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Finn Wolfhard and Julianne Moore star as son and mother in the new A24 film, When You Finish Saving the World, showing Jan. 21 at Cinema Center.

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 school student desperately trying to […]

A doll designed to serve as a companion quickly becomes much more sinister in M3GAN.

Better writing could help dull doll thriller

Dolls are creepy. Between the lifeless porcelain-eyed gaze and the unnatural permanent smile, it’s no surprise that filmmakers have gotten plenty of mileage from including them in horror movies for […]

Cate Blanchett gave a stunning performance in Brent Leuthold’s top movie of 2022, Tár.

Counting down top movies of 2022

Audiences slowly, but surely, began venturing back out to theaters worldwide in 2022, giving the movie industry a much needed bounce back after the pandemic shut things down the prior […]

Daniel Craig reprises his role as Benoit Blanc in Rian Johnson’s Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery.

Whodunit sequel exceeds predecessor

After delivering a modern whodunit classic with Knives Out a few years ago, writer/director Rian Johnson captures lightning in a bottle again with Glass Onion, a murder-mystery whose delights somehow […]

Daniel Giménez Cacho stars in "Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths."

Acclaimed director swings, misses

After winning Academy awards for Best Director back-to-back years for Birdman and The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu had doors open to him in terms of what project to pursue next. […]

Guillermo del Toro offers his own take on the story of Pinocchio.

‘Pinocchio’ gets del Toro treatment

There have been numerous cinematic adaptations of Carlo Collodi’s children’s book The Adventures of Pinocchio over the years, so perhaps it was inevitable that two would arrive in the same […]

Gabriel LaBelle stars as Sammy Fabelman in Steven Spielberg’s latest movie, The Fabelmans.

Spielberg turns camera on himself

On a 1999 episode of his revered series Inside the Actors Studio, James Lipton asked Steven Spielberg about a connection that he saw between Spielberg’s parents and a moment in […]

Ralph Fiennes and Anya Taylor-Joy share a scene in "The Menu."

Dark comedy serves just deserts

Comedian Patton Oswalt has a hilarious bit titled “Great Food Is Cooked By Psychos,” in which he equates his past love for out-there authors and musicians to his recent adoration […]

Angela Bassett and Letitia Wright reprise their roles in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

‘Panther’ sequel is tasteful, exciting

When news of Chadwick Boseman’s passing shook the world in August 2020, Black Panther director and co-writer Ryan Coogler was already deep into development on the sequel for his massive […]