All Movies
'Mary Queen of Scots' has sharp cast but is dull overallThe movie is about the oft-chronicled rivalry between Queen Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots.
Energy of the streets gives ‘Capernaum’ authenticityThe film is the Lebanese entry for the Oscar for best foreign film.
Seven November movies you should check outTwo of the movies that caught the attention of Monitor film critic Peter Rainer include a previously unreleased Orson Welles film and the latest from the Coen brothers.
‘Shoplifters’ asks, what is the true meaning of family?Director Hirokazu Kore-eda’s slow reveal of who these people are, and what they mean to each other, has its mystery story aspects, but this is essentially a character study.
'The Favourite' is self-satisfyingly smart-aleckyThe film is about Queen Anne (Olivia Colman), the last of the Stuart monarchs, and the two women (Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone) who are vying for her favors.
'Roma' is Alfonso Cuarón’s most personal filmThe movie is a powerful story about complicated family ties.
‘At Eternity’s Gate’ features career-best Willem DafoeThe film depicts Van Gogh’s last prolific years.
In 'Green Book,' lessons are learned in Jim Crow SouthThe movie, which stars Mahershala Ali as a jazz pianist who hires 'Tony Lip' (Viggo Mortensen) to be his driver-bodyguard, is manipulative but wins you over anyway.
For ‘Ballad of Buster Scruggs,’ Coens travel to Old WestIt’s an anthology film consisting of six discrete vignettes set in the Old West.
'The Front Runner' chronicles Gary Hart's last presidential campaignDirector and co-screenwriter Jason Reitman’s attempts to mimic a loose-limbed political movie in the style of Robert Altman’s 'Tanner' series or 'The Candidate' are rather leaden.
Orson Welles would likely approve of making-of doc 'They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead'The documentary chronicles the making of Orson Welles’s film 'The Other Side of the Wind,' which was shot between 1970 and 1976 and is now available on Netflix.
Unreleased Orson Welles film ‘The Other Side of the Wind’ arrivesFor Welles aficionados, and perhaps only for them, “The Other Side of the Wind” will function as a skeleton key to the themes and obsessions of his entire career.
In 'Survivors' documentary on Ebola, Sierra Leoneans finally have their say'Survivors: Hope and Resilience in the Time of Ebola,' which is currently streaming on PBS's website, is a documentary about how Sierra Leoneans acted in the shadow of a crisis, told from the perspective of those who lived it.
Melissa McCarthy turns to drama in ‘Can You Ever Forgive Me?’It is unexceptional for a comedic actor to excel in drama, a truism demonstrated yet again by Melissa McCarthy in this marvelous film.
'Burning' is discursive, unsettlingThe film is the South Korean entry for the Oscar for best foreign-language film.
In ‘The Guilty,’ a police dispatcher races against timeThe movie is Denmark’s entry for the Oscar for best foreign language film.
'The Kindergarten Teacher' is worth seeing for Maggie Gyllenhaal’s performanceIn the film, Maggie Gyllenhaal plays Lisa Spinelli, a teacher who is at first intrigued, then entranced, and finally obsessed by 5-year-old Jimmy, a pupil with a prodigious gift for writing poetry.
Neil Armstrong gets the spotlight in the biopic ‘First Man’As Ryan Gosling plays him, Armstrong is not so much strong and silent as glazed-over.
Repetitive 'Beautiful Boy' still has beautiful momentsThe film, which stars Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet, is overlong and riddled with unneeded flashbacks showing the family in better times.
‘A Star Is Born’ returns to the big screenThe latest version is, for first the half, powerfully fresh.
