Fred Topel The warrior women of Wakanda are joined this week by Lara Croft in Tomb Raider, but those aren’t the only powerful women in theaters. Zoey Deutch stars in Flower, playing Erica. Erica and her friends Kala (Dylan Gelula) and Claudine (Maya Eshet) like to blackmail men who have sex with teenagers. Things take a dark
Love, Simon is the perfect high school movie for 2018. At least, I take their word for it that this is what high school is like now. It seems right. Simon (Nick Robinson) is gay but hasn’t come out yet. When the high school gossip page prints prints an anonymous coming out by Blue, Simon
Game Night has been the comedy to see this month. It’s held up with blockbusters like Black Panther, Red Sparrow, Death Wish and Annihilation, giving viewers a good laugh. One of the film’s big jokes is when Michelle (Kylie Bunbury) reveals to her husband Kevin (Lamorne Morris) the celebrity with whom she’s had an affair.
The Hurricane Heist opens by brutally traumatizing two children, so you know Rob Cohen means business. Yet it’s still fun. This is what action movies should be. Heroes go through awful tragedies, but with enough of a wink that we all know they’re just messing around. Will (Toby Kebbell) and Breeze (Ryan Kwanten) seem pretty
When it went into development, I was worried about what Death Wish would be in 2017. The Charles Bronson films came out of a time when people feared the faceless criminal and felt the police couldn’t help them. Today we have mass shootings by disgruntled men and George Zimmerman standing his ground, so a vigilante
I give Red Sparrow the benefit of the doubt that it wanted to portray the dehumanization of women in an socially responsible way. They failed, but they couldn’t have been this off base on purpose. After a graphically catastrophic ballet injury, Dominika (Jennifer Lawrence)’s uncle Vanya (Matthias Schoenaerts) suggests another line of work. He sends
Game Night will be a fun night out for grown-up couples. It’s an all star comedy broken up into couples: Jason Batemen and Rachel McAdams, Kylie Bunbury and Lamorne Morris and Billy Magnussen with Sharon Horgan. It’s comedy gold when the couples go over to Brooks (Kyle Chandler)’s house for a murder mystery evening, not
Game Night combines the petty hilarity of competitive couples with the absurdity of immersive mystery theater. Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams star as a married couple whose host weekly game nights. Max (Bateman) and Annie (McAdams) agree to let Max’s brother Brooks (Kyle Chandler) host one night. Brooks plans a murder mystery evening, only some
Aardman Animations, the studio behind Wallace and Gromit and Chicken Run, tackles cavemen in an appropriately British manner. The cavemen of Early Man play soccer, and they even call it by the correct British name football. “That’s what we call it, that’s all,” Early Man director Nick Park said. “Actually, we do call it soccer
Daniel Kaluuya is nominated for a Academy Award for his role in Get Out. Before the Oscars are announced on March 4, he’ll be on movie screens again in Black Panther. (Read our review of Black Panther.) Black Panther stars Chadwick Boseman as the title hero. Kaluuya plays W’Kabi, head of security for the Border