The Greatest Story Ever Told

Perhaps a certain fatigue was setting in at the time of the premiere, only a few years after another Jesus epic, King of Kings (1961). This one was targeted by…

Mother of the Bride

When Lana Winslow (Brooke Shields) goes to Phuket to see her daughter (Miranda Cosgrove) get married, she has no idea that she will be reunited with the man (Benjamin Bratt)…

Argylle

Successful spy novelist Elly Conway (Bryce Dallas Howard) goes on a train journey to see her mother, but is thrown into an adventure with actual spies and assassins. It starts…

Moonage Daydream: Journey Into Bowie

Photo: Neon It wasn’t until a few years ago that I heard of a concept called paracosm. That’s a term for a sort of world-building that you do in your…

Red Desert

After a car accident, Giuliana (Monica Vitti), who’s married to a factory manager in Ravenna, Italy, feels increasingly strange and isolated. Michelangelo Antonioni’s first film in color follows in the…

The Idea of You

L.A. art gallery owner Solène Marchand (Anne Hathaway) takes her teen daughter (Ella Rubin) to Coachella where she meets a British pop star (Nicholas Galitzine); their accidental encounter leads to…

Unfrosted

In 1963, Bob Cabana (Jerry Seinfeld), who’s working for Kellogg’s, puts together a team to beat their rival with a new kind of breakfast pastry. In his directing debut, Seinfeld…

The Fall Guy

Stunt performer Colt Seavers (Ryan Gosling) arrives on the Sydney set of a big sci-fi movie only to learn that the woman (Emily Blunt) he loves won’t forgive him and…

Fitzcarraldo: Best Fiends in the Jungle

Klaus Kinski. Photo: New World Pictures This is the kind of epic film project that makes you wonder how anyone survived. It’s the kind of film that has inspired documentaries…

Teen Wolf

A 17-year-old high school student (Michael J. Fox) in Nebraska learns that werewolf blood runs in his veins. The same year as Fox had a life-altering success with Back to…