Phoenix and Reilly excel as 'The Sisters Brothers'
Wednesday, 7 November 2018, 09:45
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Joaquin Phoenix and John C. Reilly might not be obvious picks to play brothers, but French director Jacques Audiard made an inspired choice by casting them as such in "The Sisters Brothers ." By...
Redford is wry, charming in his (maybe?) swan song
Tuesday, 6 November 2018, 09:44
Last update: about 9 years ago
If you're going to pick someone to play a man who moves through the world with grace, style and a slight, wry smile, you could hardly do better than Robert Redford. As an actor, Redford broke...
For Gaga, Cooper, cast, 'A Star Is Born' hits close to home
Monday, 5 November 2018, 09:42
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
When Bradley Cooper saw Lady Gaga perform "La Vie en Rose" at a fundraiser at the home of entrepreneur Sean Parker, it wasn't one of the important moments along the road to making "A Star Is Born." It...
A very intimate quest shown in 'Private Life'
Friday, 2 November 2018, 12:42
Last update: about 9 years ago
The three things most couples fight about are said to be sex, money and kids. Tamara Jenkins has managed to up the ante for one stressed-out husband and wife by combining all of them in her latest...
'A Star Is Born' is dizzyingly wonderful
Thursday, 1 November 2018, 12:40
Last update: about 9 years ago
It's hard not to go into "A Star Is Born " without a lot of prejudgments. Even if you haven't seen the other three versions, the mere fact that they exist, and with such formidable talent, is enough...
Alaskan thriller 'Hold the Dark' is brutal and bleak
Wednesday, 31 October 2018, 14:20
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
The Alaska tourism board can't be all that thrilled with Jeremy Saulnier's "Hold the Dark ," a grueling but beautifully shot mystery about a small town where it seems the very best quality of life one...
In 'Colette,' a literary great is finally unbound
Tuesday, 30 October 2018, 12:39
Last update: about 9 years ago
Wash Westmoreland's "Colette" is a very British movie about a very French feminist icon. A handsome and lively period film, it's too timid to capture the ravenous appetites of the literary force that...
'Life Itself' is star-studded, earnest but lacking
Monday, 29 October 2018, 12:38
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Hallmark sentimentality, passionate defenses of Bob Dylan's "Time Out of Mind" and horrific head traumas are thrown together in Dan Fogelman's "Life Itself ," a curious cocktail of a movie from the...
Quincy Jones at 85: 'I'm too old to be full of it'
Friday, 26 October 2018, 12:36
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Quincy Jones holds out his hands. Like Jones, an easy raconteur, they tell stories. There's a small scar from when he, as a youngster in 1930s Chicago, accidently wandered into a gang's...
Sevigny, Stewart on Lizzie Borden, directing and taste
Thursday, 25 October 2018, 12:34
Last update: about 9 years ago
Associated Press
Chloe Sevigny has been trying to do a fresh take on the Lizzie Borden tale for over a decade. A fateful trip to the house in Fall River, Massachusetts, convinced her to look at Borden's life...