The liberal satire and mockery of American cluelessness that are presumably the main items on Baron Cohen’s agenda are overwhelmed in a welter of tawdry, demeaning jokes.

Aaron Sorkin has a knack for making politics interesting.

No threat to Hitchcock’s classic.

It’s a solid, entertaining action thriller.

Complicated real-life people have become narrative conventions in a movie full of character types and glib dialogue.

This film brings hope by showing how to live so as to know how to die.

Humor goes AWOL.

The live-action film produces a bump in the visual continuity, in the way an old vinyl record might skip a beat.

The Naudets give room for everyone to breathe, as bits of the firefighters’ personalities come out.

The most frightening film of 2020.

This is funny stuff, contained in a film with terrific timing, punctuated by adoring surveys of New York City, some moody jazz notes and cutaways to commentary from the movie's Greek chorus of neighbors and merchants in Harlem.

The Glorias, an overlong, unfocused and distractingly stylized take on Ms. Steinem's life, commits various sins of self-indulgence, as is the wont of film director Taymor.

If you're attracted by the idea of a film that probes the hair's breadth between the ritual and the spiritual, the devotional and the obsessive, and the visionary and the mad, this particular movie might well haunt your dreams.

Crowley’s original text may be a plea for tolerance. But it is decidedly not a polemic about the joys of same-sex attraction.

There is true magic in what transpires.

It’s impoverished rather than outrageously wealthy.

The family that prays together stays together.

Indeed, by the time they reach its ambiguous conclusion, movie fans may feel as though Pollock and Campos are toying with them.

Far-fetched and ham-fisted, the grim fantasy is marked by an outlook on timely racial issues that lacks both balance and a humane spirit.

The scars of childhood remain with us forever, that is, until a lasting, unconditional love can conquer the tragic memories and heal the psychological wounds.