The Picture Show

A woman with her face painted takes part in a march against sexism and gender violence, in Santiago, Chile, Thursday, Nov. 22, 2018. (AP Photo/Esteban…

By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer In a battle between the internet and John C. Reilly, who among us wouldn’t root for the latter? Leave…

By LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer The phrase “world creation” gets thrown around casually and frequently in cinema, but few modern directors are better at…

A woman peers out from a window of a building decorated by a murals by Italian street artist Iena Cruz and named “Hunting Pollution”, in…

By LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer When you think of the wives and girlfriends of criminals and mobsters in cinema and television, what or who…

By Sandie Angulo Chen, Common Sense Media (TNS) Parents need to know that “Dr. Seuss’ The Grinc” is an animated adaptation of the classic holiday…

Nepal’s Armed Police Force personnel put vermillion powder on the forehead of a police dog during Tihar festival celebrations at a kennel division in Kathmandu,…

By Sandie Angulo Chen, Common Sense Media (TNS) Parents need to know that “The Nutcracker and the Four Realms,” is Disney’s live-action adaptation of the…

By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer No, “The Girl in the Spider’s Web” isn’t a Spider-man spinoff about a young woman ensnarled by Peter Parker….

Members of the Honor Guard carry U.S. and South Korea flags after participating in the 2018 Security Consultative at the Pentagon, co-hosted by Defense Secretary…

By LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer “Boy Erased ” is based on the true story of a young man, Garrard Conley, whose Baptist family put…

By Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune (TNS) “Suspiria” takes a good long while with everything: Its evocations of 1977 West Berlin, dominated by news and stray…

Groundskeepers remove the tarp over the infield at Fenway Park following a rain storm before Game 1 of the World Series baseball game between the…

By JOCELYN NOVECK, AP National Writer There’s nothing really new or fresh or bold in “Johnny English Strikes Again,” the third installment of Rowan Atkinson’s…

Krissy Calkins smokes a marijuana joint at a “Wake and Bake” legalized marijuana event in Toronto on Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2018. Canada became the largest…

By LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer It’s fall of 1960 in Montana when we meet the Brinson family in “Wildlife ,” a carefully considered and…

By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer With hollow eyes and sagging cheeks, the flabby white mask of Michael Myers is horror’s great blank slate. Project…

In this Aug. 8, 2018, photo, a sea lion swims near the Palomino Islands off the coast of Lima, Peru. Activists warn that the largely…

By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer “Venom,” starring Tom Hardy as a TV investigative journalist whose body is invaded by an alien organism, is a…

By LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer It’s hard not to go into “A Star Is Born ” without a lot of prejudgments. Even if you…

Annemiek van Vleuten from the Netherlands competes as she wins the gold medal in the women’s individual time trial at the Road Cycling World Championships…

By LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer The Alaska tourism board can’t be all that thrilled with Jeremy Saulnier’s “Hold the Dark ,” a grueling but…

By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer Wash Westmoreland’s “Colette” is a very British movie about a very French feminist icon. A handsome and lively period…

The sun rises behind the U.S. Capitol in Washington at dawn Wednesday, Sept. 19. 2018. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)          

By LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer Hallmark sentimentality, passionate defenses of Bob Dylan’s “Time Out of Mind” and horrific head traumas are thrown together in…

By MARK KENNEDY, AP Entertainment Writer The 10-year-old hero at the center of the film “The House With a Clock in Its Walls” likes to…

In this photo taken on Thursday, Sept. 6, 2018, a Kyrgyz boy holds a golden eagle for an eagle hunt during the Third Nomad Games,…

By Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service (TNS) Comedy director Paul Feig tries a thriller on for size with the juicy “A Simple Favor,” a suburban…

By Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service (TNS) Even in the well-trod genre that is the ‘80s drug movie, the true life story of teen drug…

Embers fly above a firefighter as he works to control a backfire as the Delta Fire burns in the Shasta-Trinity National Forest, Calif., on Thursday,…

By LINDSEY BAHR, AP Film Writer The insane revenge movie “Peppermint ” starts to make a lot more sense when you realize that it was…

By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer As frightening as the “The Nun” is, it doesn’t hold a candle to today’s real-life horrors in the Catholic…

As smoke filters into the intermountain West with forest fires burning throughout the region, the setting sun turns the sky gold as it drops behind…

By Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times (TNS) “Crime + Punishment” is a quiet documentary but a potent one. Though its approach is low key, its…

By Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service (TNS) There’s something very familiar about “Operation Finale,” written by debut screenwriter Matthew Orton and directed by Chris Weitz….

Pigeons fly past as Muslims gather to offer Eid al-Adha prayers at Jama Masjid in New Delhi, India, Wednesday, Aug. 22, 2018. Muslims around the…

By Katie Walsh, Tribune-Review It’s as true in 2018 as it was in 1975: There’s no better way to beat the summer heat than a…

By Katie Walsh, Tribune News Service (TNS) Perhaps “Searching” would feel more revolutionary had “Unfriended: Dark Web” not been so recently released. The two films…

Vermont Democratic gubernatorial candidate Christine Hallquist, center, a transgender woman and former electric company executive, embraces supporters after claiming victory during her election night party…

By Rafer Guzmán Newsday (TNS) Spike Lee’s “BlacKkKlansman” tells the story of Ron Stallworth (John David Washington), who becomes the first black police officer on…

By JAKE COYLE, AP Film Writer There are two glittering parades running in tandem through Jon M. Chu’s “Crazy Rich Asians,” a glitzy and delightful…