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Jan 15, 2022
Joel Coen's adaptation of Shakespeare — starring the Oscar winner as the doomed title character — is a starkly modern take that knows absolute power corrupts, absolutely
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Jan 13, 2022
This raw indie, in which Vanessa Kirby suddenly forgets who she is, drops viewers into an equally disassociative state. That's a compliment
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Jan 12, 2022
But if you're looking for horror that doesn't want to eat its cake and stab it too, then you're shit outta luck, my friend
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Jan 06, 2022
There are a lot of good intentions in this tweak to the old-fashioned, international spy-vs-spy movie template — and not much else
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Dec 30, 2021
The character actor gets a rare chance to take center stage as a horse racer on his last legs, riding this modest character study for all its worth
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Dec 29, 2021
Reprising his role from the off-Broadway musical take on Edmond Rostand's play, the 'Game of Thrones' star turns up the tragedy (and the heat) to make this classic character his own
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Dec 26, 2021
Maggie Gyllenhaal's directorial debut makes a subversive thriller out of a quiet, complex character study
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Dec 24, 2021
Adam McKay's satire imagines an A-list cast fretting over a giant comet threatening our planet — and can't crawl out of the tarpit of it's own bone-deep despair
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Dec 21, 2021
The long-awaited sequel wears its fan service on its sleeve, but the meta-references, winks, and nods are layered with a much deeper meaning
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Dec 21, 2021
The long-awaited sequel is a moving nostalgia trip that reminds us of the franchise's stunning prescience — and brings its big ideas into sharp focus
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Dec 17, 2021
The new HBO film is a deeply intimate look at Soundcloud rap's greatest hope and champion, but it doesn't answer bigger questions
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Dec 16, 2021
Guillermo del Toro's follow-up to 'The Shape of Water' resurrects an old noir about con artists and carny life, and gives Bradley Cooper a career-best role
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Dec 14, 2021
The latest Spidey epic imports some familiar looking bad guys — and somehow retcons an entire comic-book multiverse under one mouse-eared roof
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Dec 10, 2021
The writer-director uses the TV sitcom's royal couple to score ideological points, and occasionally lets his actors remind you that they were human beings
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Dec 09, 2021
The director's remake is both a hat-tip to the original (and old-school Hollywood) and a slightly revised version that gives this street-gang 'Romeo & Juliet' a sense of urgency
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Dec 06, 2021
Sean Baker's follow-up to 'The Florida Project' follows a narcissistic, delusional adult-movie actor on the skids — and resurrects Simon Rex from the millennial-sex-symbol dead
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Nov 26, 2021
Stephen Karam's adaptation of his Tony-winning play turns this drama into its own specific horror movie — and reminds you that family means always having to say you're sorry
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Nov 24, 2021
Ridley Scott's true-crime tale of murder among the rich, famous and fashionable has a supernova at the center of it, and proves the singer is a great actor, period
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Nov 24, 2021
A spiritual prequel to 'Punch Drunk Love,' the filmmaker's look back at a bygone era couldn't be more personal — or have better performers at its center
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Nov 22, 2021
The actor plays a bachelor uncle stuck with his precocious nephew in Mike Mills' latest drama, a film that brings indie tropes into moving harmony
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Nov 19, 2021
And the way it lets these men exorcise their demons through moviemaking is a serious gift — to them and us
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Nov 19, 2021
Playing the Williams sisters' dad as a brash, stubborn control freak, Smith shows how, and why, two culture-shifting athletes came from humble roots
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Nov 17, 2021
But just because you're not scared to watch a franchise wallow in knee-jerk nostalgia doesn't mean it's not a pandering mess
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Nov 12, 2021
The writer-director's return to his end-of-innocence moment — when sectarian violence rocked Northern Ireland — is, to put it bluntly, his best movie in years
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Nov 11, 2021
What do you get when you team up Dwayne Johnson, Ryan Reynolds and Gal Gadot in a god-awful, generic-AF jewel thief movie? We'll give you a hint
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Nov 10, 2021
A new Hulu documentary uses official documents, harrowing footage, and firsthand testimonials to correct the record on a 2017 mission gone wrong in Niger
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Nov 09, 2021
Jeymes Samuel's feature debut is a history lesson wrapped in fast, flashy, and fantastical storytelling
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Nov 03, 2021
The star's dystopian tale of a man and his robot starts off as 'Cast Away: End of the World Edition' — and then devolves into one hot mess
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Oct 29, 2021
The 'Baby Driver' filmmaker goes the psychological thriller route, with a horror film that both romanticizes and criticizes a groovy, grotesque past
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Oct 26, 2021
In the latest MCU movie, sexy superheroes care more about their own melodramas than the humans they're supposed to be saving
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Oct 25, 2021
The director throws every trick in his book at this lovingly tribute to 'The New Yorker' magazine — and creatives everywhere
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Oct 20, 2021
Denis Villeneuve's ambitious adaptation turns Frank Herbert's sci-fi classic into a big, bold blockbuster
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Oct 15, 2021
Todd Haynes look back at the Sixties downtown-boho rock icons gives the group the exhilarating, experimental portrait it richly deserves
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Oct 14, 2021
The sequel to David Gordon Green's brilliant 2018 franchise-reboot is a murder scene in all of the wrong ways
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Oct 13, 2021
Costarring Adam Driver and Jodie Comer, Ridley Scott's A-list epic tries to balance violence, comedy, campiness and heavy-handed message-mongering. It does not succeed.
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Oct 13, 2021
Co-starring Adam Driver and Jodie Comer, Ridley Scott's A-list epic tries to balance violence, comedy, campiness and heavy-handed message-mongering. It does not succeed
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Oct 09, 2021
A bold, disturbing story about farmers raising an unusual animal as their own makes for an incredible debut — and a cult movie in the making
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Oct 08, 2021
Julia Ducournau's Palme d'Or winner twists horror, erotica, and psychological thrills into something completely new, confounding, and captivating
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Oct 01, 2021
For his final turn as 007, the actor who gave Bond an edge and a pulse reminds you why his tenure as the action hero has been iconic
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Sep 30, 2021
As the titular villainous counterpart to Tom Hardy's Venom, the actor ups the ante of silly humor and trashy fun in this dueling-alien-symbiotes sequel
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Sep 28, 2021
David Chase and friends go back to the beginning, and deliver a combination of origin story, historical epic and a good, old-fashioned gangster movie
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Sep 28, 2021
Tightly-wound star vehicle gives the actor plenty of room to show off, as an officer bound to desk duty at a call center
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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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