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Sep 23, 2023
Paramount documentary is more concerned with the Oscar-winning actor's feelings about Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky than anything else
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Sep 22, 2023
Filmmaker Bishal Dutta's tale of a folkloric spirit stalking a young Indian-American woman could have used a less heavy-handed approach
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Sep 21, 2023
Gael García Bernal gives a career-best performance as a Mexican wrestling "exotico" who revolutionized the sport — and put its machismo culture in a chokehold
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Sep 20, 2023
Peacock's prequel to the Keanu Reeves-starring action-movie series features a whole lot of boring High Table assassin mythology and not much more
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Sep 20, 2023
Peacock's prequel to the Keanu Reeves-starring action-movie series features a whole lot of boring High Table assassin mythology and not much more
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Sep 18, 2023
Dan Harmon's (Rick and Morty) new animated series set in a mythical version of Ancient Greece had three seasons ordered by Fox before it even aired.
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Sep 16, 2023
Kenneth Branagh's latest Poirot mystery features horror-movie jump scares, a great cast — from Tina Fey to Michelle Yeoh to Yellowstone MVP Kelly Reilly — and no pulse
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Sep 15, 2023
Pablo Larraín's brilliant, pitch-black take on Chile's notorious dictator asks the question: What if Augusto Pinochet was a literal monster?
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Sep 11, 2023
Second season of FX docuseries about Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney's purchase of soccer club Wrexham A.F.C. will still give you hope
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Sep 11, 2023
Premiering at the Toronto International Film Festival, a new doc on the stand-up's chronic sexual improprieties — and eventual comeback — doesn't pretend to know the answer
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Sep 10, 2023
Part horror film and part sideways swipe at social pariahdom, this dark comedy lets the star deliver another gloriously weird performance
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Sep 10, 2023
This AMC spinoff follows Norman Reedus' grizzled hero as he navigates France, and features a dynamic turn from the always-stellar Clemence Poésy
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Sep 09, 2023
Using famous faces and a multi-narrative story, the filmmaker behind I, Tonya turns this stock-market upheaval into an accessible David v. Goliath comedy
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Sep 09, 2023
No one was asking for the Truth or Dare of butt rock here, but this portrait of the hugely popular, highly divisive Canadian rock band couldn't be less interested in its subject's story
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Sep 09, 2023
Chilean filmmaker Sebastian Silva's latest, Rotting in the Sun, is a gonzo satire of our "content"-crazed age that is very, very NSFW
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Sep 08, 2023
If this tale of fantastic worlds, trickster birds, and bone-deep grief is indeed the anime legend's final movie, he's going out on a high note
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Sep 08, 2023
Opening the Toronto International Film Festival's ‘Midnight Madness' section, this musical about identical twins goes for shock, screams and hilarity — and settles for two outta three
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Sep 07, 2023
Fourth season of Mike McMahan's (Rick and Morty) animated Paramount series has found its calling as the funny foil to more serious Trek shows
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Sep 04, 2023
And the French-language thriller, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, ends with a curious message
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Sep 04, 2023
Sofia Coppola's film about the relationship between teenage Priscilla Presley and Elvis, which premiered at the Venice Film Festival, is outstanding
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Sep 04, 2023
Premiering at the Venice Film Festival, this dark thriller about an assassin (Michael Fassbender) out for revenge doesn't quite hit its target
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Sep 02, 2023
Despite what you've heard from the Twitterati, Cooper's film about Bernstein and his wife Felicia's relationship is an absolute marvel
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Sep 01, 2023
A deadpan look at diaspora life in America, this tale of an Afghan immigrant feels like it could have been plucked out of the early Nineties
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Aug 31, 2023
Michael Mann's biopic of Enzo Ferrari, starring Adam Driver, made its premiere at the 2023 Venice Film Festival. And Penélope Cruz is the big winner
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Aug 31, 2023
Hollywoodgate, premiering at the Venice Film Festival, is a curious doc with unusual access to the Taliban after America's Afghanistan withdrawal
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Aug 31, 2023
Streamer's adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's uber-popular manga (and the subsequent anime series) features overlong episodes and too much backstory
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Aug 31, 2023
Streamer's adaptation of Eiichiro Oda's uber-popular manga (and the subsequent anime series) features overlong episodes and too much backstory
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Aug 30, 2023
Any movie star who can turn a third cartoonishly violent revenge movie into a pulpy trashterpiece like this deserves a medal
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Aug 30, 2023
Netflix docuseries Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zone sees aging expert Dan Buettner visit areas across the world where people age gracefully.
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Aug 30, 2023
Documentary Mr. Jimmy, on arguably the world's most devoted Jimmy Page fan, takes you deep into the brain of a tribute band master
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Aug 25, 2023
Sandler, his daughters, and his wife feature in You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah, a coming-of-age tale that will bring a smile to your face.
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Aug 25, 2023
Retribution drops the star into a sort of Speed for overworked, protective dads — and even he seems to be getting tired of playing these roles
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Aug 23, 2023
HBO doc about a fake high school, a real ESPN football game, and a scandal that ruined teens' lives can't help but get charmed by the scam artist at the center of it all
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Aug 21, 2023
Apple TV 's docuseries Wanted: The Escape of Carlos Ghosn revisits a wild story involving crime, human smuggling, and intrepid journalists
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Aug 18, 2023
Dan Harmon, the man behind Rick and Morty and Community, is back with a new Apple TV animated series about life's many absurdities
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Aug 17, 2023
This Peacock series starring Craig Robinson and Claudia O'Doherty as American dream-chasers from the Brooklyn Nine-Nine team is so damn funny
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Aug 16, 2023
A lesser-known DC character comes to the big screen, along with the culture that informs him — which gives this generic superhero movie a welcome sense of purpose
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Aug 11, 2023
While lovers of the 2019 bestselling novel might cringe, this Prime Video star-crossed romance is worth the price of subscription — but not much more
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Aug 11, 2023
No one was begging for a minor bit in Bram Stoker's novel to get the full-blown feature treatment, but it's certainly the classiest, creepiest late-summer counterprogramming
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Aug 10, 2023
New dramatic series from Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) takes on the opioid-peddling family and the countless lives they destroyed
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Aug 10, 2023
New dramatic series Painkiller from Peter Berg (Friday Night Lights) takes on the opioid-peddling family and the countless lives they destroyed
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Aug 09, 2023
This whodunit set in a British hairstyling competition is a technical knockout with award-worthy coifs — and way too many narrative split ends
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Aug 07, 2023
Third season of the hit Hulu series starring Steve Martin, Martin Short, and Selena Gomez is still breezy fun but could have used sharper writing
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Aug 06, 2023
Second season of the Adam McKay-produced Max series about the Showtime Lakers is a convoluted mess that sidelines its star, John C. Reilly
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Aug 04, 2023
Steve James' (Hoop Dreams) new doc A Compassionate Spy tells the story of Theodore Hall, a Manhattan Project physicist who passed secrets to the USSR
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Aug 04, 2023
Steve James' (Hoop Dreams) new doc A Compassionate Spy tells the story of Theodore Hall, a Manhattan Project physicist who passed secrets to the USSR
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Aug 04, 2023
Filmmaker Ira Sachs' portrait of a narcissistic director in a love triangle with a man and a woman is a throwback to Seventies cinema
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Aug 03, 2023
Hulu docuseries Demons & Saviors re-examines the case of a supposed telekinetic teen who later pled guilty to killing her three-year-old daughter
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Aug 03, 2023
In his directorial debut, Randall Park turns Adrian Tomine's graphic novel about an immature twentysomething into a throwback slacker comedy
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Aug 01, 2023
Streamer's new documentary, Poisoned: The Dirty Truth About Your Food, out Aug. 2, exposes the high levels of contamination in America's food
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Aug 01, 2023
Second season of Netflix's feel-good hit, starring Joe Locke and Kit Connor, expands its scope to include other complicated young-love stories
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Jul 29, 2023
The South Korean horror series, now streaming on Disney , builds a steady (and stylish) sense of dread that will keep you on edge
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Jul 28, 2023
Daisy Jones star and co-director Gina Gammell follow two young Native men as they try to navigate a world of drugs, violence, and hard choices
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Jul 27, 2023
Maria José Cuevas' documentary on "The Little Old Lady Killer," a serial killer who targeted elderly women in Mexico City, transcends its subgenre
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Jul 27, 2023
Horror film from Australian twins/YouTube sensations Danny and Michael Philippou (aka RackaRacka) is a hell of an introduction
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Jul 26, 2023
Horror-comedy/cash-in based on the amusement park attraction is a lazy affair featuring Owen Wilson, Danny DeVito, Tiffany Hadish, and more
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Jul 25, 2023
Netflix doc Missing: The Lucie Blackman Case revisits the disappearance of the U.K. flight attendant and the capture of a notorious serial rapist
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Jul 24, 2023
HBO's new documentary After the Bite, premiering July 26, examines the 2018 death of Arthur Medici and the impact it had on a Cape Cod town
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Jul 22, 2023
The hottest meme-ready movie couple of the summer gives you two different versions of the patriarchy run amok. Only one of them has a happy ending
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Jul 21, 2023
John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, and Teyonah Parris uncover a mystery that suggests just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you aren't right
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Jul 21, 2023
John Boyega, Jamie Foxx, and Teyonah Parris uncover a mystery that suggests just because you're paranoid doesn't mean you aren't right
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Jul 19, 2023
Inception filmmaker's extensive, exhaustive portrait of the "father of the atomic bomb" is both thrilling and wonky, brilliant and overstuffed, too much and not enough
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Jul 19, 2023
Laura McGann's documentary explores a freediving couple, Alessia Zecchini and Stephen Keenan, who dive to extreme depths with only their breath
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Jul 18, 2023
It's a long commercial for a legacy corporate brand and a pretty-in-pink f*ck you to the patriarchy. It is Barbie — hear it roar
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Jul 17, 2023
FX's new crime-Western miniseries, a continuation of Justified, sees Timothy Olyphant's fiery lawman try his damnedest to adjust to modern times
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Jul 15, 2023
Showtime docuseries on the towering basketball legend provides a fun retelling of his story — then uses AI to "recreate" the late athlete's voice
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Jul 14, 2023
Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah return to their beloved Cousins Beach in the Prime Video series' second season, but nothing stays the same
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Jul 14, 2023
Belly, Conrad, and Jeremiah return to their beloved Cousins Beach in the Prime Video series' second season, but nothing stays the same
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Jul 14, 2023
A remake of a modern Japanese cult-horror classic from the director of The Artist, this zombie comedy doubles as a great how-to in guerrilla D.I.Y. filmmaking
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Jul 13, 2023
Max series from Steven Soderbergh and Ed Solomon, starring Claire Danes, Timothy Olyphant, and Zazie Beetz, proves a frustrating journey
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Jul 13, 2023
Taken from footage of an Associated Press journalist under siege during the early days of the invasion, this documentary is a punch to the gut
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Jul 10, 2023
The story of a mother suffering the slings and arrows of a broken foster-care system — and debating her unborn baby's future — will wreck you, in a good way
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Jul 09, 2023
HBO docuseries Last Call: When a Serial Killer Stalked Queer New York revisits the madman who dismembered gay men in the Nineties amid NYPD neglect
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Jul 07, 2023
The QAnon-tinged thriller about child-trafficking is designed to appeal to the conscience of a conspiracy-addled boomer
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Jul 07, 2023
A road trip through China goes haywire for four Asian-American pals in Adele Lim's off-the-rails addition to gross-out comedies
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Jul 05, 2023
Part One of what promises to be an epic 'M:I' story has thrills, chills, life-threatening stunts, a deep hatred of AI and whole lotta Tom
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Jul 05, 2023
Part 1 of what promises to be an epic M:I story has thrills, chills, life-threatening stunts, a deep hatred of A.I. and whole lotta Tom
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Jul 04, 2023
Docuseries The Real Wild West revisits the history of the West they usually don't teach you, from slaughters and land-grabs to great Black cowboys
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Jun 30, 2023
Sarah Snook's Australian ghost story (on Netflix) starts with the arrival of a mysterious rabbit on her doorstep — and then things get creepy
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Jun 29, 2023
Second season of the Zach McClarnon-starring AMC series examines the violent exploitation of Native Americans by the powers that be
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Jun 29, 2023
Netflix doc Eldorado: Everything the Nazis Hate examines the swinging LGBTQ haven in Berlin that was ultimately destroyed by the Nazis
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Jun 29, 2023
Underrated Cinemax series has been revived by Max for a third season of Chinatown mayhem, and it was worth the wait
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Jun 28, 2023
HBO doc All That Heaven Allowed dives into the life and death of the 1950s' biggest movie star — and all he was allowed to do if he hid his sexuality
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Jun 28, 2023
Intense new Apple TV series is set in "real-time" and sees Idris Elba's ace negotiator navigate a hijacked flight from Dubai to London
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Jun 23, 2023
Netflix's documentary King of Clones revisits the story of Hwang Woo-suk, a scientific pioneer who cloned dogs and claimed to clone human embryos
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Jun 23, 2023
She's easily the best thing in this comedy about a woman hired to "date" a shy high school senior — yet not even foul-mouthed, no-filter J-Law can save this mess
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Jun 23, 2023
Boots Riley's new Amazon Prime series takes aim at late-stage capitalism via its surrealist tale of a 13-foot-tall young Black man navigating Oakland
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Jun 21, 2023
Second season of the Sarah Jessica Parker-starring Max series is an improvement on the first, but still doesn't feel as vital as OG Sex and the City
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Jun 21, 2023
Kristen Lovell and Zackary Drucker's HBO documentary tells the story of the Black trans sex workers who strolled Manhattan's Meatpacking District
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Jun 21, 2023
Samuel L. Jackson's Nick Fury finally gets his own project in this Disney series, and he's joined by Olivia Colman and others. Too bad nothing works
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Jun 19, 2023
Netflix documentary Take Care of Maya explores one family's Kafkaesque nightmare involving their young daughter, Maya Kowalski
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Jun 19, 2023
Christopher Storer's FX series follows Jeremy Allen White and Ayo Edebiri's chefs as they transform an Italian beef sandwich shop into a restaurant
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Jun 16, 2023
This Disney look at Stan Lee, the man behind Spider-Man, the X-Men and the Avengers, is far from the definitive doc on Marvel's founding father
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Jun 15, 2023
Highly anticipated sixth season of Charlie Brooker's sci-fi anthology satire bites the hand that feeds it and boasts more misses than hits
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Jun 15, 2023
Highly anticipated sixth season of Charlie Brooker's sci-fi anthology satire bites the hand that feeds it, and boasts more misses than hits
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Jun 14, 2023
Animation company's latest effort imagines a metropolis run by the four elements — and puts the message before the movie itself
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Jun 14, 2023
It's beyond impressive how much showrunner Henry Alonso Myers and his team pack into each and every episode of this Paramount sci-fi series
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Jun 13, 2023
FX sequel series reunites the original cast of the 1997 indie hit about a group of regular Northern England working-class lads who strip for cash
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Jun 10, 2023
Mindy Kaling's coming-of-age Netflix series goes out on a lovely, lasting note in its fourth and final season
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Jun 10, 2023
British film about a closeted teacher during the Thatcher era looks back at a dangerous bill that banned people from "promoting homosexuality"
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