‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ review: The Weeknd movie is a waste
The lure for music stars to cinematize their success will never grow old, and the movies — in need of high-wattage attractions as ever —…
Review: Revving engines, thrills and drama drive ‘Duster’ and ‘Motorheads’
After humans, and arguably before dogs and horses, there is no character more vital to the screen, and more vital onscreen, than the automobile. Driven…
‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ review: Stunts thrill, exposition doesn’t
CANNES, France — Tom Cruise’s Ethan Hunt arrived in France in 1996’s “Mission: Impossible” clinging to a high speed train through the Chunnel, pursued and nearly skewered…
‘The Queens’ tour review: Chaka Khan sings with Stevie Wonder
Near the end of an evening ruled by queens, a king was keeping Chaka Khan waiting.“Stevie Wonder’s in the house tonight,” Khan said late Sunday…
I’m a used car expert, this is my review of the MOST popular car on Sun Motors right now
BUYING a used car involves lots of decisions. What size and style do you want? Are you petrol, diesel, hybrid or EV? Should you buy…
‘Mark Twain’ review: New bio explores iconic writer’s highs and lows
Book Review Mark Twain By Ron ChernowPenguin Press: 1,200 pages, $45If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from…
‘Fight or Flight’ review: Hartnett saves it from crash-landing
Take note: If you have any anxiety about flying, director James Madigan’s “Fight or Flight” will not be for you. But if a cheap and…
‘Vulcanizadora’ review: Probing the limits of guilt and anxiety
The sardonic meme phrase “Are men okay?” gets a bleakly amusing yet quietly devastating workover in Joel Potrykus’ “Vulcanizadora,” about a pair of downtrodden dudes…
‘Life of Pi’ at the Ahmanson review: Enchanting and profound
The natural world is aswirl in “Life of Pi,” a marvelously inventive stage adaptation of Yann Martel’s 2002 Booker Prize-winning novel. This pageant of puppetry…
‘Friendship’ review: Tim Robinson turns self-immolation into comedy
We keep hearing that we’re in a male-loneliness epidemic. The agonizing and hilarious “Friendship” makes it feel like the Black Death. Written and directed by…
‘Pavements’ review: Stephen Malkmus’ indie-rock band in full, creatively
By way of introduction, “Pavements,” director Alex Ross Perry’s experimental hybrid documentary about the ’90s indie-rock paragons Pavement, refers to the group as “The World’s…
‘Forever’ review: An ode to first love based on Judy Blume’s novel
“Forever…,” the 1975 Judy Blume YA novel about teenagers losing their virginity, has inspired a Netflix series with changes you’re free to regard as substantial…
Facebook and real estate developer pitch state lawmakers on speedier environmental review cases
Sacramento — Facebook executives and a New York developer are hoping that their major development projects could get built years sooner than planned under last-minute legislation at…
‘The Director’ review: Novel fills in gaps of G.W. Pabst’s life
Book Review The Director: A Novel By Daniel Kehlmann, translated by Ross BenjaminSummit Books: 352 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The…
‘Miss Austen’ TV series review: A PBS Masterpiece ode to Jane
If I write, It is a truth universally acknowledged that to begin an essay with the words “It is a truth universally acknowledged” marks the…
‘Rust’ review: Troubled Alec Baldwin western is haunted, guilt-ridden
Ideally, we like to watch movies in a state of willful ignorance regarding their making, even if the whole machinery of selling and promoting a…
‘Bonjour Tristesse’ review: Chloë Sevigny complicates remake
The combination of adolescence’s slippery hedonism and the French Riviera’s languid air spurred the explosive popularity of Françoise Sagan’s 1954 novel “Bonjour Tristesse,” written when…
‘April’ review: Riveting portrait of obstetrician at risk
In writer-director Déa Kulumbegashvili’s disquieting second feature, a strange creature is on the loose. We glimpse it in the first moments of “April” — this…
‘The Manor of Dreams’ Review: Matriarchs battle over a haunted estate
Book Review The Manor of Dreams By Christina LiAvid Reader Press: 352 pages, $29If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn…
‘Thunderbolts*’ review: Marvel sets expectations low, meets them
Marvel’s jokey, moody and middling “Thunderbolts*” returns the blockbuster franchise to the geeks. Only audiences caught up with the Cinematic Universe’s 35 films (plus a…