Movie Reviews

Anamaria Vartolomei stars as a literature student who discovers she's pregnant after a brief fling in Happening.

Arts

Timely and urgent, 'Happening' is a film that speaks to today's abortion debate

10:07am May 06, 2022

by Justin Chang

A 23-year-old literature student discovers she's pregnant after a fling. This movie, based on Annie Ernaux's autobiographical novel, traces her desperate attempt to get an abortion in 1963 France.

Xochitl Gomez as America Chavez, Benedict Wong as Wong, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange.

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Marvel's 'Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness' is all over the place

5:00am May 06, 2022

by Glen Weldon

The latest MCU film is at its best when director Sam Raimi leans into its horror elements, and at its weakest when it coasts on cameos and callbacks from a now-diffuse network of Marvel properties.

National

Review: Doctor Strange and the Scarlet Witch take on the 'Multiverse of Madness'

4:58pm May 05, 2022

by Bob Mondello

After unleashing all kinds of trouble in Spider-Man: No Way Home, Marvel's Doctor Strange will try to clean up the mess in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.

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Twins JosÃ©phine and Gabrielle Sanz are 8-year-old playmates in Petite Maman.

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'Petite Maman' is the best — and most surreal — family movie you'll see in a while

6:05am April 29, 2022

by Justin Chang

Identical twin sisters play a pair of mysterious playmates in Petite Maman, an enchanting film that achieves an emotional depth that eludes many movies twice its length.

National

Review: 'The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent' references Nick Cage's multitudes

4:29pm April 22, 2022

by Bob Mondello

With tongue planted firmly in cheek, Nicholas Cage plays a movie star named Nic Cage in the adventure comedy The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent.

National

Review: Robert Eggers' 'The Northman' is 2+ hours of art-house savagery

4:28pm April 21, 2022

by Bob Mondello

The legend that Shakespeare based Hamlet on has inspired another work: Robert Eggers' violent new film, The Northman.

'Navalny' documentary spotlights the Russian who dared to take on Putin

9:41am April 21, 2022

by John Powers

Daniel Roher's film about Russian dissident Alexei Navalny offers intimate, sometimes amazing access to the bravery — and human cost — of opposing a despot.

Raider of the lost hearth: Alexander Skarsgård rages for revenge, and his erstwhile homeland, in The Northman.

Arts

In Viking epic 'The Northman,' life is nasty, brutish and short-tempered

5:00am April 20, 2022

by Glen Weldon

Robert Eggers (The Witch, The Lighthouse) captures both the stark beauty and brutality of the Vikings in his latest film, which tamps down his experimental impulses to tell a familiar revenge tale.

Dr. Michael Morbius aims to cure himself of a debilitating illness, but ends up infecting himself with vampirism.

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Jared Leto is Marvel's bat-man in the vampiric 'Morbius'

3:22pm April 01, 2022

by Bob Mondello

An ailing biochemist aims to cure himself of a debilitating illness, but ends up infecting himself with vampirism in the Marvel movie Morbius.

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In Nitram, Caleb Landry Jones plays the man who killed 35 people and wounded 23 others in a 1996 mass shooting in Australia.

Arts

'Nitram' is a deeply unsettling portrait of an Australian mass shooter

1:30pm April 01, 2022

by Justin Chang

In 1996, a 28-year-old man went on a shooting rampage in Port Arthur, Tasmania, killing 35 people. This tense film imagines the weeks and months before the tragedy from the shooter's perspective.

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