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As the cast of the Now You See Me franchise reunites, the third installment feels like an attempt to teach old magicians new tricks. Now You See Me: Now You Don’t takes the franchise back to its roots as new director Ruben Fleischer prepares to broaden the world with a fourth movie already in dev…

Where does the time go? Clint Bentley's follow-up to 2021's impressive but annoyingly little-seen Jockey is a moving, masterful study of a life without such measure, a working man's blues that begins at the end of the late 19th century, just as civilization is trying to get its act together, and…

Much of the creative talent behind Netflix’s latest animated feature film, In Your Dreams, came from working at one time for Pixar, so expectations for something on the level of that ‘toon giant might be higher than they should be. If you come in hoping for the kind of innovative films Pixar has…

Whatever happened to subtext? With regard to the Predator franchise, it seems weird to bring this up so late in the day, after six movies and two Alien tie-ins. But the question that bubbles up right at the very beginning of Predator: Badlands is very simple: what does the idea of the predator even me…

What better day than Halloween to review a sequel to perhaps the greatest horror film of all time. No, I am not talking about Halloween and its myriad endless follow-ups, but rather 1973’s The Exorcist, which with 10 nominations including Best Picture…

Some films are just ripped from the headlines, but in the case of the new political thriller Anniversary, it appears that this story of an authoritarian government and one-party system taking over America has simply stumbled coincidentally on to the…

If Song Sung Blue, which had its world premiere as the closing-night film of AFI Fest, weren’t a true story no one would ever have the nerve to make it. The unlikely triumphs and unspeakable tragedies of a Milwaukee Neil Diamond tribute band known as…

As an actor and director Ben Stiller is well known, merging those talents in movies like Zoolander, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Tropic Thunder, The Cable Guy and countless others, and most recently as director and producer of the Emmy darling Severa…

Regretting You is a tribute to the transportational properties of cinema; for two very long hours you'll be wondering what year it is, where you are, and what the hell you're doing there. Rarely was a film more aptly titled, unless, of course, you're a…

The Handmaid’s Tale meets The Arabian Nights in Julia Jackman's feature debut, a feminist fantasy that leans hard into whimsy while making some salient points about the place of women in the real world. Festivals have been generous to it so far, with…

The menacing evil villain of 2022’s hit horror film, Black Phone, is back for a sequel even though he was killed off in the first film. Of course that has never stopped filmmakers of these fright films before and it hasn’t stopped director Scott…

Director Lear deBessonet has chosen wisely in the first production of her inaugural season as Artistic Director of Lincoln Center Theater, resurrecting the grand, however imperfect musical Ragtime, first staged on Broadway in a bloated 1998 production. Here, as she did with the recent Encores…