Cynthia Erivo is the strongest draw in this splashy, overly long movie, which is the first installment in a two-part adaptation of the Broadway show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMStill puffily padded but no longer particularly tart, this shape-shifting classic about the girls you love to hate retains its ingratiating charms.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMRyan Murphy takes on the Broadway hit “The Prom,” with help from Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman and Keegan-Michael Key.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:24AMSpike Lee joins forces with David Byrne for a joyous concert movie that rocks and delights, sending you high and then higher.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMRenée Zellweger plays Judy Garland near the end of her life, when she grasped onto one more comeback and one last chance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMRalph Fiennes directs this biographical look at the ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev’s early life, including his 1961 defection to the West.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:47AMBradley Cooper, in the third remake of the movie, tells a story of men, women and male sacrifice that has been portrayed over and over.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:38PMBradley Cooper, who directed and stars with Lady Gaga, creates thrills with a steadfast belief in old-fashioned, big-feeling cinema.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:30PM“Happy as Lazzaro” and “Burning” are strong entries, so it’s too bad they won’t mean much to the American box office.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:59PMThis documentary about the dancer Marcelo Gomes was completed before he left American Ballet Theater in December after allegations of sexual misconduct.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:23PMHollywood wants us to think that its films are for everyone, but our critics say that was never true. Still, they see a way forward.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:12PMIsabelle Huppert and Louis Garrel star in a screen version of an 18th-century Marivaux play and the last film directed by Luc Bondy.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:49PMDamien Chazelle’s film infuses Hollywood movies with a vision and energy that have been sorely missing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:02PMJustin Kurzel’s film suggests that there is a timeless quality to slaughter, raising questions about Macbeth’s guilt and freedom of will.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:10AMAlex Ross Perry’s narrative experiment, starring Katherine Waterston and Ms. Moss, turns out to be an art house film in quotation marks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:43PMThe director Arthur Penn, who died at 88 on Sept. 28, made loose, vital movies that have no place in today's Hollywood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMWith “For Colored Girls” Tyler Perry works very hard and gets it mostly right.
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:58PMMichael Almereyda’s version of “Cymbeline” reaffirms that Shakespeare can always survive every interpretive trick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:09PMAlejandro G. Iñárritu’s comedy “Birdman” stars Michael Keaton as a onetime movie superhero betting his career on a strange Broadway play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:53PMElisabeth Moss and Mark Duplass star in “The One I Love,” about a couple sent on a mysterious retreat to help their marriage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:34AMClint Eastwood’s “Jersey Boys,” the adaptation of the Broadway musical, is a redemption narrative that’s got a good beat.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:58PMAdapted by Julian Fellowes of “Downton Abbey” fame, “Romeo & Juliet,” starring Hailee Steinfeld, won’t sound all that familiar to students of Shakespeare’s text. …
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 05:31PMA gala to honor Barbra Steisand is filled with glittering names, but her status as a feminist role model is worth lingering on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:46PMChristopher Plummer reprises his stage role in “Barrymore,” about a hypothetical John Barrymore comeback.
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 11:13AMIt says something about William Friedkin’s big-screen adaptation of the Tracy Letts play “Killer Joe” that the title psycho, played by Matthew McConaughey, is, by a long Texas mile, it…
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 03:22PMTom Cruise stars in “Rock of Ages,” a musical, based on the Broadway show, set in the 1980s and featuring rock songs of the time.
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 12:39PMIn his directing debut Ralph Fiennes adds modern weaponry to Shakespeare’s “Coriolanus.”
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 06:03AMTheresa Harris, a black actress whose usual role was as a servant, is one of the inspirations for a new play by Lynn Nottage.
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