Posted on October 12, 2016 at 5:50 pm
Ben Affleck plays the title character in “The Accountant,” a man on the autism spectrum who has what clinicians call a “flat affect” and some obsessive-compulsive tendencies, but also the math skills of a 93 petaflop computer and the martial arts skills of a Navy Seal who competes on weekends as an American Ninja Warrior. …
Posted on October 12, 2016 at 3:33 pm
Ava Duvernay’s new documentary, a nominee for the inaugural Critics Choice documentary award, is “13th,” named for the amendment to the Constitution that abolished slavery — and, as this film shows, triggered racial injustice in other insidious, law-enabled ways. This is the movie that shows the strikingly different way that black Americans and white Americans …
Posted on October 12, 2016 at 8:00 am
Want a Sully baseball cap? Well, I have one to give away! “Sully” stars Tom Hanks as the heroic pilot who saved everyone on board with a courageous water landing on the Hudson River. To win the hat, send me an email at moviemom@moviemom.com with Sully in the subject line and tell me where you …
Posted on October 11, 2016 at 10:22 pm
Oscar-winners Shirley Jackson and Jessica Lange star in “Wild Oats,” a sort of “Thelma and Louise” crossed with “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off.” The two old pros have as much fun as their characters in a wild story about a check that is mistakenly 100 times more than it should have been and two ladies with …
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Posted on October 11, 2016 at 3:43 pm
At the Brooklyn Book Fair, a panel of critics advised the audience with their best advice for getting the most from movies and books. From NY Times critic A.O. Scott: Whatever you’re consuming—even a movie that seems to require no thought—pay attention, and take notes. For Scott, there’s no real difference between reading or watching …
