It baffles me that they haven’t canceled the Olympics. It makes no sense. So many of the athletes can’t get there to begin with, there isn’t going to be an audience, and the number of athletes needed for almost all of the sports violates even the most generous no-crowding guideline. The International Olympic Committee …

Since we’re all going to be staying at home for much of our spare time, there’s always 1971's “Tales of Beatrix Potter,” which I saw recently. I’m trying to imagine what would happen if you were to spring it on the target audience for the “Peter Rabbit” sequel: It’s a ballet movie with people dancing in animal…

If you haven’t seen it yet, “The Passion of Anna” might be his best performance in a Bergman movie. It isn’t as widely discussed as some of their earlier hits, but it is one of the most penetrating studies of human relationships that I’ve seen on screen.

It’s pretty much the same when you go to other countries and look at their Oscar equivalents. The Cesar awards always go to French films, the Genie awards to Canadian films, the Donatello awards to Italian films, etc. Film critics in the U.S. don’t have much of a reason to complain, since the major critics groups (NY…

Huh. I guess even that voter thought the cinematography to “Cats” was overblown?

I’ve been looking for this movie forever. As far as I can tell, it hasn’t been in circulation since the VHS era.

Sean Penn definitely made things worse. But I think the meaning behind the joke was that Law is the guy people go to when they can’t get someone like Tom Cruise—that is, he’s everyone’s second choice. Not at all accurate, since Law was getting lead roles at the time and was playing characters far removed from chiseled-…

I like him a lot, too, but I’m worried that he’s going to turn out like Jeff Goldblum or Nicolas Cage--plenty of work, but 90% of it comes from leaning into the internet-cultivated “Jude Law character.”

And for my money, it has the greatest performance by a dog in a motion picture: Skippy, later known as Asta in “The Thin Man” and its first two sequels.

They must have taken classes from whoever did Leo’s makeup for “J. Edgar.”

This movie makes me angry for a very different reason: For my money, the greatest romantic comedy ever made was “The Awful Truth,” from 1937 with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. And whenever I tell that to someone, I have to quickly, clearly explain that I am NOT talking about that thing with Katherine Heigl.

Ritchie’s first Sherlock Holmes was kinda fun. Most of the people I know who have read the books say Downey was surprisingly faithful to the character.

I know a lot of people were not crazy about “Us,” which was cursed with having to be the follow up to an impressive debut film. But everyone should agree that Lupita Nyong’o deserved recognition. 

“Parasite” has a decent chance in Original Screenplay, since QT already has won in this category twice. But not for Best Picture.

I dunno, Antonio Banderas kinda sorta has a chance to pull off an upset. Kinda sorta.

At the risk of seeming out of touch with everyone else’s disappointment at this year’s lack of imagination for Oscar nominations, let me get this off my chest: “The Lighthouse” was every bit as loud and empty as “Joker.” Like the similarly overrated-because-so-many-call-it-underrated “Mandy,” it leans way too hard on…

Importantly, he wrote “To Die For” and “What’s Up Doc?” Two genuinely great movies, one a sharp satire and the other one of the few post-1940s movies to nail the “screwball” style.

Plus, she stole “MI: Rogue Nation” from under Tom Cruise’s nose.

“Oh baby! Oh baby! Oh baby!”

The Spy who Loved Me did the best job of balancing the pop-comic absurdity of the Moore era with an action story that (on its own terms, at least) made sense.