movie reviews

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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'Juror #2' is a thorny legal thriller — and possibly Clint Eastwood's last film

11:17am November 08, 2024

Eastwood takes measured aim at the American justice system in a film that centers on a murder trial — and a juror who realizes he may be implicated in the crime.

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Whatever you’ve heard about 'Megalopolis,' see this gutsy Coppola film for yourself

1:16pm September 26, 2024

Francis Ford Coppola's epic draws parallels between the U.S. and ancient Rome. Forty-some years in the making, it's got wild sex, startling violence, horse-drawn chariots and even nightclub unicorns.

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See 'The Substance' and 'A Different Man' together for a major makeover meditation

12:09pm September 26, 2024

Two new films seem to be in dialogue: In The Substance, Demi Moore is a Hollywood star chasing eternal youth. The dark comedy A Different Man centers on a New Yorker with a rare genetic condition.

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