Reviews

There’s duplicating assets and there’s sitting on the copy machine.

Something extremely rare: a delightful, highly recommendable watch that also happens to be wise and troubling about large, complicated, important issues.

Like the show that turned Johnson into a star, “Self Reliance” is usually funny enough and charming enough to overcome sometimes weak ideas, though occasionally it’s a close call.

Throughout “The Iron Claw” is a sense of how dim the light can be when a family exists under a parent’s psychologically damaging shade.

Hardly a curious look at people struggling to make ends meet finding a kindred spirit in a difficult, unpleasant world but just two thinly conceived characters navigating a mediocre story.

Has a lot to say about a young, attractive woman figuring out a world that frequently seeks to control, minimize, or objectify, and if you think those seem like familiar concepts, you haven’t seen it like this.

“Miracle,” this is not. “Boat” is more like if “School Ties” exclusively focused on the football team.

An expensively manufactured vase that writer-director Emerald Fennell forgot to fill.

Good year!

Overlooks most of the moments it needs to examine.

A healthy dose of laughs and characters you root for can overcome even a handful of ill-considered gags.

A deeply unpleasant and quite ridiculous game of hopscotch among devastating kidnapping thriller, nasty family drama, and empty serial killer nonsense.

People who love movies about love should hate this.

Maintains its predecessors’ recognition of individual innovation and group achievement while finding new ways to be erotic.

Essentially “Lobster Stuffed with Tacos: The Movie.”

Bests the recent lame “Scream” efforts while keeping you on your toes enough and laughing here and there.

Excels at tugging one strand of a rug and yanking the entire thing out from under two people who thought they could handle anything.

Hewson is so terrific that she holds the movie together until delivering the sort of great song that can make a weak album or a so-so movie feel worthwhile.

The performers are no match for the premise.

Tiresome in all the ways it should kick ass.