The movies of Paolo Sorrentino, like “The Great Beauty” and “The Hand of God,” have always been bursting with color and movement and emotional energy, with torn-up romantic and family passion,...
I have a theory about the music of ABBA (it’s just my experience, but maybe it’s yours too). Their songs, composed and produced by Benny Andersson and Björn Ulvaeus and sung...
If superhero fatigue is a trend that became all too real, the making of the movies that brought it on might be likened to an addiction. The studios that produced those...
A body-swap comedy, when it’s really cooking, is built on a device that won’t quit. An actor, generally an adult, pretends to be inhabited by someone totally different from him or...
“Happy Gilmore 2” is a happy orgy of raucously well-executed Adam Sandler fan service. It’s a pointed exercise in nostalgia, but with a present-tense edge. It’s not some fake update of...
As a film critic, the question I get asked more than any other is, “What’s your favorite movie?” For decades, I’ve given the same answer. But in the last 10 years...
Critics, more than ever these days, tend to lean into the same opinion of a movie. More and more, the collective wisdom rules. “Superman,” however, may be a singular exception. It’s...
