It’s easy to criticize the new Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody for some of the same reasons that, back in the day, it was easy to criticize Queen’s music. Led by the outsized personality of frontman Freddie Mercury, Queen made tunes that were alternat...

Simultaneously delicate and tough, Can You Ever Forgive Me? introduces viewers to Lee Israel, a real-life figure who made her name as a biographer before starting a clandestine new career by forging letters credited to Noël Coward, Dorothy Parker and...

Forty years after John Carpenter’s brilliantly minimalistic thriller Halloween introduced movie audiences to relentless murderer Michael Myers, the mask-wearing psychopath also known as “the shape” is back in another movie called Halloween. The new f...

Even though space exploration remains a tangential element of the global conversation, especially with long-range planning underway for a potential manned mission to Mars, earthbound concerns have occupied the forefront of the human experience for qu...

A Star Is Born, the romantic musical drama starring Bradley Cooper (who also makes his directorial debut with the picture) and Lady Gaga (playing her first leading role in a movie), has quickly become an awards-season frontrunner as well as a commerc...

Photo courtesy: Fox Searchlight Pictures He’s already backed off the promise, but prior to the release of the new low-key character study The Old Man & the Gun, Robert Redford claimed this was to be his final movie role after nearly 60 years of o...

It doesn’t happen every award season, but in some years a high-profile movie comes along that becomes a punching bag for critics who resent the marketplace dominance of slick Hollywood storytelling. This year, the unlucky victim is Life Itself, an en...

Grim melodrama White Boy Rick dramatizes the real-life travails of Richard Wershe Jr., who was sentenced to life in prison on drug charges at the age of 17, following a bizarre period during which he worked as a teenaged informant for the FBI. If onl...

Presenting the real-life story of how bold Mossad agents snuck into 1960 Argentina and captured fugitive Third Reich officer Adolf Eichmann, Operation Finale is a serviceable thriller with stylistic echoes of 2012’s Argo. Like that picture, Operation...