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4 movies you should check out this monthFilms including 'Journey's End' and 'The Forgiven' earned top marks from our movie critic, Peter Rainer.
'Ready Player One' is a movie at odds with itselfSteven聽Spielberg鈥檚 frantically uneven film, adapted by Ernest Cline and Zak Penn and set in a grim 2045, posits an immersive virtual world called the OASIS where humans can become their own avatars and do anything imaginable.
'Final Portrait' has stagey action'Portrait' centers on the creation of an artistic depiction of writer James Lord that is created by Swiss artist聽Alberto Giacometti.
'Isle of Dogs' is a stop-motion tour de force that is flabbergastingly originalThe film聽is director Wes Anderson鈥檚 second foray into stop-motion animation, coming after the delightfully inventive 2009 adaptation of Roald Dahl鈥檚 'Fantastic Mr. Fox.'
In 'Tomb Raider,' the chasms are not nearly so wide as the gaps in its plot'Tomb Raider' stars Alicia Vikander as Lara Croft, who is attempting to solve聽the mystery of her tycoon father鈥檚 mysterious seven-year disappearance.
Black comedies don鈥檛 come much blacker than 'The Death of Stalin''Stalin' stars a聽marvelous crew of comic actors, including Rupert Friend, Steve Buscemi, and Michael Palin.
'Journey's End' shows horror of war, spirit that transcends itThe film is based on the oft-performed 1928 play and stars Asa Butterfield, Sam Claflin, and Paul Bettany.
鈥楢 Wrinkle in Time鈥� is more cheesy than transportingIn the film, middle-school math whiz Meg Murry (Storm Reid) and her precocious younger brother Charles Wallace (Deric McCabe) attempt to locate their vanished physicist father (Chris Pine).
In 鈥楾he Forgiven,' Desmond Tutu faces off with a white separatistThe film鈥檚 strength lies in the dialogue between the characters, portrayed by Forest Whitaker and Eric Bana.聽聽
First Look'Shape of Water' wins best picture as Oscars wrestles with changeHollywood handed out its top honors after a year that stirred such issues as gender equality and diversity to the surface.聽Several winners spoke of the importance of representation and the ability of art to 'erase the lines in the sand' that create division.聽- 'Movie Nights with the Reagans,' a new memoirMark Weinberg, a speechwriter and adviser to the president, recounts the weekend evenings he spent watching movies with the president and first lady at Camp David in the 1980s.
'Red Sparrow' is all grim oppressivenessMary-Louise Parker's cameo is a highlight in the film about a lethal Russian agent (Jennifer Lawrence).
鈥極h Lucy!鈥� portrays L.A. from a down-and-outer鈥檚 viewThe聽movie needs to be more expansive and antic than it is.
Why the 2018 Oscars matter: A look at the push for diversity that's changing the face of the movie industryHollywood鈥檚 biggest night is here again. Here鈥檚 a look at what鈥檚 dominating the conversation ahead of the prestigious event.
First Look'Last Men in Aleppo' is nominated for an Oscar, but ceremony remains out of reachThe Syrian government has refused to issue a travel visa for a rescue worker featured in the documentary directed by聽Firas Fayyad. The film follows a group of men in the then rebel-held part of Aleppo who volunteered to save lives during incessant government bombings.
'Annihilation' has cheesy visual effectsThere are times when the film skirts silliness, but director Alex Garland has a聽gift for locating the horror inside that silliness.
鈥楾he Party鈥� has great cast, somewhat negligible storyIn its themes and tone, it resembles a minor-league distillation of Edward Albee and Woody Allen.
'The Young Karl Marx' chronicles the early life of the philosopherTrying to encompass a vast swath of historical upheaval in the story of Marx and Friedrich Engels may well be an impossible task. Still, shouldn鈥檛 the film鈥檚 style be a bit more in tune with the incendiariness of its subject?
As 'Black Panther' hits screens in Africa, 'the hero is all of us'In Marvel's depiction of Wakanda, many African fans see something rarer than vibranium: a big-screen image of Africa that defies Hollywood stereotypes.
'Loveless' is an encompassing indictment of Russian societyThe film is聽an Oscar nominee for best foreign language film and is by the extraordinary Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev.
