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Sydney Sweeney shows her star power in ‘Immaculate,’ a batshit psycho-thriller just like they used to make
The actress-influencer reunites with director Michael Mohan for this nasty, nutty nunsploitation flick
By Craig D. Lindsey
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Sydney Sweeney, Michael Mohan, horror films
‘Kung Fu Panda 4’ lacks the joys of the franchise’s earlier installments
While some may see the hijinks as enjoyable, computer-animated tomfoolery, this sequel doesn’t bring anything new to the table
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Jack Black, Awkwafina, Viola Davis
‘Spaceman’ gives Adam Sandler another meaty role, but without a script to match
Even broadly speaking, this Netflix Original is unlike anything Sandler has done in his 35 years of film
By Kayla McCulloch
Tags: Movies, Movies, Television, Views & Opinions, Adam Sandler, Netflix, Johan Renck, Paul Dano
The epic ‘Dune: Part Two’ tackles the perils of playing with faith, politics, and power
This might be the most clear-eyed film about saviors and schisms since ‘Monty Python’s Life of Brian.’ (Seriously.)
By Andrew Wyatt
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Dune, sci-fi movies, Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Denis Villeneuve, Video
Detroit’s Redford Theatre to screen sci-fi classic ‘Blade Runner’
The event will include a memorabilia raffle, illustrated prints available for purchase, and a pre-show DJ
By Lee DeVito
Tags: Movies, Critics’ Picks, Movies, Things to Do, Redford Theatre, metro Detroit movie theaters, metro Detroit arthouse theaters
Ethan Coen teams up with wife Tricia Cooke for road trip comedy ‘Drive-Away Dolls’
This sapphic jam puts lesbians in the driver’s seat
By Cliff Froehlich
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, LGBTQ+, Car Culture, Coen Brothers, Ethan Coen, Tricia Cooke, Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Video
‘The Taste of Things’ celebrates good food, France, and the ever-wonderful Juliette Binoche
Tran Ahn Hung has made a movie about gastronomy that is, at heart, a love story
By Chuck Wilson
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Juliette Binoche, Benoît Magimel, Tran Ahn Hung, Video
‘Argylle’ has no shortage of starpower, but it’s wasted on this overstuffed spy caper
‘Kingsman’ director Matthew Vaughn offers up another espionage romp
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Argylle, Dua Lipa, Matthew Vaughn, Sam Rockwell, Bryce Dallas Howard, Video
Detroit’s Senate Theater celebrates Chicano History Week with free screening of ‘American Homeboy’
The film draws from interviews with Mexican American historians, academics, artists, activists, cholos, and former law enforcement officers
By Layla McMurtrie
Tags: Movies, Critics’ Picks, Movies, Things to Do, Senate Theater, Southwest Detroit, Chicano History Week
Jenna Ortega gives ‘Miller’s Girl’ her all, but it’s not enough
Not another teen temptress
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Jenna Ortega, Jade Halley Bartlett, Martin Freeman, Video
In ‘Origin,’ Ava DuVernay turns Isabel Wilkerson’s exploration of racism, ‘Caste,’ into a gripping feature film
Here is a rare and excellent thing — a major dramatic feature about a Black woman intellectual
Tags: Movies, Views & Opinions, Ava DuVernay, racism, Isabel Wilkerson, Video
‘All of Us Strangers’ is a ghost story with a bad ending
But the actors are all extraordinary
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Andrew Haigh, All of Us Strangers, movie reviews, Cliff Froehlich, Video
‘The Zone of Interest’ radically upends the idea of a Holocaust movie — to brilliant effect
Nazis, they’re just like us
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, The Zone of Interest, Jonathan Glazer, Martin Amis, Video
Michael Mann’s ‘Ferrari’ gives us the man and the legend, but it’s not quite a triumph
Adam Driver again takes an Italian job
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Car Culture, Ferrari, Michael Mann, Troy Kennedy Martin, Adam Driver, Video
‘The Iron Claw’ is well-acted and brilliantly filmed — and it leaves you with a gut punch
From top to bottom, writer-director Sean Durkin’s team understands the task at hand
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Sean Durkin, Zac Efron, Fritz Von Erich, Jeremy Allen White, Video
‘Poor Things’ brings a woman back to life — and sexy times and social commentary ensue
Emma Stone, showing a whole lot more than she has in previous movies, plays her frighteningly pale protagonist like an awkward sexaholic
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Emma Stone, Yorgos Lanthimos, Tony McNamara, feminism, Video
The limits of Netflix’s ‘Stamped from the Beginning’
The documentary weaves a history of anti-Black racism in America, though it makes some glaring omissions
By Herb Boyd
Tags: Movies, Movies, Television, Views & Opinions, Netflix, Stamped from the Beginning, Ibram X. Kendi, film reviews, Roger Ross Williams, racism in America, Video
A touching new doc captures acclaimed composer Jon Batiste grappling with his wife’s cancer
Originally intended to be a road trip movie, Suleika Jaouad’s resurgent illness changed the structure and tenor of the film
Tags: Movies, Movies, Music, Television, Jon Batiste, Suleika Jaouad, Netflix, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Video
Joaquin Phoenix and Ridley Scott turn ‘Napoleon’ into a violent epic starring a petty brat
It is fascinating watching Phoenix play Bonaparte like he’s a gamer who’s constantly on the verge of rage quitting
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, Ridley Scott, Joaquin Phoenix, David Scarpa, Apple TV, Video
In ‘May December,’ Todd Haynes turns an old tabloid tale into a first-rate sexual thriller, just like they used to make
With not-so-subtle shades of Lynch, Bergman, and Hitchcock, the film takes the blonde/brunette doppelgänger trope and uses it to tell a story about telling a story
Tags: Movies, Movies, Views & Opinions, May December, Julianne Moore, Natalie Portman
Netflix is still looking for Detroit ‘Love is Blind’ contestants
Tigers fixing up run-down Comerica Park ahead of Opening Day with $30M investment
Royal Oak’s Hideaway has been transformed into the bar from ‘It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’