Respectable. That may be the best thing one can say about the new Dwayne Johnson movie "The Smashing Machine." In this art house sports drama from writer-director Benny Safdie, The Rock plays troubled mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr who battles drugs and insecurity as well as his opponents in...
There have been multiple films about the tragic massacre of Israeli athletes at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. The tense drama "September 5" tells the story from the perspective of the ABC journalists who scrambled to cover the story. They raced through an ethical minefield to bring the unfolding drama to...
Mark Wahlberg ("Arthur the King") and Halle Berry ("Monster's Ball") star in the Netflix spy comedy, "The Union."
After 45 years and eight previous "Alien" movies, is it possible for yet another installment to be exciting, suspenseful and fresh? In the hands of director Fede Alverez, the answer is "Yes." In "Alien: Romulus" the action takes place between the events of the first and second movies. Springfield, Missouri native...
The action thriller "Love Lies Bleeding" is an example of extremely well-made sleaze, a midnight movie with a mind. Kristen Stewart and Katy O'Brien star in a twisted lesbian romance embellished with violent revenge and occasional magic realism. It's sordid and excessive but give a tip of the hat for...
Did we really need a musical prequel to the classic 1971 fantasy "Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory?" No. But I'm still glad that we got one. Timothy Chalamet is terrific as the young Wonka in this tuneful and imaginative lark that serves as Willy's origin story. Yes, it's corny...
The Idris Elba film fest continues for the second week in a row with the ambitious fantasy, "Three Thousand Years of Longing." Elba plays a genie who emerges from a bottle to grant scholar Tilda Swinton three wishes. What follows is an off-beat philosophical meditation on human desire. This earnest...
Mark Wahlberg ("The Departed") stars in the true story of boxer-turned-priest, Stuart Long.
