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Gary Oldman stars as Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright's new film. Oldman completely sells the transformation, offering up the ...

Coco’s look is derived from the friendly-skeleton iconography of Día de los Muertos celebrations and the delightfully lurid colors of ...

Some may roll their eyes at the prospect of yet another kickass heroine at a time when kickass heroines are ...

Laurie Metcalf does an extraordinary job insinuating glimmers of forgivability into an eminently unsympathetic mother to Saoirse Ronan's character in ...

Cranston dominates and is by far the most entertaining up front; Carell’s low-key portrayal of a mild-mannered man who waits ...

There's more humor than horror in this one.

Scratch the surface of this film and you get much more than a detective thriller. Wyoming’s Wind River Indian Reservation ...

Al Gore goes beyond the slideshow and visits parts of the world already suffering effects of climate change. Though the ...

The Big Sick is a rom/com that’s sweet and funny but complex and smart. It stars Kumail Nanjiani, best-known as ...

Every white-knuckled swerve of the getaway car, every step or turn of an actor, every word or pause of dialogue ...

Hollywood has a dreadful track record of trying to render hippies realistically, without condescension. This film is a welcome exception.

Notably generous with atmosphere but parsimonious with explanations for characters’ behavior, Daphne du Maurier’s stories have proven irresistible candy to ...

Almost all of this film was shot inside and immediately outside one of Woodstock’s uninhabited Byrdcliffe houses.

The film keeps its focus on the woman herself, and on the apotheosis of her art as loss and suffering ...

Mumbai native Sunny Pawar, who reportedly never even saw a Western movie before this one, blazes across the film like ...

Loving is not your typical soul-stirring, flag-waving courtroom drama. As a film about race relations, it’s almost in a class ...

Tom Hanks and Aaron Eckhart in Clint Eastwood's Sully. The film is based on – or perhaps “inspired by” – ...

Regular readers of Almanac Weekly movie reviews will know that I characteristically stalk my prey in wide, slow spirals of ...

Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant in Florence Foster Jenkins It’s a curious fact that male singers with technically lousy voices ...

Zachary Quinto as Spock, Sofia Boutella as Jaylah and Karl Urban as Bones McCoy in Star Trek Beyond It didn’t ...