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Documentary ‘Dark Money’ is close to a political thrillerDirector Kimberly Reed goes out of her way to present all sides of the controversy – which is not to say that she doesn’t clearly delineate, through vast documentation and testimony, her indignation at what Citizens United has wrought.
'Mission: Impossible - Fallout' has a core of feeling but is a little too longAs summer franchise movies go, 'Mission: Impossible – Fallout' is near the top of the heap.
First LookFilm series poses theory question: Is there a ‘female gaze'?The Lincoln Center in New York will highlight 36 films shot by 23 female cinematographers to explore the perspectives of women behind the camera. Only 4 percent of cinematography society members are women.
MoviePass has changed moviegoing – will it last?MoviePass made a huge splash in August 2017 when it lowered its monthly unlimited rate to $9.95. Observers are unsure if it's sustainable, but it's already disrupted the movie theater industry.
Sequel 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again' appears 10 years after originalThe film cuts back and forth between the present and 1979, when Donna, blandly played as a young woman by Lily James, met her three beaus and went gaga for Greece.
'Custody' doesn’t skimp on the ordeal of the child in a custody battleXavier Legrand’s intense debut feature, 'Custody,' at times presents people more as symbols than as individuals.
'Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti' chronicles Gauguin’s desire to see a new wayIt’s a perplexing, fascinating, maddening movie, not quite like any other film biography of a famous painter.
'Shock and Awe' is a rote piece of workThe movie, which proves yet again that righteousness does not in itself make for a good film, depicts the work of the Knight Ridder journalists who worked in the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War.
'Sorry to Bother You' eventually loses its way in a welter of surrealityThere’s a promising satirical idea embedded in 'Sorry to Bother You,' but the writer-director, Boots Riley, doesn’t quite know how to extricate it.
5 movies you should see this monthViewers will rejoice in the hopes of immigrants while watching 'En el Séptimo Día,' one of Monitor critic Peter Rainer's best movies of June.
'Three Identical Strangers' is a true story that could only be believed because it actually happenedIn 1980, through sheer coincidence, 19-year-olds Robert Shafran and Eddy Galland discovered they are identical twins separated at birth. When their story was trumpeted in the media, 19-year-old David Kellman saw the photos and realized he was their triplet.
'Leave No Trace' shows empathy for those on the fringes of societyBen Foster stars as Will, a war veteran and widower with post-traumatic stress disorder who has been living undercover with daughter Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) in a large public nature preserve in Portland, Ore.
First LookHow two documentaries became summer box office hits'Won't You Be My Neighbor?' and 'RBG' made unlikely box office stars of their subjects. The two documentaries serve as reminders to be kind and helpful – a message that is missing from the news, those behind the film said.
First Look'Jurassic World,' 'Incredibles 2' make for Hollywood's fourth-largest weekend everHollywood raked in $280 million in ticket sales in the United States and Canada, roughly double what it made the same weekend last year. The largest factor: "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" roaring past bad reviews to open with $150 million.
- 'The Catcher Was a Spy' is more pallid than its eminently juicy subject deserves
Paul Rudd stars as Morris 'Moe' Berg, a middling catcher in baseball’s major leagues who was recruited by US military intelligence to spy on and possibly assassinate physicist Werner Heisenberg.
- The cast outshines the material in road trip movie ‘Boundaries’
Because of Christopher Plummer and Vera Farmiga, 'Boundaries,' which might have been cooked up by a screenwriting program called RoadMovie, is halfway tolerable.
'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' is the latest and arguably least of the seriesChris Pratt brings a wry insouciance to the mayhem and the escape from Isla Nublar has its modicum of thrills.
First LookTo encourage diversity in Hollywood, a proposed tax creditCalifornia's proposed budget includes a tax credit for movie productions made in state that would require reporting diversity statistics and have sexual harassment protections in place for its employees. Credits would be awarded to "below the line" hiring practices, not just for starring actors and directors.
In China, US films struggle against homegrown moviesWith audiences in North America steadily shrinking, Chinese moviegoers have never been more important to Hollywood. But China has also poured billions of dollars into its own film industry.
'Saving Brinton' chronicles discovery of film raritiesIn 1981, Mike Zahs bought the boxed artifacts of Frank and Indiana Brinton, two barnstorming Iowa show people who, in the late 19th and early 20th century, projected early movies and staged magic acts all across the heartland.
