Peter Debruge

From left, John Dory, Poppy and Branch in "Trolls Band Together."

‘Trolls Band Together’ review: Justin Timberlake takes spotlight in the next boy band-themed ‘Trolls’ movie

November 17, 2023 at 11:15 a.m.

When DreamWorks' original "Trolls" movie was released in 2016, it wasn't immediately apparent that the studio was launching a musical franchise. The rainbow-bright computer-animated feature boasted a sparkly soundtrack and...

Ryan Gosling in the movie "The Gray Man."

Review: ‘The Gray Man’ is Ryan Gosling and Chris Evans trying to out-kill each other

July 15, 2022 at 4:23 p.m.

At age 13, Ryan Gosling was spreading cheer on "The Mickey Mouse Club." But something must have snapped in the dozen years between "The Notebook" and "La La Land." The...

‘The Electrical Life of Louis Wain’ review: Benedict Cumberbatch is the cat’s whiskers

October 21, 2021 at 4:31 p.m.

Louis Wain painted cats, hundreds if not thousands of cats. He painted the critters with big googly eyes, gathered round the dinner table, serving tea or slurping at straws. He...

‘Hope Gap’ review: Annette Bening and Bill Nighy part in brutally fair divorce film

March 5, 2020 at 5:18 p.m.

In "Hope Gap," Annette Bening plays a fiercely intelligent English housewife who has been toiling away on a project for years. A lover of literature, Bening's character Grace is compiling...

Bartosz Bielenia stars in the Polish film "Corpus Christi," which was nominated for an Oscar for best international film of the year.

‘Corpus Christi’ review: Oscar-nominated film meditates on nature of faith

February 13, 2020 at 5:22 p.m.

What makes a priest a priest? Technically, the answer is devotion to God, completion of seminary training, and ordination by a bishop to deacon status — all this must happen...

‘The Last’ review: Jewish matriarch’s confession upends her family

May 2, 2019 at 3:00 a.m.

In August 2018, Jakiw Palij — a former concentration camp guard identified as "the last known World War II Nazi living in the U.S." — was deported to his homeland,...

Film Review: Childish Gambino’s ‘Guava Island’

May 1, 2019 at 4:03 a.m.

Last summer, Donald Glover snuck off to Cuba to create something -- a feature film collaboration, or so the rumors had it, based on scant information other than a photo...

‘Mapplethorpe’ review: Biopic starring Matt Smith fails to capture artist’s dramatic conflict

June 11, 2019 at 11:00 p.m.

A renegade Catholic boy raised by conservative parents in Queens, New York, Robert Mapplethorpe transformed some of the most blasphemous subjects on earth — gay sex, Satanism, bondage — into...

‘All About Nina’ review: Mary Elizabeth Winstead shines as funny girl, messed-up woman

December 12, 2018 at 9:36 a.m.

Stand-up comedian Nina Geld throws up after every set. That's just one of the painful details we learn about the wonderfully complex character Mary Elizabeth Winstead plays in "All About...

Film Review: Netflix’s ‘To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before’

December 13, 2018 at 1:21 a.m.

If John Hughes were alive today, he might very well make a movie like "To All the Boys I've Loved Before," which doesn't talk down to its audience about subjects...

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