Rachel McAdams

With "Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness," Marvel Studios has again reinvigorated the comic book film genre with its most original adventure yet.

Will Ferrell hasn’t headlined a well-received comic film since The Other Guys (2010), depending on your taste in comedies—especially if you’re not including The Lego Movie (2014) for which he was the main antagonist but not really the star per se. One would think he personally had a lot riding on the success of his new film, Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga, since he not only stars ...[Read More]

It wasn’t so long ago that hard R-rated comedies were coming out every week. The Hangover (2009) seemed to come out of nowhere and rejuvenate the genre to blockbuster heights. In the years following we got the likes of Bad Teacher (2011), Hot Tub Time Machine (2010), This is the End (2013), two more incredibly unfunny Hangover sequels (2011/2013), and Horrible Bosses (2011). There were many more o...[Read More]

Movies about journalistic crusades often run the risk of appearing pretentious, preachy, or some uncomfortable combination of both. That the best examples, namely All The President’s Men (1976) and more recently, Zodiac (2007), can flip guys with rolled up sleeves and notepads into the pantheon of American heroism speaks to the allure of true justice. Such was the case in 2001, when a Boston Globe...[Read More]

One would never accuse famed press-shy, prodigal film genius Terrence Malick of being hurried in either his storytelling or his carefully chosen, infrequent projects. Known in shorthand as the young 1970s turk who followed that decade’s downbeat, existential turn in American cinema to its lowest pulse rate in the meticulous classics Badlands and Days of Heaven – films without a specific cause to r...[Read More]

As Valentine’s Day nears, a plethora of romantic movies swarm cable television and theatres designed to put us in the mood for love. The Vow, starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum, is a romantic drama based on true life events about a married couple dealing with the trauma of a car accident. After watching The Vow, I left the theatre feeling melancholy rather than cheerful in hopes for the ye...[Read More]

Like most people, I was dubious at first about Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes back in 2009. The idea of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s master sleuth being turned into an action hero seemed like some kind of cultural sacrilege. But when the film came out and received surprisingly positive reviews, I went to see it, and I am glad that I did. Although the filmmakers had pumped up Doyle’s brief mentions of H...[Read More]

At the stroke of midnight on a mysterious cobbled corner of Paris, self-described “Hollywood hack” screenwriter Gil (Owen Wilson) enters a phantom carriage in the form of a vintage 1920s automobile. Inside he meets a couple of nightlifers with a flair for words and a curiously old-fashioned sartorial style. Their names are Scott and Zelda and they invite Gil to join them. By the end of his tale, G...[Read More]