movie review ANEMONE Running time: 126 minutes. Rated R (language and traumatic revelations). In theaters. Daniel Day-Lewis should’ve stayed retired. Or at least come back in a better movie. But the three-time Oscar winner couldn’t resist returning for his first film since “The Phantom Thread” eight years ago — the abysmal “Anemone.” The title of … Read more
movie review IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT Running time: 105 minutes. Rated PG-13 (violence, smoking, strong language). In Persian with subtitles. In theaters Oct. 15. There is nothing accidental about the way Jafar Panahi makes movies. The Iranian writer-director isn’t known for churning out sweet, innocent comedies that go down easily. He famously prods the … Read more
movie review SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE Running time: 120 minutes. Not yet rated. In theaters Oct. 24. The Bruce Springsteen movie “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” has a lot in common with last year’s Bob Dylan biopic “A Complete Unknown.” Each eschews a sprawling birth-to-present-day storyline and instead focuses on a consequential chapter in … Read more
“Priscilla,” the superb drama about Priscilla Presley’s complicated marriage to Elvis, does not end with an Elvis Presley song. Instead, the final minutes of writer-director Sofia Coppola’s affectionate movie, which had its North American premiere Friday at the New York Film Festival, come courtesy of another Tennessee music legend: “I Will Always Love You” by … Read more
What a shame that the major controversy surrounding the movie “Maestro,” the Leonard Bernstein biopic that had its North American premiere Monday night at the New York Film Festival, was over its director-and-star Bradley Cooper’s prosthetic nose. Instead, the uproar should have been about his wildly self-indulgent schmacting as he plays the brilliant composer of … Read more