By now you'd think you know what you're getting with an Adam Sandler sports movie. "Happy Gilmore" and "The Waterboy" have conditioned us to expect silly voices and left hooks from irritated game show...

George Saunders' short story "Escape from Spiderhead" is not, you might say, an obviously cinematic piece. It's the kind of subtly unsettling work — stark, moody and dialogue heavy — that...

Leonard Cohen was deep in his career when he finally finished "Hallelujah." Well, the first version of "Hallelujah" — there would be many, many versions when all was said and done. He'd toiled...

Films like "It Follows" and "The Guest" have already made Maika Monroe something of a modern scream-queen with a feminist bent. But the psychological acuity and compelling vulnerability Monroe brings...

Somewhere in the southwest of England is a sprawling stone estate nestled along hedge-lined lanes that you can rent, complete with wood fireplaces, low oak beams, an apple tree in the yard and a room...

When there are so many fictional, burly varieties of heroes so regularly on movie screens, it's jarring to see that the genuine article can be a humble, gaunt former traffic cop who believed in the...

As one of our most talented living actors on screen or stage, Mark Rylance certainly knows how to speak beautifully. But sometimes it seems the essence of his acting emerges in those blank seconds...

"In 1995, Andy got a toy from his favorite movie. This is that movie." So begins "Lightyear," a new Pixar release that takes a meta approach to the animation studio's flagship franchise. It isn't...

For a movie about a girl with pyrokinetic powers, " Firestarter " is lacking a certain spark. This new adaptation of Stephen King's 1980 novel is not scary or thrilling, nor is it emotionally...

One wedding and a funeral — and a birth. That gorgeous house, never mind the leaky roof. Some sunshine, too! More bone-dry quips from Maggie Smith. And oh, the clothes — silks and satins,...