The banality of evil is the subject of the devastating German entry, "The Zone of Interest," loosely based on the novel by Martin Amis. It’s the favorite to win this year's International Film Oscar. The film is about Rudolph Hoss, the Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp during WWII, and...
The bawdy comedy "Joy Ride" was released in theaters last summer and is now available to stream at home. It's about four Asian-American women who take a road trip to China where everything goes sideways.
Ava DuVernay's earnest and thoughtful drama "Origin" focuses on the multiple personal traumas that prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson endured as she wrote and researched her nonfiction bestseller, “Caste: The Origins of our Discontents.” Anjanue Ellis Taylor is excellent in the lead role and while the movie is sometimes frustratingly repetitious...
Kevin Hart ("Me Time") plays the head of an international group of sophisticated art thieves in the Netflix action comedy, "Lift."
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese's long-awaited adaptation of the non-fiction book is now available to screen at home.
Tina Fey's hit 2004 comedy "Mean Girls" was adapted into a popular Broadway musical. The new movie is a cinematic version of that play. Angourie Rice leads the cast in the tale of a teen who rubs a nasty A-list student the wrong way when she falls for a certain...
Happy New Year. Time to look back at the best of the cinematic crop for 2023. 10) PAST LIVES A sweet and melancholy drama about childhood friends who awkwardly reconnect as adults. 9) POOR THINGS Emma Stone is rock solid in the twisted, nearly pornographic feminist take on the Frankenstein story. 8) DUMB MONEY The most neglected...
Filmmaker Zack Snyder ("300") gives his take on the sci-fi space opera genre. It's currently streaming on Netflix.
