A trashy kissing cousin to the Coens’ beloved crime comedy Raising Arizona, Masterminds doubles down on the dumbness, endearingly. Writer-director Jared Hess mined a certain kind of wood-paneled, mouth-breathing weirdness for his 2004 breakout Nap...
For impeccably crafted tearjerkers, leave yourself in the capable hands of Pixar. For something a few notches darker—like this dazzling Edo-period–set animated movie concerning a Japanese fable of devotion and bravery—the wildly inventive stop-mot...
For an animated movie that’s ostensibly about where babies come from (they’re delivered by air, of course), Storks is targeted at the youngest of viewers: chirpers who won’t mind gobbling down a little pre-digested Inside Out or The Lion King—this...
Clever old Bridget (Renée Zellweger). There’s been a hell of a lot criticism of her for crimes against feminism, but here she is, triumphantly returning in her forties, funnier, wittier, and—perhaps most importantly—happier with herself. And unlik...
The opening moments of Sully, a stirring paean to a great day of ultra-coordinated NYC heroism, are so frightening, it’s amazing that the scene is about to play in multiplexes around the world. In the cockpit of his US Airways jet, Chesley “Sully”...
The irresistible message of Mira Nair’s big-hearted Disney feel-good film Queen of Katwe is that when kids grow up in poverty, the world misses out on some of its best and brightest talents. Set in one of Uganda's poorest slums, Katwe (pronounced ...
If there were any film whose lightning would seem impossible to recapture in a bottle, it’s The Blair Witch Project. The you-are-there vérité techniques that gave the 1999 horror movie such a frightening immediacy have passed into cliché, and ther...
