Caged By Its Noble Intentions: 'The Zookeeper's Wife'
This historical drama, based on the story of a Warsaw couple who helped hundreds of Jews flee Nazi-occupied Poland, is more interested in their heroism than their humanity.
Movie Reviews
Young Women Bedeviled By Darkness In Moody 'The Blackcoat's Daughter'
This impressive debut from director Osgood Perkins, about schoolgirls left at a Catholic school over winter break, "feels like a throat-clearing exercise for a horror prodigy," says our critic.
A Middle-Aged Misanthrope Reconnects With His Long Lost Daughter In 'Wilson'
Daniel Clowes' angst-ridden graphic novel is the basis for a new film starring Woody Harrelson and Laura Dern. Critic David Edelstein says Wilson's abrasive protagonist is worth getting to know.
'Beauty And The Beast,' Music, And More From South By Southwest
This week, we visit the new Disney live-action adaptation of Beauty And The Beast, and we all report back from Austin about the happenings at South By Southwest.
A Curmudgeonly Know-It-All Meets The Daughter He Doesn't: 'Wilson'
Director Craig Johnson's film, based on the Daniel Clowes graphic novel, wants us to invest in a misanthrope's grumbling attempts to reconnect to humanity. Yet its uneven tone keeps us at a distance.
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.
'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."