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Ready Player One&#39;s &#39;80s References &#39;Too Sweet to Spoil&#39;
Spielberg Gets Nostalgic
in Ready Player One
MOVIE REVIEW
Mar 30, 2018 9:00 AM CDT

Spielberg Gets Nostalgic in Ready Player One

Dozens of 1980s references are 'too sweet to spoil,' critic says

(Newser) - Steven Spielberg's Ready Player One , adapted from Ernest Cline's 2011 novel of the same name, is set in 2045, but it's clearly homesick for the 1980s. Packed with nostalgic references, it follows gamer Wade Watts on a quest to take control of a virtual-reality world in which...

Wes Anderson&#39;s Genre-Bending Isle of Dogs Is a Treat
Wes Anderson's
Latest Is an
Odd, Visual Treat
MOVIE REVIEW
Mar 23, 2018 9:55 AM CDT

Wes Anderson's Latest Is an Odd, Visual Treat

'Isle of Dogs' is a stop-motion tale

(Newser) - Nabbing an all-star cast for his ninth feature film about the exile of dogs to a trash island in a future Japan appears to have paid off for Wes Anderson. The stop-motion Isle of Dogs —with Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Bryan Cranston, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, and...

Lara Croft Should Probably Stick to Video Games
3rd Time Not
the Charm for
Tomb Raider
MOVIE REVIEW
Mar 16, 2018 10:20 AM CDT

3rd Time Not the Charm for Tomb Raider

'There's nothing here we haven't seen before,' says Adam Graham

(Newser) - Fifteen years after Angelina Jolie last took on the role, Lara Croft gets a fresh face. In Roar Uthaug's Tomb Raider , Swedish Oscar winner Alicia Vikander plays the daughter of a missing adventurer who falls into a world of trouble on a remote Pacific island while trying to trace...

Wrinkle in Time May Not Be Worth Yours
Wrinkle in Time May
Not Be Worth Yours
MOVIE REVIEW
Mar 9, 2018 8:30 AM CST

Wrinkle in Time May Not Be Worth Yours

Joe Morgenstern calls big-budget film 'a great disappointment'

(Newser) - More than 50 years after it was written, Madeleine L'Engle's beloved children's tale about a girl who hopes to rescue her father from a distant planet, to which he's traveled through a wrinkle in time, is hitting the big screen. What did Ava DuVernay manage with...

Red Sparrow May Be Too Bloody for Its Own Good
Red Sparrow
May Be Too Bloody
for Its Own Good
MOVIE REVIEW
Mar 2, 2018 11:15 AM CST

Red Sparrow May Be Too Bloody for Its Own Good

Despite a valiant performance from Jennifer Lawrence

(Newser) - After a career-ending injury, Russian ballerina Dominika becomes a seductive spy in Red Sparrow , a Francis Lawrence-directed film based on Jason Matthews' novel. Starring Jennifer Lawrence, it's a bloody affair that might not be worth its 2.5-hour run time, based on what critics are saying. It had a...

Annihilation Is a Treat for the Eyes and Mind
Prepare to Be
'Shellshocked'
by Annihilation
MOVIE REVIEW
Feb 23, 2018 10:22 AM CST

Prepare to Be 'Shellshocked' by Annihilation

One critic labels it 'an emotional and mental tightrope'

(Newser) - Often diverging from the Jeff VanderMeer novel that inspired it, Annihilation from writer-director Alex Garland sees five female specialists set out to explore something akin to a force field that has appeared in Florida. Only one man has escaped it, and he's, well, rattled. You might be, too, after...

Stellar Cast Powers &#39;Stunning&#39; Black Panther


The Hype Is Real:
Black Panther
Is Fantastic
MOVIE REVIEW
Feb 16, 2018 9:38 AM CST

The Hype Is Real: Black Panther Is Fantastic

'One of the best times I've had at the movies this decade,' says Richard Roeper

(Newser) - Black Panther , directed by Ryan Coogler, has been hyped as one of the first superhero films to feature a predominantly black cast. It's those actors—led by Chadwick Boseman as leader of the African kingdom of Wakanda—who ensure the film only exceeds expectations, according to critics, who...

Fifty Shades Is Still Missing the Heat
Fifty Shades Finale
Is Not Being Treated Kindly
MOVIE REVIEW
Feb 9, 2018 10:12 AM CST

Fifty Shades Finale Is Not Being Treated Kindly

Dialogue is 'outright laughable,' says one critic

(Newser) - The phenomenon that is Fifty Shades of Grey is going out the same way it came in to movie theaters : with a snore, according to critics. They've given the third and final installment of the film series a lousy 13% rating on Rotten Tomatoes , complaining mainly about a lack...

Call Me By Your Name Called a &#39;Masterpiece&#39;
Call Me By Your Name
Called a 'Masterpiece'
MOVIE REVIEW
Jan 19, 2018 11:16 AM CST

Call Me By Your Name Called a 'Masterpiece'

Timothee Chalamet shines alongside Armie Hammer

(Newser) - Call Me By Your Name takes viewers to northern Italy in the summer of 1983, where 17-year-old Elio (recent Golden Globe nominee Timothee Chalamet) meets 24-year-old American graduate student Oliver (Armie Hammer) and, well, things heat up. The film by Luca Guadagnino, adapted from the novel by Andre Aciman,...

Paddington 2 Is Getting Crazy Good Reviews
Paddington 2
Is Getting Crazy
Good Reviews
MOVIE REVIEW
Jan 12, 2018 10:35 AM CST

Paddington 2 Is Getting Crazy Good Reviews

It's 'completely delightful,' says one critic

(Newser) - Since 2014's Paddington , the cuddly bear has settled into his new home with the Brown family in London, but his adventures are by no means over. In Paddington 2 , he gets a job so he can buy a rare book for his aunt but is wrongly imprisoned for its...

Molly&#39;s Game Is Classic Sorkin
Molly's Game Is
Classic Sorkin
MOVIE REVIEW
Jan 5, 2018 10:34 AM CST

Molly's Game Is Classic Sorkin

Jessica Chastain's performance generates Oscar buzz

(Newser) - Aaron Sorkin makes his directorial debut in Molly's Game , derived from Molly Bloom's tell-all book of the same name. It chronicles the real-life events surrounding Bloom's weekly high-stakes poker game frequented by celebrities before it was busted by the FBI. Critics give the film starring Jessica Chastain...

Day-Lewis Goes Out on a High Note
Day-Lewis Goes
Out on a High Note
MOVIE REVIEW
Dec 29, 2017 8:51 AM CST

Day-Lewis Goes Out on a High Note

Actor 'gives it his all' in 'Phantom Thread' romance

(Newser) - If Phantom Thread is indeed Daniel Day-Lewis' last film , the actor is going out on a high note. Working with writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, he plays 1950s London fashion designer Reynolds Woodcock, who gets more than he bargains for in a waitress-turned-muse. Here's what critics are saying:
  • Day-Lewis "
...

The Post Has Serious Theme, but Is &#39;Highly Entertaining&#39;
The Post Has Serious Theme,
but Is 'Highly Entertaining'
MOVIE REVIEW
Dec 22, 2017 10:53 AM CST

The Post Has Serious Theme, but Is 'Highly Entertaining'

Movie chronicles publication of the Pentagon Papers

(Newser) - Steven Spielberg signed on to The Post in March. Just nine months later, the film chronicling the Washington Post's publishing of the Pentagon Papers in 1971 is hitting theaters at what some critics argue is the perfect time. It has a solid 85% "fresh" rating from critics at...

The Last Jedi's Rotten Tomatoes Score Might Be Bogus

'Star Wars' fan claims he made bot accounts on Facebook to churn out bad rankings

(Newser) - Star Wars: The Last Jedi has racked up plenty of favorable reviews en route to a 93% rating from critics on Rotten Tomatoes . But the film's audience rating, currently 55% after more than 124,000 user reviews, isn't nearly as impressive. It may not be that moviegoers don'...

The Last Jedi Is the Best Star Wars Flick Since Empire
The Last Jedi Is
the Best Star Wars
Flick Since Empire
MOVIE REVIEW
Dec 15, 2017 7:51 AM CST

The Last Jedi Is the Best Star Wars Flick Since Empire

One critic calls it 'simply stupendous'

(Newser) - What is arguably the most anticipated film of the year has arrived in force. Star Wars: The Last Jedi, the first in the series from writer-director Rian Johnson, is sure to kill at the box office regardless of reviews. But Disney will be happy, anyway. Critics say The Last Jedi,...

It&#39;s a &#39;Nearly Flawless Program&#39; for I, Tonya
Robbie's Harding
Is the 'Performance
of a Lifetime'
MOVIE REVIEW
Dec 8, 2017 9:25 AM CST

Robbie's Harding Is the 'Performance of a Lifetime'

She's a 'revelation' and 'a powerhouse,' says one reviewer

(Newser) - You may think you know Tonya Harding, the US figure skater whose career was ruined when she was associated with an attack on her rival, Nancy Kerrigan, ahead of the 1994 US Figure Skating Championships. But Craig Gillespie's I, Tonya might convince you otherwise. Presented as a faux documentary,...

James Franco &#39;Superb&#39; in Disaster Artist
Franco, Disaster Artist
Pull Off an Amazing Feat
MOVIE REVIEW
Dec 1, 2017 10:50 AM CST

Franco, Disaster Artist Pull Off an Amazing Feat

They turn 'trash into art'

(Newser) - Determined to make it in Hollywood despite an avalanche of rejections, Tommy Wiseau set out to make a movie of his own. The Room , released in 2003, is arguably one of the worst movies ever made. But the same can't be said of James Franco's The Disaster Artist,...

No Other Movie Has 100% Rating With So Many Reviews

'Lady Bird' manages the feat with 170 critics on Rotten Tomatoes

(Newser) - The early reviews of the movie Lady Bird were fantastic, and that track record is holding up in unprecedented fashion. Slate points out that the movie written and directed by Greta Gerwig has just notched a record on Rotten Tomatoes . It had 170 reviews as of Tuesday afternoon and yet...

Pixar Finds Its Groove Again With Coco
Coco Is a Feast for
the Eyes and Ears
MOVIE REVIEW
Nov 24, 2017 10:09 AM CST

Coco Is a Feast for the Eyes and Ears

Anthony Gonzalez 'can sing like nobody's business'

(Newser) - A 12-year-old boy with music in his heart finds himself transported to the Land of the Dead in Pixar's first feature film with a minority lead character, co-directed by Lee Unkrich and Adrian Molina. Giving the film a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes , critics are singing its praises:
  • "
...

Three Billboards Could Bring Oscar No. 2 for McDormand
Three Billboards'
McDormand 'Will
Blow You Away'
MOVIE REVIEW
Nov 10, 2017 11:20 AM CST

Three Billboards' McDormand 'Will Blow You Away'

Cue the Oscar buzz for this 'renegade masterpiece'

(Newser) - Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri stars Frances McDormand as a woman who swears a whole lot more than a sailor. She also happens to be grieving over the unsolved murder of her daughter, which prompts her to erect three billboards highlighting what she views as police incompetence. The flick , written...

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