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MoviePass has changed moviegoing 鈥� will it last?MoviePass made a huge splash in August 2017 when it lowered its monthly unlimited rate to $9.95. Observers are unsure if it's sustainable, but it's already disrupted the movie theater industry.
Sequel 'Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again' appears 10 years after originalThe film cuts back and forth between the present and 1979, when Donna, blandly played as a young woman by Lily James, met her three beaus and went gaga for Greece.
'Custody' doesn鈥檛 skimp on the ordeal of the child in a custody battleXavier Legrand鈥檚 intense debut feature, 'Custody,'聽at times presents people more as symbols than as individuals.
'Gauguin: Voyage to Tahiti' chronicles Gauguin鈥檚 desire to see a new wayIt鈥檚 a perplexing, fascinating, maddening movie, not quite like any other film biography of a famous painter.
'Shock and Awe' is a rote piece of workThe movie, which proves聽yet again that righteousness does not in itself make for a good film,聽depicts the work of the聽Knight Ridder journalists who worked in the lead-up to the 2003 Iraq War.
'Sorry to Bother You' eventually loses its way in a welter of surrealityThere鈥檚 a promising satirical idea embedded in 'Sorry to Bother You,' but the writer-director, Boots Riley, doesn鈥檛 quite know how to extricate it.
5 movies you should see this monthViewers will rejoice in the hopes of immigrants while watching 'En el S茅ptimo D铆a,' one of Monitor critic Peter Rainer's best movies of June.
'Three Identical Strangers' is a true story that could only be believed because it actually happenedIn 1980, through sheer coincidence, 19-year-olds Robert Shafran and Eddy Galland discovered they are identical twins separated at birth. When their story was trumpeted in the media, 19-year-old David Kellman saw the photos and realized he was their triplet.
'Leave No Trace' shows empathy for those on the fringes of societyBen Foster stars as Will, a war veteran and widower with post-traumatic stress disorder who has been living undercover with daughter Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) in a large public nature preserve in Portland, Ore.
First LookHow two documentaries became summer box office hits'Won't You Be My Neighbor?' and 'RBG' made unlikely box office stars of their subjects. The two documentaries serve as reminders to be kind and helpful 鈥� a聽message that is missing from the news,聽those behind the film said. 聽
First Look'Jurassic World,' 'Incredibles 2' make for Hollywood's fourth-largest weekend everHollywood raked in $280 million in ticket sales in the United States and Canada, roughly double what it made the same weekend last year. The largest factor: "Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom" roaring past bad reviews to open with $150 million.聽- 'The Catcher Was a Spy' is more pallid than its eminently juicy subject deservesPaul Rudd stars as聽Morris 'Moe' Berg, a middling catcher in baseball鈥檚 major leagues who was recruited by US military intelligence to spy on and possibly assassinate physicist Werner Heisenberg.
- The cast outshines the material in road trip movie 鈥楤oundaries鈥�Because of聽Christopher Plummer and Vera Farmiga,聽'Boundaries,' which might have been cooked up by a screenwriting program called RoadMovie, is halfway tolerable.
'Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom' is the latest and arguably least of the seriesChris聽Pratt brings a wry insouciance to the mayhem and the escape from Isla Nublar has its modicum of thrills.
First LookTo encourage diversity in Hollywood, a proposed tax creditCalifornia's proposed budget includes a tax credit for movie productions made in state that would require reporting diversity statistics and have sexual harassment protections in place for its employees. Credits would be awarded to "below the line" hiring practices, not just for starring actors and directors.
In China, US films struggle against homegrown moviesWith audiences in North America steadily shrinking, Chinese moviegoers have never been more important to Hollywood.聽But China has also poured billions of dollars into its own film industry.
'Saving Brinton' chronicles discovery of film raritiesIn 1981, Mike Zahs bought the boxed artifacts of Frank and Indiana Brinton, two barnstorming Iowa show people who, in the late 19th and early 20th century, projected early movies and staged magic acts all across the heartland.
While watching 'En el S茅ptimo D铆a,' viewers rejoice in the hopes of immigrantsThe film 鈥� the title means 'On the Seventh Day' in Spanish 鈥� is an unassuming charmer about a hot-button subject.聽
First LookBrie Larson pushes for film criticism diversity at awards showWinners at the Women in Film Crystal + Lucy Awards took the opportunity to advocate for diversity both in front聽of and behind the camera.聽聽
'Ocean's 8' has some spark and dazzleSandra Bullock plays Debbie, the sister of master con man Danny Ocean (who was played by George Clooney). Debbie鈥檚 assemblage of her crack team for a jewel heist has its sly amusements.