Re-creating the experience of being stuck at a party filled with terrible people — without any free drinks — “The Next Big Thing” is 84 minutes of unpleasantness. This comedy is populated by terrible characters, whose only saving grace is that they aren’t real people (nor do they feel like real...

Its subject may seem an unlikely choice for epic movie treatment, but “Padman,” inspired by the true story of activist Arunachalam Muruganantham’s mission to bring affordable sanitary pads to the female masses of India, proves quite the entertaining, daresay absorbing, movie. How the title characte..

This being 2018, I suppose it’s only to be expected that Peter Rabbit should try to sodomize the farmer with a carrot. Fortunately for Mr. McGregor (played by Sam Neill), to say nothing of the carrot, the ruse doesn’t succeed. Unfortunately for Mr. McGregor, it doesn’t matter: He will soon keel...

Embed from Getty Images At this point, does anything surprise you about Donald Trump or the people who work for Trump? You could tell me that Trump employs a convicted child-killer and I would say “that sounds about right.” You could tell me that a White House deputy has been repeated accused of be..

What happens if you find yourself falling for the sister you never knew you had? What if she’s not really your sister? What if she may not really exist at all? Those are just a few of the thought bubbles floated in “Entanglement,” an offbeat, slow-gelling comedy that creeps up on you in deceptively...

“Bomb City” just keeps on having its Caucasian adolescents scream into the ether until you get it: angry middle-American teenagers are all not alike! First-time feature director Jameson Brooks’ overwrought indie melodrama turns a real-life case from 1997 of white-on-white violence between combat-bo..