This month’s picks include a hiking trip gone wrong and a luxury vacation that takes a depraved turn.
Category: Movies
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Five Children’s Movies to Stream Now
This month’s picks include a sweet dragon tale, the new “Avatar” installment and an updated Cinderella story.
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How ‘Barbie’ and Blackpink Entered South China Sea Map Spat
Vietnam banned the film over its apparent use of a Chinese map showing disputed territory. Blackpink concerts may be next. Here’s what the fuss is about.
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U.S. and China, by the Numbers
From movie theaters to military spending, here’s how one of the world’s most important economic relationships stacks up.
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Mike Cavanagh, NBCUniversal’s New Leader, Overhauls Top Ranks
Donna Langley will gain broader oversight of creative decisions for the company’s entertainment content. Mark Lazarus is getting a wider purview over some business decisions for creative content.
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Review: ‘The YouTube Effect’ Is a Discursive Documentary
Alex Winter offers an overview of the world’s second most popular website in this unfocused tech documentary.
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‘Once Upon a Time in Uganda’ Review: When Ragtag Met Rambo
A new documentary tells how a Ugandan filmmaker and an American producer have reshaped African cinema.
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‘Amanda’ Review: A Friendship Forged in Delusion
A delusional college grad befriends an agoraphobic misanthrope in this stylish dark comedy by the Italian director Carolina Cavalli.
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‘The Lesson’ Review: Carefully Taut
A tense standoff between two writers kindles familial fireworks in this wittily self-aware melodrama.
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‘The Out-Laws’ Review: Adam Devine, Funny at Last
Devine channels Jack Lemmon as a law-abiding Everyman whose fiancée’s parents rob the bank he manages. (Awkward.)
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‘Biosphere’ Review: It’s the End of the World. Two Men Survived.
What happens when a petulant, anti-intellectual president destroys the planet and he and his childhood buddy, the brainy one, are the only survivors?
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‘Joy Ride’ Review: A Raunch-Com Roller Coaster
Four friends travel to China in a trip that goes entertainingly off the rails in this terrific comedy, starring Ashley Park and Sherry Cola.