Roger Ebert famously received more emails in response to any review he had written—more than “Fahrenheit 9/11” and “The Passion…
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When D. Smith’s “Kokomo City” premiered at Sundance this year, Nick Allen wrote, “The women interviewed here—Liyah Mitchell, Dominque Silver, Koko…
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Can you call a film formulaic if it’s based on things that really happened? Maybe. As with any movie, it’s…
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Is Tyler Perry running for office? Despite a few moments that allow critical or at least skeptical views of the actor/writer/director/studio…
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If Gelila Bekele and Armani Ortiz’s “Maxine’s Baby: The Tyler Perry Story,” the origin documentary about the rise of the…
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Movies about giant monsters have a legacy of being talkier than expected, and I’m usually willing to go along with them…
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Like the monarchy, Netflix’s hit show “The Crown” has struggled with a rapid decline in public perception. It was initially…
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The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” don’t even have to do with…
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Criterion’s new Jackie Chan box set, “Emergence of a Superstar,” captures a fraught period in the career of a budding…
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After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat … all will be carved, this Thanksgiving,” Eli…
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