
Star Wars: The Force Awakens movie review: a new hope
Charts a path to a future that refuses to get mired in nostalgia. Yet all the Star Wars notes are here, remixed into a glorious new arrangement.

Charts a path to a future that refuses to get mired in nostalgia. Yet all the Star Wars notes are here, remixed into a glorious new arrangement.

The stretch of street between Leicester Square and Piccadilly Circus.

The resonance of Charlie Brown’s put-uponness has descended into clichés about male characters who are prompted to personal journeys by beautiful women.

Of all the potential Charlie Brown movies Hollywood might have made, this might be the Charlie Brown-iest. That’s not necessarily a good thing.

There is fearlessness here, and uncomfortable raw honesty, but there’s also little opportunity to care about a man who pushes everyone, including us, away.

Good advice from my local Vue cineplex.

Two screwed-up female protagonists, a female villain, and humor with a female perspective. This is what we need to see more of at the movies.

The just-right mix of wistfulness, snark, and painful personal growth makes this nonstop hilarious, with humor that gets women in a way movies rarely do.
Mad Max: Fury Road gets a lot of love…

Very festive.