Critic’s Notebook

Imagine this: You're a little hungry, so you step into a small Italian trattoria for a meal. You have modest [...]

Director Quentin Tarantino, the ultimate rule-breaker, is at it again in “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.” A kinder, [...]

The latest installment of “Toy Story” is a romantic comedy in the classic mold, featuring Woody (Tom Hanks) as the [...]

There is reason to believe that 2018's “Bad Times” could have been a very good film. The contained, isolated setting [...]

The scene that best defines “The Sisters Brothers” takes place along a river bank in the remote, anarchic, gold-rush California [...]

For director and writer Jordan Peele, there’s always another layer to be revealed — a subterranean one. In “Get Out!” [...]

Director and writer Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck’s Oscar-nominated “Never Look Away,” loosely based on the life of top-selling German artist [...]

In a year in cinema dominated by both race and films “based on a true story,” “Cold War,” filmed in [...]

After a first enigmatic scene —buckets of soapy water flowing over a stone surface — it seems clear early on [...]

When we’re introduced to Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy), she’s just been fired (apparently from "The New Yorker" magazine, where she [...]

The strength of Paul Dano’s directing debut, “Wildlife,” based on the eponymous 1990 novel by one of America’s best novelists, [...]

It’s convenient and often useful to classify films: this one’s a buddy film, that one’s a rom-com, another’s a chick [...]