movie & Television reviews
Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon
Capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.
Movie Review: ‘Anyone But You’
Although the script, penned by director Will Gluck and Ilana Wolpert, draws on Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” the mores on display are all-too-modern.
Movie Review: ‘The Boys in the Boat’
This rousing sports drama promotes positive values and showcases a sweetly innocent romance.
Priest’s film ‘Trinity’s Triumph’ lifts stained-glass curtain on the priesthood
An independent film called “Trinity’s Triumph,” written and produced by a Newark archdiocesan priest, brings Catholic priests into the everyday landscape, peeling back the stained-glass curtain on the priesthood.
Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon
Capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.
Movie Review: ‘Wonka’
What surrounds Chalamet’s youthful, goodhearted aspiring chocolatier is a generally charming musical fantasy marred by an ill-considered Catholic-themed subplot.
Movie Review: ‘May December’
Can lasting happiness be built on a foundation of reckless immorality? That’s the essential question posed by the intense drama “May December” (Netflix).
Movie Review: ‘Freud’s Last Session’
Overall, this is unusually intelligent fare, though some may find it a bit talky and – an interlude set in the trenches of World War I aside – somewhat stagebound.
Home viewing roundup: What’s available to stream and what’s on horizon
Capsule reviews of theatrical movies available now for streaming or scheduled for broadcast on network or cable television as well as notes on TV programming for the same week.
Movie Review: ‘Silent Night’
Nothing is calm and little is bright in the grisly revenge thriller “Silent Night” (Lionsgate).