Movie Reviews

Michelle Yeoh stars as a woman who suddenly develops the power to leap between parallel universes in the action-adventure-fantasy Everything Everywhere All at Once.

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There's a multiverse of roads not taken in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once'

1:49pm March 25, 2022

by Justin Chang

Michelle Yeoh stars as a Chinese American immigrant who suddenly develops the power to leap between parallel universes in this moving and often exasperating movie.

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'The Lost City' is silly, sexy, movie-star fun

5:00am March 25, 2022

by Linda Holmes

The Lost City is mostly a chance to watch Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum be charming and silly together. That turns out to be a pretty good deal.

Review: 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' is as encouraging as it is on-point

5:05pm March 24, 2022

by Bob Mondello

A Chinese-American businesswoman travels the multiverse in the comedy Everything Everywhere All at Once by the filmmaking duo Daniels, made up of Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert.

Melinda (Ana de Armas) and Vic (Ben Affleck)

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'Deep Water' could have been artful or fun — but instead, it's just mechanical

2:44pm March 19, 2022

by Linda Holmes

The movie's conceit is right up director Adrian Lyne's alley: a story about the mixing of sex and violence. But the film, starring Ana De Armas and Ben Affleck, is more competent than anything else.

Jason Segel, Lily Collins and Jesse Plemons play three unnamed characters who simultaneously seem on the verge of violence — or an alilance.

'Windfall' is a satisfying, well-acted thriller that lives up to its clever premise

10:27am March 18, 2022

by Linda Holmes

The Netflix movie, directed by Charlie McDowell, follows three unnamed characters played by Jason Segel, Jesse Plemons and Lily Collins. What unfolds is unsettling, suspenseful and very, very tense.

Ana de Armas and Ben Affleck play a couple whose marriage is not what it seems in Deep Water.

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'Deep Water' is a disjointed take on an unhappy couple's open marriage

5:00am March 18, 2022

by Justin Chang

Director Adrian Lyne made his mark in Hollywood years ago with films like Fatal Attraction and Indecent Proposal. Now he's back, with the story of a picture-perfect marriage marred by mind games.

Review: 'The Outfit' is tailor-made to keep audiences guessing

4:29pm March 17, 2022

by Bob Mondello

Though the new thriller The Outfit is set in a tailor's shop in 1950s Chicago, it's not about the outfits he makes — but about an underworld consortium his gangster customers hope to join.

Marlon Brando in the film The Godfather (1972). Producers worried that at 47 he was difficult, and past his prime, but he won (and then declined) an Oscar for Best Actor.

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'The Godfather' bridged old and new Hollywood to save American moviegoing

9:50pm March 11, 2022

by Bob Mondello

On its 50th Anniversary, The Godfather is one of the most influential and respected films in Hollywood history. But that outcome didn't seem likely at its premiere.

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In Turning Red, 13-year-old Mei Lee (voiced by Rosalie Chiang) "poofs" into a giant red panda whenever she gets too excited.

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'Turning Red' confronts the messiness of adolescence with refreshing honesty

1:59pm March 11, 2022

by Justin Chang

In Pixar's new animated film, a Chinese Canadian girl awakens one morning to find that she's turned into an enormous panda. Turning Red provides a lot to look at — and a lot of ideas to grapple with.

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Adam (Ryan Reynolds) and Young Adam (Walker Scobell) spend The Adam Project needling each other in a timestack.

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Why 'The Adam Project' is a different kind of Ryan Reynolds project

6:00am March 11, 2022

by Glen Weldon

In this effective, straight-ahead time-travel yarn, Ryan Reynolds digs beneath his usual persona to find something a bit less glib — and thus, more sympathetic.