The real mystery is why they made a second one. Netflix has padded its catalog of cinematic background noise some more with “Murder Mystery 2,” the instantly forgettable sequel to its rancid whodunit comedy starring Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler as married crime solvers. movie review Running time: 89 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, bloody images, … Read more
The new movie “Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves” has no business being as good as it is. It’s a reboot of a garish aughts movie trilogy that received atrocious reviews — The Post awarded the first film zero stars — and that few people saw and even fewer remember. movie review Running time: 134 … Read more
Staring mesmerized at John Wick going on a killing spree is what I imagine it must have been like to watch Claude Monet create a work of art. But whereas Monet painted the Montmartre area of Paris as he saw it on a canvas, Wick creatively spatters the French neighborhood with a Seine’s worth of … Read more
The scariest part of “Scream VI” isn’t some gory slashing, or a breathy anonymous phone call — it’s when a normal guy taps a woman’s shoulder on a New York City subway platform. Who cares if it’s Ghostface or not? Is this lunatic gonna push her onto the tracks? It’s a fleeting, ripped-from-the-headlines thrill in what’s … Read more
“Rocky” is one of the only decades-old film franchises out there to which I say: Keep making more, please. The pulse-pounding “Creed III” is the ninth movie in the series. And although there is nary a mention of Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky Balboa in this one, the indomitable spirit, grit and heart that made the 1976 … Read more
When a mysterious, $10 billion object is stolen at the start of “Operation Fortune: Ruse de guerre” and the British government wants it back, an intelligence chief says, “I need a creative cunning and unconventional vision to retrieve this kind of mercurial threat.” Creative cunning and unconventional vision has, in the past, been what director … Read more
The new comedy “Cocaine Bear” is exactly what you think it is — a bear inhaling kilo after kilo of coke. Impressively, however, director Elizabeth Banks keeps the powder gags fresh throughout, as the mammal maims her way through a Southern forest preserve. The movie about blow never blows. movie review Running time: 95 minutes. Rated … Read more
Winnie the Pooh and Piglet brutally murder 11 people … is a sentence I never thought I’d write. But that’s what goes down in the sicko indie horror film “Winnie-the-Pooh: Blood and Honey,” which played theaters for one night only on Wednesday. And, believe you me, one night is enough. How has the 100 Acre … Read more
Sorry to Raid on your parade, “Ant-Man” fans, but the third chapter is a pile of dirt. Called “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania” — these nonsensical titles! — the Marvel movie does boast a terrific new villain in Kang the Conquerer played by Jonathan Majors. He’s a time-hopping multiverse manipulator, and red-hot Majors has gravitas … Read more
Donna Summer’s disco classic “Last Dance” does a good job of summing up Steven Soderbergh’s new movie “Magic Mike’s Last Dance”: When it’s bad it’s so, so bad. movie review Running time: 112 minutes. Rated R (sexual material and language). In theaters Feb. 10. The preposterous finale to the stripper trilogy baffles right from the … Read more
The Marvel Cinematic Universe kicks off another round of super-villain-bashing fun with the upcoming release of “Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania.” The film is the first in MCU’s Phase 5 group of films, dubbed the “Secret Wars,” with several new releases planned between 2024 and 2025. Reviews are already rolling in ahead of the premiere … Read more
To watch an M. Night Shyamalan movie today involves asking yourself the same question over and over again: Is this good — or is it garbage? With him the line between the two is floss-thin, and usually the honest answer doesn’t matter. “Old,” his 2021 film about a mysterious beach that rapidly ages anybody who … Read more
Tom Brady’s first foray into Hollywood, a dumb comedy called “80 For Brady,” is much clunkier than he ever was on the football field. True, the film’s casting is a virtue, and Lily Tomlin, Jane Fonda, Sally Field and Rita Moreno light up the screen with their beloved personalities. But putting these legends in a … Read more
PARK CITY, Utah — Every January, just when we’re all sick of yakking about the same 10 Oscar movies, the Sundance Film Festival arrives like a bucket of ice water over the head. The buzzy indie fest, in the cute but eye-gougingly expensive ski town of Park City, Utah, wakes us up and sets the … Read more
PARK CITY, Utah — No one likes being lied to or manipulated … unless it’s at the movie “Eileen,” which premiered Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival. Director William Oldroyd’s mouth-watering drama, based on Ottessa Moshfegh’s acclaimed novel, misleads and misdirects all the way to the shocker ending. Like some dark choose-your-own-adventure story, it’s easy … Read more
PARK CITY, Utah — “Theater Camp,” which premiered Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, brings to mind another comedy that debuted here years ago: “Wet Hot American Summer.” Nobody goes on a heroin-fueled rampage through town this time — too bad — but what both sleepaway movies share is that they’re more about the counselors … Read more
PARK CITY, Utah — The movie “Cat Person,” which premiered Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, should be called “Camp Person.” Because gone is the deceptively simple, resonant, viral New Yorker short story about the pitfalls of dating in the age of the internet that touched a cultural nerve in 2017, and in its place … Read more
PARK CITY, UTAH — The 2023 Sundance Film Festival kicked off Thursday with the sublimely moving “Radical,” a Spanish-language gem about a real teacher’s impact on a poor Mexican border town. Yes, the professor-shaking-up-students shtick has been done on-screen many times before, from “Dead Poets Society” to “To Sir, With Love” and “Sister Act 2: … Read more
PARK CITY, UTAH — The Mother of Dragons becomes the Mother of an Artificially Grown Fetus in “The Pod Generation,” a wobbly new science-fiction comedy that premiered Thursday night at the Sundance Film Festival. Emilia Clarke from “Game of Thrones” stars in the satire of our increasingly close relationship with technology as Rachel, a futuristic … Read more
What’s better at Christmastime than watching a group of petrified children being called “maggots” by their cruel teacher? The big bad bully under the tree is Miss Trunchbull, from the dark mind of British author Roald Dahl, in Netflix’s all-right adaptation of “Matilda the Musical.” movie review Running time: 117 minutes. Rated PG (thematic elements, … Read more