“Give Me the Ball!,” the title of Liz Garbus and Elizabeth Wolff’s ferociously inspirational and entertaining documentary about Billie Jean King, refers to something that the fabled tennis superstar would say...
When you go into a movie knowing that it’s about two couples who get together for a dinner party, there are certain expectations about what’s going to happen that are just...
Who says they don’t make ’em like they used to? “Carousel,” starring Chris Pine and Jenny Slate in a painfully languid neorealist drama of lonely-hearts romance (it’s about love, but more...
Is the hero of “Marty Supreme” likable? I think he is, and for reasons that include the fact that he’s a scoundrel. (Has there ever been a likable scoundrel in movies?...
It has always been easy to trivialize Brigitte Bardot. In 1956, starring in the movie that made her a global sensation, “And God Created Woman,” what she did was not widely...
It might be an exaggeration to say that “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants” is the movie that finally squeegees the life out of SpongeBob SquarePants. But watching this friendly yet...
“The Housemaid,” a screw-tightening domestic thriller, is nothing more (or less) than a garishly fun and effective piece of postfeminist pulp. Directed by Paul Feig, from a script (by Rebecca Sonnenshine)...
“Five Nights at Freddy’s 2” is a supernatural video-game slasher movie of astonishing clunky crudeness. No, the movie isn’t dumb fun. It’s flat-out bad, maybe even worse than the first film....
