In a Body-Positive Moment, Why Does Hollywood Remain Out of Step?
Melissa McCarthy has broken through in Hollywood, but her success is viewed by studios as an anomaly. Danielle Macdonald hopes to flip the script.
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Melissa McCarthy has broken through in Hollywood, but her success is viewed by studios as an anomaly. Danielle Macdonald hopes to flip the script.
By BROOKS BARNES
This class-conscious caper, with Channing Tatum and Adam Driver as down-on-their-luck brothers, is ridiculously entertaining.
By A. O. SCOTT
Samuel L. Jackson is an ill-tempered contract killer. Ryan Reynolds is his uptight protector. You can figure out the rest.
By A. O. SCOTT
Fernando Trueba’s light ensemble comedy is a romp that pillories Hollywood’s deal-making with the Franco regime in the 1950s.
By ANDY WEBSTER
The 1986 film "Chief Zabu” finally gets its New York premiere some 30 years after its cryptic ads become a running gag on the “Mystery Science” TV show. What took so long?
By GLENN KENNY
Sexual hypocrisy fuels a South African film about teenagers undergoing a circumcision ritual.
By GLENN KENNY
John Bailey, the newly elected leader of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, says he is ready to address the organization’s challenges.
By BROOKS BARNES
The fourth installment in the “Conjuring” series was the No. 1 film of the weekend, with roughly $35 million in ticket sales at North American theaters.
By BROOKS BARNES
As a doll terrorizes little girls in the new film “Annabelle: Creation,” five directors talk about what frightened them as children.
By ERIK PIEPENBURG