#Hamnet...#Oscar winner #ChloeZhao's latest...is a tribute to transformative power of art...@Jessie Buckley is radiant...@PaulMescal is a forest witch-besotted #[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/11/26/hamnet-imagines-hamlets-origin-story/

#SentimentalValue...Maybe best film of the year...#JoachimTrier's #Norwegian family drama recalls #IngmarBergman and #modernist #Scandinaviantheater...#StellanSkarsgard and #RenateReinsve lead stellar cast...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/11/16/sentimental-value-tender-turbulent-unforgettable/

If you liked Nouvelle Vague, read the real story of the emblematic producer of the Nouvelle Vague, based on his own unknown archives ! It is now available worldwide: www.amazon.com/dp/B0G1CQH71H #nouvellevague #netflix

#NouvelleVague, #RichardLinklater's celebration of #Godard classic #Breathless, is smart, droll, uniquely insightful and very smoky...#ZoeyDeutch...#AubryDullin...#GuillaumeMarbeck...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/31/nouvelle-vague-channels-godard-with-wit-warmth-and-style/

See #StitchHead in theaters...The perfect #Halloween treat for kids...Director #SteveHudson brings #GuyBass's books to life in CG-animated #monstermash...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/31/stitch-head-brings-heart-and-humor-to-an-all-ages-monster-mash/

...#BostonHerald readers can find #JamesVerniere's film reviews at #BostonMovieNews...@Fangoria...@RealGDT...@[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/22/frankenstein-heart-horror-and-style/

#Frankenstein...#GuillermodelToro's take on Shelley is best film of the year...@MiaGoth is perfect dark fairy princess...@JacobElordi's Creature is majestic...AllHail BernieWrightson..@RealGDT...@[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/22/frankenstein-heart-horror-and-style/

...#BostonHerald readers can find #JamesVerniere's film reviews at #BostonMovieNews...Check it out...It's [email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/03/chain-reactions-leatherface-and-legacy/

#ChainReactions...New film about the original 1974 American masterpiece #TheTexasChainSawMassacre by #TobeHooper is here...#PattonOswalt...#StephenKing...#KarynKusama...#TakashiMiike...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/10/03/chain-reactions-leatherface-and-legacy/

#OneBattleAfter Another...Terrible title #PTA...But great film...Revolution has never been this funny...#LeonardoDiCaprio...#SeanPenn...#TeyanaTaylor all #Oscar worthy...The film, too...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/28/one-battle-after-another-sex-bombs-and-revolution/

#DeadofWinter...#EmmaThompson goes #Rambo as widow trying to save girl kidnapped by fentanyl-crazed killer ex-nurse (hello #JudyGreer)...Composer has an Oscar...DP shot #Shogun...Check this out..https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/28/dead-of-winter-snow-way-out/

...#BostonHerald readers can find #JamesVerniere's film reviews at #BostonMovieNews...Check it out...It's free...See this review of #Football #Faust mash-up Him...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/19/him-hells-huddle/

#DowntonAbbeyTheGrandFinale...Not much drama, but a lot of fun...The cast is nicely showcased... #MichelleDockery, #SophieMcShera and #JimCarter are standouts...@thecoolidge...@amctheaters... #JulianFellowes...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/11/downtons-last-waltz/

#SpinalTapIITheEndContinues...At least the title is funny...All the same jokes 41 years later...The mockumentary has been beaten to death...The divine #FranDrescher appears all too briefly...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/11/spinal-tap-ii-the-end-continues-the-encore-nobody-asked-for/

#LoveActually depicts a new kind of #Brooklyn, including its parks, but the romantic drama lacks detail and focus. The actors, however, are excellent...@AndreHolland...@[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/06/a-triangle-without-tension-in-love-brooklyn/

In #TheConjuriongLastRites...#Millennials turn their dying #Boomer grandparents into #demonic #ghouls...Sweet...#Conjuring?...#Insidious?...What's the diff? #[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/09/06/the-conjuring-last-rites-the-devil-you-know-again-and-again/

#Splitsville...#Sexy, funny #offbeat comedy from the team that brought us #TheClimb...Is having #DakotaJohnson and #AdriaArjona in the same movie just too much?...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/31/splitsville-marital-meltdown/

...#BostonHerald readers who'd like to read #JamesVerniere's #filmreviews can find them at #BostonMovieNews...Check it out...It's free...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/22/eden-a-real-life-survival-story-in-the-galapagos/

See #Relay in theaters...#RizAhmed and #LilyJames tie complicated romantic knot in #NewYork-set #Hitchcockian thriller from #DavidMackenzie (#OutlawKing, #HellorHighWater)...@[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/22/riz-ahmed-takes-on-corporate-espionage-in-relay/

#Eden...#JudeLaw is naked and toothless as eccentric German in #RonHoward's violent #desertislandadventure...#VanessaKirby...@DanielBruehl...@SydneySweeney is one of few [email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/22/eden-a-real-life-survival-story-in-the-galapagos/

#DenzelWashington plays another troubled monarch in #SpikeLee's visually masterful #NewYorkCity set reinterpretation of #Kurosawa classic in #Highest2Lowest... @JeffreyWright...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/14/highest-2-lowest-spike-lee-brings-a-classic-kurosawa-story-to-the-streets-of-nyc/

In #Nobody2, our wishes are the commands of the cinematic angels of mayhem and murder...@TimoTjahjanto...@bobodenkirk69...@[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/14/bob-odenkirk-turns-a-water-park-into-a-battlefield-in-nobody-2/

#KristinScottThomas's matrimonial dramedy #MyMothersWedding is not great...But it is going to be in the top ten when it streams...Mark my words...#ScarletJohansson...#SiennaMiller...#EmilyBeecham...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/08/my-mothers-wedding-something-old-nothing-too-new/

#ItsNeverOverJeffBuckley...In @AmyBerg's evocative and at times touching film, she pays tribute to a bohemian artist whose light was prematurely [email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/08/hallelujah-and-heartbreak-the-brief-beautiful-life-of-jeff-buckley/

See #Cloud moody, #darkweb thriller from writer director #KiyoshiKurosawa at #BrattleTheatre...#JanusFilms...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/08/04/dark-web-of-vengeance-unfolds-in-kurosawas-cloud/

#TheBadGuys2...Voices, action, characters, humor and music coalesce...Animation at its best...@SamRockwellFans...@MarcMaron...@CraigRobinson...@AnthonyRamos...@[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/07/31/the-bad-guys-2-a-criminally-fun-return/

#MichaelWinterbottom's #Shoshana is most politically relevant and most romantic film in theaters...See it for its #Romeo and #Julliet in 1930s #Palestine...#IrinaStarshenbaum and #[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/07/25/shoshana-occupied-hearts-in-a-land-of-unrest/

#FantasticFourFirstSteps ...Did #Marvel get it right this time?...Yes, they did...#PedroPascal...#VanessaKirby...#EbonMossBacharach...#JosephQuinn...#JuliaGarner...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/07/23/fantastic-four-first-steps-finds-its-footing/

#Eddington...This is exactly the sort of "difficult" visionary filmmaking #America needs now more than ever...Aster could be the new #StanleyKubrick...@AriAster...@[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/07/17/eddington-a-horror-film-without-monsters-just-america/

#HeartsofDarknessAFilmmakersApocalypse...Acclaimed documentary about the making of #FrancisFordCoppola's surreal Vietnam War classic #ApocalypseNow is back at the @SomervilleThe theater...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/07/16/inside-the-madness-hearts-of-darkness-returns-to-the-big-screen/

#FamiliarTouch...stage and screen veteran #KathleenChalfant brings rage and dignity as octogenarian facing assisted living with strangers...Writer-director @SarahFriedland makes impressive feature [email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/07/12/familiar-touch-when-memory-fades/

#SupermanMovie...Writer-director #JamesGunn of #GuardiansoftheGalaxy has given us a #Superman for our times...#DavidCorenswet is great fun as #ManofSteel...#RachelBrosnahan #NicholasHoult also excel...#DC...#WB...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/07/11/superman-up-up-and-way-more-fun/

#40Acres...#DanielleDeadwyler and #MichaelGreyeyes lead talented cast in #dystopian drama inspired in part by #OctaviaEButler...Directed and co-written by Canadian #RTThorne, film is ripe to be future cult fave...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/07/02/40-acres-fights-for-survival/

#JurassicWorldRebirth...Who wants another dinosaur movie from the writer who adapted #JurassicPark and#TheLostWorldJurassicPark?...@Uripjohansson ...@JonathanBailey...@GarethEdwards... @MahersalaAli...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/07/02/jurassic-world-rebirth-still-roaring-after-all-these-years/

#F1TheMovie...gets the #TopGun treatment from #TopGunMaverick director JosephKosinski...It's not brilliant, but it's fun, loud, smart enough, and it has #BradPitt...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/06/28/f1-the-movie-races-into-theaters-with-speed-swagger-and-brad-pitt/

#28YearsLater...Rage zombies?...Who could they be?...#DannyBoyle and #AlexGarland have given us another zombie movie for our times...All hail #RalphFiennes...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/06/26/28-years-later-welcome-back-to-the-rage/

...#BostonHerald readers can find #JamesVerniere's film reviews at #BostonMovieNews...Check it out...Share it...It's free...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/06/06/the-ritual-summons-a-familiar-devil-but-leaves-the-scares-behind/

#HowToTrainYourDragon...Another "live-action" remake of an #animated hit...Cast is big asset, even if uncanny- looking...@kendallcinema...#MasonThames...#GerardButler...#NicoParker...#NickFrost...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/06/13/live-action-dragon-remake-charms-but-doesnt-breathe-new-fire/

...#BostonHerald readers who want to enjoy #JamesVerniere's film reviews should check out #BostonMovieNews...It's free...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/06/06/tom-hiddleston-dances-through-the-end-of-the-world-in-the-life-of-chuck/

#ThePhoenicianScheme...#BeniciodelToro is delightful as business tycoon on a Andersonian journey of self-discovery...#MiaThreapleton is great fun as nun-to-be daughter...@[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/06/06/the-phoenician-scheme-is-a-feast-of-form-and-feeling/

#TheLifeofChuck...After adapting #StephenKing, #EdgarAllanPoe and #ShirleyJackson, writer-director #MikeFlanagan hits a home run with his latest...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/06/06/tom-hiddleston-dances-through-the-end-of-the-world-in-the-life-of-chuck/

#TheRitual...Did the #devil make him do it?...How did this film's makers get #AlPacino to star in their dreary rehash of #WilliamFriedkin's #TheExorcist?....https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/06/06/the-ritual-summons-a-familiar-devil-but-leaves-the-scares-behind/

...#BostonHerald readers can find #JamesVerniere's reviews at #BotonMovieNews...Check it out...It's free...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/06/02/bring-her-back-dares-you-to-look-away-you-probably-should/

#BringHerBack...#Philippou brothers of #TalktoMe fame are back...Their latest has a great cast...But script is vague and derivative...@[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/06/02/bring-her-back-dares-you-to-look-away-you-probably-should/

#JiaZhangke's mini-epic #CaughtbytheTides...is stitched together from his existing work and sweeps us across time and space...#TaoZhao is woman protagonist on Homeric journey...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/05/30/caught-by-the-tides-washes-over-you-like-a-dream/

#KarateKidLegends...#BenWang...#JackieChan...#MingNaWen...#JoshuaJackson...#SadieStanley... #RalphMacchio are all a pleasure to watch in this new #KarateKid movie...But the film is an uninspired add-on...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/05/30/karate-kid-legends-wax-on-cash-in/

#LiloandStitch...The magic and genius of the original are lacking...But new version mixing #liveaction and #CG not bad...@Fangoria...@RT...@HorrorClassic [email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/05/22/lilo-stitch-disneys-latest-live-action-remake-leaves-the-magic-behind/

#JoshHartnett...Is Josh Hartnett the new #JohnWick...Check him out in #cultfave film #[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/05/09/fight-or-flight-josh-hartnett-goes-full-action-hero/

...#BostonHerald readers can find #JamesVerniere's reviews on #BostonMovieNews...Check it out...It's free...@[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/05/09/fight-or-flight-josh-hartnett-goes-full-action-hero/

#Friendship...The craziest buddy comedy of recent memory...#PaulRudd and #TimRobinson are the #Jekyll and #Hyde of male bonding...#KateMara is a delight...@thecoolidge...@KendallCinema...@[email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2025/05/16/friendship-a-bromance-gets-uncomfortably-real/