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…

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…

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…

Off Track

In a moment of weakness, eternal screw-up Lisa (Katia Winter) tells her daughter that she intends to compete in Vasaloppet, a 56-mile ski race; now she has to get in…

Don’t Look Up: Last Days of Earth

Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence. Photo: Netflix There’s something about Adam McKay that irritates the hell out of right-wingers and left-wingers alike. In the first case, the reason is obviously…

Home Sweet Home Alone

After being left home alone when his family goes to Japan, young Max Mercer (Archie Yates) clashes with a married couple (Rob Delaney, Ellie Kemper) who are trying to break…

Passport to Pimlico 

When a document dating back to the 15th century is found in Pimlico, it is read as evidence that the London neighborhood is legally still part of Burgundy, France. One…

Freaky Friday 

Teenager Annabel (Jodie Foster) and her mother (Barbara Harris) magically switch bodies and try to deal with each other’s challenges. When Mary Rodgers wrote her novel, the concept of characters…

Home Alone: The Holiday Heist 

When their parents leave the house to go Christmas shopping, 10-year-old Finn Baxter (Christian Martyn) and his older sister (Jodelle Ferland) are left home alone… and a group of thieves…

Happiest Season 

Harper (Mackenzie Davis) is spending Christmas together with her family and her girlfriend Abby (Kristen Stewart)… but on the journey home she tells Abby that she hasn’t come out to…