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5 days ago | 
yahoo.com | Frank Scheck
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysLet’s face it: Family life and being members of an elite assassination squad just don’t mix. It’s hopefully a problem to which few readers can relate, but it afflicts the central characters of Joe Carnahan’s new action film, which quietly snuck into theaters without advance screenings.
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5 days ago | 
nystagereview.com | Frank Scheck
If you’re presenting a play about a middle-aged celebrated author and university professor who embarks on an affair with one of his teenage students, casting Hugh Jackman in the lead seems like stacking the deck. Renowned for his unsurpassable charisma and rapport with audiences, the Australian actor proves so winning in Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes that you find yourself rooting for his character despite his transgressions.
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1 week ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Frank Scheck
A wild new mythology has lately permeated action movies — namely that the world is chock-full of hired assassins. They enjoy their own luxury hotel in the John Wick films. And they seem to enjoy traveling together in groups, as demonstrated in Bullet Train. Now dozens of them have boarded a plane in the new gonzo action-comedy marking James Madigan’s directorial debut.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Frank Scheck
23 hours agoNew York, United States - May 06, 2025 (L-R) Josh Hartnett and Katee Sackhoff attend the 'Fight or Flight' New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater, New York, NY, May 6, 2025. (L-R) Julian Kostov, Josh Hartnett and Katee Sackhoff attend the 'Fight or Flight' New York Premiere at AMC Lincoln Square Theater, New York, NY, May 6, 2025.
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2 weeks ago | 
hollywoodreporter.com | Frank Scheck
At this point, the prospect of watching a film about an aging boxer whose life has hit the skids sounds as appealing as getting into the ring with Oleksandr Usyk. It’s the sort of well-trod cinematic territory that feels overly familiar, and the title, Salvable, does not exactly inspire hope. Fortunately, co-directors Bjorn Franklin and Johnny Marchetta’s debut feature proves better than its synopsis suggests.
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2 weeks ago | 
yahoo.com | Frank Scheck
Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysAt this point, the prospect of watching a film about an aging boxer whose life has hit the skids sounds as appealing as getting into the ring with Oleksandr Usyk. It’s the sort of well-trod cinematic territory that feels overly familiar, and the title, Salvable, does not exactly inspire hope.
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2 weeks ago | 
nystagereview.com | Frank Scheck
The star of the new musical at Broadway’s Circle in the Square effectively sets the parameters right from the beginning: “I’m Jonathan, I’ll be your Bobby Darin tonight,” Jonathan Groff self-effacingly informs the audience. And sure enough, the recent Tony Award-winner for Merrily We Roll Along, who doesn’t really look or sound anything like his subject, makes no attempt to imitate Darin in the course of the show.
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2 weeks ago | 
nystagereview.com | Frank Scheck
The title of the Roundabout’s new Broadway production of Gilbert and Sullivan’s classic operetta gives you the first clue. G&S purists should probably stay away from Pirates! The Penzance Musical, which takes more than few liberties with its source material. The rest of you, however, are bound to have a swell time with this jolly reimagining that, if it doesn’t quite erase memories of the classic Joe Papp production some forty-four years ago (!), proves thoroughly entertaining in its own right.
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3 weeks ago | 
nystagereview.com | Frank Scheck
Prior to hearing about Eliya Smith’s new play receiving its world premiere at the Atlantic Theater Company, I was unfamiliar with the concept of grief camps. The idea of a camp where children and teenagers can work through bereavement issues after suffering terrible losses sounded like a potent catalyst for affecting drama. Unfortunately, Grief Camp does nothing fruitful with the concept, providing aimless quirkiness instead of the emotion that might make us feel anything but boredom.
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4 weeks ago | 
nystagereview.com | Frank Scheck
As subtle as its title, Kimberly Belflower’s play set in a high school classroom feels like it should also be performed in one. The idea behind John Proctor Is the Villain, namely applying a contemporary #MeToo sensibility to a conversation with Arthur Miller’s classic 1953 play, The Crucible, is not without merit. But this frenetic effort undercuts its provocative thesis with too-obvious situations and characters, telegraphing its messages with all the subtlety of a dance-heavy pop song.
