‘The Ballad of Buster Scruggs’: Coen brothers’ Western hits the right notes WATCH
Classic Western-movie moments are curated and celebrated in the Coen brothers’ magnificent “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs.” Rating: 3.5 stars out of 4.
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.
‘Overlord’ overdoes it with Nazis, zombies, cliches, violence
This movie, about GIs battling zombies and Nazis on D-Day, delivers a whole lot of much too much. Rating: 1.5 stars out of 4.
‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’: Lisbeth Salander gets trapped in a conventional spy thriller WATCH
The “Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” series continues, with Claire Foy as Lisbeth Salander, but it feels as though the franchise is running out of...
‘Viper Club’: Susan Sarandon brings grace, heartbreaking power to hostage drama WATCH
Susan Sarandon portrays a mother whose video-journalist son has been taken captive by terrorists in war-ravaged Syria. Rating: 3.5 stars out of 4.
‘Hunter Killer’: Gerard Butler leads a wild submarine ride WATCH
The plot of this submarine saga has a lot of moving parts. Director Donovan Marsh adroitly fits them together to deliver a thriller that’s consistently...
‘Halloween’: ‘Pure evil’ is back in wickedly smart, effective sequel WATCH
Jamie Lee Curtis and the demonic Michael Myers return in the best “Halloween” movie since the 1978 original. Rating: 3.5 stars out of 4.
‘The Guilty’: Abduction drama focuses on one cop — and one riveting performance WATCH
An officer in a Copenhagen emergency call center finds himself trying to save an abducted woman and locate a frightened 6-year-old girl. Tension mounts throughout...
‘The Old Man & the Gun’: Robert Redford’s latest (but apparently not last) ride is sweet and fitting
Robert Redford returns to playing a good-hearted scalawag in the mode of the Sundance Kid and the flimflam man he portrayed in “The Sting.” Rating:...
‘First Man’: Ryan Gosling is stellar as astronaut Neil Armstrong WATCH
Ryan Gosling and director Damien Chazelle ("La La Land") have created a portrait of a man who stands apart from his myth in their biopic...
‘Venom’: Marvel’s bad boy emerges in origin story that lacks bite WATCH
“Venom” spends a tedious 45 minutes on the humdrum doings of the title monster’s human host before getting around to introducing the head-biting, wisecracking, rage-filled Big...