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Film review: ‘Baby Driver’

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You know that unique sense of elation you get when you’re walking down the street, listening to music, and something clicks and the entire world around you suddenly seems to be moving to the beat of a tune only you can hear? Edgar Wright’s “Baby Driver” manages to recreate that feeling, but with high-octane car […]

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Film review: ‘Okja’

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Part Spielbergian adventure, part environmentalist fable, and part barbed anti-corporate satire, “Okja” — the latest from South Korean director Bong Joon-Ho (“Snowpiercer”) — is the story of a young girl named Mija (a wonderful An Seo Hyun) and her best friend, a massive, genetically engineered pig named Okja. Okja is the result of the Mirando […]

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Film review: ‘Rough Night’

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A bachelorette weekend descends into debauchery, drug-fueled benders, and some inadvertent manslaughter in “Rough Night,” a gleefully R-rated comedy that marks the feature debut of “Broad City’s” Lucia Aniello. The rarity of raunchy, R-rated comedies helmed by female directors is reason enough to root for the film, but while there’s plenty of laughs to be […]

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Film review: ‘Paris Can Wait’

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The first narrative feature from Eleanor Coppola (wife of Francis, and mother of Sophia), “Paris Can Wait” is a pleasant, airy travelogue about a woman rediscovering the simple pleasures of life. Diane Lane stars as Anne, the wife of a workaholic film producer, Michael (Alec Baldwin). The couple are set to depart the Cannes Film […]

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Film review: ‘The Mummy’

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Universal Pictures may have jumped the gun by announcing long-term plans for its “Dark Universe,” an interconnected series of films built around the studio’s stable of classic monsters, like Dracula, The Wolf Man, The Invisible Man, and my personal favorite, the Creature from the Black Lagoon. This planned franchise has suffered one failed launch already: […]

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Film review: ‘My Cousin Rachel’

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The writings of Daphne Du Maurier were often moody tales of deception, betrayal, paranoia, and occasionally romance; qualities that made them favorites of Alfred Hitchcock and inspired his films “Rebecca,” “Jamaica Inn,” and “The Birds.” Du Maurier’s gothic-tinged “My Cousin Rachel” is perhaps slightly lesser known among her works, though it was previously adapted into […]

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Film review: ‘It Comes at Night’

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In his debut film, “Krisha,” writer-director Trey Edward Shults took a drama about a fraught Thanksgiving family reunion and ratcheted up the intensity until it entered the realm of psychological horror. Now in his sophomore outing, the young filmmaker goes for full-on terror with the nightmarish, post-apocalyptic thriller “It Comes at Night.” As you might […]

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Film review: ‘Megan Leavey’

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“Blackfish” director Gabriela Cowperthwaite shifts capably from documentary to narrative filmmaking with a different (and decidedly more uplifting) tale of human and animal relations in “Megan Leavey.” The film focuses on the real-life story of Leavey (a wonderful Kate Mara), a wayward 20-something who finds redemption through the bond she forms with a bomb-sniffing military […]

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Film review: ‘Wonder Woman’

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Since her debut in the pages of “All Star Comics” nearly 75 years ago, Wonder Woman has gone on to become easily the most recognizable female superhero; a hero every bit as iconic as her DC brethren, Batman and Superman. Considering her revered status, it’s mind-boggling that the Amazonian princess is only just now, in […]

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