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Sony Pictures Releasing The Shadow That’s Haunting Will Smith
He’s still a movie star. But both of his latest films reflect an actor terrified of fading into obscurity.
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STX Films Matthew McConaughey Can Do Better Than This
The actor gives a listless performance in The Gentlemen, an unpleasant muddle of bigoted humor and tired clichés.
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Peter Mountain / Netflix How The Two Popes Condemns Current-Day Authoritarianism
The film’s references to radical pedagogical texts can be read as a subtle rebuke of Brazil’s Bolsonarismo.
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Sundance / Focus Features What Critics Are Looking Forward to at Sundance 2020
The annual film festival will kick off a new year in independent cinema this week.
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GKIDS A Film About Teens Finding Love Amid Climate Apocalypse
Makoto Shinkai’s bold and charming Weathering With You is set in a world ending so gradually, people barely notice it anymore.
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AP Photo / Mark Lennihan Stephen King’s Comments About the Oscars Explain the Oscars
The author, who is an Academy Award voter, inadvertently captured why Hollywood’s biggest ceremony faces a diversity problem year after year.
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Universal Dolittle Is One of the Worst Movies in Years
The new film starring Robert Downey Jr. as a doctor who talks to animals is transfixing at times, if only because it’s such a disaster.
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Victoria Will / Invision / AP The Filmmaker Who Says M. Night Shyamalan Stole Her Movie
A lawsuit filed by Francesca Gregorini argues that the Apple TV+ series Servant shares eerie similarities with her 2013 film, The Truth About Emanuel.
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A24 / Everett Collection The Problem With the Oscars’ Idea of a ‘Good Movie’
Every year, plenty of excellent films are excluded from the awards-season conversation for reasons that have nothing to do with talent or artistry. This year is no different.
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Warner Bros. Breaking Down the 2020 Oscar Nominations
Todd Phillips’s Joker is the biggest contender in an Academy Awards race featuring a single actor of color and no female directors.
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Warner Bros. Just Mercy Is a Stark True Story of Good and Evil
The biopic draws power from its faithful retelling of a man’s wrongful conviction, but risks seeming more like a news summary than a narrative work.
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20th Century Fox Underwater Entertains but Doesn’t Have Much Depth
Kristen Stewart stars in a film that dares to ask the chilling question, “What if you were underwater and something really bad happened?”
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Sarah Lee / eyevine / Redux Rose McGowan’s Hijacked Life
The woman who helped topple Harvey Weinstein talks about what it cost her.
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United Artists / Paramount / Focus Features / ... 25 Movies to Look Forward to in 2020
Mulan, Candyman, West Side Story, a new Christopher Nolan thriller, plus all the usual comic-book films
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Paul Drinkwater / NBC Ricky Gervais Almost Got It Right on Hollywood Hypocrisy
At the Golden Globes, the host told celebrities not to lecture about politics—as he lectured about politics.
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters The Golden Globes Sends a Message With Its Snub of The Irishman
Netflix’s biggest awards-season contender went home empty-handed last night. What does this mean for the Oscars race ahead?
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Stephanie Keith / Getty / Shutterstock / The ... Harvey Weinstein Haunted the Golden Globes
The glittering ceremony took place on the eve of the Hollywood mogul’s criminal trial. You wouldn’t have known that from watching the show.
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Reuters A Chaotic Golden Globes for a Chaotic Moment
The kickoff to awards season was an evening that oscillated wildly between jovial bonhomie and current crisis.
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Disney Imagining a Better End to The Rise of Skywalker
Three fan-fiction writers dissect the divisive ending of the Disney trilogy—and the role of romance in the series.
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Universal 1917 Is a Visual Feat and a Bad Movie
Sam Mendes’s war drama is designed to look like it was shot in two long takes. But this technical accomplishment is wasted on a soulless film.
