As she looked around the room that day, taking in the assemblage of those in attendance, her voice took on a stronger, louder quality when she declared: “Family is love!” Besides her daughter Joshlyn, she was also surrounded by her children Alfreda Williams, Jacinto Dortch, Alonzo Stovall, Barbara Stovall Carter and Rodney Stovall, and by assorted grandchildren, cousins,

Set throughout two nights (plus a coda scene at the end), Jacobs’ film can never shake its stage roots, introducing its six protagonists in pairs of two. Grace (Diane Keaton, practically parodying herself while also bizarrely playing an evangelical Christian) spends the night chatting with Sam (William H. Macy, finding more humanity in his role

His buyer is a distinguished-looking older gentleman of sober mien, Jacques Fonzic, played by François Cluzet, one of the most stalwart and trustworthy-appearing actors in contemporary French cinema. After Simon boasts of the cellar’s condition—“no humidity, no mold”—he and Fonzic haggle over price, with Simon getting nearly all of what he asks, which is delivered

In a set-up that’s like “The White Lotus” meets body horror, “Infinity Pool” opens at an exclusive resort in a fictional country. Author James Foster (Alexander Skarsgard) is looking for inspiration while his partner Em (Cleopatra Coleman) tries to support the writer’s block that has led to no new books in six years. When a

Notably, Barthes doesn’t lean strongly on gender roles or the predictable route of the botanist being against the project from start to finish. In fact, she subverts them by having Aly become more involved with caring for the womb, even taking it to the park and refusing to give it back to the very creepy

“New Gods: Yang Jian” is the second movie in an expensive-looking series that began in 2021 with the uneven but relatively straightforward “New Gods: Nezha Reborn.” These two “New Gods” movies are not narratively related in any way you need to worry about if you’re only curious to see what a polished Chinese mythological fantasy

That should be a recipe for success. But, it turns out that 44 minutes is too few to deliver the kind of nuance “Accused” is after. And without the time to ask complex questions, the episodes are emotionally manipulative–dropping the viewer into terrible situations with no real payoff. Take the first episode: The liner note says

Dubbed a remix of the original 1990 movie, music video director Calmatic refashions “House Party” for a world of McMansions and Instagram influencers. In this new vision, best friends Damon (Tosin Cole) and Kevin (Jacob Latimore) find themselves recently fired from their cleaning job and in a financial pinch after getting kicked off the bill

Best in show is a tie between Bomo Illuma’s segment, in which Jane meets an ex-lover named Tayo (Chido Nwokocha) on a beach where, ten years earlier, it became painfully apparent that racial and cultural differences (she’s white, he’s Black) were fated to prevent them from going the distance; and Jeong’s segment, which reunites Jacobs with “Community” castmate Joel McHale

“Jethica”’s ghosts are lonelier than its living humans overall, mostly because they’re only able to touch each other. (Their hands pass through the living, like in “Ghost.”) Other than that, there’s not much difference between the living and the dead in this film. Both are hanging around, purposeless, haunted by the past, and paralyzed by