Nick Schager

Marvel and Sony's Venom movies have always been buddy comedies masquerading as superhero spectaculars, and that's even truer of Venom: The Last

For his first major screen role in three years, Billy Crystal plays a child psychologist tasked with caring for a puzzling pint-sized patient in

Crystal’s return to the screen is not, in fact, in a comedy series. Though you might be confused after watching the baffling, misbegotten “Before.”

Chris Brown 's “history of violence” has never been so thoroughly elucidated as it is in a new documentary premiering this weekend on Investigation Discovery. Brown is a self-avowed abuser of former girlfriend Rihanna , whom he horrifically battered on the eve of the 2009 Grammy Awards, and in the years since, the R&B singer has been the subject of lawsuits and accusations from multiple women who claim that he physically, verbally, emotionally, or sexually assaulted them.

Tearjerkers don’t come much more effective than The Remarkable Life of Ibelin, a story about a young boy’s death and, also, the posthumous discovery of his life. Premiering on Netflix on Oct. 25, Benjamin Ree’s documentary is a unique portrait of hardship, perseverance, togetherness, trust, and love, and its manipulations are at once bold and yet authentic and necessary. Told with a sensitivity that’s matched by its subtlety, it earns the waterworks it quickly and consistently elicits. On Nov. 1

The “Forrest Gump” director and stars Tom Hanks and Robin Wright reunite for a CGI-supercharged jaunt through history. Not the box of chocolates anyone wanted.

Is it possible that the year’s darkest film is an animated one? “Memoir of a Shell” features death, sex, nudity, profanity, cremation, pyromania, kleptomania, bullying, alcoholism…

Nick Schager Juror No. 2, an old-school adult thriller whose improbable twists don't undermine its suspense, proves that even at the age of

Clint Eastwood’s latest film, the legal thriller “Juror No. 2” starring Nicholas Hoult, is just what adult moviegoers have been craving.

The new documentary ‘Music by John Williams’ is a rapturous love letter to the man who wrote the soundtrack to modern pop culture: Star Wars, Jaws, Superman, and so much more.