6+ hour, 49+ min ago   (907+ words) No major motion picture as mediocre as “Practical Magic 2” deserves the emotional response this film sometimes generates. It’s released 28 years after the original film, with its two stars — Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman –– having collected Academy Awards in the interim....

4+ day, 12+ hour ago   (654+ words) The distributing studios may sweat over the fact that MGM’s “Runner” showed up on streaming just as Angel Studios’ “The Runner” was trotting into theaters. One stars Gal Gadot as a lawyer/mother sprinting across London to murder a prosecution…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago   (796+ words) If you watch one screwball Korean action comedy this year… Damn. I just can’t pull the trigger on that sort of endorsement for “Husbands in Action,” a dopier-than-dopey kidnapping caper that “TV-MA” rating or not, seems aimed at kids. Wacky…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (499+ words) Let’s go with “adorably awful,” because “delightfully dumb” seems like a stretch. “Mayday” is a pseudo-serious send-up of “Top Gun” starring two guys who should know better, but whose way with a punch line ensures it’ll at least serve up…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (817+ words) You know and I know the title song “9 to 5” was always better than the movie “9 to 5,” right? Memory can fix a “classic” film’s failings, and this one — a big, touched-a-nerve hit when it premiered in 1980 — lumbers along for a solid…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (438+ words) There’s a taste of “America: What Went Wrong” is doc director Rory Kennedy’s expose, a film that excoriates the Jack Welch (GE tycoon) management philosophy of maximizing profits, jack up the stock value business thinking that employees of any manufacturer,…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (391+ words) When Jason Statham growls, “Trust me, I’m coming back for everybody,” what self-respecting hostage wouldn’t consider themselves as good as rescued? J.Sta’s latest, “Mutiny,” is a “Die Hard” at sea that, thank to “Mesrine” director Jean-François Richet, uses that…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (493+ words) It turns out, putting the two dudes who scripted “The Hangover” (and “Bad Moms”) in charge of writing and directing a midlife crisis moms at a spa farce wasn’t the smartest move ever. “Spa Weekend” — a title as colorless as…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (805+ words) The grim finality of loss hangs over legendary filmmaker Ross McElwee’s “Remake.” A meditation on grief, guilt and an obsession to honestly and frankly document one’s life and share it with the world, it may not be the last film…...