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Sep 25, 2020
Independent writer-director's first film in nine years turns a tale of three grifters into a mediation on blood ties, love and failure
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Sep 24, 2020
Adaptation of Nancy Springer's YA novels featuring Sherlock's teen sibling would be a crass I.P. grab if it weren't for its subtext — and its star
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Sep 22, 2020
Writer-director Merawi Gerima explores feelings of alienation in this memory-inflected film set in Washington D.C
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Sep 18, 2020
An American family moves to 1980s London and experience domestic anarchy in the U.K. in 'Marcy Martha May Marlene' writer-director Sean Durkin's blistering domestic nightmare
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Sep 17, 2020
Torrid tale of serial murderers, backwoods madness and ol' time religious immorality in the American heartland can't make sense of its own twisted storytelling
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Sep 17, 2020
Oscar-winning star plays a matriarch who gathers her family together for a long goodbye in this mixed memorial melodrama
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Sep 16, 2020
Janelle Monáe stars in a brash debut from filmmakers Gerard Bush and Christopher Renz that tackles America's original sin
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Sep 14, 2020
A 14-year-old Cambodian tries to stay alive and afloat in terse, intense tale of contemporary bondage
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Sep 09, 2020
Thanks to a major marketing mistake, this award-winning French movie has been accused of sexualizing girls. It's actually a sensitive portrait of growing pains that deserves to be seen
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Sep 04, 2020
Disney's live-action take on the iconic story doesn't dig deep enough to do its heroine justice
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Sep 04, 2020
The writer-director returns with an adaptation of Iain Reid's novel that doubles as an emotional sucker punch — and reminds you how much his voice has been missed
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Aug 28, 2020
The filmmaker's big-gamble brainteaser finally arrives in U.S. theaters (and only theaters) — and it's a dizzying, delirious ride
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Aug 27, 2020
The time-traveling SoCal teens return, older if not wiser, for one more bodacious chance to save the world
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Aug 26, 2020
Writer-director Armando Iannucci delivers an irreverent adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic that nails the author's humor, spirit and voice to a tee
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Aug 26, 2020
Writer-director-star Isabel Sandoval turns a portrait of an immigrant caretaker in Brooklyn into a beautiful study in empathy
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Aug 21, 2020
What's crazier: The 'Gladiator' star going ballistic over a traffic incident or risking your life to see this broken B-movie in a theater?
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Aug 20, 2020
A recounting of a mutiny among an all-black regiment in Texas during WWI is both a corrective and a reminder of how far we still need to go
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Aug 20, 2020
Disney adaptation of the award-winning children's book has a strong anti-captivity message — and a touch that's a tad too soft
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Aug 19, 2020
The sequel to 2016's surprise-hit undead flick 'Train to Busan' is a derivative glut of action and characters
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Aug 18, 2020
Ethan Hawke stars as the pioneering inventor in a period piece filled with Google searches, karaoke sing-alongs and imagination to spare
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Aug 14, 2020
High-concept, star-heavy Netflix action movie imagines a world where a street drug can turn anyone in to a comic-book hero or villain — for a price
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Jul 31, 2020
Doc on the ACLU uses four case studies to look at how the organization has been on the frontlines of Trump-era assaults on democracy
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Jul 31, 2020
Premiere of the seminal all-female group's long-deserved portrait gets the band back together, charting their rise-and-fall-and-return while making the case for their revolutionary status
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Jul 30, 2020
A woman suddenly becomes convinced that she only has one more day to live — an idea which becomes contagious — in what may be the eeriest horror movie of 2020
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Jul 29, 2020
Cloying British drama about an iconoclastic woman looking after a boy during the Blitz will either be an annoyance or a balm, depending on your mood
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Jul 24, 2020
Actor-turned-filmmaker Romola Garai's directorial debut delivers socially tinged supernatural terror and a sense of creepiness — up to a point
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Jul 23, 2020
Rosamund Pike does wonders with the Nobel-winning scientist and her legacy
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Jul 22, 2020
Dave Franco's directorial debut turns a tale of two couples renting a spooky Air BnB into a stalker-film delight
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Jul 16, 2020
Documentary is a decent enough introduction to the hip-hop collective that brought freestyle rap to the theater stage — and helped give birth to 'Hamilton'
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Jul 15, 2020
Czech filmmaker's adaptation of controversial novel turns into an endurance test of sexual depravity and graphic violence
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Jul 09, 2020
The star is the best part of this story about a U.S. destroyer escorting warships through dangerous, submarine-filled waters
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Jul 08, 2020
Australian horror movie turns the effects of disease and dysfunctional mother-daughter relationships into prime supernatural-thriller fodder
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Jul 08, 2020
A portrait of a dive bar's final hours takes a woozy, compellingly cockeyed look at those who live life one shot at a time
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Jul 08, 2020
Destined to repeat themselves, Cristin Milioti joins Samberg for a romcom that doesn't disappoint
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Jul 07, 2020
The 'Atomic Blonde' star leads a group of immortal warriors into battle in this surprisingly character-driven take on superhero epics
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Jul 03, 2020
Rod Lurie's recounting of the Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan is both a tense you-are-there action film and a stirring tribute
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Jul 02, 2020
Documentary on the icon of the civil right movement and current congressional firebrand makes a case that his legacy (and political vitality) is not over yet
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Jul 02, 2020
Juliette Binoche and Catherine Deneuve enliven this mother-daughter drama from 'Shoplifters' filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda
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Jul 01, 2020
Captured for posterity in 2016, this film of the original Broadway-cast production couldn't arrive at a better moment
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Jun 30, 2020
David France's look at the Russian republic's violent campaign against homosexuality—and the brave souls helping folks escape it—doubles as a collective profile in courage
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Jun 30, 2020
Forget the art-theft plot and Hurricane Maria backdrop — this downpour of offensive stereotypes is a total washout
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Jun 26, 2020
A documentary on Shannon Hoon — made up of camcorder footage shot by the Blind Melon frontman himself — beautifully humanizes a rock-casualty story
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Jun 24, 2020
With the actual competition canceled, 'Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga' on Netflix is the next best thing
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Jun 23, 2020
Filmmaker Peter Medak revisits an old movie project in which the 'Dr. Strangelove' star drove him crazy—and nearly ruined his career
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Jun 23, 2020
Steve Carell and Rose Byrne are partisan spin doctors who try to shape a small-town election —a nd deliver a scathing state-of-the-nation comedy
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Jun 19, 2020
A disordered script makes this indictment of Stalin's evil from director Agnieszka Holland less-than-successful
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Jun 18, 2020
Australian drama about a terminally ill woman, a drug-dealer boyfriend and her disapproving parents is the left-field hit you need right now
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Jun 18, 2020
Writer-director David Koepp's tale of a family stuck in a haunted Air Bnb is a spooky showcase for its star's unflappable professionalism...and little else
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Jun 18, 2020
Joseph Gordon-Levitt must battle terrorists while singlehandedly landing a passenger jet in this claustrophobic cockpit potboiler
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Jun 17, 2020
Writer-director Channing Godfrey Peoples' debut about a former 'Miss Juneteenth' winner is a mother-daughter drama perfectly suited to our current moment
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Jun 12, 2020
Not even 'Game of Thrones' star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will keep you from bolting
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Jun 12, 2020
The director of 'Fresh' and 'Remember the Titans' turns a self-exploration into a smorgasbord of musical numbers, gender-blurring and copious copulation
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Jun 11, 2020
This bland Disney version of the popular pint-sized-evil-genius books loses the feel of the perversely pleasurable kids-lit series
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Jun 10, 2020
Part war film and part heist thriller, the director's story of black veterans returning to old battlegrounds feels made for our current moment
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Jun 08, 2020
Writer-director Abel Ferrara and Willem Dafoe turn a semi-autobiographical character study of an ex-pat in Rome into a troubled fever dream
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Jun 08, 2020
The 'SNL' star and director Judd Apatow mine details from Davidson's real-life for this funny, moving tale of grieving and growing up
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Jun 05, 2020
Bad Filmmaking. Worse Timing. Unclean! Unclean!!!
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Jun 05, 2020
Though their movie is all bluster, it fails to blow down the cliches on which it's built
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Jun 05, 2020
A documentary on Paul Verheoven's notorious stripper-with-a-heart-of-gold tale makes a case for it being a hidden masterpiece...kind of
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Jun 03, 2020
Elisabeth Moss gives a bravura performance as the horror author behind "The Lottery" in a compellingly cracked biopic
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May 28, 2020
Tracee Ellis Ross and Dakota Johnson play a singer and her personal assistant in this missed-opportunity showbiz story
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May 28, 2020
First-time director Andrew Patterson delivers a stunning debut about two '50s teenagers who may (or may not) have stumbled across an alien invasion
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May 27, 2020
HBO Max documentary on sexual-assault allegations leveled at the hip-hop mogul significantly changes the conversation on harassment in the music industry
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May 22, 2020
Documentary on an artist who turns the man who's stolen her work into a muse is a tribute to an unlikely, undeniably powerful frendship
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May 21, 2020
Kristin Scott Thomas and Sharon Horgan turn a military choir into pop-music vocalists in this crowd-pleasing comedy
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May 21, 2020
One adjective you don't hear much anymore is "preposterous," defined as "contrary to nature, reason or […]
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May 20, 2020
Final entry of the British duo's 'Trip' series is, per usual, hilarious — and a little heavier than usual
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May 20, 2020
Kumail Nanjiani and Issa Rae star as a couple whose break-up is interrupted by murderers, sex cults and wacky hijinks
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May 15, 2020
Scooby, Shaggy, and the rest of the Mystery Inc. gang get their canine shenanigans and corporate synergy on
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May 15, 2020
There are a lot of Spielberg and 'X-Files' spare parts in this alien-abduction thriller. A lot
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May 14, 2020
Tom Berenger must fight the elements, bad guys after stolen loot and some genuinely god-awful storytelling in this poor, anemic thriller
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May 14, 2020
The modest story of a mother, her son and an elderly neighbor feels like a salve right now—and gives Brian Dennehy a deserving swan song
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May 11, 2020
The British actor goes for broke as the notorious gangster — even if the movie simply feels broken
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May 08, 2020
Documentary on rise and fall of the Biosphere 2 project is a fascinating look at one of the eco-science community's most noble failures
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May 08, 2020
An indie family comedy shot through with laughs and surprising, sometimes shocking gravity
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May 07, 2020
Annette Bening rages as a scorned wife in this melodramatic, yet at times tender, portrait of the dissolution of a 29-year union
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May 06, 2020
Adaptation of Caitlin Moran's bestselling novel benefits from a bravura performance by Beanie Feldstein
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May 05, 2020
Get ready to get drunk on Clark Duke's black comedy
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May 04, 2020
If you want a blast of pure nitro in your pandemic viewing, start streaming this standout first feature from rapper-director Andrew Onwubolu, a.k.a. Rapman
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May 01, 2020
A dual character study of a rodeo legend on his last legs and an at-risk 14-year-old girl showcases one of the great screen performances of the year
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Apr 29, 2020
Netflix romcom starts off as story of brainy student helping a jock woo their mutual object of affection— and then makes a wonderfully unexpected left turn
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Apr 29, 2020
A man in the middle of a midlife crisis falls in love with a fringe jacket — and turns an allegiance to his new outerwear into an extreme obsession
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Apr 23, 2020
Hugh Jackman and Allison Janney shine in their roles as New York school administrators who stole millions from their Long Island school district
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Apr 23, 2020
A revisionist, punk-rock look at the 19th-century Australian outlaw blows the dust off a calcified mythology
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Apr 22, 2020
Chris Hemsworth stars in this R-rated flick that wants to numb you into submission
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Apr 17, 2020
Writer-director Tayarisha Poe's debut gives us a world of criminal teens warring over turf in a tony high school—and introduces a fresh new filmmaking voice
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Apr 16, 2020
Shailene Woodley proves to be the perfect partner for Drake Doremus in trying to trace one woman's journey to self-realization
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Apr 15, 2020
Wagner Moura's portrayal of the late 'Sergio' Vieira de Mello is the main reason to see this biopic of a diplomatic legend
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Apr 10, 2020
'Master of None' co-creator Alan Yang's directorial debut turns the story of a Taiwanese man's life in the U.S. into a moving, poignant portrait of the first-generation American experience
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Apr 10, 2020
Anna Kendrick and Justin Timberlake return for more song-filled fluffball fun in 'Trolls' sequel
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Apr 10, 2020
If only Netflix's eccentric romantic comedy went off without a hitch
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Apr 09, 2020
Netflix import gives the inspiring teacher/at-risk youth drama a gutsy, gritty French redo
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Apr 08, 2020
Irish horror movie starts as a decent, sopping-wet 'Alien' spawn—then, thanks to a sudden pivot and a matter of timing, strikes a nerve
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Apr 03, 2020
Ed Helms only has himself to blame for this disastrously bad flop
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Mar 26, 2020
Biopic about the late, great Marcel Marceau flashes back to the artist's early days as French Resistance fighter during WW II
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Mar 25, 2020
A look back at how a New York summer camp helped form a generation of political firebrands is the definition of inspiring
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Mar 20, 2020
Amazon thriller about two young women, a crime and a small New England community
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Mar 18, 2020
Modest thriller about a woman suffering from a psychological disorder may have found its audience on V.O.D.—and taps into a fear of control loss that goes beyond its subject
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Mar 13, 2020
The 'SNL' veteran isn't the only reason to check out Hulu's manchild comedy/coming-of-age movie — just the main one
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Mar 11, 2020
The politically charged thriller that Trump didn't want you to see finally hits theaters — and proves to be a better-then-decent B-movie
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