As an indie filmmaker and one of the founders of the mumblecore movement, Joe Swanberg (Kissing on the Mouth, Drinking Buddies) has always gravitated to the space between words, to the things left unsaid between people who say they’re in love. In Digging for Fire, a mesmerizing, millennial spin on… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Lily Tomlin works miracles. She’s comedy royalty whose best films (Nashville, The Late Show, All of Me, I Heart Huckabees) always cut deeper than a smile. But no Oscar. Maybe Grandma will do the trick. It’s a Tomlin tour de force. Don’t get any ideas that Tomlin, 75, is playing some… Source: Rolling […]

Have you noticed that the past is effing everywhere? Especially at the movies. Look at The Man From U.N.C.L.E., a moldy 1960s TV series that comes to the screen with no Mission: Impossible update or makeover. That’s right — it’s still moldy. But in a good way. Mostly. Director Guy Ritchie (Snatch,… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

This movie burns so hot that it’s bound to run out of steam. It does. But not so much that you ever want to leave its danger zone. Straight Outta Compton is epic, baby, an explosively entertaining hip-hop biopic that raps home truths about race and police brutality as timely… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

Unite, enthusiasts of Frances Ha — director Noah Baumbach and his shining star and co-writer, Greta Gerwig, have reteamed to create a screwball diversion that vibrates with smarts, sexiness and comic desperation. That’s Mistress America, starring the delectable Gerwig as Brooke, a Manhattan dynamo in design, aerobics, restaurants and whatever else… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

The latest reboot of the Fantastic Four — the cinematic equivalent of malware — is worse than worthless. It not only scrapes the bottom of the Marvel-movie barrel; it knocks out the floor and sucks audiences into a black hole of soul-crushing, coma-inducing dullness. And, guess what, it’s an origin… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

It’s a kick watching Meryl Streep rock out on guitar and vocals in Ricki and the Flash. Streep’s Ricki Rendazzo dumps her family to play bars with the Flash, a cover band made of bona fide musicians. That’s drummer Joe Vitale, keyboardist Bernie Worrell and bassist Rick Rosas, with Rick… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

It begins with 15-year-old Minnie Goetz exulting, “I just had sex.” In The Diary of a Teenage Girl — a riveting, resonant first feature from Marielle Heller, with a breakout star performance from Brit actress Bel Powley, 23, as Minnie — you exult along with her. Set in bohemian San Francisco in… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]

When Aardman Animations sends out a movie, attention must be paid. For me, their Wallace and Gromit franchise is the Holy Grail of stop-motion Claymation. Shaun the Sheep Movie isn’t quite in that advanced class. But hold the bleating, the movie is a world-class winner. Grownups will enjoy every delicious irony… Source: Rolling […]

Tom Cruise hit on a tangy idea when he decided to turn the old-school CBS series Mission: Impossible (1966-1973) into a film franchise. As producer as well as star, Cruise puts a new director in charge of every movie. So far at the helm, since 1996, we’ve had Brian De… Source: Rolling Stones Movie […]