AMC Loews Stony Brook 17

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...

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...

Jonathan Lethem’s 1999 crime novel is practically the official housewarming gift for anyone moving to Carroll Gardens: a juicy mystery set in the neighborhood’s mobbed-up ’80s and ’90s past. Loaded with violently funny coming-of-age stories (just ...