Your feelings about the latest installment of the “Alien” franchise will depend largely on how you felt about “Prometheus.” The 2012 prequel marked Ridley Scott’s return to the science fiction series he established nearly 40 years ago. A direct sequel to that ambitious and polarizing blockbuster, “Alien: Covenant” splits the difference between continuing the earlier […]
Katherine Waterston
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Film review: “Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them”
Author J.K. Rowling expands her wizarding cinematic universe with a prequel spinoff
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Film Review: “Inherent Vice”
If nothing else, “Inherent Vice” demonstrates how far the private eye movie, a classic American form, has traveled since the days of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe. In the new film, the tough detective in search of a hidden truth — played most memorably by Humphrey Bogart and some worthy successors like Dick Powell, Robert […]
