Malek colors him in with shades of anger, tenderness, psychosis, and the sheer pesky individuality of Jimmy. He makes him a morosely charismatic flake — the kind of flamboyant narcissist w…
In his Army jacket and lollipop-blue round sunglasses, with shaggy long sideburns, Lennon gives off a fascinating air of self-involved indifference, which is expressed in the fact that he’…
"Lorne" lures us in with the mischievous playfulness of its tone. The premise of the movie is that Lorne Michaels is one of those rare showbiz figures known, almost mythologically, by just o…
"Mother Mary," as it takes the leap into Gothic metaphysical fantasy, becomes almost completely incoherent, and stays that way. It's like an exorcist movie where the devil is a piece of bolt…
In "The Drama," a squirm comedy that's supposed to hinge on the ultimate case of marital jitters, Robert Pattinson gives one of the twitchiest performances in the history of twitchy performa…
As a piece of stagecraft, "Dog Day Afternoon," directed by Mauk Kaufman, does a canny job of translating the film's action, keeping the flow taut and exciting. But it also does something tha…
This is a terrific story because of how much we believe it. Rudd makes Rick a fully felt presence, a gifted musician with a dad-rock swagger about him, who's suddenly lost in the despair of …
Is it a horror movie? Not quite. It's a scrappy punk feminist tragicomedy of l'amour fou, a renegade take-off on the "Frankenstein" mythology. And while the movie doesn't entirely work " it …
The director, Polly Findlay (an acclaimed British stage director making her first feature), presents all of this in a stately and fastidious prestige-teleplay-of-the-week way. Adapting a 201…
Considering all the horror movies I've seen, I'm a pretty easy jump scare. I can sit through the degraded slasher-film trash of the week, and when that formula shock cut arrives, synced to a…
When you think of the great actors (Brando, Streep, De Niro, Ullmann, Day-Lewis), one of the first qualities that leaps to mind is range. Robert Duvall, who died Sunday at 95 and was most as…
Is the hero of "Marty Supreme" likable? I think he is, and for reasons that include the fact that he's a scoundrel. (Has there ever been a likable scoundrel in movies? No! Not Once!) The num…
"Wicked," the stage musical, took its first bow 22 years ago. The novel it's based on, "Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West," was published in 1995. All of that happen…
Released in 1987, "The Running Man" was a lumbering Arnold Schwarzenegger movie; you could say that Edgar Wright, the director of the deluxe new version, has made it into a decent Bruce Will…
It's Perry's version of a holiday movie and a connect-the-dots love story, but it's cliché-driven in such a minimal way that it makes you long for the Perry movies that can feel like a nigh…
We might look at Mike, in his overcoat of blue glitter, with his long hair cut and styled into a neatly parted Diamond pageboy, and Claire, in her spangled red dress with the gold piping, pr…
The latest poster for "Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere" features a painting of Bruce Springsteen in concert, viewed from the side, his index finger held high in the air. If you examine …
"Stiller & Meara" begins to morph from a likable entertainment-world profile into something more resonant " a nearly novelistic portrait of Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara's life-and-art ma…
She'll always be Annie Hall. The first time you see Diane Keaton, who died on Saturday at 79, in Woody Allen's great touchstone of a romantic comedy, she's walking into a tennis club, her ey…
"Newport & the Great Folk Dream" is a rapturous documentary " elegant and transporting, full of scratchy lyrical black-and-white images and performances that have a timeless power. The m…
In the old days, when a movie drama had a topical urgency, we would say that it was "ripped from the headlines." But that phrase is now beyond quaint. Today we're in the age when a film with…
You might say: Okay, those performers all got their start in "Godspell" " so what? But the niftiness of Davis's film is that it's about "Godspell," and it's about something bigger than "Gods…
"Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery" is an enticingly clever and droll, nearly pitch-perfect piece of murder-mystery fun " a whodunit that lives up to the expectations set six years ago …
The whole real-time, hand-held-camera aesthetic of "Dead Man's Wire," which Van Sant brings off with astonishing flair, looks at Tony Kiritsis's actions "objectively." But beneath that it's …
Ed, in "Late Fame," goes on a journey " into his past, but really into the question of whether who he was and what he was can still exist in the present.