More than 40 years have passed since director Paul Mazursky took on the sexual revolution in his pivotal 1969 sort-of swinger comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice. According …
YA Adaptation ‘Me and Earl and the Dying Girl’ Offers Emotional Engagement, Not Manipulation
Patience pays dividends in Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, the latest film to turn a cancer-stricken girl into an agent of change for a hero who would otherwise …
‘Hard to Be a God’ Depicts an Alien World Mired in Medieval Misery
Cinema has been transporting us to other worlds since the Méliès brothers sent us on our first trip to the moon in 1902, but no moviegoer has ever before glimpsed …
‘Dope’ Reinvents the Teen Comedy for a New Generation
Like so many of the high-school movies that influenced it, the endlessly entertaining Sundance hit Dope centers on a group of wisecracking misfits trying to navigate their senior year. But …
‘Jurassic World’ Delivers the Dinos But Falls Short in Every Other Way
There’s an embarrassment of dinosaurs in Jurassic World, and they’re eager to please. They chase people, of course, and dutifully devour the ones they catch. But they also fly, dive, …