5. Nico: “These Days”It’s the scene that launched a million Halloween costumes: Richie Tenenbaum waits for his escort from his days on the circuit, his sister, Margot. As usual, she’s late —...
Read more‘The Assistant’Stream it on Netflix.There’s a twist in the Malaysian director Adrian Teh’s “The Assistant” that’s so outlandish you can’t help but love the sheer force of its swing. The timid Zafik...
Read moreHi. This is Wes Anderson. I’m the director of ‘Asteroid City.’ So this scene is near the beginning of our movie. We meet a general who has come to this town as...
Read moreHi. This is Wes Anderson. I’m the director of ‘Asteroid City.’ So this scene is near the beginning of our movie. We meet a general who has come to this town as...
Read more“The Flash,” the much-delayed Warner Bros. superhero film about a speedster who travels back in time to try to prevent his mother’s murder, is finally, actually, for real hitting theaters on Friday....
Read moreOnscreen, Stan Lee — the public face of Marvel Comics and the subject, mostly, of David Gelb’s chipper documentary of the same name — had cameos as an astronaut, a general, a...
Read moreThe colors are mesmerizing and ever-so-gently destabilizing. These pigments signal that you’ve entered a new fictional realm that, like the television studio, is at once immediately recognizable and somehow foreign. The interplay...
Read moreThe latest movie from Disney/Pixar tucks a romantic comedy inside a high-concept premise. It’s smoldering and splashy.
Read moreIn this slippery farce, a schlubby coder falls in love with a prostitute and takes in a teenager he suspects is a terrorist.
Read moreWhen it was released 30 years ago, “Menace II Society” was a shock to the system.Maybe because the trailer conveyed a sense of optimism amid scenes of Black urban life, many moviegoers...
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