Empire Basildon

For all their global dominance, everybody wants these superhero movies to be better: funnier, smarter, more inclusive, more super. A huge step in the right direction, ‘Black Panther’ is that dream come true. Proudly African – even if its Africa co...

A sweet, deeply personal portrayal of female adolescence that’s more attuned to the bonds between girlfriends than casual flings with boys, writer-director Greta Gerwig’s beautiful 'Lady Bird' flutters with the attractively loose rhythms of yout...

'The Exorcist’ meets ‘The League of Gentlemen’ in a triptych of horror tales that’s presided over with assurance and some seriously mordant wit by playwrights-turned-directors Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman. They’ve given their own stage play a cinem...

The LEGO movies head east for this fast and funny third film, which shares much of the manic energy and mischievous humor of 'The LEGO Movie' and 'The LEGO Batman Movie', even if it doesn’t hit the same heights of originality. Ninjago was first ...

After a few iffy efforts – at least by its own lofty standards – Pixar follows the marvelously mind-bending 'Inside Out' with a Mexico-set adventure that bubbles with wit and daring. Effortlessly gliding between kid-friendly spectacle and heart-tu...

Not the movie the notorious ice-skating flameout Tonya Harding probably deserves – but happily (for us) the one she’s gotten – ‘I, Tonya’ is a dazzlingly complex and exuberant treatment of a disgraced figure. It flies along like ‘Goodfellas': Dire...

Spooked Lin Shaye, the unlikely anchor of the ‘Insidious’ franchise, has a touch of the castigating schoolmarm about her. (One of her first roles, a bit part, was a high school teacher in ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’.) She’s never fully persuasive ...