'Downsizing' Presents A Comic Attempt To Solve Climate Change
Hong Chau, star of the movie Downsizing, discusses her role and her background, which she said prepared her for a career in acting.
Movie Reviews
'Molly's Game' Is Aces
Aaron Sorkin's directorial debut is a dense, complicated, frenetically paced movie about a woman who runs a high-stakes poker game; critic Bob Mondello is all-in.
'Phantom Thread' Is Deeply Weird And Marvelously Entertaining
Paul Thomas Anderson's new movie stars Daniel Day-Lewis as a British women's fashion designer in the 1950s. Critic David Edelstein says the film is an amusing portrait of artistic and marital anguish.
'The Post': Pentagon Papers Put The Press Under Pressure
Steven Spielberg's account of the publication of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 is melodrama, but Bob Mondello says it's urgent — and effective.
Impeccable 'Phantom Thread' Doesn't Drop A Stitch
Paul Thomas Anderson's film about a London dressmaker in the 1950s is "a rare combination of audacity and precision, impeccably tailored yet full of mystery and magic," says critic Scott Tobias.
Will Smith Plays Cops-And-Monsters In Unremarkable 'Bright'
Smith is a police officer paired with an orc (Joel Edgerton) in this fantasy-inflected buddy-cop movie that's "lazy but not boring" and "perfectly, stubbornly mediocre."
'Downsizing': A Tone-Deaf, Less-Than-Incredible Shrinking Satire
Director/co-writer Alexander Payne's film is "the rare movie that seems to execute every part of its concept absolutely wrong; a narrative, tonal, visual and sociopolitical fiasco."
'All The Money In The World' And Worth Every Penny
The sudden de-Spaceying of a lead role is the least interesting thing about Ridley Scott's propulsive thriller that features a standout performance by Michelle Williams.
Latest 'Star Wars' Teaches The Value Of Failure
The Last Jedi highlights the need for failure to find success, as the ongoing dynamic of The Force — the tug-of-war between good and evil — aptly defines our humanity, says Marcelo Gleiser.
New Movies Will Inundate Theaters Over The Next Couple Of Weeks
To name just a few of the new movies coming out: Steven Spielberg's The Post, All the Money in the World and what might be Daniel Day Lewis's last film: Phantom Thread.