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Movie Review | One Battle After Another by Garrett Rowlan

An endurance competition with no second place and only one survivor is the premise of "The Long Walk", a brutal adaptation of an early Stephen King novel.

I suppose I’m the target audience for 'Spinal Tap II: The End Continues', the new film about a trio of aging musicians revisited forty years after the first...

"Caught Stealing plays fair with the audience." By Garret Rowlan

Spike Lee’s new movie, Highest 2 Lowest, is an overstuffed film that feels longer than its 130-minute...

Don’t drink the water. That warning to tourists should have been applied to Millie and Tim, the troubled couple in the new horror film Together.

Horror, a genre that can barely keep up with today’s headlines, has had a recent uptick in Together and now Weapons.

Drive it and they will come. Such was my impression after attending the public opening of Cruising J-Town: Behind the Wheel of the Nikkei Community.

“We are at the center of history,” says Joaquin Phoenix, playing the mentally unraveling town sheriff Joe Cross at the end of Eddington, the new film by Ari...

The new Superman works too, but maybe works too hard, a near-constant barrage of big moments, and too eclectically.

The formula remains about the same: narrow escapes from snapping jaws that always seem to just miss their prey.

When did zombies go global? (1932) and (1942) kept the genre in Haiti, but George Romero’s , 1968, shifted the carnage to Pennsylvania and added an...

Well, why do you think they call it formula? Following tie-in ads for a watch company and a hotel chain, both with car-racing motifs, the theater lights dimmed,...

If one grows tired of the overly commercial, programmatic, and common-denominator-targeted movie fare, I suggest "Friendship," whose viewing was a bittersweet...

Wes Anderson is a taste I thought I had finally acquired after seeing The Grand Budapest Hotel some years ago, maybe because the enclosed setting suited the...

My credulity, not to mention my eardrums, having been recently tested by the derring-do of Tom Cruise in the recent Mission Impossible reboot, I sought solace...