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Director Taika Waititi is back in the Marvel business with Thor: Love and Thunder. There is a mix of horror, romance and drama, but at its core is pure comedy that doesn't always work but is good enough to entertain. Thor: Ragnarok saw a 180-degree image and personality change for the character and stands among the…

Jake Paltrow directs and co-writes June Zero, an unusual account of the death of Adolf Eichmann that's screening at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Opening immediately after the verdict of his trial, it shows the impact of the Holocaust criminal's 1962 execution on three very different characters: a…

The Minions have risen to astonishing heights since Sergio Pablos birthed what would become the franchise some 12 years ago — if you've lost count, their progeny includes three feature sequels (one due two years hence), two prequels, more than a dozen shorts, a TV special, video games and the inevitable theme park…

The recently accepted fashion of populating period British romantic melodramas with actors of color, notably in Netflix's ongoing hit series Bridgerton, continues with Mr. Malcolm's List, a nicely decked-out, dramatically conventional tale of Regency-period matchmaking dizzily spinning out of the participants'…

The Netflix documentary Civil: Ben Crump follows civil rights attorney Ben Crump, who often represents marginalized clients in wrongful death, injury, police brutality and discrimination lawsuits. Director Nadia Hallgren follows Crump and his various cases, including his most high-profile one against the city of…

A spinoff was bound to come out sooner or later. Did we need an origin story to the Buzz Lightyear character from Toy Story? No. But the Lightyear film by Angus MacLane certainly does know how to build a world around the character we only learned about through the Pixar franchise. The film is about a flight, failure…

B.J. Novak is looking for American truth in the dark comedy Vengeance, his feature directorial debut. He's amassed an all-star cast including Issa Rae, Dove Cameron and Boyd Holbrook for the movie about a city-slicking mid-30s man who travels to Texas and gets more than he bargained for in a comedy of errors created…

The Lehman Trilogy, Company, A Strange Loop, MJ and Sweet Charity were among the big winners at tonight’s Tony Awards. And Sweet Charity wasn’t even staged this season. Credit Ariana DeBose for the blink-and-miss-it shout-out to the Bob Fosse classic — and for much else that went right with tonight’s fast-moving…

Blasting off Sunday evening at the Tribeca Festival, Space Oddity is a small, character-driven dramedy of one young man’s odd life-altering plan to take a one-way ticket to Mars just as love and family intervene on his plans. If that premise sounds improbable, it actually is the kind of thing that seems to be popping…

Although Ray Romano has dabbled in writing quite a bit, including a series he created called Men of a Certain Age, the star (best known for the Emmy winning sitcom Everybody Loves Raymond, which certainly contained lots of material drawn from his own life and family experiences) is now moving to the big screen with…

Editor’s note: This post on the Jan 6 committee hearings by our TV critic Dominic Patten has been reclassified from a review to a commentary, and has been edited to better reflect the author’s point of view. In trying to opine that the presentation of evidence about a horrific day in American history did not rise to…

"It takes a while to warm up to me," says Jennifer Lopez in a pep talk to the troupe of admirably stoic dancers she's been putting through the wringer for several months. The same is true of Amanda Micheli's documentary Halftime, a scattershot and largely anodyne portrayal of the actress-singer that snatches enough…