Peter O’Toole is in pure Movie Star mode. His energy and charisma are off the charts. His Irish accent is perfect. He’s utterly believable in every scene, right down to that final “Jaysus.”
Gladiator II’s biggest mistake is trying to remake the original Gladiator (2000) with a contrived story that lacks the original’s emotional power and thematic depth.
With Anora, Sean Baker has written, directed, and edited an engrossing character study that ranks among the best movies of this new century.
While Red One has a lot to offer Christmas lovers and Christmas movie lovers, sometimes it’s too much. Way too much.
While the original screenplay won a well-deserved Oscar, Witness is through-and-through a director’s film.
Here are two of what I call deep cuts — movies that are not quite classics, not quite famous, but still pretty wonderful in that way that takes you away. Sometimes that’s what we need. Especially during stressful times: an escape, a movie or two that transports us to a fantasyland where we can forget about real life for a few hours. Here are two that should hit the spot…
Vengeance is a remarkable movie—funny as hell, thrilling, moving, ridiculously intelligent, and one of my favorites of this new century—one-hundred percent.
The best thing about Meet John Doe is that its message and themes remain timeless. Big business, self-dealing politicians, and elites snatching control of media outlets to manipulate, control, and silence everyday Americans…? Look around. Nothing’s changed, including the everyday decency of the normal, people who do the hard physical work that keeps our world turning.
Lorenzo’s Oil is a truly great movie, an emotional experience that might be better described as a family thriller than a family drama.
In 2020, a full 31 years after its theatrical release, director Rowdy Herrington’s Road House (1989) was broadcast across cable TV more than any other movie.
“A Quiet Place: Day One” is a prequel to the wildly successful “Quiet Place” franchise that takes us back to the day of the original invasion.
Nolte: Kevin Costner’s “Horizon: An American Saga—Chapter 1” is stunningly ambitious for all kinds of reasons.
American Fiction is not only hilarious and touching — it has something to say, but does so by uniting us through our shared humanity.
Isn’t replacing a minority group with a majority group discrimination?
Hollywood has insulted, demeaned, attacked, condescended to, and alienated half the country, all while attempting to “queer” and groom our kids.
Woody Allen has created an undeniable masterpiece that explores the darkest recesses of adultery, murder, the guilt that consumes us, and the unexpected bit of luck that can exonerate us. Seamlessly weaving it all together, he’s crafted his most morally
Director Doug Liman’s Road House (2024) is full of affection for the original, woke-free, and does plenty right — until it doesn’t.
“The Equalizer 3” delivers cathartic action and a second-to-none movie star performance courtesy of Denzel Washington.
This dumb attack on Rotten Tomatoes is an act of naked panic.
Legendary director John Carpenter said a sequel to The Thing (1982) starring Kurt Russell might just happen.
Left-wing Hollywood killed the movie star, and now the chickens are coming home to roost.
James Nathaniel Brown was born in 1936 and passed Thursday at age 87. For reasons no one need explain, he will primarily be remembered for his extraordinary athletic achievements in college and professional football. To give you an idea of just how great of an athlete Jim Brown was, think about this.
Nolte: ‘Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny’ is debuting to worse reviews than ‘Indiana Jones and the Kindom of the Crystal Skull.’
Uncle Remus is a black man in a 1946 movie who is not only the star of the movie, his character is the moral center of the story; he is its moral authority and a father figure to a white boy.
The Trump-defending Alan Dershowitz is portrayed as a righteous hero fighting on behalf of a rich, heterosexual white guy in 1990’s “Reversal of Fortune.”
Director Elizabeth Banks’ Cocaine Bear fumbles the can’t-lose concept of a black bear high on cocaine rampaging through a state park.
Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles is not for everyone. You have to meet it on its own terms, which is challenging. But it is unquestionably a masterwork deserving of a place among our great movies, even if that place is not number one.
The left’s ongoing era of woke fascism turned a rewatch of Wim Wenders’masterpiece Wings of Desire (1987) into something special.
Nolte: Two-time Oscar winner and international treasure Michael Caine turned 90 this week. Here are some of his non-blockbuster films I treasure.
Steven Spielberg’s film memoir “The Fabelmans” consists of a lot of bad acting and not a single scene that feels real.
The impossibly beautiful actress and icon Raquel Welch died Wednesday at age 82
Politics and dishonesty aside, ‘She Said’ is dumb, dramatically inert, and populated with dull characters, dull dialogue, and dull scenes.
If sanity ever returns to the American culture, writer/director Todd Field’s brilliant and hypnotizing “Tár” will be remembered as the only honest document of the disgraceful Woke Era.
Watching You People, the latest big Hollywood “comedy” from Netflix, is another depressing reminder (and example) of the ongoing collapse of Hollywood.
Emily the Criminal is the promising feature debut of writer-director John Patton Ford, and I say “promising” because this guy knows how to tell a lean, tense story involving realistic characters in a beautifully paced 93 minutes.
Will Smith’s “Emancipation” has ambitions well beyond its grasp, but works just fine as a streaming movie.
Apple’s big Oscar push this year, director Antoine Fuqua’s Slave Drama “Emancipation,” appears to be dead in the water.
A good example of just how much our culture has regressed over the last half-century can be found in the joyous splendor of the nearly forgotten action-comedy classic, Freebie and the Bean (1974).
Nolte: Chuck Norris movies rawk. Here are my favorites — the ones I’m most thankful for — ranked in order of favoritism.
Quentin Tarantino does not hide his disgust with the quality of movies today. In his mind, movies today don’t “even exist.”
