Miss Sloane would like you to know that lobbying is a blood sport, a winner-take-all affair in which tactics trump ideas and those who…
The word “normalize” has been much in play in our cultural conversation lately, whether in reference to gross personal behavior, extreme…
Arrival is a splendidly restrained science fiction film, one that in fact may not become as successful as it deserves to be because of the…
The Girl on the Train would seem to to have all the surface qualities we want in an adaptation of a bestselling…
Shane Black’s hugely entertaining and very funny The Nice Guys is a private eye picture with jokes. The distinction between that…
Whit Stillman’s brisk adaptation of Jane Austen’s little-known novel Lady Susan finds the…
Captain America: Civil War is a film with multiple agendas. The latest chapter in the Marvel Cinematic Universe…
10 Cloverfield Lane is J.J. Abrams playing with us and doing it well. When the trailer appeared online a couple of months…
The new cop film Triple 9 (the title refers to police radio code for the shooting of an officer) is an entertaining enough way to pass two…
If your favorite Coen Brothers’ films are the early ones, the ones that got knocked for choosing dark screwball humor over characters…