“Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale” arrives like the last chime of an old mantel clock—measured, sentimental, and confident that the household has earned its happy ever after. Julian Fellowes understands the ritual by now: a flourish of silver plate covers, a scramble of white gloves downstairs, an upstairs noses tilted just so. The pleasure is […]
Running Time: 115 minutes Rated R Grade C+ Best known as the clown from the 2017 remake of It, we didn’t see much of the younger Bill Skarsgård in those sequels. His less-than-memorable appearances in other action and horror films like Barbarian and John Wick: Chapter 4 have done little for his career. Boy Kills World puts Skarsgård at the center
<p>A new era, with mostly the right amount of sentimentality, joy, pain—and surprises. The Crawley family is in a quandary about permitting a film crew to shoot a movie in their home (it’s still in the silent era), and of course—since they need money to fix the roof, they will agree. But not without the vociferous protest
Filmmaker Guy Ritchie cleanses his palate after serving up flying carpets and magic lamps returning to familiarity in “The Gentlemen.” The colorful wordsmith pours generous helpings of ironic expletives, some even stirred with racial slurs that are defended on screen. Ritchie is quite good at creating splashy characters that feel like video game personalities with
Television shows adapted into big screen events are rare and difficult to pull off. The X-Files did it, once while the show was still on air, and a revival after the series ended. The wildly popular Downton Abbey has been off the air four years, this film takes place in 1927 just where near where