OPENING THIS WEEK Baby Driver In Shaun of the Dead director Edgar Wright’s eagerly awaited heist flick, there’s no such thing as a music cue that’s too on the nose; …
New Movies: ‘Beatriz at Dinner,’ ‘Transformers: The Last Knight,’ and ‘Tubelight’
Beatriz at Dinner Salma Hayek stars as a Mexican-American massage therapist stranded at a dinner party thrown in honor of a boorish, stunningly racist real estate tycoon (John Lithgow). …
’47 Meters Down’ serves up shark scares for summer
If we’re lucky, the summer movie season offers up at least one sturdy shark thriller that isn’t a Syfy-branded exercise in schlock. Last year it was The Shallows, a slickly …
‘Wonder Woman’ embraces fun—and feminism
It’s one of the coolest origin stories in the history of comics: In the early ’40s, famed psychologist, lie detector co-inventor, and occasional Gillette razor spokesman William Moulton Marston was …
‘Alien: Covenant’ Can’t Escape the Xenomorphic Shadow of Its Progenitor
Here’s the unfortunate irony of monster movies: The better we get at realizing the most nightmarish creatures we can imagine, the less frightening they become. Visual effects are both boon …