Amy Nicholson is the film critic of the Los Angeles Times. She is a current on-air voice at LAist and KCRW, and a member of the Los Angeles Film Critics Assn. and the National Society of Film Critics. Her book “Tom Cruise: Anatomy of an Actor” was printed by Cahiers du Cinema/Phaidon Press, and her second, “Extra Girls,” will be published by Simon & Schuster. Nicholson also co-hosts the movie podcast “Unspooled.”
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The actor spoke about her long-in-the-works sitcom, premiering Friday on NBC, and the series’ new showrunner; also, our writers recommend a couple of films.
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No permits, no stars, no playing it safe in ‘Ten Will,’ an audacious indie odyssey through L.A.
Debut feature filmmaker Max DeFalco shot this dark comedy about a sex offender during his off-hours. Fans of John Waters and Sean Baker should give it a watch.
Alexander Skarsgård and Olivia Colman play bizarro newlyweds in a naughty parable about lust, jealousy and moral hypocrisy. The characters are thin but the ideas aren’t.
Strong acting turns by Austin Abrams and Josh Brolin help director Brian Duffield make a meal of a seemingly unfilmable novel about a sour young man swallowed by a whale.
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A prank comic faces down a fraudster in the fab doc ‘You Can See Everything.’ Who blinks first?
This mesmerizing showdown is the King Kong vs. Godzilla of con artists as ‘The Rehearsal’s’ Nathan Fielder tries to wrestle the truth out of Theranos’ Elizabeth Holmes.
Jeremy Strong’s Mark Zuckerberg is sidelined and stiff in a follow-up to ‘The Social Network’ that focuses on the foul Facebook choices we already know.
Rock’s brutally honest Hollywood dramedy is a ‘Jackie Brown’-style showcase for its ferocious lead Rosalind Eleazar as a down-and-out Emmy winner hounded by bad habits.