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Sep 23, 2021
Oscar Isaac's mysterious poker player is the latest in a series of solitary, demon-plagued men the writer-director has brought to the screen
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Sep 23, 2021
The adaptation of the Tony-winning Broadway musical and its star have been raked over the coals since the first trailer appeared — yet the end result is painfully true to the spirit of the play
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Sep 17, 2021
The star-director plays with familiar tropes as a cowboy in his twilight, but delivers a surprising emotional payoff
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Sep 17, 2021
She's the only reason to see this biopic of the disgraced televangelist and LGBTQ icon — but it's a blessed enough reason to see it
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Sep 03, 2021
The latest Marvel movie tells a cross-generational, culture-forward superhero tale with style, grace, and plenty of ass-kicking action
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Aug 26, 2021
Director Nia DaCosta's version — starring Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Teyonah Parris — is too aware of too aware of the legacy (and ironies) of its predecessor's premise
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Aug 23, 2021
It also gives Rebecca Hall a great role, makes the most of its 'Architectural Digest'-worthy setting and takes some intriguing left turns
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Aug 19, 2021
Hugh Jackman is a man who lets people relive their memories — and gets caught up in chasing his own past — in this forgettable mix of detective pulp, dystopic science fiction and dead ends
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Aug 16, 2021
A thriller from director Ferdinando Cito Filomarino that risks the ridiculous while it veers into unexpected terrain
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Aug 14, 2021
The third entry in director Peter Nicks's "Oakland trilogy" focuses on the traumas and triumphs of Oakland High School's class of 2020
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Aug 13, 2021
A biopic of the Queen was never going to satisfy everyone — but Jennifer Hudson captures the power of Franklin's songs
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Aug 13, 2021
This year's festival prizewinner finally comes to the general public, courtesy of Apple — and it's the type of feel-good movie that leaves you both uplifted and exhausted
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Aug 13, 2021
The 'Deadpool' star is the only reason to see this story of video games, nice guys finishing first and the evils of corporate I.P. obsessions — but you knew that already
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Aug 09, 2021
An experiment in how we watch — and the difference in what people see even when we're watching the same thing — gives us one of the intriguing, vital movies of 2021
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Aug 06, 2021
Director James Gunn's stand-alone sequel delivers all the grime-splashed, blood-splattered grindhouse cosplay fans desire
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Aug 06, 2021
The cult actor gets a rare spotlight role as a hairdresser revisiting the ghosts of his past — if only the film would rise to his level
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Aug 04, 2021
The sly power of director Tom McCarthy's style is to reveal how we often project our beliefs and biases based on assumptions
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Aug 04, 2021
The sly power of director Tom McCarthy's style is to reveal how we often project our beliefs and biases based on assumptions
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Aug 01, 2021
A man interviews souls for the chance to be born in this metaphysical drama that asks: Who are we, before we are anything at all?
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Jul 30, 2021
The Mouse House attempts to make a-movie-based-on-an-amusement-park-ride lightning strike twice — and gives you a journey in to the heart of "blah"-ness
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Jul 30, 2021
Director David Lowery's take on the 14th-century poem about Sir Gawain's quest for greatness turns Arthurian legend inside out
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Jul 29, 2021
Although much of Joe Bell revolves around a secular ritual of self-flagellation, it's not a simple redemption narrative of a homophobic parent making amends
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Jul 23, 2021
Beware the beach this summer …
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Jul 23, 2021
A portrait of the 'Top Gun' star — using footage from Kilmer's decades of self-documentation — lets the actor tell his story in his own words
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Jul 22, 2021
A spin-off involving the series most popular and enigmatic character provides an interesting franchise detour — until it very much doesn't
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Jul 16, 2021
The movie does what it aims to do — ultimately anointing LeBron James' status as this era's greatest by having him take up the mantle from His Airness
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Jul 16, 2021
The movie franchise remains a fool-proof suspense vehicle
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Jul 16, 2021
A slow-burn of a story about a man searching for his stolen prize pig, this character study hands its star a chance to tone things down
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Jul 16, 2021
A slow-burn of a story about a man searching for his stolen prize pig, this character study hands its star a chance to tone things down
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Jul 16, 2021
Morgan Neville's documentary on the late chef/author/TV show host gives you a tragic mystery — but also the pleasure of Bourdain's company
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Jul 09, 2021
Credit is due to Florence Pugh and Johansson for proving that their foes-then-friends dynamic could satisfyingly hold an entire movie
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Jul 07, 2021
The automatic pleasure of seeing Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Brendan Frasier and others up to no good is the draw, but the auteur's latest crime drama is much more than easy coolness
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Jul 03, 2021
Implausibility is one key to why Janicza Bravo's new feature is such a disconcerting, curious, abrasive, intelligent, surprising, and likely polarizing joy
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Jun 30, 2021
Beth B's documentary on the singer/provocateur/No Wave icon looks, sounds and feels like a Lydia Lunch song: raw, loud, unfiltered and unflinching
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Jun 25, 2021
A surreal tale of maternal paranoia à la 'Rosemary's Baby' feels like it never gets past its thinkpiece-headline ambitions — or knows quite what it wants to say
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Jun 25, 2021
The ninth movie in the 'Fast & Furious' franchise features all the chases, destruction, and convoluted plot you'd expect — and soap-opera histrionics galore
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Jun 25, 2021
Let's just say that this thriller about big-rig haulers navigating slippery, frosty terrain is on thin ice in more ways than one
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Jun 25, 2021
Ahimr "Questlove" Thompson's look back at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival rescues a milestone series of live shows — and is damn near a music-doc masterpiece
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Jun 24, 2021
What started as a documentary about two Mexican immigrants in love becomes a free-form look at what their relationship's endured — and is better for it
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Jun 23, 2021
Comedian Iliza Shlesinger writes her own star-vehicle ticket — and mines a real-life experience — as stand-up comic who gets romantically gaslit by a grifter
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Jun 18, 2021
The latest from the animation juggernaut can't compare to the company's classics, but it still has its charms — and a sense of longing that strikes a chord
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Jun 17, 2021
François Ozon's latest tale of youthful gay love — in the heat of the summer — is pleasurably familiar
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Jun 17, 2021
Filmmaker Edgar Wright's love letter to Russell and Ron Mael is both exhaustive and exhausting — but it highlights their secret influence on pop culture
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Jun 16, 2021
An action-comedy sequel that no one asked for brings more bullets, booms and yawns — thank god for Salma Hayek
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Jun 11, 2021
Jon M. Chu's big-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's barrio musical, by and about Latinos, makes a star of Anthony Ramos
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Jun 11, 2021
Jon M. Chu's big-screen adaptation of Lin-Manuel Miranda's barrio musical, by and about Latinos, makes a star of Anthony Ramos
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Jun 11, 2021
Throwback film rewinds to England's days of strict scary-movie censorship, and turns a psychological breakdown into a fractured fairy tale
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Jun 10, 2021
Yes, you can blame director Antoine Fuqua for this limp bit of hero myth
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Jun 04, 2021
The "why" is (apparently) irrelevant
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May 26, 2021
Vampy, stylish, and cruel: Emma Stone embodies the campy dognapper
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May 26, 2021
Cinema provocateur Michel Franco reminds you that the revolution will not be televised — it will be turned into tone-deaf, feel-bad posturing
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May 25, 2021
The follow-up to John Krasinki's out-of-nowhere horror hit continues the story — and feels like it's a little too concerned with franchise-building for its own good
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May 21, 2021
Robert Connolly's film, starring Eric Bana, is full of little rabbit holes of the mind
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May 20, 2021
A collection of interviews with the last generation of Germans who lived through the Third Reich doubles as an urgent reminder to keep history from repeating itself
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May 14, 2021
Actors Clayne Crawford and Sepideh Moafi are stellar conduits for all the pain on display in Robert Machoian's debut feature
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May 14, 2021
The Danish star helps turn this dish-best-served-cold thriller into something thrilling, nutty and completely subversive
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May 14, 2021
Playing a smokejumper with an apparent death wish, the movie star deploys her gaze of steel to have us believing in her heroic abilities
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May 14, 2021
Adaptation of bestselling thriller about an agoraphobe who witnesses a murder gets the full A-list treatment — and still feels curiously DOA
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May 13, 2021
An undercover reporter tries to bait an ISIS recruiter and gets in over her head in this gimmicky it's-all-happening-on-your-computer-screen thriller
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May 12, 2021
Saudi Arabian filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour turns the story of a female doctor who runs for office into a sly, buoyant social drama
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May 12, 2021
Latest entry in the 'Saw' Cinematic Universe, featuring Rock and Samuel L. Jackson, keeps going down, and down, and down
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May 11, 2021
Zack Snyder's new zombie-heist movie arrives as we find ourselves at the nadir of the zombiepocalypse era
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May 08, 2021
Plenty of great side characters, but Guy Ritchie and Jason Statham are the names that matter most in this movie — obviously
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May 07, 2021
Corny and cute: a welcome dish of rom-com nostalgia — even if it's more friend-romance than anything else
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May 05, 2021
This Netflix acquisition about a dysfunctional suburban family battling the robot apocalypse is loud, funny, hyperactive, silly, deadpan — and surprisingly great
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May 05, 2021
David Oyelowo's directorial debut — about a boy searching for a local urban legend — presents a kinder, gentler version of a kids' adventure story
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Apr 30, 2021
This short collaboration between the Spanish filmmaker and the Oscar-winning actor has made its way to HBO Max — and is the most rewarding 30 minutes you could imagine
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Apr 29, 2021
Amanda Seyfried must contend with a haunted house — and some recognizably human monsters — in a gothic tale filled with things you've heard and seen before
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Apr 29, 2021
80-minute documentary is a much-needed spotlight on women like Pauline Oliveros and Suzanne Ciani, despite significant gaps in the story it tells
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Apr 28, 2021
A look back at the falsetto-voiced singer who turned 'Tiptoe Through the Tulips' into an Age of Aquarius hit
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Apr 22, 2021
The hell-dwelling desire for vengeance at its core makes the movie more intriguing than it had to be
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Apr 21, 2021
Ed Helms and Patti Harrison have a baby — and keep things strictly professional — in this gentle surrogate-pregnancy comedy
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Apr 17, 2021
Directed by Russian filmmaker Victor Kossakowsky, the doc is 93 minutes of the unfiltered lives of a mother pig
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Apr 16, 2021
The British cult filmmaker returns with an eerie story of a global virus, a quest to find a missing scientist and a journey into the dark side of Mother Nature
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Apr 09, 2021
Octavia Spencer stars alongside McCarthy in the new superhero spoof streaming on Netflix
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Apr 08, 2021
Kids run wild on a spaceship — and play out a heavy-handed political metaphor — in this Y.A. sci-fi thriller
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Apr 02, 2021
Idris Elba is an urban cowboy keeping his son on the straight and narrow — and keeping a dying tradition alive — in this portrait of a North Philadelphia subculture
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Mar 29, 2021
Whoever wins, we all lose (except Hollywood)
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Mar 27, 2021
Madeleine Sims-Fewer and Dusty Mancinelli construct a searing, disorienting psychological set-up
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Mar 26, 2021
André and friends take their public-outrageousness act on the road — and earn a spot in the Gonzo Comedy Hall of Fame
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Mar 25, 2021
The 'Better Call Saul' star makes a strong case for becoming the next 'John Wick'-style tough guy — if only the midlife-crisis-with-machine guns fantasy deserved him
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Mar 17, 2021
The director of 'Fyre' takes on the college admissions scandal that sent celebrities to jail and exposed a network of Ivy League corruption
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Mar 12, 2021
Joe and Anthony Russo's long arc of directorial self-satisfaction bends toward, not justice, but easy redemption
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Mar 10, 2021
Writer-director Philippe Lacôte's movie combines fact and fabulism, displaying the power of the West African griot
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Mar 07, 2021
Vanessa Kirby is utterly magnetic in director Mona Fastvold's 19-century historical drama focused on the desire between women
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Mar 05, 2021
An attempt to start a film franchise out of Patrick Ness's YA sci-fi books — about a planet where everyone hears your thoughts — falls flat on its face its first time out
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Mar 04, 2021
The 'Fresh Off the Boat' writer's directorial debut turns a typical hoops tale into something chewier, deeper and personal
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Mar 04, 2021
Not quite a sequel, nor a remake, the movie reunites Eddie Murphy and Arsenio Hall with the rest of the gang — as well as fantastic new faces — for a welcome Eighties update
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Mar 04, 2021
The Mouse House's latest animated feature throws a female hero's journey into a fantasy-action blockbuster blender — yet works best as a buddy comedy
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Mar 04, 2021
The Mouse House's latest animated feature throws a female hero's journey into a fantasy-action blockbuster blender — yet works best as a buddy comedy
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Mar 03, 2021
Netflix documentary focuses on the environment that created the Notorious B.I.G. and the people whose lives he touched
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Feb 26, 2021
Directed by Lee Daniels, the movie stars Andra Day as the titular Lady Day and tells the story of Holiday's life in the wake of "Strange Fruit"
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Feb 26, 2021
Feline gets outsmarted by rodent. Human actors collect checks. An intellectual property gets dragged out one more time. What do you need, a road map?
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Feb 25, 2021
The cruelty, confusion, and conflicts are on full display in this moving and memorable movie about aging
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Feb 25, 2021
A former Hasid agrees to watch over a recently deceased member of the community — and who may have been haunted — in this subculturally specific supernatural thriller
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Feb 24, 2021
Shatara Michelle Ford's debut is stunning in its examination of blackness, whiteness, gender, and class
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Feb 24, 2021
Shatara Michelle Ford's debut is stunning in its examination of blackness, whiteness, gender, and class
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Feb 19, 2021
A withering lesson in the art of the steal
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Feb 19, 2021
By focusing on two sides of the singer — the artist and the activist — the film shows what musicians can be capable of if they believe in their message
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Feb 18, 2021
Harry Macqueen's film contains remarkable wise moments between a longtime gay couple — even if it smooths over some of the pricklier parts of their relationship
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