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Nov 23, 2020
A fire at a Bucharest nightclub kicks off an investigation into deep systematic rot in this nonfiction procedural-cum-masterpiece
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Nov 20, 2020
The director's 'Small Axe' series focuses on the black British experience — and the first of five is now streaming on Amazon Prime
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Nov 20, 2020
For her directorial debut, Clea DuVall adds a dose of gay anxiety to the familiar straight Christmas family fare
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Nov 17, 2020
Thriller about a sickly young woman — and her loving and extremely suspicious mother — is one empty exercise in maternity-run-amuck camp
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Nov 16, 2020
Story of a drummer navigating life after deafness immerses you in a noiseless world — but it's the star that makes it speak volumes loudly and clearly
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Nov 13, 2020
Michael Angelo Covino and Kyle Marvin's cringe comedy about a toxic but enduring male friendship is hilarious and tragic all at once
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Nov 13, 2020
A horrorcentric take on a tried-and-true comic premise brings both scares and laughs, along with ... a first-rate Vince Vaughn performance?
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Nov 12, 2020
The director's black-and-white opus about the making of 'Citizen Kane' is a both love letter to cinema and a timely cautionary tale about power
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Nov 12, 2020
J.D. Vance's story of growing up poor gets the prestige-drama treatment — and ends up as a lot of sound and fury signifying nothing
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Nov 10, 2020
With subtle irony, the documentary reinforces the truism that politics are never simple
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Nov 10, 2020
A romance between a pioneering female paleontologist and a high-society woman fuels one passionate A-list period piece
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Nov 06, 2020
Charlie Hunnam and Jack O'Connell are two down-and-outers pinning their hopes on one last bareknuckle bout in this familiar drama
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Nov 05, 2020
Tale of a rural married couple tracking down their missing grandson gets by on a grim-corny Neo-Western vibe, courtesy of Kevin Costner and Diane Lane
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Nov 05, 2020
A female astronaut balances maternal angst and training for a mission to Mars in this intriguing (and literal) star vehicle for Eva Green
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Oct 30, 2020
A former prisoner returns to the Spanish village where he grew up — and whose forests are in danger of being destroyed — in a brilliant, evocative character study
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Oct 30, 2020
Two refugees fleeing violence find a new home in England — and some unwanted restless spirits awaiting them — in this ingenious, colonialist take on the haunted-house story
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Oct 30, 2020
An autistic boy encounters an online storybook monster who wants to be his friend — or else — in this mix of Spielbergian sentimentality and scare tactics
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Oct 28, 2020
This sequel-of-sorts to the 1996 cult classic updates the coven empowerment for a new era — but it's still a witches' brew that tastes like weak tea
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Oct 26, 2020
Tyler Taormina's teen "comedy" starts off as a recognizable high school movie before take a sharp left turn into existential dread
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Oct 26, 2020
Two paramedics stumble across a street drug with some very odd side effects — and a knack for letting users get lost in the past
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Oct 23, 2020
A look at the lead-up to a high school prom in Flint, Michigan, turns an annual event into a celebration of a place and everyday people
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Oct 22, 2020
Robert Zemeckis takes Roald Dahl's dark, macabre novel for a spin, and winds up with a lot of sound, fury, and an over-the-top Anne Hathaway
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Oct 22, 2020
Fourteen years after the comedian turned a fake foreign journalist into a cultural touchstone, his gonzo character comes back to take on Trump's America — and wins
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Oct 21, 2020
Documentary on the making of a new Bruce & the E Street Band album is part love letter, part eulogy and part joyous rock 'n' roll celebration
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Oct 21, 2020
Filmmaker Ben Wheatley's adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's tale of second-wife blues is desperately in need of life support
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Oct 19, 2020
Pietro Marcello's take on Jack London's novel is the kind of movie that restores your faith in an art form — and the craft of turning words on a page into sound and vision
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Oct 16, 2020
Writer-director Aaron Sorkin brings a star-studded cast and his signature brand of fast-talking, hokey idealism to an inflection point in the counterculture movement
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Oct 16, 2020
A pitch-perfect, punk AF documentary about the formation of U.K.'s Rock Against Racism — culminating in a legendary '78 show in Victoria Park — doubles as a contemporary call to arms
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Oct 15, 2020
'Maze Runner' star Dylan O'Brien wanders a postapocalyptic wasteland — and battles two-ton killer mutant insects — for amore in this one-stop-shopping multiplex mash-up
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Oct 15, 2020
Spike Lee's concert film of the singer's Broadway show is a perfect complement to 'Stop Making Sense' — and pure bliss
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Oct 13, 2020
The action star plays a safecracker looking to go straight, until some dodgy FBI agents try to shake him down and take him down. He deserves better than this
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Oct 13, 2020
A new documentary co-directed by Alex Gibney traces how our current administration's complete mishandling of a pandemic in the U.S. turned catastrophic
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Oct 09, 2020
Writer-director Jim Cummings' follow-up to 'Thunder Road' turns an '80s horror homage into toxic-masculinity breakdown
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Oct 09, 2020
Writer, director and star Radha Blank tells a semi-autobiographical tale of a playwright stuck in an artistic rut — and boldly stakes her claim in a normally white, malecentric comic space
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Oct 09, 2020
Garrett Bradley's decades-spanning documentary on a family dealing with the impact of incarceration — told mostly through video diaries — is one of the most essential films of the year
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Oct 09, 2020
Robert De Niro's comedy about an elderly man and his grandkid engaged in escalating prank battle will make you miss the glory days of 'Little Fockers'
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Oct 08, 2020
Set against the backdrop of Baltimore's outlaw motorbike clubs, this story of a kid who falls in with the two-wheel crowd feels very familiar
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Oct 05, 2020
Kirsten Johnson's documentary about her elderly dad — in which she mock-kills him over and over — is more than a blackly comic memorial. It's a masterpiece
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Oct 02, 2020
The 'Lost in Translation' director and star reunite for a bittersweet father-daughter comedy costarring Rashida Jones and set in the Big Apple
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Oct 01, 2020
Brandon Cronenberg's cracked thriller about a mind-controlling hit women having an existential crisis is one out-of-body experience
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Sep 30, 2020
The new movie adaptation, from director Joe Mantello and producer Ryan Murphy, is packed with openly gay Hollywood stars reprising their Broadway roles
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Sep 28, 2020
Julie Taymor's high-fiber, overstuffed take on Gloria Steinem — as played by four different actors — is a slippery megillah of a biopic
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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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