Column: Do movies have a message? (They do, whether studios like it or not)
The director of "Twisters" says no one in the movie says the words "climate change" because he doesn't think "films are meant to be message-oriented.”
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‘Charlie Hustle & the Matter of Pete Rose’ review: A soiled baseball great attempts to come clean
Banned from baseball for life after he was caught gambling on games, Pete Rose squirms and dodges through a reckoning in this four-part HBO documentary series.
‘Simone Biles Rising’ review: An elite gymnast untangles the twisties
Ahead of the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, where gymnast Simone Biles is set to compete, the two-part Netflix documentary dissects why she pulled out in 2020.
Column: Do we need movie stars?
Plenty of screen actors these days are successful but we don’t think of them as stars. Why is that, and what’s different from the era of De Niro and Dunaway?
‘Teen Torture, Inc.’ review: In the troubled teen industry, major profits and major allegations of abuse
The documentary "Teen Torture, Inc." on Max centers on survivors of programs that use "tough love" and abuse as methods to turn around wayward kids.
Column: Class and social status in the kitchen and ‘The Bear’
A Chicago sandwich joint switches to fine dining, but restaurants of all types are an ecosystem where class issues play out. How well — or not — does “The Bear”...
‘The Bear’ Season 3 review: Carmy bears down on success, with uneven results
In Season 3, "The Bear" is portrait of a start-up restaurant led by a chef whose ambitions outweigh his reality.
‘Fancy Dance’ review: A small film that packs a big punch, thanks to Oscar-nominee Lily Gladstone
Lily Gladstone plays an Indigenous woman looking after her 13-year-old niece when suddenly everything goes wrong.
‘Granchester’ review: A new vicar makes the longrunning murder mystery series watchable again
The cozy British mystery "Grantchester" on PBS Masterpiece gets an infusion of energy with a new vicar in Season 9.
Column: AI is coming for Hollywood
The looming threat of AI in Hollywood will arrive with all the subtlety of the Kool-Aid Man busting through a wall.