In many ways, this is the best James Bond picture since Daniel Craig assumed the role. Imagine two sibling 007s for the price of one: Natasha Romanoff (Scarlett Johansson) and her little sister (a feisty, pug-nosed Florence Pugh). The act of leaving home to find a home among superhero freaks …
Taking the title from Ian Fleming's first James Bond novel, the 007 franchise approaches the opportunity of a new James Bond as the opportunity of a new beginning. The new Bond, Daniel Craig, is not just another pretty face, in fact is a pretty craggy face (Craiggy face, perhaps that …
A dud. The big team of writers pile up cheap violence, icky aliens, corny rustics, a ha-ha Mexican, a mystery woman reborn in a fire, a hummingbird, a boy and his dog, silly special effects, and a sense that both the Western and the sci-fi invasion genre are being buried …
Workmanlike account of the untold (or anyhow unfilmed) true story of a 20th-century Moses and his two brothers, who sheltered hundreds of Jews from the Nazis in the forests of Belorussia, such dark days that color itself evidently went into hiding, leaving behind only a greeny or occasionally orangey residue. …
Leasing an old New England home, haunted by past murders and present terror, cause hard times for newcomers Daniel Craig and Rachel Weisz. jim Sheridan also directed Naomi Watts, Marton Csokas, and Jane Alexander in the PG-13 thriller.
The opening sequence, of what a newspaper headline will describe as a "Freak Balloon Accident," disrupting an idyllic picnic in the English countryside, is a true grabber. The protagonist, who loses his grip both literally and then figuratively, will be tortured over his role in the mishap, despite the reassurances …
Not bad, for an unnecessary remake. I’ll gladly make do with a shortening of the misogynistic revenge-rape in exchange for a more cuddly relationship between the cop (Daniel Craig) and the girl who fell face first into a tackle box (Rooney Mara). The smooth lateral pans and flat, shiny surfaces …
In the follow-up to Rian Johnson's Knives Out, Detective Benoit Blanc travels to Greece to peel back the layers of a mystery involving a new cast of colorful suspects. Starring Daniel Craig, Edward Norton, Janelle Monáe, Kathryn Hahn, Leslie Odom Jr., Jessica Henwick, Madelyn Cline, Kate Hudson, and Dave Bautista.
Unstirring epic fantasy, set in a parallel universe where people's souls walk beside them in the form of talking animals, called "daemons." In addition, there's a whole glossary of made-up proper nouns, an obligatory oppressive, thought-policing Ruling Power, and a young girl singled out by destiny to be the Savior, …
A fan asks if she’ll do another movie, a question to which the arresting Grace Jones replies, “My own.” As an actress, Jones is best not remembered for her appearance in A View to A Kill, far and away the least exciting of the pre-Daniel Craig 007 undertakings. The bloodlight …
Substantially the same story as Capote a year earlier, an uncomfortable proximity that brings to mind the competing Columbuses of 1492: Conquest of Paradise and Christopher Columbus or the competing Earps of Tombstone and Wyatt Earp. A second account, written and directed by Douglas McGrath, of the birth pains of …
Fourth time around on screen for Jack Finney's serviceable Body Snatcher novel, refashioned for the CGI era, the CNN era, the post-9/11 era, the "postmodern feminist" era, the text-message and laptop era. It still functions. An alien-invasion scenario is perhaps not the most obvious choice for the English-language debut of …
Time-travel contrivance, at least as convoluted as it is clever: a Gulf War vet, subjected to crackpot experiments in a mental hospital, bodily visits the future, accidentally bumps into a big girl whom he had once bumped into as a little girl, learns of his earlier death, endeavors to avert …
Writer-director Rian Johnson sure is having fun these days. They let him into the Star Wars sandbox, and he built a monument to feminine genius that enraged a measurable portion of the fanbase and still managed to make over a billion dollars. (Sure, it was half of what J.J. abrams …
The daughter of Sir Richard Croft inherits a sacred mission from her late father, who seems to have known when she was eight years old that she would grow up to be a militant extremist of Girl Power, and known too that she would discover the hidden clock and his …