La Notte

The second film in a trilogy that began with L’Avventura (1960) starts out with a couple (Marcello Mastroianni, Jeanne Moreau) visiting a dying friend at a hospital in Milan; over…

Booksmart

Two high-school seniors (Beanie Feldstein, Kaitlyn Dever) are about to graduate when they realize that they’ve made a huge mistake; they should have enjoyed high school more and maybe a…

Cavalcade: 20th Century Blues

Herbert Mundin, Diana Wynyard, Clive Brook and Una O’Connor. Photo: Fox Film The fact that Cavalcade is one of the lowest rated Best Picture winners on IMDb is not really…

Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness

Doctor Strange (Benedict Cumberbatch) tries to keep a teenager (Xochitl Gomez), who can travel between dimensions, safe from the Scarlet Witch (Elizabeth Olsen) who wants her powers. Sam Raimi’s first…

Kind Hearts and Coronets: What’s a Few Murders?

Alec Guinness. Photo: Ealing Studios After playing Fagin in David Lean’s Oliver Twist (1948), a controversial role that required him to wear heavy makeup, including a prosthetic nose, Alec Guinness…

Death on the Nile

In 1937, Hercule Poirot (Kenneth Branagh) finds himself on a steamer on the Nile, trying to figure out whom among the passengers is a murderer. Branagh donned the elaborate Poirot…

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore

As Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) prepares to fight his former lover, Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen), Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) gathers a team that will try to stop Grindelwald by confusing…

The Matrix Resurrections

60 years after the events in The Matrix Revolutions (2003), Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) is working as a video game designer, but he’s about to be shaken out of his…

The Batman

When the mayor of Gotham City is found murdered, there’s a message attached to his body intended for Batman (Robert Pattinson). A stand-alone Batman movie that almost reaches the heights…

A Madea Homecoming

Madea’s (Tyler Perry) great-grandson (Brandon Black) is graduating from college, a moment when the whole family and a few colorful Irish friends gather. The expected comfort food for fans of…