The players move slowly and cautiously, each carrying a rifle, hunting out their enemies in steaming jungles, baking deserts or even the surface of Mars. They can hear, see and shoot their...
Read moreThis weekend I have … a half-hour, and I like oddball ensembles.‘Good Grief’When to watch: Now, on Sundance Now.In Season 1 of this New Zealand comedy, the sisters Ellie (Eve Palmer) and...
Read moreThe director of this Italian documentary, Valentina Pedicini, died in November, 2020, of liver cancer. That’s a terrible shame for a variety of reasons. Pedicini was, in her too-short career, a remarkably...
Read more“Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Movie” won’t convert any new fans to the heroes in a half-shell, unless they’re under the age of 10. Still, it may pleasantly surprise...
Read moreTo appease their moms, a pair of Indian American entrepreneurs pretend at romance over a spate of nuptials in this soulless romantic comedy on Netflix.
Read moreBeach reads, grilled corn, baseball: These are the indulgences of summer. Movies too, especially when it’s hot as blazes outside and the coolest remedy is to stay at home with a film...
Read moreWhen Kevin Bacon first appears in John Logan’s “They/Them” as Owen Whistler, a counselor at a summer gay conversion camp, he exudes an affable, ingratiating charisma that puts the apprehensive campers cautiously...
Read moreIn this documentary, a new generation of Mexican American musicians reflect the nuances of their realities on both sides of the border.
Read moreAfter 35 years and six increasingly mediocre movies, the “Predator” franchise has long since exhausted its ideas and probably its audience. Nevertheless here comes Dan Trachtenberg’s “Prey,” a sort-of prequel and an...
Read moreIf you were a moviegoer in the 1980s, you were constantly presented with imaginative questions that seemed cosmic and existential. Would humanity someday settle its differences here on earth and learn to...
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