Movie Reviews

“The Batman” (Warner Bros.) is a reboot of the DC Comics-based franchise is a darkly powerful affair, and its script — penned with Peter Craig — plays with the interesting question whether the iconic crimefighter of the title is, in fact, a hero.

“The Tourist,” a mystery series airing now on HBO Max in six one-hour episodes, gets off to a promising start.

Set in the early 11th century, roughly 100 years after the action of its predecessor concluded, the sequel “Vikings: Valhalla” — made up of eight hourlong episodes — is currently streaming on Netflix.

This year’s Academy Award nominations were announced Feb. 8.

If their comic-horror vehicle “Studio 666” (Open Road) is anything to go by, the members of the rock band Foo Fighters should definitely not quit their day jobs anytime soon.

he life of the 16th president is given a rich dramatization in the three-part miniseries “Abraham Lincoln.”

Informed by the 2015 book “In Pursuit of the Truth,” penned by former Detective Chief Inspector Clive Driscoll, who contributed to the successful, albeit long belated, prosecution of a trio of Lawrence’s killers, the miniseries — renamed “Conviction: The Case of Stephen Lawrence” — will be available in three one-hour episodes Monday, Feb. 21, on the Acorn streaming service.

Now, the duo has co-directed a fictional riff on the subject, and the result is the quirky, good-natured — but not family-friendly — road movie “Dog” (MGM). Along with collaborating at the helm, Carolin wrote the script while Tatum stars as ex-Army Ranger Jackson Briggs.