class he … Continue reading →

The summer’s prestige picture, an historical epic hanging on a scientific achievement that was also a great moral and ethical quandary, is a three hour argument for the stardom of Cillian Murphy. We’re all dying to see this one. I … Continue reading →

An onscreen brawl takes over the movie just before the halfway point and lasts for almost an hour in “Walid,” a Malaysian thriller about child trafficking and the burly teacher who decides to beat his way through all manner of … Continue reading →

The third act, home to the show’s resolution and finale, saves “Theater Camp,” a show that’s lacked anything resembling a “show stopper” up to its last scenes. The script is cleverly conceived to conceal the plot’s “big original musical” from … Continue reading →