Months after seeing?Silence?for the first time, I still find myself in engaging conversations about what it means for people of faith today. The ends of conversations always seem to trail off in a complicated way that demand we agree to disagree, or at least...
It's 1926 in J.K. Rowling's romp that takes the world of Harry Potter across the pond to New York City. The estimable Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything) plays the eccentric Newt Scamander - a character first mentioned in passing in?Harry Potter and the...
Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening) wants to raise her son Jamie (Lucas Jade Zumann) well, but she doesn't know how. As the owner of a boarding house, she's able to draw from the knowledge and experience of those around her, like the carpenter William (Billy Crudup) and...
Howard Inlet (Will Smith) finds himself lost in his own grief after his daughter dies. Two years later, his friends (Ed Norton, Michael Pena, and Kate Winslet) set out to discredit him so that they can save the advertising company, having him declared out of his mind....
Dennis Lehane's crime noir develops in a way that translates easily on screen, with a filmography that includes Mystic River, Gone Baby Gone, Shutter Island, and the underwhelming The Drop. In Live by Night, Lehane teams with another Boston guy, Ben Affleck, to...
Sing?is that rare animated flick that bears watching several times because there's more to be gleaned each time - and it's an entertaining musical montage. The latest film from Illumination Entertainment finds theater manager Buster Moon (Matthew McConaughey), a...
Troy (Denzel Washington) is a hard man, but Rose (Viola Davis) loves him anyway, and his sons begrudgingly respect him. But over time, his stubbornness, his upbringing, and his experience of racism drive him farther and farther away from the rest of his family....
Idris Elba stars in a none-Elba-like role, here as a retired rugby star named Max whose marriage to former actress Emily (Gemma Arterton) is dying. Both of them are unfaithful: he's hopping from relationships to alcohol; she's involved with an old flame (Tom Cullen)....
Solace?was initially supposed to be a sequel to?Se7en but somewhere in development, it became a standalone thriller by director Afonso Poyart (commentary included). Here, Jeffrey Dean Morgan's FBI Agent Merriweather and his partner Agent Cowles (Abbie Cornish) find...