‘The House with a Clock in Its Walls’: Jack Black and Cate Blanchett keep the film ticking along WATCH
With the help of a pair of magicians played by Jack Black and Cate Blanchett, a 10-year-old boy must find a hidden clock ticking down...
Soren Andersen
Soren Andersen has been writing about movies since he was in high school, back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. He has written for papers in Southern California and Washington, and was the staff critic at the News Tribune in Tacoma for 25 years.
‘White Boy Rick’: Teen turns FBI informant in true tale set in ’80s Detroit WATCH
In this picture about the hard life of a teenage drug dealer in 1980s Detroit, despair hangs heavy in the air. Rating: 3 stars out...
‘The Predator’: Ragtag team battles monsters — and dogs — from outer space
From writer-director Shane Black comes the latest installment in the franchise, featuring alien menaces that hunt humans with R-rated relish. Rating: 2 stars out of...
‘The Nun’: Prequel conjures up an onslaught of horror-movie cliches WATCH
Aaah! Eeek! Director Corin Hardy lards on the frights so relentlessly that the moments don’t build to any sort of sustained narrative momentum in this...
‘America’s Musical Journey’: Upbeat IMAX film celebrates diversity WATCH
Greg MacGillivray's documentary is a speedy sprint through the history of this nation’s musical idioms. Rating: 3 stars out of 4.
‘Operation Finale’: Evil speaks in well-made Nazi drama WATCH
The dramatization follows the hunt for and capture of Adolf Eichmann by Israeli undercover operatives in Argentina in May of 1960. Rating: 3 stars out...
‘The Happytime Murders’: a joyless, hard-R-rated puppet/human comedy
It’s F-bombs away. The word leaps from the cloth lips of the Muppet-like puppet characters that populate the picture. And thus does director Brian Henson...
‘Mile 22’: Fasten your seat belts, it’s going to be a bumpy ride WATCH
A spy story starring Mark Wahlberg as the leader of a double-secret CIA assassination squad, "Mile 22" delivers carnage, gunplay, car crashes and explosions with...
‘Alpha’: A boy strides into manhood with a wolf by his side WATCH
The movie's tendency to stray into the ridiculous robs it of the majesty director Albert Hughes so clearly hoped to achieve. Rating: 2 stars out...
‘The Spy Who Dumped Me’: Kate McKinnon makes familiar action comedy something special WATCH
Kate McKinnon rises above the action-thriller hoopla with moments of sheer near genius. Rating: 2.5 stars out of 4.