Film Reviews

Review: More Minion mayhem in ‘Despicable Me 4'

Should a review of “Despicable Me 4" be a thoughtful analysis or just a list of the funny stuff the Minions do in it?

Movie Review: Shhhh...the novelty is gone in ‘A Quiet Place’ prequel

Lupita Nyong’o plays a terminal cancer patient on the first day of the apocalypse in “A Quiet Place: Day One.”

Movie Review: Kevin Costner sets the table with overstuffed first take on epic ‘Horizon’

There’s a scene deep into Kevin Costner’s new Western when he and a woman are fleeing bad guys on horseback.

Movie Review: Taxicab confessions with Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn in ‘Daddio’

Dakota Johnson gets into a cab in the new film “Daddio” and starts up a conversation with her driver that will last the duration.

Movie Review: ‘Kinds of Kindness,’ Emma Stone’s latest foray into fearlessness with Yorgos Lanthimos

“Kinds of Kindness” is Emma Stone’s third feature collaboration with writer-director Yorgos Lanthimos, and they’re not done.

Movie Review: In ‘The Bikeriders,’ the birth of a subculture on two wheels

In the exhilarating first half of “The Bikeriders,” writer-director Jeff Nichols is less compelled to build a narrative around the 1960s bike gang, the Vandals, than he is to summon an intoxicating atmosphere reminiscent of the old photographs that inspired the film.

Review: June Squibb is delightful as a grandma on a mission in ‘Thelma’

In the new film “Thelma,” June Squibb plays a 90-something who gets scammed out of $10,000 and goes on a mission to get it back.

Movie Review: Peace (and pieces) of mind ‘Inside Out 2'

Tempting as it is to consider any revisiting of “Inside Out” as sacrilegious, its sequel is deftly sensitive to one of the most complicated and awkward chapters of life, AP Film Writer Jake Coyle writes in his review.

Movie Review: ‘Tuesday,’ with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is strange, emotional and fiercely original

The new film “Tuesday” is about death, and acceptance, between a mother and her dying daughter. Written and directed by Daina O.

Movie Review: Andrew McCarthy hunts the ‘Brat Pack’ blowback in the documentary ‘Brats’

Back in 1985, rising star Andrew McCarthy was lumped into an amorphous group of young actors who were changing Hollywood. They were called the “Brat Pack.”

Movie Review: Dakota Johnson brings her winning authenticity to sweet friendship comedy ‘Am I OK?’

It’s been a good month for female buddy movies. First we had go-for-broke childbirth comedy “Babes,” and now we have “Am I OK?

Review: Will Smith is back in ‘Bad Boys: Ride or Die,’ with Martin Lawrence riding shotgun

“Bad Boys: Ride or Die” is the first movie Will Smith has made in that era defined as Post Slap. Here he is, back in the driver’s seat and flying around the Miami waterfront with Lawrence riding shotgun.

Movie Review: Muppets creator Jim Henson gets a documentary as exciting as he was

The origins of Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy are part of the engrossing and enlightening documentary “Jim Henson Idea Man.”

Movie Review: Daisy Ridley shines in inspirational swimming pic ‘Young Woman and the Sea’

Trudy Ederle is not what you might call a household name, but she soon could be thanks to Daisy Ridley who portrays the competitive swimmer in the inspirational new film “Young Woman and the Sea.”

Review: ‘Robot Dreams’ is more profound than it has any right to be

Just as the Earth, Wind & Fire song “September” asks “Do you remember?” so too does “Robot Dreams,” a sweetly wistful little movie.

Movie Review: This is her, now, in space: J.Lo heads to a new galaxy for AI love story in ‘Atlas’

With Jennifer Lopez, it’s always about the love story. And so it’s not surprising that in “Atlas,” a sci-fi epic in which her co-stars are mainly AI bots, J.Lo’s character is still looking for love of some kind.

Movie Review: Glen Powell gives big leading man energy in ‘Hit Man’

Glen Powell plays an fake hit man working undercover for the cops in “Hit Man.” Based on a somewhat true story, Powell co-wrote the action-comedy-romance with director Richard Linklater.

Movie Review: ‘The Garfield Movie’ is a bizarre animated tale that’s not pur-fect in any way

If you catch the latest Garfield movie, you might not expect to find the famous orange feline at one point running from bad guys on the top of a speeding train.

Movie Review: The ‘Mad Max’ saga treads (hard-to-find) water with frustrating ‘Furiosa’

Creator and director George Miller has taken the coolest role of his “Mad Max: Fury Road” and built a whole prequel around her.

Movie Review: ‘IF,’ imperfect but charming, may have us all checking under beds for our old friends

How do you make a kid’s movie that appeals to their adults, too? Most movies try to achieve this by throwing in a layer of wink-wink pop culture references that’ll earn a few knowing laughs from parents but fly nicely over the heads of the young ones.

Movie Review: ‘Babes’ is a giddy, raunchy, moving and (very) gooey look at childbirth and friendship

There have been movies about pregnancy and movies about childbirth and movies about female friendship.

Movie Review: Amy Winehouse story flattened in frustrating biopic ‘Back to Black’

Marisa Abela plays the late Amy Winehouse in Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black,” a jukebox musical dramatization of her life.

Movie Review: Brooke Shields and Benjamin Bratt deserve more than Netflix’s ‘Mother of the Bride’

In “Mother of the Bride,” Brooke Shields and Benjamin Bratt play a pair of college exes who accidentally reunite at a resort in Thailand two decades later.

Movie Review: A radiant teenage road trip in ‘Gasoline Rainbow’

In sibling directors Bill and Turner Ross’ latest, “Gasoline Rainbow,” five Oregon teens just out of high school make their meandering way some 500 miles to reach the coast for what’s been billed as the “End of the World” party.

Movie Review: ‘Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes’ finds a new hero and will blow your mind

Fans of the “Planet of the Apes” franchise may still be mourning the 2017 death of Caesar, the charismatic ape leader.

Movie Review: Bold, audacious ‘I Saw the TV Glow’ explores fandom, identity and the way we remember

The school gym. The football field bleachers. The fast food drive-thru. Something about the detail and clarity with which Jane Schoenbrun evokes ’90s suburbia in “I Saw the TV Glow” makes you remember growing up there – even if you didn’t.

Review: Nature and human nature mingle in the beguiling ‘Evil Does Not Exist’

The films of Ryusuke Hamaguchi unspool with elegant everyday ease and yet anything can happen. Lives take sudden detours. Seemingly minor characters become primary ones.

Movie Review: In ‘The Idea of You,’ a boy band is center stage but Anne Hathaway steals the show

In the warmly charming rom-com “The Idea of You,” Anne Hathaway plays a 40-year-old divorcee who becomes romantically involved with a 24-year-old heartthrob in a boy band called August Moon.

Movie Review: Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt are great fun in ‘The Fall Guy’

Emily Blunt and Ryan Gosling lead the new action-comedy-romance “The Fall Guy,” a love letter to stunt performers and the movies.

Review: ‘The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed’ announces an exciting new voice

Much is just out of reach in Joanna Arnow’s shrewdly perceptive and very funny new film, “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed.”

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