“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...
Read moreChris Hemsworth returns as an Australian mercenary in this bloated, banal action sequel.
Read moreThere are two games at play in “The Blackening,” a comedic horror film with more jokes than jump scares. The first is the titular race-baiting board game with the grotesque Jim Crow-style...
Read moreThe description of “Cadejo Blanco,” directed by Justin Lerner, reads like a thriller: After her sister disappears, a young Guatemalan woman infiltrates a gang to try to find her. But there are...
Read moreExcept in its final shot, “Happer’s Comet” takes place entirely at night. But if it weren’t for occasional glimpses of clocks, discerning the precise time would be tricky. There are plenty of...
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