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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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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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Feb 16, 2021
An adaptation of a Guantanamo prisoner's memoir splits its time between legal drama and P.O.W. survivalist tale — and gives you one first-rate performance
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Feb 12, 2021
This political film — starring Lakeith Stanfield and Daniel Kaluuya — shouldn't be mistaken for history but it will most certainly educate a new cohort about the Black Panthers
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Feb 12, 2021
Latest comedy from the brains behind 'Bridesmaids' feels like a feature-length sketch devoted to two imaginary 'SNL' characters, sans the laughs
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Feb 11, 2021
Azazel Jacobs' eccentric socialite comedy — also starring Lucas Hedges and Valerie Mahaffey — teeters on the edge of an uncertain reality
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Feb 10, 2021
Rose Glass's directorial debut follows a hospice worker who may be talking to God, or going mad — and turns a possible possession story into an emotional depth charge
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Feb 05, 2021
John David Washington and Zendaya verbally duke it out in this long, tortured thesis statement of a movie
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Jan 29, 2021
Denzel Washington, Rami Malek, and Jared Leto turn a cat-and-mouse crime thriller into a surprisingly satisfying slice of pulp
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Jan 28, 2021
This Netflix period drama — in which Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes unearth buried artifacts as World War II looms on the horizon — is a throwback in more ways than one
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Jan 23, 2021
The film restricts itself to a vacuum of post-war experience — providing glimpses of attempts at healing
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Jan 22, 2021
Writer-director Ramin Bahrani's latest film feels like a leap forward — even if his focus on class-striving and survival by a figure on the margins of society remains the same
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Jan 22, 2021
A story of terminal illness, complete with tearjerking and movie stars, still manages to beat the odds and find moments of grace in its overwhelming grief
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Jan 22, 2021
This document of the meta-magician's groundbreaking show goes beyond mere "Is this your card?" trickery — and turns it something more than just a performance film
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Jan 19, 2021
By the film's end, Martin Luther King Jr. and J. Edgar Hoover — who met face-to-face only once — emerge as an inseparable American pair
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Jan 15, 2021
A doc on the massive Floridian retirement community known as "The Villages" skips the sociology— and goes straight to the good, the bad and the weird of it all
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Jan 15, 2021
The Irish actor goes full metal Eastwood in this Western-flavored "Action Movie Dad" thriller
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Jan 14, 2021
Regina King's directorial debut speculates on what happened between four icons during a historical get-together in 1965 — and delivers a great showcase for its actors
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Jan 14, 2021
Doug Liman's guerilla project uses a real-life pandemic as background for a rom-com heist movie — and a display of movie-star chemistry
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Jan 08, 2021
Vanessa Kirby's go-for-broke performance turns this drama of mourning and healing into something close to transcendent
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Dec 31, 2020
Chloë Grace Moretz is a WWII pilot with a mysterious package, a misogynistic flight crew and a monster on the wing in this frantic genre mash-up
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Dec 24, 2020
Tom Hanks, the Henry Fonda of our moment, clears the hurdles in director Paul Greengrass' movie set in post-Civil War America
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Dec 24, 2020
in Emerald Fennell's directorial debut, which skewers rape culture, no innocent bystanders are allowed
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Dec 24, 2020
A gorgeous throwback to 1950s and '60s melodramas gives the actor a plum role and stakes a claim in the bygone genre
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Dec 23, 2020
The final film in the five-part 'Small Axe' series explores the humiliations of the system for minorities and immigrants
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Dec 23, 2020
If only George Clooney, the director, could allow himself to get ridiculous and have a little more fun
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Dec 23, 2020
Pixar's latest is a buddy comedy — featuring a frustrated musician and a "soul" waiting to be born — a touchy-feely philosophical treatise, and a bit of follow-your-bliss existentialism for the whole family
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Dec 15, 2020
The villainy represented here indeed feels Eighties: A dark riff on entrepreneurial self-help-y logic in its most bastard state
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Dec 14, 2020
The film follows the protagonist as he learns to get in touch with his roots as a young black man born of Jamaican parents
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Dec 14, 2020
Steven Soderbergh remains playfully unorthodox in his latest entertainment
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Dec 11, 2020
A story of an immigrant starting a new life with his wife and daughter in America becomes an intimate, indelible three-way character study
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Dec 11, 2020
Filmmaker Lee Isaac Chung's look back at growing up as a Korean-American in 1980s Arkansas is the sort of coming-of-age film that turns the personal in to the universal
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Dec 10, 2020
Rachel Brosnahan is the wife of a thief who's forced to go on the run with her child in this intriguing spin on pulp crime dramas
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Dec 09, 2020
An all-star adaptation of a beloved Broadway musical about intolerant red-staters vs. self-involved theater divas hits all of the wrong notes
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Dec 05, 2020
The third film in his pentalogy stars John Boyega as a representation of frustrated, upstanding, rational black masculinity
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Dec 04, 2020
Frances McDormand is a 21st century migrant wandering from job to job among fellow real-life travelers in Chloé Zhao's extraordinary docu-fiction drama
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Dec 04, 2020
Julian Temple's portrait of the Pogues singer is a rambling, messy, wild, sad and inspirational doc — in other words, a fine tribute to its subject
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Nov 28, 2020
The second chapter of the five-film Small Axe, in which Steve McQueen attempts to excavate glimpses of black British life from the Sixties through the Eighties, is rooted in reggae
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Nov 28, 2020
An exhaustive new documentary on Frank Zappa offers up a portrait of an artist as a walking contradiction
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Nov 25, 2020
George C. Wolfe's screen adaption of the seminal August Wilson play also stars a stunning Chadwick Boseman, in his final film role, as ambitious horn player Levee
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Nov 25, 2020
A what-if look at David Bowie's brief tour of America at a pivotal, pre-Ziggy point in his career is a textbook case of how not to make a rock movie
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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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