Review: “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?”

4.5 out of 5 stars. It’s wonderful to find out that a person you love and admire the way you see them on TV or in a movie is just that way in real life. Such is the case with Fred Rogers, the creator and host of the children’s series “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” who believed […]

Review: “The Incredibles 2”

4 out of 5 stars. Pixar’s “The Incredibles” was released 14 years ago. Think about that. Fourteen years. The long-awaited sequel to the animated film that follows a family of superheroes is finally in theaters, and it picks up at the exact moment that its predecessor left off, the familiar characters springing into action as […]

Review: “On Chesil Beach”

3 out of 5 stars. “On Chesil Beach” is a 2007 novel (novella, really, as it comes in at under 200 pages) by celebrated author Ian McEwan that intimately examines the relationship between a young couple up to and including their wedding night. It does this so intimately, in fact, that it’s hard to imagine […]

Review: “Ocean’s 8”

3.5 out of 5 stars. There’s one moment in “Ocean’s 8” that calls out the necessity of an all-female reboot of the franchise, when Debbie Ocean (Sandra Bullock) and her partner Lou (Cate Blanchett) are going over potential hires for their big heist. When Lou brings up a male candidate and Debbie immediately says no […]

Review: “Solo: A Star Wars Story”

3.5 out of 5 stars. “Solo: A Star Wars Story” isn’t the Star Wars movie we needed. It isn’t even the Star Wars movie that many people wanted. Behind-the-scenes troubles arose halfway through production, causing a good deal of apprehension as to how the final product would turn out, while even many die-hard fans seemed […]

Review: “Deadpool 2”

3.5 out of 5 stars. “Deadpool 2” was at risk of being too much of a good thing. Don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love “Deadpool,” the hilarious and gory R-rated adaptation of a fan favorite Marvel hero. It’s about as meta as it gets, and lampoons superhero movies- even it’s own movie- with hysterical […]

Review: “Avengers: Infinity War”

The following is a non-spoiler review of “Avengers: Infinity War.” 3 out of 5 stars. “Avengers: Infinity War” had a lot it needed to accomplish in the space of two and a half hours. But it also had a lot it needed to prove. That feels like a weird thing to say about the […]

Review: “Rampage”

1.5 out of 5 stars. “Rampage,” a new action movie directed by Brad Peyton and starring Dwayne Johnson, is based on a 1986 arcade game of the same name, a bit of trivia that I actually wasn’t familiar with going into the movie. But it makes sense to me now, as “Rampage” is so simplistic, […]

Review: “A Quiet Place”

4 out of 5 stars. It’s a long, long time into “A Quiet Place” before there’s any spoken dialogue—or any long, prolonged noise, for that matter. The horror film uses sound not just as a gimmick for its monster—which hunts its prey through sound—but to create tension, not just in terms of a family’s survival, […]

Review: “Isle of Dogs”

4 out of 5 stars. “Whatever happened to man’s best friend?” That’s the question posed by Professor Watanabe to Kobayashi—the cat-loving mayor of Megasaki City on the Japanese coast—just before he signs a decree requiring all the city’s dogs to be sent to the neighboring Trash Island in the wake of a dog flu virus […]