“Dignity. Always dignity,” proclaims Gene Kelly’s Don Lockwood as Singing in the Rain opens. As I watched Bong Joon-Ho’s latest, Parasite, I imagined Song Kan-ho’s Kim ki-Taek as a subtler Lockwood. By nature, Kim is a dignified patriarch, but in reality, he drew the shorter lot. His palace is a…

Relationships are at the center of every movie Quentin Tarantino makes. In his latest, Once Upon a Time… In Hollywood, the relationship is between actor Rick Dalton (Leonardo DiCaprio) and his stunt double Cliff Booth (Brad Pitt). Booth is basically a servant to Dalton, who can’t really seem to take…

Family is the subject of Lulu Wang’s uber-charming film The Farewell. That’s why watching it, about halfway through, you may forget it has a star at its center. …

In Crawl, what you see is what you get. Hurricane; man and daughter trapped by the floods…giant crocodile. We need not ask for — and we don’t get any —more. And that’s fine because what we do get, is pretty exciting. Directed by Don’t Breathe’s Alexandra Aja, Crawl is a creature feature à la The Shallows and 47 Meters Down — girl gets stuck in an inescapable situation with a giant animal on the prowl. Crawl plays safe, not daring to take much liberty on this formula.

No one really needs more Spider-Man. But it’s good that, in the incessant outpour of superhero movies, the one hero we see realized the most is getting pretty good treatment. …

Yesterday asks us to suspend disbelief for two hours — to hop into a world where The Beatles (and other random things) do not exist. Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is the only one who remembers their songs, naturally, as the trailer promises, “he’s about to become a very big deal.” …

In Billy Wilder’s gut-busting 60-year-old romp, men learn their lesson. If movies are built around an argument — and that argument reigns over every creative decision — character, plot, and structure will naturally follow. Billy Wilder, one of the best screenwriters ever to grace the medium, was, first and foremost…

Late Night, the new comedy from Amazon Studios, dips its feet in several different tones and themes simultaneously; it's a lighthearted showbiz romp, a satisfying underdog tale that owes just as much to Rocky as it does to The Devil Wears Prada, but it’s also very sociologically aware — woke…

In a summer already filled with unnecessary movies, Men in Black: International is but another lackluster project. Rebooting MIB for 2019 may seem like a better idea than rebooting, say, Shaft, but International has almost nothing to justify its existence. Proficient in sci-fi mumbo-jumbo jargon, International fails at communicating a…