Movie Reviews

First-time actress Yalitza Aparicio plays Cleo, the live-in housekeeper and nanny of a middle-class Mexican family, in Roma.

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Overly Orchestrated 'Roma' Is An Epic Of Everyday Life In Mexico

12:40pm November 30, 2018

by Justin Chang

Critic Justin Chang says the immaculate staging of Alfonso Cuarón's new film is both an asset and a liability: "There's something curiously showy about the unshowiness of Roma."

Here We Come A-Shambling: Ella Hunt plays Anna, a young woman caught in a zombie outbreak that's got a good beat and is easy to dance to, in Anna and the Apocalypse.

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Teens Sing Their Guts Out In The Scottish Zombie Christmas Musical 'Anna And The Apocalypse'

5:01pm November 29, 2018

by Scott Tobias

The debt John McPhail's tuneful horror comedy owes to Shaun of the Dead proves too deep to clamber out of, but the songs are fun and Ella Hunt's feisty lead performance is charming.

Into the woods and out of the woods and home before dark: Luna (Julia Jedlikowska) strays off the path in Sicilian Ghost Story.

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In 'Sicilian Ghost Story,' A Boy Goes Missing — And A Girl Goes Searching

5:00pm November 29, 2018

by Ella Taylor

In this haunting, lyrical Italian film, the true story of a horrific mob-related kidnapping is couched within "a love story [that unfolds] in a fairy tale more Grimm than Disney."

Tom Schiller plays artist Kurt Barnert, a character modeled on Gerhard Richter, in this old-fashioned melodrama from writer-director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck.

Arts

'Never Look Away' Glibly Examines The Intersection Of Art And Autobiography

5:00pm November 29, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

Tom Schilling plays a German painter clearly modeled on Gerhard Richter in this melodrama about the lingering costs of war and the ways they inform both art and artist.

Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) gets Whiggy with it in Yorgos Lanthimos' The Favourite.

Arts

'The Favourite': Sou Smart, Sou Wicked, Sou Witty, Sou Gououd

12:41pm November 28, 2018

by Glen Weldon

The Extra U Is For Unctuous: Yorgos Lanthimos' latest is a gleefully nasty piece of work about a queen (the spectacular Olivia Colman) and two women (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) vying for her favor.

Fall Movie Review: 'Ballad Of Buster Scruggs,' And 'At Eternity's Gate'

12:59pm November 27, 2018

David Greene talks to Kenneth Turan, film critic for the LA Times, about the Coen brother's western, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, and At Eternity's Gate — a film about Vincent van Gogh's final years.

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Royal Intrigue Fuels Eccentric Comedy Of Manners, 'The Favourite'

4:05pm November 23, 2018

by Bob Mondello

Greek filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos finds both pathos and dark comedy in the machinations surrounding England's Queen Anne in his period dramedy The Favourite.

Are You Hitting The Theaters This Season? Here's What Movies To Look For

4:29pm November 22, 2018

by Bob Mondello

A look ahead at possible awards contenders and potential blockbusters that Hollywood is wrapping up for your holiday enjoyment.

Director Alfonso Cuarón Reimagines His Mexican Childhood In 'Roma'

6:05pm November 21, 2018

by Bob Mondello

The official entry for Best Foreign Language film from Mexico is Roma, director Alfonso Cuarón's black-and-white reimagining of his middle class childhood home in Mexico City.

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Tony (Viggo Mortensen) drives Don (Mahershala Ali) through Green Book's cursory reading of interracial tensions.

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'Green Book' Offers By-The-Book Uplift

5:01pm November 21, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

Peter Farrelly's tale of a black musician chauffeured through the Deep South of the 1960s by a white driver is "a well-meaning but glib and shallow ode to interracial healing."