The Gambler and His Cowboys” is so similar to the hit ESPN series “The Last Dance” that they could have called it “The Last Hoedown.” As entertaining as that series (about the Michael Jordan-era ...

The Rainmaker” is true to type, and that’s not a bad thing. Yes, it seems the casting equally values sharp jawlines and acting ability. But the worst performance sin is a certain flatness from our two ...

It’s been nine years since he’s seen his daughter, and he can’t walk away, making “Butterfly” a show about parents and their grown children in a complicated, clandestine game. The first pair is David ...

I’m a big Eisenberg-head. I also love Joaquin Phoenix, Willem Dafoe, Denzel Washington, Donald Sutherland, Sam Jackson, Robert Pattinson, and Philip Seymour Hoffman. Jamie Foxx is underrated, and ...

Worst of all, it’s only rarely even “stupid fun,” which was the hope of this critic who has seen every “Sharknado” movie and ...

Each episode of Noah Hawley’s brilliant “Alien: Earth” opens with what could be called an overture. As the title takes shape (much like the original, groundbreaking Ridley Scott film), images flash ...

No matter how close we are to our siblings, each of us grows up in a different family, observing the same events at various ages, with different temperaments, from different developmental stages. In ...

Ebony and Ivory” is one of the dumbest movies I’ve ever seen. Taking inspiration from Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder’s ...

An Officer and a Spy” is one of Polanski’s finest pictures, which means it’s very fine indeed. The film treats the infamous ...

Without ordinary life, there is no art,” says Jeff Buckley in the great new documentary about him from Amy Berg, “It’s Never ...

“The Occupant” is a strangely frustrating movie. It stays engaging through the sheer force of a committed performance that ...