Call this actors’ duet sentimental and simplistic at your own peril. Green Book may well move you, possibly to tears, at the thought of real social change and kindness (at a time when we need it badly). Something of a reverse Driving Miss Daisy, i...
It’s déjà vu as the life-affirming hit French comedy-drama The Intouchables, the true story of a bromance between a wealthy quadriplegic man and his black live-in nurse from the projects, gets the Hollywood treatment. This really is an incredibly ...
The first Happy Death Day, a Groundhog Day–infused slasher flick about a blasé sorority mean girl who must relive her murder over and over again until she solves it, felt like a pendulum swing back to the snarky era of Scream. (Elsewhere, horror i...
In the glacially paced and undisciplined Cold Pursuit—director Hans Petter Moland’s remake of his own 2014 Norwegian thriller In Order of Disappearance—Liam Neeson doesn’t possess a “special set of skills.” And still, his character, Nels Coxman, a...
Moviemaking juggernaut James Cameron doesn’t do boring. Loud? Sure. Epic? Definitely. Groundbreaking? Invariably. But boring? Never. But this enervating science-fiction blockbuster that he co-wrote and produced for director Robert Rodriguez (Rodri...
Five years and two spin-off movies later, writer-producers Phil Lord and Chris Miller return to Bricksburg for a bigger, louder and brasher second Lego installment. But while it maintains the same level of playfulness, it doesn’t quite capture the...
