Reviews
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‘Red One’ Review: Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans’ Expensive Christmas Action Comedy Could Have Been Worse
It sounds like a bad joke, but Jake Kasdan (and $250 million) turned a story about action heroes rescuing Santa Claus into a real film
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‘Paddington in Peru’ Review: If You Loved ‘Paddington 2,’ We Have Bear-y Bad News
There’s a ton of padding in Dougal Wilson’s disappointing threequel
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‘The Best Christmas Pageant Ever’ Review: Hey! Unto You a Great Christmas Movie Is Born!
Judy Greer and Pete Holmes star in a smart, funny, impressive adaptation of the classic holiday book
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‘Absolution’ Review: Liam Neeson Is Liam Neeson in Yet Another Liam Neeson Movie
The actor headlines a dreary, monotonous, familiar crime drama about an aging gangster in cognitive decline
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‘Time Cut’ Review: Netflix’s ‘Back to the Future’-Style Slasher Is a Knockoff of a Knockoff
A teenager travels back to the early 2000s, where the fashion is more disturbing than the kills
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‘The Diplomat’ Season 2 Review: Keri Russell Battles Shifting Power Dynamics in Netflix Drama’s Excellent Return
Last year’s explosive cliffhanger raises the stakes as Debora Cahn’s political thriller keeps getting better
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‘Juror #2’ Review: Clint Eastwood’s Taut, Understated Courtroom Drama Ends Up a Mistrial
The movie overcomes a difficult-to-swallow premise with unsentimental filmmaking and a fine lead performance from Nicholas Hoult before being dismissed on technicalities
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‘Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl’ Review: Feathers McGraw Returns in a Hysterical Sequel
The Netflix follow up to Aardman Animation’s “The Wrong Trousers” boasts great heroes, a great villain and just the right amount of whimsy
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‘Here’ Review: Robert Zemeckis’ One-Location Drama Is a Mawkish ‘Forrest Gump’ Reunion
Robert Zemeckis, Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite for, essentially, a high-tech museum diorama
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‘Don’t Move’ Review: It’s Survival of the Stiffest in Netflix’s High Concept Thriller
Finn Wittrock and Kelsey Asbille star in a petrifying Hitchcockian experiment that mostly works
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‘Romeo + Juliet’ Broadway Review: Rachel Zegler Sings, Kit Connor Strips
The kids aren’t all right in Sam Gold’s feisty new take on the Bard’s star-crossed lovers
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‘Canary Black’ Review: Hackneyed Kate Beckinsale Thriller Has the Canary Blahs
“Taken” director Pierre Morel returns with a tired, cookie-cutter kidnapping thriller
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‘Music by John Williams’ Review: An Unabashed Celebration of One of Cinema’s Greatest Composers
There are worse ways to spend 104 minutes than people praising the legendary man behind the scores of “Star Wars” and “Jaws”
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‘Left on Tenth’ Broadway Review: Julianna Margulies Explores Love and Leukemia
Delia Ephron’s memoir is now a play that captures perfectly the tedium of life in a hospital bed
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‘Venom: The Last Dance’ Review: Tom Hardy Can’t Save Plot-Heavy Sequel
Sony’s third “Venom” movie largely abandons the weirdness that made the first two films enjoyable
