‘Ant-Man’ comes up big at box office
The latest Ant-Man film, Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania, opened big, taking the No. 1 spot at the domestic box office with a whopping $104 million...
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Film about con artists only fools itself
Streaming on Apple TV+ on Friday, Feb. 17, the new psychological thriller Sharper is a movie about con artists that cons itself into thinking it’s...
Soderbergh scores another No. 1 movie
No one went to the movies last weekend, Super Bowl weekend. While weekend averages have been low this year, about $82 million per weekend, Super Bowl...
Thriller struggles to keep suspense
Due to the overwhelming popularity of The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, M. Night Shyamalan has been pigeonholed as a director whose films always have...
Shyamalan’s ‘Knock at Cabin’ takes No. 1
M. Night Shyamalan’s 15th feature film, Knock at the Cabin, took the No. 1 spot at the U.S. box office last weekend, selling a decent $14.2 million...
‘Infinity Pool’ could put viewers in over heads
Infinity Pool, the new nightmare vision from Possessor writer/director Brandon Cronenberg, finds itself at the intersection of two thematic landscapes...
Difficult to predict this year’s Oscars
Set to air March 12 with Jimmy Kimmel as host, the 95th Academy Awards will be the 15th year this column has covered the Oscars. The show has changed...
Familial bond missing from new thriller
A spiritual sequel, of sorts, to 2018’s Searching, the new thriller Missing stars Storm Reid as June Allen, a bright but troubled teen who has butted...
Feeling blue about ‘Avatar’ being No. 1
It’s happening. Right now. The film world is turning a corner. The industry has known for a long while that you sell more tickets with a sequel than...
Narcissism at center of indie film
Playing at Cinema Center this weekend, the indie dramedy When You Finish Saving the World stars Stranger Things’ Finn Wolfhard as Ziggy Katz, a high...