Movie Reviews

Charlie Hodson-Prior as Bruce Bogtrotter and Meesha Garbett as Hortensia in Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical.

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Kids really can change the world — just ask 'Pinocchio' and 'Matilda'

2:15pm December 09, 2022

by Justin Chang

Roald Dahl's Matilda the Musical, adapted from the popular stage show, and Guillermo del Toro's Pinocchio, a stop-motion animated version of the classic fairy tale, are both coming to Netflix.

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Movie Review: 'Empire of Light'

4:19pm December 08, 2022

by Bob Mondello

"Empire of Light" is director Sam Mendes' tribute to cinema. Actress Olivia Colman plays a slowly unraveling employee at Britain's Empire Theater in the 1980s.

Movie Review: 'Violent Night'

6:13pm December 07, 2022

by Neda Ulaby

The evergreen topic of holiday horror movies gets refreshed after the success of "Violent Night."

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Photographer Nan Goldin poses after being awarded Commander in the Arts and Letters Order, in Paris, June 27, 2006.

How one artist took on the Sacklers and shook their reputation in the art world

8:17am December 05, 2022

by Brian Mann

A new documentary All The Beauty and the Bloodshed tells the story of Nan Goldin, a photographer and activist who survived opioid addiction — then challenged members of the Sackler family.

Tilda Swinton plays two characters, a mother and a daughter, who have gone to spend a winter holiday at a hotel in Wales in the new movie The Eternal Daugher.

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Tilda Swinton stars twice in 'The Eternal Daughter' — as both parent and child

11:01am December 02, 2022

by Justin Chang

Swinton plays a mother and a daughter who have gone to spend a winter holiday at a hotel in Wales. The double casting is much more than a stunt in this smart, subtle film — it is magical.

Movie Review: 'Women Talking'

4:35pm December 01, 2022

by Bob Mondello

Director Sarah Polley's adaptation of the novel "Women Talking" by Miriam Toews is about women in an isolated religious colony who break the silence about abuse at the hands of the colony's men.

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5 films we can't wait to see: Here's Hollywood's holiday bounty

4:25pm November 24, 2022

by Bob Mondello

Avatar returns, Will Smith stars in a Civil War epic and Bill Nighy is Living. Also, a compelling novel adaptation and three hours of Jazz-era decadence. Find out what else the studios have in store.

Anna Diop plays a Senegalese immigrant pursuing the American Dream in Nanny.

'Nanny' employs African folklore in a haunting Black horror film

4:10pm November 23, 2022

by Pilar Galvan

While the live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid casts Black actors in a preexisting white narrative, Nanny illustrates that Black people have their own folklore; Black mermaids already exist.

The donkey's eyes seem to take the measure of modern life in Jerzy Skolimowski's film, EO.

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This brash film about a wandering donkey may just leave you in tears

5:00am November 23, 2022

by John Powers

Jerzy Skolimowski's thrillingly imaginative new film, EO, follows a former circus donkey on a journey across modern Europe. It's a strange, haunting epic that couldn't feel more of our moment.

New York Times journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor (Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan) investigate allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in She Said.

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'She Said' follows the journalists who set the #MeToo movement in motion

1:26pm November 18, 2022

by Justin Chang

An engrossing new film focuses on New York Times journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, whose reporting uncovered the crimes of Harvey Weinstein — and the vast network of people who enabled him.

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