Timothée Chalamet and Austin Butler were really looking forward to their fight. The actors had been training, separately, with a Kali instructor in Los Angeles to prepare for the climactic...

Three firm thumps into the Arrakis sand is all you need to summon a sandworm in Denis Villeneuve’s “Dune: Part Two.” It’s almost as easy as hailing a cab or calling...

OK, so maybe we're not tracking her jet travel online like amateur spies, or worrying on a diplomatic level whether she'll make it to a football game. But current Swift-mania aside, let's not...

“Drive-Away Dolls” is, technically speaking, made up of old parts. Its script was written two decades ago, when references to Ralph Nader and Chelsea Clinton’s security detail...

To say the hero of Netflix's new animated movie "Orion and the Dark" is fearful is an understatement. Orion, 11, is scared of clogging up the school toilet, murderous gutter clowns, cell phones...

"Why are you teaching us to be so rude?" the elderly village woman asks a Bhutanese election official in "The Monk and the Gun." It's a question both poignant and biting, because the "teaching"...

There is a lot of pretty niche comic book mythology swirling around "Madame Web," the inspiration for the newest of Sony's "Spider-Man" spinoffs. This is a character who goes back to 1980 and...

It will come as no surprise that the new movie "Lisa Frankenstein" is a real monster — stitched together from previous movies, painfully incoherent and deeply, deeply dumb. This is a...

Wim Wenders' "Perfect Days" is set among the crowded skyscrapers of Tokyo and the quiet urban parks that Hirayama (Kôji Yakusho) traverses daily in his job cleaning public toilets. But where the...

Words like "important" and "vital" are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It's not that we don't mean it — it's just that sometimes we (ok, I) can get a bit excited. And...