AMC Bay Plaza Cinema 13

Invented by men as pure escapism, the original Charlie’s Angels TV show had sexism baked into its concept: three gorgeous female private investigators, each with her own hair color. That’s it. Correcting this pitch—whatever that might entail—seems...

You don’t go to Roland Emmerich for subtlety. The director behind such shuddering behemoths as Independence Day, 2012 and The Day After Tomorrow is most comfortable with explosions—he exists only to make Michael Bay seem slightly more interesting....

Watching a sequel can sometimes feel like wandering down the carpeted hallways of an old familiar place. Doctor Sleep, an unearned and cringeworthy follow-up to The Shining, is this idea literalized. It feels more like a theme-park experience than...

Why do people go to the movies just to look at their phones? If the generic, not-entirely-unscary Countdown doesn’t quite answer that, it at least distracts us: Now we go to the movies to watch other people look at their phones. Several comically ...

If Bridget Jones’s Diary author Helen Fielding reworked A Christmas Carol, subbing in her heroine for Ebenezer Scrooge, it might look a little like this good-natured but lightweight rom-com about a struggling twentysomething finding salvation in a...

A towering figure of pre-Civil War history, Harriet Tubman scared the bejeezus out of slave owners, shook the racist foundations of the Deep South, and ended up serving as a Union spy during the war. But try as it might to present her as a kind of...

A good twist ending should feel like a jigsaw puzzle deftly assembled from pieces that have been in front of you all along. The ending of The Good Liar takes a different approach: namely, lobbing fistfuls of random pieces at you then beating you o...