Chuck Koplinski

Stumbling out of the gate, Tim Burton’s long-awaited Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice eventually rights itself and delivers the unique brand of horrific dark humor fans of the previously film embrace. However, it’s a bit of a clumsy, overly long haul before we get to the inspired hijinks that carry the third act. Cluttered with extraneous characters and incidents, the screenplay by Alfred Gough and Miles Millar spends far too much time setting up a needlessly complicated story involving a resurrected lover out for revenge, a deceased actor with an identity crisis, multiple characters with self-esteem issues and loads of familial dysfunction.

Stumbling out of the gate, Tim Burton’s long-awaited “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” eventually rights itself and delivers the unique brand of horrific dark humor fans of the previously film embrace.

While I’m often weary of A merican remakes of foreign films, on rare occasion this approach produces a worthy feature that can stand on its own. Such is the case with James Watkins’ Speak No Evil, a redux that borrows its premise from Christian and Mads Tafdrup’s 2022 Dutch horror feature.

While I'm often weary of American remakes of foreign films, on rare occasion, this approach produces a worthy feature that can stand on its own.

‘His Three Daughters' 3 stars Cast: Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, Natasha Lyonne, Jay O. Sanders, Jovan Adepo, Rudy Galvan and Jasmine Bracey. Directed and written by Azazel Jacobs; produced by Matt Aselton and Lia Buman. A Netflix Films release. 101 minutes. Rated R (language). Streaming on Netflix.

With The Substance, director Coralie Fargeat manages to do something genre classicists John Carpenter and David Cronenberg would never allow - letting the special effects she uses overwhelm the story and lessen its impact.

With “The Substance,” director Coralie Fargeat does something genre classicists John Carpenter and David Cronenberg would never allow — let the special effects overwhelm the story and lessen its impact.

Cast: Kate Winslet, Alexander Skarsgard, Andy Samberg, Andrea Riseborough, Marion Cotillard, Josh O'Connor, Noemie Merlant, James Murray, Samuel Barnett and Enrique Arce.

There’s little in the way of substance to Jon Watts’ Wolfs, and that’s just fine. An exercise in post-modernism, the film is a running commentary on movie stardom and its trappings, featuring, arguably, the most popular actors of their generation, George Clooney and Brad Pitt. Though they play “fixers,” in reality they’re just being their old charming selves, the observations they make about each other and their ever-devolving situation a commentary on their place in the Hollywood firmament and what might lay ahead of them.

Promoted as a coming-of-age story, Megan Park’s “My Old Ass” is far more than a ribald teen comedy.