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Why the 2018 Oscars matter: A look at the push for diversity that's changing the face of the movie industryHollywood’s biggest night is here again. Here’s a look at what’s dominating the conversation ahead of the prestigious event.
First Look'Last Men in Aleppo' is nominated for an Oscar, but ceremony remains out of reachThe Syrian government has refused to issue a travel visa for a rescue worker featured in the documentary directed by Firas Fayyad. The film follows a group of men in the then rebel-held part of Aleppo who volunteered to save lives during incessant government bombings.
'Annihilation' has cheesy visual effectsThere are times when the film skirts silliness, but director Alex Garland has a gift for locating the horror inside that silliness.
‘The Party’ has great cast, somewhat negligible storyIn its themes and tone, it resembles a minor-league distillation of Edward Albee and Woody Allen.
'The Young Karl Marx' chronicles the early life of the philosopherTrying to encompass a vast swath of historical upheaval in the story of Marx and Friedrich Engels may well be an impossible task. Still, shouldn’t the film’s style be a bit more in tune with the incendiariness of its subject?
As 'Black Panther' hits screens in Africa, 'the hero is all of us'In Marvel's depiction of Wakanda, many African fans see something rarer than vibranium: a big-screen image of Africa that defies Hollywood stereotypes.
'Loveless' is an encompassing indictment of Russian societyThe film is an Oscar nominee for best foreign language film and is by the extraordinary Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev.
Beyond ticket sales: 'Black Panther' wields cultural punchThe movie is headed for a box office blitz. But it is the potential it has to elevate the role models for young people of color that has rallied donations of more than $400,000 from across the globe to help send thousands of children in the US to see it.
'Black Panther' is easily the best of the Marvel superhero moviesDirector Ryan Coogler is also the co-writer of “Black Panther,” with Joe Robert Cole, and he understands better than any of the other Marvel maestros that for a superhero movie to be more than a popcorn jamboree it needs to have a purpose beyond mere cacophony and hijinks.
In 'A Fantastic Woman,' actress Daniela Vega gives a tour de force performanceChilean director Sebastián Lelio’s “A Fantastic Woman,” the favorite to win this year’s Oscar for best foreign language film, is about the tribulations of a transgender woman in present-day Santiago, Chile.
In 'The Insult,' flare-up is microcosm of Lebanese Christian-Palestinian tensionsThe film’s most nuanced summation comes from a lawyer who says, 'No one has a monopoly on suffering.'
Christian Bale portrays army captain escorting Cheyenne chief in western 'Hostiles'The film is strong, if overlong and over-obvious. The actors, who also include Rosamund Pike and Ben Foster, are all strikingly good.
Annette Bening portrays noir star Gloria Grahame in ‘Film Stars Don’t Die in Liverpool’Bening keeps you watching, and, to a lesser extent, so does Jamie Bell as Peter Turner, the young British actor who became Grahame’s lover for a brief spell in the late 1970s and early ’80s.
The movie's ambitions far exceed its grasp in 'All the Money in the World'At 88, Christopher Plummer, who portrays John Paul Getty, is at the top of his game.
An optimistic bear returns in transcendentally cheerful 'Paddington 2'The dream cast includes Sally Hawkins, Hugh Bonneville, and Julie Walters, with Ben Whishaw voicing the title character with just the right note of prim wistfulness.
Acclaimed screenwriter Aaron Sorkin is in the director's chair for 'Molly's Game'Idris Elba as Molly Bloom's lawyer, Charlie Jaffey, is a highlight of the film. At 140 minutes, “Molly’s Game” is a long sit, made to seem even longer because of Sorkin’s flashback structure.
‘Phantom Thread’ is reportedly final film for Daniel Day-Lewis, our greatest living actorIn addition to the terrific ensemble acting and the pleasures of watching an expertly designed human board game being played out, director Paul Thomas Anderson is showcasing the self-immolation of an artist who is both inspired and undone by his muse.
'The Post' is least successful when it’s glorying in its own righteousnessIf the movie has any shelf life beyond the current historical moment, it will likely be because of Meryl Streep’s performance as Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham.
- In 'Downsizing,' confounding expectations only goes so far
'Downsizing' stars Matt Damon as a man living in a world where scientists have come up with a way to shrink humans as a way to save the planet from overconsumption.
The 10 best movies of 2017Jordan Peele's 'Get Out' was the most astonishing writing-directing debut in years, while 'The Florida Project,' about wayfarers living week to week in run-down budget motels outside Disney World, is one of the most lyrical evocations of childhood our critic has ever seen.
