JAKE COYLE

Film writer and critic

Movie Review: Nicole Kidman commands the erotic office drama ‘Babygirl’

The demands of achieving both one-day shipping and a satisfying orgasm collide in Halina Reijn’s “Babygirl,” a kinky and darkly comic erotic thriller about sex in the Amazon era.

Marianne Jean-Baptiste tests our limits of empathy in ‘Hard Truths’

Of all the movie protagonists you might have seen this year, none is quite like Marianne Jean-Baptiste’s Pansy in Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths.”

‘Sonic 3' bests ‘Mufasa: The Lion King’ at the box office

In the holiday season battle of big-budget family movies, Paramount Pictures’ “Sonic the Hedgehog 3” sped past the Walt Disney Co.’s “Mufasa: The Lion King” to take the top spot at the box office.

Robbie Williams: ‘I’ve been a cheeky monkey all my life’

The Robbie Williams heard in “Better Man” is Williams, himself. But the Williams seen in the movie is a computer-generated chimpanzee.

Brady Corbet and ‘The Brutalist’ go for broke

Brady Corbet’s “The Brutalist” emerged less like a new film worth checking out than a movie colossus to behold.

The best Christmas movies for every mood

‘Tis the season for spirited and winless debates about what the best Christmas movie is. No one needs us to remind you about the obvious holiday movies playing on repeat on cable, but perhaps you are looking to go beyond the obvious this year.

Movie Review: With ‘The Room Next Door,’ Pedro Almodóvar makes a lively movie about death

Films that are straightforwardly about death are rare, but movies that are about both death and sex are rarer, still.

★★★★

Barry Jenkins on why he made ‘Mufasa’ and how it changed him as a filmmaker

Over the four years he’s spent working on “Mufasa: The Lion King,” Barry Jenkins estimates that he’s been asked why he wanted to make it at least 400 times.

These three new sports dramas punch above their weight

The sports movie, like any genre, can easily fall victim to overly familiar story beats. An underdog challenger. A big match. You know how the rest goes.

How Timothée Chalamet transformed into Bob Dylan

How many roads must a man walk down to play Bob Dylan? Quite a few, at least, if you’re Timothée Chalamet.

In ‘Nickel Boys,’ striving for a new way to see

The story of RaMell Ross’ “Nickel Boys,” laced with the cruelties of the Jim Crow-era South, has commonalities with films made before.

Movie Review: A ‘Lord of the Rings’ tradition turns small-scale in the anime ‘Rohirrim’

It’s a discombobulating experience, after a “Lord of the Rings” trilogy that was built, down to every frame and hobbit hair, for the big screen, to see something so comparatively minor, small-scaled and TV-sized as “The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim,” writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in

★★★★

Filmmaker Ang Lee to receive Lifetime Achievement Award

Ang Lee, the protean filmmaker of “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and “Brokeback Mountain,” will receive the Directors Guild of America’s lifetime achievement award.

‘Emilia Pérez’ leads Golden Globe nominations with 10, followed by ‘The Brutalist’ and ‘Conclave’

Jacques Audiard’s audacious musical “Emilia Pérez,” about a Mexican drug lord who undergoes gender affirming surgery, led nominations to the 82nd Golden Globes on Monday, scoring a leading 10 nods.

Movie Review: A wordless Latvian cat parable about climate change is the year’s best animated movie

“Flow” is quite easily the best animated movie of the year and one of the most poetic ecological parables in recent memory, writes AP Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review.

★★★★

Exiled Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof’s definition of home is shifting

Shortly before he was to be flogged and imprisoned for eight years, Mohammad Rasoulof fled Iran. His weekslong journey would take him from Tehran, through rural Iranian villages, on foot across a mountainous borderland and ultimately to Hamburg, Germany.

The best movies of 2024 as ranked by AP film writers

Break out your “Dune” popcorn bucket: It’s time for the best movies of the year.

Dark comedy ‘A Different Man’ surprisingly triumphs at Gotham Awards

In a surprise that stunned the audience of Hollywood’s first big awards-season bash, “A Different Man,” a dark comedy about doppelgängers, deformity and authenticity in acting, won best feature film at the 34th Gotham Awards on Monday night.

Marshall Brickman, who co-wrote ‘Annie Hall’ with Woody Allen, dies at 85

The Oscar-winning screenwriter Marshall Brickman, whose wide-ranging career spanned some of Woody Allen’s best films, the Broadway musical “Jersey Boys” and a number of Johnny Carson’s most beloved sketches, has died.

‘Moana 2' sails to a record $221 million opening as Hollywood celebrates a moviegoing feast

“Moana 2” brought in a tidal wave of moviegoers over the Thanksgiving Day weekend with $221 million in ticket sales.

To play Maria Callas, Angelina Jolie had to learn how to breathe again

Finding the breath of Maria Callas was enough to bring things out of Jolie that she didn’t even know were in her.

Review: Though earnest and visually dazzling, ‘Moana 2' is more dull than so shiny

The warm Polynesian spirit and open-sea sense of adventure is back in “Moana 2,” but little of the original’s humor or catchy songs finds its way into this heartfelt but lackluster sequel set three years after the original, writes Associated Press Film Writer Jake Coyle in his review.

★★★★

Making ‘Queer’ required openness. Daniel Craig was ready

Since exiting the role of James Bond, Daniel Craig has seemed eager to push himself in further directions. He performed “Macbeth” on Broadway.

‘Wicked’ and ‘Gladiator’ make gravity-defying theater debuts

“Wicked” and “Gladiator II” have debuted in theaters with a combined $270 million in ticket sales. Their worldwide performance breathed fresh life into global box office results that have struggled lately.

How a slapstick movie idea about beavers went from the bar to one of 2024’s biggest indie hits

The microbudget movie “Hundreds of Beavers” has turned into lo-fi legend. Mike Cheslik’s film, made for just $150,000 and self-distributed in theaters, has managed to gnaw its way into a movie culture largely dominated by big-budget sequels.

What do hundreds of beavers have to do with the future of movies?

The low-budget movie “Hundreds of Beavers” has turned into a lo-fi legend. Mike Cheslik’s film, made for just $150,000 and self-distributed in theaters, has managed to gnaw its way into a movie culture largely dominated by big-budget sequels.

‘Ernest Cole: Lost and Found’ resurrects a once-forgotten anti-apartheid photographer

When the photographer Ernest Cole died in 1990 at the age of 49 from pancreatic cancer at a Manhattan hospital, his death was little noted.

Wrestling with the ghosts of ‘The Piano Lesson’

The August Wilson adaptation “The Piano Lesson” is an impassioned family drama but it is also a profound ghost story.

Payal Kapadia, director of ‘All We Imagine as Light,’ sees another way

Payal Kapadia’s “All We Imagine as Light” is about as rich a movie experience as you’ll find this year.

Martin Scorsese on faith in filmmaking, ‘The Saints’ and what his next movie might be

A year after the release of “Killers of the Flower Moon,” Martin Scorsese is still looking for his next feature.

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