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The hardest films to pull off aren't works that are completely original, but those that take familiar scenarios and archetypes and make us feel wholly invested in an outcome. Edgar Wright has crafted just such a movie. It's not family-friendly...

Definitely not for kids, writer-director Guillermo del Toro’s The Shape of Water is imaginative filmmaking of the highest order, marred only slightly by a one-dimensional villain who spouts distorted religious ideas to justify his sadism. 4.5 out...

Overlong and overblown, this sequel to 2014's Kingsman: The Secret Service is louder and more aggressive than its predecessor, with little charm. Even so, the finale offers a few poignant moments, showing what might have been had the creative team...

What happened to Alexander Payne? The director behind meaningful dramedies like About Schmidt and The Descendants tries for a heavy-handed message movie that doesn't work as romantic comedy, science fiction or preachy tract. Downsizing is...

"Decades from now, people will remember your dignity," a journalist tells Jackie Kennedy just days after the death of President John F. Kennedy. History has borne that out, and we now have a film that also will be remembered for many years as the...

Battle of the Sexes is about more than a 1973 tennis match between rising female tennis star Billie Jean King and a past-his-prime, buffoonish Bobby Riggs. In portraying one of America’s early public figures to live openly as a homosexual, the...

Zombie buffs are more likely to get a charge out of this one than Jane Austen devotees. The film does offer interesting performances and an occasional inspired riff on the original novel, but it's hard to envision anyone leaving on an emotional...