#OscarNominatedShortFilmsAnimation...The best of a mostly fine lot is #Canadian #stopmotion effort #TheGirlWhoCriedPearls...#French hand-drawn #Papillon is a close second...https://bostonmovienews.com/2026/02/19/bears-pearls-girls-oscar-nominated-animated-shorts-pack-big-emotions/

RIP Tom Noonan...actor, screenwriter, director, founder of #ParadiseFactoryTheatre in the #EastVillage... will probably be remembered as gentle giant psychokiller in #Manhunter, the 1986 groundbreaking Michael Mann serial killer thriller

RIP #FrederickWiseman of #CambridgeMA, one of the great pillars of world cinema, the maker of films about such institutions as a mental hospital, a boxing gym and the Paris ballet. He called me once at the #BostonHerald to thank me for a review. @ZipporahFilms

#EmeraldFennell's #WutheringHeights is crazy, fun, gloriously self-indulgent. #MargotRobbie and #JacobElordi look like gods, although the sex is oddly not quite as unrestrained as the rest of it.

#Dracula...#French #auteur #LucBesson foolishly follows #FrancisCoppola's 1992 iconic, although flawed "#BramStokersDracula" down "romantic quest" [email protected]://bostonmovienews.com/2026/02/07/dracula-immortal-love-mortal-misfire/

#“APoet” Writer-director Simon Mesa Soto's “A Poet” is more than a dark comedy about an aging, washed-up poet. It is a jazzy snapshot of Medellin, its young people and a look at the value of art in society. This award-winning film was Colombia's selection for the Oscar. At AMC Boston Common.

#SendHelp...#SamRaimi of #TheEvilDead, #ArmyofDarkenss and #SpiderMan fame gives us a #CastAway knockoff worthy of #TheThreeStooges...#RachelMcAdams and #DylanOBrien are delightful...https://bostonmovienews.com/2026/01/29/send-help-blood-boars-and-bad-bosses/

Grizzled action star #JasonStatham is back with action-thriller #Shelter, an occasionally entertaining effort combining #JasonBourne and #JohnWick tropes about a rogue agent, holed up in the #Hebrides attacked by assassins sent by his ex-mentor #BillNighy, no less...

#HIsforHawk...#ClaireFoy is riveting as academic using hawk to help deal with her father's death...human-animal connection is strongest since #ChloeZhao's #TheRider...https://bostonmovienews.com/2026/01/27/in-h-is-for-hawk-grief-finds-an-unlikely-companion/

...#BostonHerald readers can find #JamesVerniere's film reviews at #BostonMovieNews...Check it out...It's free...https://bostonmovienews.com/2026/01/15/the-testament-of-ann-lee-faith-flesh-and-fervor/

#TheTestamentofAnnLee...#AmandaSeyfried is stunningly chrismatic, even if feminist icon #AnnLee is a a bit of a crackpot...Is there such a thing a too much writhing?...https://bostonmovienews.com/2026/01/15/the-testament-of-ann-lee-faith-flesh-and-fervor/

#28YearsLaterTheBoneTemple...Not since he strutted a la Jagger to “Emotional Rescue” in “A Bigger Splash” (2015) has Ralph Fiennes been as uninhibited as he is in “28 Years Later: The Bone Temple,” playing the often naked, always iodine-smeared Dr. Ian Kelson.

#MyNeighborAdolf...Incredibly charismatic, prolific, recently deceased German actor #UdoKier delivers another slyly delightful performance...#LeonProdovsky...https://bostonmovienews.com/2026/01/08/my-neighbor-adolf-chess-vodka-suspicion/

#Resurrection...If #DavidCronenberg had made a film about film history...Chinese auteur #BiGan weaves dreamlike multiple tales together, each featuring Chinese star #JacksonLee...https://bostonmovienews.com/2025/12/30/resurrection-is-a-challenging-hypnotic-experience-best-seen-on-the-big-screen/

#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/