If you think jury duty’s a drag, consider how much worse sitting in judgment of others could be if, on the first day of the trial, you were to discover the defendant’s been accused of a terrible crime for which you were in fact the one responsible. That’s the hook of Clint Eastwood’s latest — […]

A scoundrel from Wallace and Gromit’s past resurfaces in “Vengeance Most Fowl,” causing fresh trouble for the eccentric English inventor and his underappreciated canine. As the spiffy sequel’s play-on-word title implies, the culprit is none other than Feathers McGraw, that diamond-thieving master of disguise last seen in 1993’s Oscar-winning short “The Wrong Trousers,” who seizes […]

In Hollywood, most movies tell stories. But not “Here.” Adapted from a conceptual graphic novel by Richard McGuire where the perspective is the same on every page — the living room of a century-old American house — while windows within each frame reveal actions from different years, if not entirely separate epochs, “Here” is about […]

Here’s a suicidal hypothetical only a horror director would think of: What if the moment a deeply troubled young woman (Kelsey Asbille) was about to throw herself off a cliff, a serial killer (Finn Whitrock) showed up, talked her off the ledge and then abducted the woman for some far grislier purpose? Would this psycho’s […]

From the deep, quickening heartbeat of “Jaws” to the astral opening blast of “Star Wars,” the music of John Williams not only earns its place among the most iconic film scores of all time, but it also proves memorable enough to carry with us out of the cinema. So effective are his themes that to […]

All right, Virginia… Whereas so many family holiday films hinge on whether kids believe in Santa Claus, Netflix charmer “That Christmas” makes the case that it’s more important for kids to believe in themselves. Adapted from a trio of picture books by “Love Actually” scribe Richard Curtis, the feel-good animated feature is chock full of […]

In “Brothers,” Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage play adult twins, Moke and Jady Munger, who’ve been criminal accomplices ever since their jewelry-heisting mom abandoned them as kids. You hear the pitch for director Max Barbakow’s follow-up to his 2020 Sundance phenom “Palm Springs,” and it’s fair to assume that the two actors’ mismatched appearances will […]