‘Peter Pan & Wendy’ review: A real-live adventure this time from Disney’s recycling binSome of David Lowery's focus on how Captain Hook got that way works, and some of it works too hard. But this remake has a mood both grave and warm. April 28, 2023
‘Citadel’ review: Banter can’t save this heavy-handed spy series from the Russo Bros.Starring Richard Madden and Priyanka Chopra Jonas, “Citadel” isn’t unwatchable, but it doesn’t make a case for itself either. April 27, 2023
‘Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret’ review: Judy Blume’s classic gets the wise, funny, moving movie it deservesJudy Blume’s novel threw millions of real-life Margarets a lifeline. In the lovely film version, a young girl’s challenges for once feel like the stuff of life. April 27, 2023
Review: ‘Carol Burnett: 90 Years of Laughter + Love’ is an old-school NBC special for an old-school talentThe showbiz instincts of Carol Burnett have always been razor sharp and they remain so even at 90. April 26, 2023
In memoriam: Harry Belafonte, through his art and activism, left this world a better placeLike his friend Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte spend much of his adult life in the scrutinizing, adoring, hateful, loving public eye. April 25, 2023
My worst moment: Too soon? Jackie Hoffman and her story about a person who had recently diedWhen asked about a worst moment in her career, Jackie Hoffman recalled a time when she hosted a casting directors' awards banquet. April 25, 2023
‘Drops of God’ review: Two young wine experts compete for a massive inheritancePart upscale spectacle, part family drama, the action takes place in France and Japan. It's a wine-o-rama and millions are at stake! April 20, 2023
‘Beau is Afraid’ review: Joaquin Phoenix tries to go home again. Even if it kills him. Filmmaker Ari Aster was behind “Midsommar” (2019). In his latest, the horrors are all in Beau's head. Or are they? April 19, 2023
‘The Diplomat’ review: Keri Russell stars in a series that captures the punch and wit of ‘The West Wing’ With its sharp-elbowed banter, Netflix's "The Diplomat" is geared to a mass audience without dumbing anything down. April 19, 2023
My worst moment: Michaela Watkins lost more than she bargained for when she got her upper lip waxedWhen the person giving her the wax ripped off the strip, "I felt like she ripped off 17 layers of skin," and left a seeping wound. April 18, 2023
Column: Made up rape story or not, David Choe’s remarks were public long before ‘Beef.’ Our silence on them is deafening. Sometimes a person has too much baggage. So far, Netflix, "Beef's" producing studio A24, and the show's creators and stars have been mum. April 17, 2023
‘The Super Mario Bros.’ is now highest-grossing video game adaptation with $500 millionWith just over one week since its release, the film’s earnings — $508.7 million — makes “Mario” the highest-grossing film of the year and the biggest video game adaptation April 16, 2023
‘Showing Up’ review: An artist makes art, even as life interrupts the flowCo-writer and director Kelly Reichardt's movie is a serene, pulse-lowering charmer about Lizzy, a ceramic sculptor played by Michelle Williams, who herself is anything but serene or pulse-lowering. April 14, 2023
‘Showing Up’ filmmaker Kelly Reichardt on the joys of ‘just hanging out,’ the way young artists once didFilmmaker Kelly Reichardt's heart breaks for big-city-aspiring young artists and filmmakers today, with how expensive things are. April 14, 2023
‘Barry’ review: The jig is up for Bill Hader’s hitman in the final season — or is it?The HBO series ponders, can you ever really start over? Maybe not. We are who we are. And you can never right these kinds of wrongs. April 13, 2023
So many Zemeckis movies: The filmmaker behind ‘Back to the Future,’ ‘Forrest Gump’ and many more gets his due at the Music Box“There is a healthy cynicism that is bred into you when you grow up on the South Side of Chicago," Robert Zemeckis once said in an interview. April 13, 2023
‘Renfield’ review: In a movie of blood vs. laughs, Nicolas Cage knows his Dracula Behold "Renfield," the least lousy of Universal Pictures' trilogy of snarky ultraviolence, the others being "Violent Night" and "Cocaine Bear." April 12, 2023
‘The Last Thing He Told Me’ review: Jennifer Garner turns amateur detective seeking clues about her missing husbandIn terms of reasonably entertaining intrigue that doesn’t involve guns, "The Last Thing He Told Me" on Apple TV+ gets the job done. April 12, 2023
My worst moment: The time ‘Girlfriends’ alum Golden Brooks tried — and failed — to dig herself out of a bluff“I got the script late. And then something was going on with my computer, I couldn’t open the link, and my printer was out of ink. It was just a comedy of errors." April 11, 2023
Review: A compassionate immigrant drama in ‘Tori and Lokita’Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne are imposing names in cinema. But you would be hard pressed to find more humanistic filmmakers. April 07, 2023