Pete's Place

A Bad Moms Christmas is one of those plot-by-numbers sit-com movies that tries hard (perhaps too hard) to reproduce the elements that ma...

Jeff Wells, who writes an on-line column on the movie industry called Hollywood Elsewhere correctly, in my opinion, took the Oscars’ produc...

It’s hard to imagine a more generic wilderness adventure-turned-romance than Hany Abu-Assad’s The Mountain Between Us. Saved from the cin...

About halfway through Battle of the Sexes , I found myself wishing I was watching a documentary rather than a feature film. Some of the i...

Someone connected with the Oscars is showing a lot of class. I’m not sure who it is. Possibly someone with the Motion Picture Academy. Or i...

Victoria and Abdul , based on (mostly) true events as related in Shrabani Basu’s historical chronicle of the same name, is effectively a ...

What is it about clowns, anyway? Why do some people find them hilarious while others are creeped out by them? Whatever the case, author S...

American Assassin is as generic an espionage thriller as you’re likely to find. Leaving no cliché unturned and offering a roster of pred...

Note: This review contains spoilers. Although these relate to historical facts (since the main character is a real person), I realize mo...

Japanese director Takashi Miike has spent a career bucking conventions and thumbing his nose at censors. From his first foray into direct...

For more than 30 years, one of the great mysteries of journalism and politics was the identity of Woodward and Bernstein’s key Watergate ...

For 35 years, fans of Blade Runner have discussed and deconstructed the original film while speculating about where the story might go n...