Burt Reynolds' 'The Last Movie Star' Is Semi-Tough To Get Through
Reynolds plays a vain, pathetic version of himself in a film full of moments so sappy and overplayed they feel "less like self-deprecation than elder abuse."
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'Finding Your Feet' Has A Nice Beat And Is Easy To Dance To
A upper-middle class snob goes to live with her bohemian sister and gets drawn into the world of seniors' dance classes in this "sweet-natured if overlong" British film.
'Ready Player One' Is Full Of '80s Nostalgia And 'Easter Eggs'
NPR critic Bob Mondello says Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One is a match made in heaven. In it, '80s on screen nostalgia meets a novel about video-game nostalgia for the 1980s.
Arcade Firewall: 'Ready Player One' REALLY Loves The '80s
Spielberg returns to his cinema-as-thrill-ride roots in this adaptation of Ernest Cline's YA novel. The nostalgia gets a bit overwhelming — and, frankly, sad — but the visuals are compelling.
Political Subtext In Wes Anderson's 'Isle Of Dogs' Is More Bark Than Bite
Wes Anderson returns to stop action animation — a technique that won him an Oscar nomination for Fantastic Mr. Fox-- in his latest film, Isle of Dogs.
Philosophically Rich 'Isle Of Dogs' Is A Howl Of Joy
Wes Anderson's new animated feature centers on canines living on a garbage dump off the coast of Japan. David Edelstein says the film will make you laugh — even as you gasp at its visual brilliance.
The Fast And The Furry Us: Wes Anderson's Masterful 'Isle Of Dogs'
Anderson imbues this stop-motion-animated film about loyal dogs exiled to a lonely island with his signature formalism, but there's real emotion in those pups' wet, soulful eyes.
Man With A Data Plan: 'Unsane' Is Soderbergh's Shot-On-An-iPhone Thriller
Claire Foy stars in this low-budget, high-stakes horror film about a woman whose grasp on reality slips as she commits herself to a pysch ward.
'Pacific Rim Uprising' Serves Up Another Helping Of Mech And Cheese
Guillermo Del Toro isn't in the directing chair for this return to the world he built in 2013's Pacific Rim, but that film's most gleefully goofy qualities remain.
The Past Returns, Inscrutably, In 'Ismael's Ghosts'
French writer-director Arnaud Desplechin can't hold the thread of the story he seeks to tell, so this film about the mysterious return of an old lover fades into frustrating ambiguity.