It does not take any intuition to realize the main draw for a film like The Two Popes is folded neatly into its premise. The resignation of...

Of the innumerable clichés bandied about by film types, one is particularly prolific: When a film is set in New York City, everyone, from cr...

There is a scene in Melina Matsoukas's Queen & Slim that depicts Jodie Turner-Smith's Queen having her braids removed — so as to change her...

Disney's long-awaited sequel to the ridiculously popular animated film Frozen has finally arrived — and with it, an expanded universe, new c...

Even as reboots become more common than not, Charlie's Angels is a confusingly retro choice to drag into the present. The 1970s TV show reli...

Ten minutes deep and on the face of it, The Good Liar is about love.   Indeed, director Bill Condon and cinematographer Tobias A. Schliess...

There isn't a particularly high bar for Christmas romantic comedies. So long as they're sweet and sentimental, they pretty much get the job...

Director Mike Flanagan has made a career out of emotionally intense, thrillingly atmospheric ghost stories, from the classic horror throwbac...

How many Terminator movies have there been? I dare you to answer that question without checking. For all anyone cares, there have only been...

During the third act of Black and Blue, the audience applauded many times — it seemed the only way to expel the tension everyone's nerves we...

Life is convoluted and messy, and that perhaps explains why Pain and Glory's account of an ailing filmmaker is a bit jumbled.   Salvador M...