By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer Maggie Gyllenhaal’s “The Bride!” is a big, brash swing at a new “The Bride of Frankenstein” that struggles to cohere its many parts. But I’ll say […]
‘The Bride’ has some bite
‘Hoppers’ has action, sweetness
By Lindsey Bahr AP Film Writer “Hoppers” might be built with familiar parts, but Pixar’s latest isn’t trying to hide its various influences. Instead, this buoyant, freewheeling adventure about a spirited 19-year-old […]
‘Scream 7’s’ gore was a bore
By Mark Kennedy AP Entertainment Writer Early in “Scream 7,” in one of those blasts of the franchise’s signature, self-mocking irony, Neve Campbell is taunted for sitting out “Scream VI.” “It’s not […]
‘Man on the Run’ was up, down
By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer If Peter Jackson’s “The Beatles: Get Back” was the supreme document of the Beatles’ final moments together and of their dissolution, Morgan Neville’s “Man on the […]
‘How to Make a Killing’ misfires
By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer “How to Make a Killing,” starring Glen Powell as a working-class man who sets out to murderously reclaim his inheritance, has a clear inspiration: the great […]
An AI apocalypse in ‘Good Luck’
By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer In Gore Verbinski’s absurdist AI sci-fi satire “Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die,” a strange unnamed man (Sam Rockwell) steps into a Los Angeles diner and […]
‘Crime 101’ resembles ‘Heat’
By Jake Coyle AP Film Writer Bart Layton’s “Crime 101” is a “Heat” pastiche that, even if it falls well shy of its Michael Mann blueprint, has some basic appeal going for […]
It’s a bold, but a shallow new try at ‘Wuthering Heights’
By Lindsey Bahr AP Film Writer It’s hardly a surprise that filmmaker Emerald Fennell, who possesses a particular interest in shocking and riling her audience, was drawn to Emily Brontë’s “Wuthering Heights.” […]
‘Dracula’ is a lovesick vampire
By Jocelyn Noveck AP National Writer “I haven’t eaten in centuries,” says the stooped, wrinkled man knocking at a convent door, seeking food and shelter. LOL! It’s a funny line, given that […]
Statham can’t hide in ‘Shelter”
By Mark Kennedy AP Entertainment Writer Jason Statham lives in a Scottish lighthouse when we meet him in “Shelter” and that’s a pretty good analogy for Statham’s usual movie role these days: […]
