Paul Mescal

Freeze Frame: “Wicked” (PG), “Gladiator II” (R), “Bonhoeffer” (PG-13), “The Piano Lesson” (R)

Part one of the smash Broadway musical "Wicked," the origin story of Oz's Wicked Witch of the West, finally hits the big screen. Here's the upside: It's very entertaining and beautifully produced and Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande-Butera are terrific. The downside: It's padded out to 2 hours and forty minutes,...

Freeze Frame: “Fast X” (PG-13), “Carmen” (R), “Rare Objects” (R), “White Men Can’t Jump” (R)

If you're a fan of the "Fast and the Furious" franchise, you already know that you need to check your brain at the theater door. So, let's just say that "Fast X" is yet another James Bond wannabe that is predictably silly with an over-the-top performance by Jason Momoa as...