What to See (or Not) at the Movies This Holiday Week
DECEMBER 26, 2017 The week between Christmas Day and New Year’s is traditionally the biggest at the nation’s theaters, and there’s an especially large number of movies this year…
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Woody Allen’s “Wonder Wheel” Aspires To Be a 1950s “Blue Jasmine,” But It Misses By a Mile
DECEMBER 18, 2017 What the hell happened to Woody Allen’s writing? Yes, I know that he has recently had more bad movies than good (I’m thinking of “Irrational Man”…
Winners and Losers in Doug Jones’ Big Alabama Win
DECEMBER 13, 2017 Photo: Getty The dust was still settling on Wednesday from Democrat Doug Jones’ upset win in Tuesday’s Alabama election for the U.S. Senate seat once held…
Guillermo del Toro’s Mesmerizing “The Shape of Water”
DECEMBER 12, 2017 Guillermo del Toro certainly loves the movies. His latest film, “The Shape of Water,” is a Cold War thriller, a musical, a heist movie, an interspecies…
Gary Oldman Will Likely Bellow His Way to an Oscar for “Darkest Hour”
DECEMBER 7, 2017 Ever since “Darkest Hour” premiered in September in Telluride, the word was out that Gary Oldman was a shoo-in to win the Oscar for Best Actor…
Now Playing In Your Living Room — Mary J. Blige Shines in Dee Rees’ Powerful “Mudbound”
DECEMBER 6, 2017 One of the more pleasant surprises of this moviegoing year has been the growing quality of Netflix original films. Already we have had Noam Baumbach’s wonderful…
Now That Michael Flynn Has Flipped Against Trump, Who’s the Next to Squeal?
DECEMBER 4, 2017 Photo: Getty To the surprise of absolutely no one, President Trump’s former national security adviser, Gen. Michael T. Flynn, on Friday flipped like a crackhouse mattress…
Martin McDonagh’s Brilliant “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
NOVEMBER 29, 2017 Mildred Hayes (Frances McDormand) is trying to mediate an argument between her daughter Angela (Kathryn Newton) and son Robbie (Lucas Hedges), as Angela wants to borrow…
Ten Best Supporting Actresses Whom You Should Put On Your Oscar Radar
NOVEMBER 28, 2017 Oscar’s Best Supporting Actress category has traditionally been a one for actors on the way up and those former stars who are now easing into the…
Greta Gerwig’s Remarkable “Lady Bird”
NOVEMBER 27, 2017 OK, I was wrong. While that three-word phrase might do wonders in my marriage, it’s not great if I’m trying to establish credibility in a movie…
