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3 days ago · Read the latest movie reviews from The New York Times critics, covering blockbusters, independents and everything in between.
May 17, 2024 · As in most American legacy-quels, “Nightwatch: Demons Are Forever” is most poignant whenever its older characters haunt their less-interesting younger counterparts. We’ve seen these performers age, and that’s way more harrowing than another psychopath’s spree. Alas, even when Bornedal grasps at big, character-driven emotions, he’s ...
May 6, 2024 · 30 Minutes on "Not Fade Away". The first theatrical feature film written and directed by David Chase, the creator of “The Sopranos,” is an autobiographical tale about the formation of an artistic sensibility. John Magaro plays Doug Damiano, a northern New Jersey teenager whose father Pat (James Gandolfini) is a hot-tempered, Archie Bunker ...
Apr 30, 2024 · In honor of its 25th anniversary re-release, we look at the George Lucas movie’s greatest legacy: paving the way for studios to extend their aging franchises by telling origin stories ...
May 3, 2024 · Prom Dates. “Prom Dates,” about a couple of teenage best-bud girls getting in trouble during the run-up to prom, is a raunchy, R-rated but warmhearted teen comedy. It operates in a mode that’s been around for decades but reached its 21st century zenith in “ Superbad ” and got a social media-era upgrade in “ Booksmart .”.
May 7, 2024 · If it were the first "Star Wars" movie, "The Phantom Menace" would be hailed as a visionary breakthrough.
May 3, 2024 · Roger Ebert, 2006. Ebert was awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 1975. That same year he and Gene Siskel, lead film critic of the rival Chicago Tribune, agreed to appear together in a televised movie-review program. Opening Soon at a Theater near You aired on public-access television from 1975 to 1978, when it was picked up by the Public Broadcasting ...
