Matt Pais

In January I was happy to be on the red carpet for the Sundance premiere of “Zipper,” a thriller in which Patrick Wilson plays an attorney with political aspirations who...

You don't have to be one of the jillions of young fans who already have turned Halsey into the biggest thing on social media since sliced bread—actually, @slicedbread only has...

When several of the year's movies have disappeared from my memory altogether, "Digging for Fire" is one I'll still want to think about. Tim (Jake Johnson, who co-wrote the film's...

Ethan Hawke is so funny in "Ten Thousand Saints" that he nearly keeps the movie afloat, even though it's the kind of adaptation of a novel that reminds you why...

To answer the question nobody asked, I and probably most movie critics find it most challenging and least interesting to write about movies about which I have no strong opinion....

The entertaining, life-in-a-holding-pattern wisdom of "Frances Ha" curdles into something abrasive and phony in "Mistress America," the third collaboration between star/co-writer Greta Gerwig and co-writer/co-director Noah Baumbach ("Greenberg," this year's...

In 2015, Jake Johnson already has co-starred in one of the highest-grossing movies of all time ("Jurassic World"), but in recent years the Evanston-native actor ("New Girl") has started carving...

Nobody ever mentions the Beach Boys and N.W.A in the same sentence, for good reason. Yet Paul Giamatti plays very similar roles in the Brian Wilson biopic "Love & Mercy"...

For the second time in three years, Armie Hammer stars in the big-screen version of a TV show whose fans comprise approximately zero percent of the movie's target audience. Yet...

As cute of a technique as it may be, a little like some kind of adolescent female "American Splendor," a movie about a 15-year-old girl's awkward lunge toward a sense...