With Easter just around the corner, we could all use a reminder to avoid the worldly temptations of jelly beans and plastic eggs and focus on the holiday’s true meaning: sticking it to King Arthur.

Allow me to clarify, as you’d be forgiven for thinking that a faith-based film coming out at the holiest time of year called “The King of Kings” was exclusively about Jesus Christ, and not the parenting struggles faced by Charles Dickens. But life is full…

A bloody, muscular, barrelhouse of a vampire movie that throbs like the neck of a blues guitar on fire, Ryan Coogler’s “Sinners” might be the first story the “Creed” director has ripped straight from his own guts. This film thrillingly continues his post-“Fruitvale Station” tradition of filtering real and imagined Black histories through the prism of blockbuster entertainment, and of doing so in a way that recognizes genre as a living connection between the past and the future, as opposed…

Logic suggests that rogue CIA assassin Jason Bourne might be much less of a threat if — instead of a shredded government super-soldier with a sniper’s accuracy and no personal attachments — he were a vaguely autistic wife guy who couldn’t hit someone with a bazooka if they were standing right in front of him. James Hawes’ “The Amateur” begs to differ.

An aggressively competent spy thriller that has less use for logic than its lead actor does for his…

Considering that “A Minecraft Movie” seemed as though it might cause the end of Western civilization itself, I’m relieved to report that Warner Bros.’ bright, buoyant, block-busting video game adaptation merely coincides with it. That isn’t to say that it’s good, per se, or to suggest that I recommend paying money to sit through such a wantonly derivative corporate product about the sacred joy of creativity (and the soul-crushing evil of the profit motive!), but there’s some legitimate fun to…

Jason Statham is shaped like a human bullet, and “A Working Man” director David Ayer — who also collaborated with the actor on last year’s “The Beekeeper,” a galaxy-brained “John Wick” riff that effectively climaxes with our humble apiarist blasting a hole into a member of the First Family’s head — continues to take full advantage of the fact that you can shoot the guy clean through some of the silliest and/or most staid vigilante stories ever conceived without having…

If you’re looking for a laundry list of the controversies that have beset Disney’s latest live-action remake, the Marc Webb-directed “Snow White,” we’ll direct you to that subsection on the film’s Wikipedia page and then move swiftly onward because none of that really applies to the task at hand. Put more bluntly: as a remarkably sensible audience member said to me at the conclusion of our screening, “After all that?”

Yes, after all that, Webb’s Rachel Zegler-starring film is good.…

It’s rare to see a film in which not a single interesting thing happens over the course of its entire running time. Not only is that true of Barry Levinson’s “The Alto Knights,” but this tired-as-hell mafia story — which wouldn’t merit so much as a footnote in the history of mob cinema if not for the gimmick of casting Robert De Niro as real-life crime boss Vito Genovese and his best frenemy Frank Costello — seems totally at peace…