“Nightbitch" is best described as a movie about a woman who turns into a dog, which is accurate and off the film’s narrative scent....

“Gladiator II” walks well-trodden ground, but with enough oomph, transgression, and rage to make it more than UFC in leather skirts....

“Anora” styles itself as an anti-“Cinderella." Yet it can’t see past the empty, alluring image it tailors for the male gaze....

If “The Apprentice” convinces one American not to vote for Trump, it will have been worth making. Beyond that, it’s barely worth seeing....

There’s nothing wrong with making a disappointing sequel. Just make sure you disappoint the right people....

Coppola creates a film mesmerizingly at war with itself: obvious and abstract, conservative and progressive, ugly and beautiful....