New Reviews: "28 Years Later," "Bride Hard," "Elio" 🔒

Plus a few thoughts on reality as filtered by our national news media.

What to Watch: "The Swimmer" & "Deep End"

Everybody out of the pool!

New Reviews: "Prime Minister" & "Unholy Trinity" 🔒

What to Watch on a Weekend When You Should Be Marching

"Materialists" in theaters, "Make Way for Tomorrow" and "Art Spiegelman: Disaster is My Muse" on demand.

Brian Wilson 1942-2025

We just weren't made for his times.

New Reviews: "Ballerina," "Straw" 🔒

From this week's WaPo reviews: A "John Wick" spinoff and the latest Tyler Perry melodrama

I Know He Is But What Are You?

Matt Wolf's documentary peeks behind the surface of a pop-culture icon in search of the lost boy beneath. Plus, some thoughts about the new Wes Anderson design showroom - sorry, movie - the two faces of Dubrovnik and on demand recommendations.

Tom Cruise Will Never Die

And other thoughts about "Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning." Also: "I'm Still Here" and a new "Four Seasons" come to Netflix

One Good Film: "Land Ho!" (2014)

A hot spring of a movie: It fizzes a lot, and you come out feeling better than you went in.

Pan Sauce

On the art of the negative movie review and an anniversary celebration of one of the best bad reviews ever written.

New Reviews: "Fight or Flight," "Juliet & Romeo," Henry Johnson" 🔒

One hellacious B-movie action-comedy, one parboiled Shakespeare revamp for tweenie-boppers and a late-career curio from a great American playwright.

10 Good Movies on Netflix (again)

Plus: A heads-up for the latest Movie Club screening and a Watch List bargain.