In The Agreeably Schlocky 'Power Rangers,' 'Transformers' Meets 'The Breakfast Club'
"Go, Go Power Rangers!" - but should you? The film's playful, earnest tone and "gung-ho chintziness" slowly won critic Scott Tobias over.
Movie Reviews
'Life' Doesn't Quite Find A Way
In space, no one can hear you yawn: Technically impressive but dramatically airless, this monster flick set on the International Space Station is powered by "space-movie cliches old and new."
'I, Olga' Charts One Woman's Path From Alienation To Brutal, Senseless Violence
The film about a young woman who ran her truck onto a Prague sidewalk in 1973, killing eight pedestrians, is tough to sit through, and recent events lend it a chilling sense of relevance.
Live-Action 'Beauty And The Beast ' Revisits A Tale As Old As Time
NPR movie critic Bob Mondello reviews Disney's live-action version of Beauty and The Beast. Is it still a tale as old as time, a song as old as rhyme?
With 'T2: Trainspotting,' Director Danny Boyle Proves You can Go Home Again
More than 20 years after the release of the original film about a band of thieving Scottish junkies, Boyle returns to the same characters. Critic David Edelstein calls the new film "tremendous fun."
Tale As Old As Time — And It Shows: 'Beauty And The Beast'
The live-action, CGI-besotted remake of Disney's 1991 animated musical never manages to justify its existence, says critic Andrew Lapin, because it sets out "not to conjure wonder, but nostalgia."
'T2 Trainspotting': Indulgent Film Reunites Indulgent Characters, 20 Years Later
The sequel to Danny Boyle's blisteringly original 1997 movie lacks that film's structure and insight, but the cast can still generate fitful flashes of energy and charm.
A Family Struggles To Connect In The Rueful, Richly Detailed 'After The Storm'
Hirokazu Kore-eda's drama about a stalled writer's attempts to make peace with his extended family is a quiet and meticulously wrought character study.
A Unlikely Romance Blossoms, Rooted In A Secret: 'Frantz'
French writer-director Francois Ozon adapts Broken Lullaby, Ernst Lubitsch's 1932 melodrama about a mysterious Frenchman and a German war-widow in the aftermath of World War I.
'Sense Of An Ending' Lacks The Punch Of The Prize-Winning Novel It's Based On
The film tells the story of an emotionally shut-down man who gradually learns that the events of his past are not as he remembers. David Edelstein says the movie, unlike the book, is a "non-event."