A boy sees a pretty girl at a party and delivers a pick-up line for the ages. "If you don't have anything to do tonight, how would you like to learn how to do the rhumba?" he asks. The girl is...

Pathos and action are found in equal parts in " The Adam Project," the latest attempt by Netflix to create the kind of throwback blockbuster that you might have paid to see in movie...

For Amy Poehler and millions of millions of Americans, "I Love Lucy" wasn't just something that was on television. It was a show that "came with your TV and was on your whole life," she said. But...

For anyone who found the band tensions that reverberate in "The Beatles: Get Back"  too tame, the Foo Fighters have made a movie in which arguments over recording an album lead to a trail of dead...

Joe Wright is at his best when he's making movies about love. They may not always have a happy ending. In fact, they usually don't. But truly romantic movies seem to be a rarer and rarer thing in...

There is a fallacy of youthful restlessness that's easy to forget when it's mostly in the rearview mirror: It's possible to both not know what you want while also being pretty sure of what you don't....

Pity those in charge of COVID-19 protocols on "Jackass Forever." Imagine, just for starters, the challenges of monitoring the health of participants in something called the "Vomitron." I could...

Some people might look up at the moon and admire its glowing and desolate beauty. Director Roland Emmerich apparently sees a constructed hollow orb that may have been built by aliens. Some of us will...

A train ride from Moscow to the arctic port city of Murmansk would not seem like the most likely setting for anything as warm as Finnish filmmaker Juho Kuosmanen's "Compartment No. 6."  To Laura...

Iranian filmmaker Asghar Farhadi had been thinking about the concept behind " A Hero " long before he started making movies. In fact, the spark came before he even knew that he'd ever make a...