AMC Mountainside 10

Director Rian Johnson has an oxygen problem. He sometimes leaves too little air in his dialogue-heavy film contraptions for his characters to breathe. (This puts him in excellent company with the Coen brothers and Quentin Tarantino, all of whom ha...

A pure adrenaline hit of a movie that takes place mostly in the lethal glare of daylight, Sam Mendes’s stunning, sorta-single-take 1917 hits its greatest heights when darkness falls. A single British soldier dusts himself off from a glancing wound...

Greta Gerwig has directed only two films that are solely her own but she’s already become a brand. It’s in evidence within the first five minutes of Little Women, a huggably self-deprecating take on the Louisa May Alcott classic: Brashly confident...

It’s pretty weird to remember that, during its leaner years, Disney used to recycle animated movies to save a few bucks. So Baloo from The Jungle Book magically became Little John in Robin Hood with some minor sleight-of-hand from the toiling arti...

“Never underestimate a droid,” we hear several times in the new Star Wars—and why would you? For the most part, droids are hard-headed, sturdy companions, opening doors at the last minute with a minimum of beepy fuss. Director J.J. Abrams is like ...