Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t what you think it is, especially if you think it’s a movie about a British guy who thinks his typewriter is the tops.
“The Sm...
It is often said of our greatest actors that they could compellingly recite the phone book.
There's no doubt, just to continue that thought for a moment, that Daniel Day-...
In Paul Thomas Anderson’s gloriously messy, madcap roller coaster ride through modern America, objects in the rear view may go out of sight, but they don’t disappear.
Po...
There is a lovely story of friendship, grief and starting over at the heart of “Eleanor the Great.” The film, directed by Scarlett Johansson in her feature debut, gets ta...
On Nov. 8, 2018, the Day One of the deadliest wildfires in U.S. history burned the town of Paradise, Calif., and killed 85 people, a school bus driver was sent to pick up...
American society probably puts more pressure on producing a good quarterback than anything else, which makes it all the more confounding that the Jets can never have one....
Change comes slowly to the Downton Abbey universe and its Crawley family. Just watch Robert Crawley go flat-hunting in London.
Wait, what? FLAT-HUNTING? The Earl of ...
Things are very, very grim in “The Long Walk,” the adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novel (published under the pseudonym Richard Bachman), which is essentially “The Hung...
There are four words in the title of the latest entry in the “Conjuring” universe, but only one sounds good. It's the word “last.”
“The Conjuring: Last Rites” seems to f...
First of all, is this really what retirement looks like?
If so, perhaps we should all sign up, no matter our age. In “The Thursday Murder Club,” an amiable, cozy, pleasan...
