Cinema News: Movies Update: “Halloween Ends,” Jamie Lee Curtis and More

October 14, 2022

By Stephanie Goodman

Film Editor

Hi, film fans!

It's my favorite time on the movie calendar: when big Hollywood releases and festival favorites alike are hitting screens. This week, that means we get to see Jamie Lee Curtis one last time (so they say) as Laurie Strode in a "Halloween" movie as well as Park Chan-wook's latest, about a forlorn detective falling for his beautiful suspect.

That drama, "Decision to Leave," is a Critic's Pick for Manohla Dargis, who writes that it's "infused with the kind of old-fashioned romantic fatalism that makes noir-darkened hearts flutter." "Halloween Ends" isn't a pick, though if it's the reason Kyle Buchanan got to talk with Curtis, I'll take it. He writes that she "has a tendency to express herself in capital letters. A tweet she posted earlier this month commanded, 'YOU ARE NOT CONTENT! YOU ARE A HUMAN BEING!'" Surprisingly, she's not a fan of horror and is highly conflict-averse: "I like things nice and fragrant and quiet. I like a nice soft dog, you know what I mean?"

Also on screens this week is "Till," the story of Emmett Till's mother featuring Danielle Deadwyler; "Dark Glasses," Dario Argento's first film in 10 years; and "Rosaline," with Kaitlyn Dever as Romeo's ex.

Whatever you decide to watch, have fun at the movies!

Ryan Pfluger for The New York Times

Under the Skin of Jamie Lee Curtis

Whether it's her return to her horror roots in "Halloween Ends" or her buzzy performance in "Everything Everywhere All at Once," freedom is what the actress is after.

By Kyle Buchanan

Ryan Green/Universal Pictures

'Halloween Ends' Review: It Probably Doesn't

David Gordon Green wraps up his reboot trilogy for a horror franchise that never stays dead for long.

By Jeannette Catsoulis

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CRITICS' PICKS

Mubi	Critic's Pick 'Decision to Leave' Review: A Labyrinth of Desire Park Chan-wook's latest, about a forlorn detective falling for his beautiful suspect, is an exuberant, destabilizing take on a classic film noir setup. By Manohla Dargis

Lynsey Weatherspoon/Orion Pictures

Critic's Pick

'Till' Review: He Was Someone's Son, Too

Chinonye Chukwu's new film reminds us that before his gruesome murder galvanized a civil rights movement, Emmett Till was a 14-year-old boy with a doting mother.

By Manohla Dargis

Rainer Klausmann/Dekanalog

Critic's Pick

'Sepa, Nuestro Señor de los Milagros' Review: A Prison in the Jungle

A documentary from the 1980s, now premiering in a restored version, is an eye-opening visit to a Peruvian penal colony.

By Glenn Kenny

MOVIE REVIEWS

A24	'Stars at Noon' Review: A Not-So-Innocent Abroad Claire Denis's captivating new film, starring Margaret Qualley and based on the novel by Denis Johnson, treads familiar territory in a foreign land. By Austin Considine

Shudder

'Dark Glasses' Review: She Wears Her Shades at Night

A prostitute blinded by a stalker tries to protect a young boy. But in his first film in 10 years, Dario Argento opts for visuals as banal as the scares.

By Amy Nicholson

Getaway Pictures

'Plan A' Review: Seeking Vengeance for the Holocaust

Set in postwar Germany, this film dramatizes the true story of a group of Jewish survivors who sought revenge through an astonishing undercover operation.

By Nicolas Rapold

Lofty Sky Entertainment

'Eternal Spring' Review: When State TV Got Hijacked

Two decades after members of Falun Gong took over local television programming in Changchun, China, a documentary looks back.

By Ben Kenigsberg

Strike Back Studios

'Sell/Buy/Date' Review: The Topic of Sex Work, From All Sides

In Sarah Jones's engaging film about the sex trade, everyone has a say.

By Lisa Kennedy

Withers Family Trust/Brooklyn Academy of Music

'The Picture Taker' Review: Civil Rights Photographer and F.B.I. Informant

The documentary, by the director of "Who Killed Malcolm X?," is a compelling biography of Ernest Withers, whose photographs helped chronicle Black history.

By Beandrea July

Outsider Pictures

'The Other Tom' Review: A Parent's Right to Choose

A single mother in Texas faces off against the state when she refuses to medicate her son's A.D.H.D.

By Concepción de León

Moris Puccio/20th Century Studios/Hulu

'Rosaline' Review: O Romeo, Romeo, Thank U, Next

Kaitlyn Dever plays Romeo's snarky ex-lover in this Shakespeare reimagining, which crosses its source material with present-day sensibilities.

By Natalia Winkelman

NEWS & FEATURES

Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

AN Appraisal

Angela Lansbury, Broadway's Beloved Everywoman

She performed without sentimentality or histrionics, embodying the full range of human joy and depravity while remaining professional and approachable.

By Jesse Green

Deborah Attoinese

Nikki Finke, Caustic Hollywood Chronicler, Is Dead at 68

At newspapers and then at Deadline, the website she founded, she served up the opposite of fluff entertainment journalism.

By Neil Genzlinger

Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images

Eileen Ryan, Actress of Stage and Screen, Is Dead at 94

She put her career on hold for a time to raise her sons, the actors Sean and Chris Penn and the musician Michael Penn.

By Neil Genzlinger

Sony	Streaming Services Want to Fill the Family Movie Void With theatrical releases way down, the streaming giants have been pumping out multigenerational fare, including a number of live-action films. By Nicole Sperling

Magdalena Wosinska for The New York Times

'Almost Famous' Heads to Broadway, Purple Aura Intact

Cameron Crowe adapted his Oscar-winning screenplay, about writing for Rolling Stone in the '70s, preserving parts of the movie's soundtrack and zingers (Don't take drugs!) for the stage.

By Robert Ito

Dia Dipasupil/Getty Images

Anthony Rapp Said Anguish Returned When He Saw Kevin Spacey Onscreen

In testimony in a civil trial, Mr. Rapp argued that Mr. Spacey had inflicted emotional distress by climbing atop him in a bed when Mr. Rapp was 14. Mr. Spacey says the encounter didn't happen.

By Julia Jacobs and Nate Schweber

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STREAMING

United Artists

Angela Lansbury's Greatest Roles: A Streaming Guide

From appearances in films as varied as "The Manchurian Candidate" to "Beauty and the Beast" to her long run on "Murder, She Wrote" on television, she entertained for decades.

By Scott Tobias