The actor denied physical abuse. Separately, he said he wasn’t told of accusations of misbehavior on the set of “Lovecraft Country.”
Category: Movies
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Academy Awards Announces New Oscar for Achievement in Casting
After decades of lobbying from the casting field, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is adding its first new award category since 2001.
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‘The Monk and the Gun’ Review: A Satirical Fable in a Faraway Land
This feature follows two monks in Bhutan, often portrayed as a Shangri-La, as the country readies for its first democratic elections.
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‘Here’ Review: A Celebration of Connection
In Bas Devos’s muted and luminous Belgian drama, two lonely souls repeatedly encounter each other.
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‘Cobweb’ Review: A Film Within a Director’s Cinematic Ego Trip
Kim Jee-woon toys with the absurdity of filmmaking itself in this story of a director compelled to take his cast and crew captive to shoot one more scene.
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‘Drift’ Review: Cynthia Erivo Keeps a Breakdown at Bay
Anthony Chen’s quiet character study follows a traumatized Liberian woman (Cynthia Erivo) on a Greek island who befriends an American tour guide (Alia Shawkat).
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‘Out of Darkness’ Review: Prime Evil
A Stone Age tribe is hunted by an unseen entity in this wondrously atmospheric survival thriller, which unfolds in a fictional language.
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‘Marmalade’ Review: Getting Out of a Jam
Joe Keery plays a seeming dupe in a crime movie that plays dumb, then tries to play smart, but only becomes dumber.
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‘Molli and Max in the Future’ Review: Love, Interplanetary Style
This rom-com brings futuristic absurdity and nimble timing to a comfort-food story line of friends turned soul mates.
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‘Lisa Frankenstein’ Review: When Mom Finds Out, You’re So Dead
A little too enamored of its own references, this teen horror-comedy feels a bit misshapen but still delivers some light fun.
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‘Suncoast’ Review: How to Act When Your Brother Has Brain Cancer
Laura Chinn’s promising feature debut fictionalizes an excruciating experience: her brother’s slow death at the same time as Terri Schiavo’s ordeal.
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‘Ennio’ Review: Morricone and His Mastery of Film Scores
A lively, absorbing documentary about the Italian composer whose music is featured in hundreds of movies, from “A Fistful of Dollars” to “Kill Bill.”