What's most troubling about this witless mishmash of whiny, infantile philosophizing and bone-crunching violence is the increasing realization that i…

- Kenneth Turan

"Joy" is based, albeit loosely, on the life of Joy Mangano, an entrepreneur, inventor and QVC shopping network star with the mega-selling Miracle Mop…

- Kenneth Turan

Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at with di…

- Kenneth Turan

Things get better when Joy hears about a televised way to sell products and makes a connection with QVC. She convinces an executive there, played by …

- Kenneth Turan

Audiences looking for a rich, textured, cinematic experience will be put off and disconcerted by an image that looks more like an advanced version of…

- Kenneth Turan

Death is supposed to be the great equalizer, but that's never true. Death is random, capricious, unconcerned, a flagrant player of favorites. It keep…

- Kenneth Turan

A TREAT. FASCINATING. Director Lipes is a classic cinéma vérité practitioner in the mold of Albert Maysles and Frederick Wiseman.

- Kenneth Turan

What audiences end up with word-wise is a hackneyed, completely derivative copy of old Hollywood romances, a movie that reeks of phoniness and lacks …

- Kenneth Turan

Baseball endures at least in part because it is a contemplative sport that delights in nuances. Not a brazen game, eager to sell its thrills cheaply,…

- Kenneth Turan