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The Second Act ‘The Second Act’ Cannes Film Festival Director: Quentin DupieuxSales agent: KinologyCast: Léa Seydoux, Louis Garrel, Vincent Lindon, Raphaël QuenardDeadline’s takeaway: Maybe Quentin Dupieux should…

Et voilà, The Second Act, a bubbly apéritif to open this year's Cannes Film Festival, and the latest bit of mischief from Quentin Dupieux, the Loki of the French cinematic universe. Dupieux turns out a film roughly once a year, featuring protagonists ranging from a rogue rubber tire cruising the highway…

Disney and the BBC really don't want any spoilers revealed for today's debut of the latest season of Doctor Who. Fair enough, but I'm here to tell you that you will hear some of the worst music ever in these opening episodes of Ncuti Gatwa's hopefully long run as the famed Time Lord. Crossing…

After 2017’s masterful War of the Planet of the Apes, which completed the trilogy that started with 2011’s Rise and 2014’s Dawn and told the epic story of wise leader Caesar and the apes who created this whole new world, I really thought there was nowhere…

For years various producers have pitched doing something like a zany It’s A Mad Mad Mad Mad World, only populated by an epic cast of contemporary comedy stars just like that Stanley Kramer supercomedy did during its time in 1963. So it is probably not a coincidence that Jerry Seinfeld selected that very…

Jeff Daniels and Diane Lane rarely put in anything less than stellar performances, but the Emmy winner and Oscar nominee are rarely as good as they are in Netflix’s adaptation of Tom Wolfe’s A Man in Full. In a fortnight that has seen the premieres of Hulu's Lily Gladstone and Riley Keough starring Un…

April on Broadway, to mangle a phrase from a showtune classic, is bustin’ out all over with no fewer than 14 new plays and musicals set to open before the April 25 Tony Award eligibility cutoff date. So crowded are the final weeks of the 2023-24 theater season that three days each will see the openings of…

Every week there are large numbers of indie and specialty releases vying for attention. It’s impossible to do them all, so when the option of reviewing Nowhere Special was placed in front of me I resisted at first after discovering it actually premiered at…

SPOILER ALERT: This review reveals details of both Rebel Moon movies.Slow-motion scenes that sputter story pacing? Check. Poorly developed characters? Check. Plot holes bigger than the Milky Way? Check. … And we’re back with part two of Zack…

Universal has struggled to in recent years to bring back its classic horror franchises like Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolfman, The Mummy, etc., attempts that were perhaps too literal. But thanks to the filmmaking collective known as Radio Silence they have…

The title is the worst thing about this lively, fun and largely true World War II adventure The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare, which is inspired by the Damien Lewis book of the same name but extending it to add: How Churchill's Secret Warriors Set Europe…

In Challengers, Luca Guadagnino serves up a film that is as much about the volleys of human emotion as it is about the physical rallies on the tennis court. Starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist and penned by Justin Kuritzkes, the film…