movie reviews

Wes Anderson peers into the hollowness of extreme wealth in 'The Phoenician Scheme'

10:16am May 30, 2025

Benicio Del Toro plays a globe-trotting tycoon trying to convince his estranged daughter (Mia Threapleton) to be his heir. The film is darker, angrier and more violent than Anderson's usual fare.

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'The Shrouds' introduces a new stage of grief: Watching your loved one decompose

10:31am April 25, 2025

David Cronenberg's thriller centers on an unusual technology that allows people to watch their loved ones decompose in real time. The Shrouds is both deeply morbid and disarmingly funny.

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Arts

'Sinners,' 'The Wedding Banquet' remake, and more in theaters this weekend

7:00am April 17, 2025

Michael B. Jordan plays twins Smoke and Stack in a music-besotted, blood-drenched supernatural thriller, Sinners. And Bowen Yang and Lily Gladstone in a remake of the groundbreaking 1993 rom-com, The Wedding Banquet.

A folk legend gets a reunion he didn't sign up for in this melancholy charmer

5:00am March 31, 2025

by Bob Mondello

An affable lottery winner decides to bring his favorite singer to a remote island off the coast of Wales for a private concert. Turns out, he's invited the singer's ex-bandmate/ex-girlfriend, too.

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A young man's homecoming sets off erotic shockwaves in this unsettling French thriller

5:00am March 28, 2025

Misericordia is one of the most surprising films our critic's seen this year. It focuses on a man who returns to his small village for a funeral — only to become enmeshed in countless entanglements.

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'The Alto Knights' is a mob drama with a double dose of De Niro and ... not much else

11:15am March 21, 2025

Robert De Niro plays rival mob bosses in a new biographical crime drama. But while it's fun to watch De Niro argue with himself, The Alto Knights ultimately feels dubious and derivative.

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Arts

'Snow White,' and four more buzzy movies coming to theaters this weekend

5:00am March 20, 2025

An embattled Disney princess, a steroid-addled bodybuilder and a trapped carjacker are all at cineplexes this weekend.

There's a lot to unpack in 'Black Bag' — a witty, sexy spy thriller

10:40am March 14, 2025

Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender play a high-ranking spy couple in Steven Soderbergh's new film. Black Bag offers Bond-style globe-trotting intrigue and marital dramedy.

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Live, die, repeat: Bong Joon Ho offers a farcical vision of the future in 'Mickey 17'

11:06am March 07, 2025

Robert Pattinson plays a space traveler who's repeatedly killed and resurrected in the name of scientific research in this otherworldly farce. It's Bong's first movie since his Oscar-winning Parasite.

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A family endures a dictatorship in the Oscar-nominated 'I'm Still Here'

12:01pm February 07, 2025

A Brazilian family is rocked when the father disappears following a military coup. I'm Still Here tells the heroic true story of a wife and mother who steers her family through the rapids of tyranny.

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