Wing Ju's action/drama, Wolf Warrior, must have taken in enough money to warrant a sequel.
Auggie (Jason Tremblay), a fifth-grader born with severe facial deformities, attends public school for the first time. When handling similar material in Mask, Peter Bogdanovich surrounded his lead with a support system that would have made John Ford proud. Writer-director Stephen Chbosky’s inspiration apparently came from watching hours of ABC …
File this under “were it not for coincidence there’d be no story at all.” Two deaf children (Millicent Simmonds and Oakes Fegley), separated by five decades and both searching for the same thing, are flattened by a train of coincidence in this period(s) melodrama from director Todd Haynes (Far from …
If 2016’s Café Society was writer-director Woody Allen’s attempt to introduce a younger generation to the world of Woody Allen, then this might just be his followup attempt to show the Kids of Today what a filmed Tennessee Williams play looks and sounds like. And in case the hothouse speechifying …
Patty Jenkins directs the lithe, lovely, and laff-grabbing Gal Gadot as the Amazon princess who helps end World War I, and also DC’s string of dark ‘n dour superhero slogs. The concept is high indeed: Greek mythology is mashed-up with Christianity to give us a Zeus who flings Ares from …
Viscerality has its virtues, viz: if you’re going to make a movie about the complicated ties between sexuality and masculinity, it helps to set it against the backdrop of a culture that still equates male excellence with procreation and providing — in this case, the Xhosa of South Africa. (Not …
“Four deadly tales directed by four killer women.” That’s the tagline for this multiauthored horror anthology, even though this type of press agent math never adds up. The two middle tales hardly qualify as killer; they’re both efficiently apportioned one-joke premises. It’s the bookending segments (and wraparound sequences) that do …
There isn’t much point in reviewing a film that summarizes itself thusly: “Kick some ass, get the girl, and try to look dope while you’re doing it.” But a job’s a job: Xander Cage (Vin Diesel) is, according to this third entry in the XXX series, the guy you call …
Xiaogang Feng directs this story about the lives of members in a Military Cultural Troupe in the 1970s.
Dramatization of the efforts by real-life Warsaw zookeepers Jan and Antonina Zabinski to smuggle and shelter Jews during the Nazi occupation of Poland. It’s easy to see the story’s appeal: a loving couple (Johan Heldenbergh and a radiantly glamorous Jessica Chastain), struggling to preserve their life’s work but still risking …