Movie Reviews

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper in A Star Is Born.

Fame Still Comes At A Cost For Lady Gaga And Bradley Cooper In The New 'A Star Is Born'

5:00am October 02, 2018

by Linda Holmes

Bradley Cooper's directorial debut, in which he plays a singer battling addiction opposite Lady Gaga as an up-and-coming talent, is precisely the deeply felt musical melodrama it should be.

A Single Act Of Violence Inspires Outrage And Anger In 'Monsters And Men'

1:30pm September 28, 2018

by Justin Chang

Reinaldo Marcus Green's haunting new film tells the story of three Brooklyn men whose lives are impacted by the shooting of an unarmed black man by a white police officer in their neighborhood.

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The life of Matangi Arulpragasam, best known as M.I.A., is examined in the new documentary Matangi/Maya/M.I.A. Here, she performs in Denmark in 2011.

Music & Culture

'Matangi / Maya / M.I.A.' Documents A Complex Life In Pop Atop An Unrelenting World

8:11am September 28, 2018

by Piotr Orlov

In the new documentary Matangi / Maya / M.I.A., director Steve Loveridge examines the development, rise and oppositional success of the iconoclastic pop star — who was always something else entirely.

"I played Jeremiah Johnson like this!": Robert Redford stars as Forrest Tucker in The Old Man & the Gun.

Arts

'The Old Man & The Gun': Redford's (Possible) Swan Song Makes For Easy Listening

5:00pm September 27, 2018

by Glen Weldon

In what may be his final screen performance, Robert Redford amiably cakewalks through David Lowery's old-school, old-fashioned cops-and-robbers yarn.

Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays a stand-up comic in a film that's all about her life, and her act (and Common), in All About Nina.

Arts

A Stand-Up Comic Stands Up To Her Troubled Past In The Blistering 'All About Nina'

5:00pm September 27, 2018

by Ella Taylor

Mary Elizabeth Winstead's bracingly mercurial performance drives this film about a New York stand-up who moves to Los Angeles for her career — and to sort out her private life.

Through The Looking-Glass: Manny (Anthony Ramos) and Dennis (John David Washington) in Monsters and Men.

Arts

3 Ways Of Looking At A Police Shooting In The Powerful 'Monsters And Men'

5:00pm September 27, 2018

by Mark Jenkins

Reinaldo Marcus Green's exquisite drama examines, from three perspectives, the aftermath of the slaying of an unarmed black man; the film offers "neither unalloyed despair nor implausible hope."

Charlie (Joaquin Phoenix) and Eli (John C. Reilly) Sisters are a brotherly pair of assassins-for-hire in Jacques Audiard's The Sisters Brothers.

Arts

The Tough Wild West — Now With Feelings — In 'The Sisters Brothers'

12:39pm September 21, 2018

by Justin Chang

Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly play a brotherly pair of assassins-for-hire in Jacques Audiard's latest film. Critic Justin Chang calls The Sisters Brothers a "funny, stirring, brutal story."

This Is They: Abby (Olivia Wilde) and Will (Oscar Isaac) get caught up in Life Itself.

Arts

Life Can Be A Mess, But So Is 'Life Itself'

5:01pm September 20, 2018

by Linda Holmes

Life Itself, from the creator of This Is Us, launches two family stories on two different continents. It offers some lovely moments, but its grand ambitions are beyond its grasp.

Willy (Dominic West) and Colette (Keira Knightley) audition prospective Claudines in Wash Westmoreland's Colette.

Arts

'Colette' Is A Thoroughly Modern Fille

5:00pm September 20, 2018

by Glen Weldon

Wash Westmoreland's biopic of a French literary lioness is well-acted, gorgeously mounted and weighed down with incongruously modern speeches about sexuality and gender.

Magic is just a passing fez: Lewis (Owen Vaccaro), Uncle Jonathan (Jack Black) and Mrs. Zimmerman (Cate Blanchett) in The House with a Clock in its Walls.

Arts

'The House With A Clock In Its Walls' Is An Eyesore

5:00pm September 20, 2018

by Scott Tobias

The exquisite atmosphere and sense of foreboding that made John Bellairs' 1973 book a children's classic gets discarded in favor of a relentless riot of jump-scares and visual noise.