Rush is amazing throughout this absorbing, provocative film.

It's more psychological than a genre movie, and that is the source of both its greatest interest and its biggest problem.

A charmer, a movie whose embrace of cinema is so passionate it could be mistaken for an embrace of life.

The film is a visual feast that combines interviews with vintage footage and reenactments danced in retro clubs, on railroad trusses and in magnificent theaters.

The Optimist could be described as a Holocaust drama, but it approaches that history in an unexpected way.

Theater Camp, a mockumentary about a summer workshop for thespian adolescents, offers plenty of theater and plenty of camp, to the point that it often plays like one, big inside joke. But the film offsets its drama class insularity with a rousing message that the stage will always be a magical place for children to dream — and to discover themselves.

Reveals one mystery, only to reveal another that it can't quite penetrate.

The fine quality of the new film is good news for anyone disappointed by "Star Trek Generations," which got the new "Star Trek" feature film series off to a shaky start two years ago.

It's a hilarious comedy made even more successful because so much of the satire seems fresh.

Cohn was a strange mix of self-aggrandizing and self-loathing, or maybe that’s a familiar mix. In any case, he emerges from the film partly sympathetic, if only because he seemed so miserable all his life, but mainly as the prime example of what Shakespeare meant when he said, “The evil that men do lives after them.”

You need not be a believer to appreciate its humor and humanity.

After two hours of The Walk, I felt as if I’d walked the wire myself. I was agitated and exhausted. During the movie, I was squirming and wincing, and a few times even had to close my eyes, just to find some relief.

The treatment of the subject isn't maudlin, thanks to a witty script and an enormously likable lead character, Remy (Remy Girard), who remains bullheaded and lusty to the finish.

For people already interested in fashion, the film’s appeal will be obvious, but Dior and I deserves to go beyond a small target audience.

It’s an inward-looking film that seems to be saying something about life. Whatever it’s saying — and it’s not clear that it’s saying anything specific — it connects. It’s not just another good movie. Somehow, it all adds up as something more important.

The strength of Fauci is its underlying theme, which is really not about Fauci at all. Hoffman and Tobias jump back and forth in time, from the AIDS to Ebola to the COVID years, and surreptitiously a portrait emerges of the uneasy relationship between the scientific community, the general public and the political establishment.

Still, as Dylan biopics go, this is probably the best imaginable.

The bad news is that The Paper, starring Michael Keaton, Glenn Close and Marisa Tomei, is unabashedly contrived, hopelessly simplistic and overly romantic about its target subject -- the frequently desperate art of putting out a big city daily newspaper. The good news is that all of the above results in a spirited if sometimes awkward big-screen entertainment.[25 March 1994, p.C1]

My Penguin Friend is what you’d expect from an animal picture, except that it’s better — lifted by a smart script, sensitive direction and a truly beautiful performance by Jean Reno.

Compelling.

I hated this film. I hated every minute of it, and at times it even made me angry.

Even if you’d never in a million years want to ride with these guys, “The Bikeriders” makes you understand why they wanted to ride with each other.

The glimpses of religious life bumping into secular passion are touching and warmly comic.

Could use more background and personal detail on Rijker, but Bankowsky's tight, no- frills approach is always compelling.

Clever and unhurried mystery.

The best reason in years to reconsider (Woody Allen).

Liotta's acting can't redeem senseless violence.

More than one joke or one idea. It's a thoroughly satisfying comedy --and a respectable space adventure, as well.