What do you think about the trend of making movies based on video games? And how much would I have to pay you to sit through “The Minecraft Movie?” Juzo Greenwood, Berkeley Dear Juzo: It’s an awful ...

Have you ever had high expectations and anticipation for a film, either as a critic or a fan, and upon watching it felt utter disappointment? Steve Bage, Sausalito Hi, Steve: The best recent example ...

If you haven’t seen the season finale of “The White Lotus,” be warned: This will contain spoilers. However, nothing could be a bigger letdown than the finale itself. After seven episodes that created ...

Drop” is the kind of film that separates the real movie lover from the conditional movie lover. It is manipulative, fundamentally ridiculous, obvious, far-fetched, gut-level in its appeal and ...

Adolescence” is probably the best movie out there, and it’s not even a movie. The new Netflix miniseries is about the arrest of a 13-year-old boy for murdering a fellow middle-school student, with ...

The Penguin Lessons” is based on a true story, in that it takes its inspiration from a memoir by Tom Michell, who rescued a penguin from an oil slick in Uruguay back in the early 1970s. But aside from ...