Just like Brie Larson channeled Claudia Schiffer for a red carpet look, Zendaya gave an ode to Cindy Crawford for her latest Challengers dress.

Good times or bad, the path is consistently entertaining, accompanied by sparkling wit and great humanity.

There’s a lot of plot happening in Philippa Lowthorpe’s Misbehaviour. Based on the true story of the protest at the 1970 Miss World competition, screenwriters Rebecca Frayn and Gaby Chiappe work to squeeze in as much as possible about the conflicting personalities in the burgeoning Women’s Liberation Movement, the people working behind the scenes of Miss World, and the desires of the contestants themselves, particularly the black women whose participation means something different than the white contestants. Trying to cover all these stories is an admirable goal, but Misbehaviour never quite cracks it so it jumps around …

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Keanu Reeves is a beloved movie star, and rapper Logic's song "Keanu Reeves" is a loving musical ode to his unique greatness.

This is a repost of my review from the 2019 Toronto International Film Fesitval. Dolemite Is My Name is now streaming on Netflix. Regardless of how you feel about 1975’s Dolemite, you’ll likely get swept up in Craig Brewer’s joyous, upbeat ode to its creator Rudy Ray Moore, Dolemite Is My Name. A film in the vein of “Let’s put on a show!” celebrations like Ed Wood (which shares Dolemite Is My Name’s writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski) and The Disaster Artist, Brewer avoids trying to paint a complex portrait of Moore and instead …

The jury is still out on Greg Nicotero as a storyteller, but the thing that makes that man and his gorgeous locks one of my favorite filmmakers working today is his commitment in the year of our lord 2019 to keeping horror practical. That ethos, dating back to his first VFX role on George A. Romero's Day of the Dead, has kept The Walking Dead shambling along nicely even when the story juices run dry, and bleeds seamlessly into Creepshow, Nicotero's streaming revival of the classic 1982 horror anthology written by Stephen King and directed by Romero. Those …

One of the best parts of attending a film festival is getting to see emerging filmmakers showcasing their talent and proclaiming that they’re ready to be future power players. While the focus is usually on the big titles with known names, there are some feature debuts that, while not worthy of every single award, are more of a calling card for an exciting new voice in the industry. Following is considered one of the lesser films by Christopher Nolan, but it heralded the arrival of an emerging talent. The same can be applied to Gitanjali Rao’s animated directorial …

Regardless of how you feel about 1975’s Dolemite, you’ll likely get swept up in Craig Brewer’s joyous, upbeat ode to its creator Rudy Ray Moore, Dolemite Is My Name. A film in the vein of “Let’s put on a show!” celebrations like Ed Wood (which shares Dolemite Is My Name’s writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski) and The Disaster Artist, Brewer avoids trying to paint a complex portrait of Moore and instead heralds him as a dogged, relentless dreamer who didn’t want to let anything stand in his way. Sure, it’s a little …

From director Jason Winer and screenwriter Max Werner, the indie dramedy Ode to Joy follows Brooklyn librarian Charlie (Martin Freeman), a man with a neurological disorder called cataplexy, which causes him to lose control and faint whenever he’s overcome by a strong emotion, particularly joy. Living with such a condition has led Charlie to maintain a carefully managed world, which he finds turned upside when he meets the spontaneous Francesca (Morena Baccarin), who he starts to have feelings for and therefore tries to suppress those feelings, so that he can spend time with her without his disorder taking over. …

To a certain subset of the millennial generation—those of us who can still distinctly remember the screech of a dial-up internet but also don't quite recall never having an iPhone—Hulu's PEN15 is going to be, as we used to say on AIM, 2Real4U. Created by Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle with The Lonely Island's Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone onboard as executive producers, the 10-episode series stars Erskine and Konkle playing seventh-grade versions of themselves surrounded by real grade-school actors. But that's never a gimmick. It never devolves …

Blinded by the Light is an irresistible movie. You may be initially dubious about its premise—a coming-of-age 80s-set story about a young British Pakistani boy who discovers his identity by listening to Bruce Springsteen—but you will inevitably succumb to its charms. You may think the film’s sentimentality is too much, but you’ll be in tears by the end. It’s a rapturously joyous, heartfelt, and genuinely insightful film not just about The Boss, but about the personal nature and power of music. About how art in general can shape and affect one’s …