Movie Reviews Reviews of new movies, classic and art films, foreign films, and popular movies. Featuring Bob Mondello, Kenneth Turan, David Edelstein, and Mark Jenkins.
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Not everything is what it seems in The Plagiarists, a lo-fi indie drama directed by Peter Parlow. Automatic Moving Co. hide caption
Get thee to a nunnery! And a tighter script! Daisy Ridley stars in this retelling of Shakespeare's Hamlet. IFC Films hide caption
Jack Malik (Himesh Patel) is an aspiring singer-songwriter who finds himself taking credit for The Beatles' catalog in Yesterday. Jonathan Prime/Universal hide caption
Imagine There's No Beatles: 'Yesterday' Proves Too Clumsy For Its Clever Conceit
In Spider-Man: Far From Home, Peter Parker (Tom Holland) goes on a European vacation, but can't catch a break. Jay Maidment/Sony Pictures hide caption
'Toy Story 4' Reaches For An Even More Resonant Sense Of Closure Than Last Film
Brazilian filmmaker Petra Costa chronicles the rise and fall of democracy in Brazil from 1985 to the present in The Edge of Democracy. Netflix hide caption
The work and impact of iconic writer Toni Morrison is surveyed in a new documentary directed by filmmaker and portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders. Timothy Greenfield-Sanders/Magnolia Pictures hide caption
Fresh out of prison, a Scottish single mother heads to Nashville to pursue her dream of country music stardom in Wild Rose. NEON hide caption
In the fourth installment of the Toy Story franchise, Bonnie comes home from kindergarten with Forky, a plastic fork with googly eyes and pipe cleaner hands voiced by Tony Hale. Sheriff Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) has aged into an avuncular figure. Pixar hide caption
To Infinity And ... Be Done: After 4 Films, Have We Finally Outgrown 'Toy Story'?
Crime fighting is a family business in Shaft, the newest iteration of the 1971 film of the same name starring Jessie T. Usher, Samuel L. Jackson and Richard Roundtree. Warner Bros. Pictures hide caption
Emma Thompson plays Katherine, who is usually not this happy in Late Night. Emily Aragones/Amazon Studios hide caption
Bill Murray, Chloë Sevigny, and Adam Driver are among the all-star cast in writer/director Jim Jarmusch's The Dead Don't Die. Abbot Genser /Focus Features hide caption