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The 355
is the girlboss thriller the world really doesn't need right now
By Katie Rife
January 6, 2022 | 5:00pm
The Super Bob Einstein Movie
is everything he’d want it to be
By Michael Walsh
December 28, 2021 | 4:00pm
Sundance drama
Jockey
doesn’t race beyond sports-movie formula
By Lawrence Garcia
December 27, 2021 | 2:00pm
A Coen brother goes solo, with help from Denzel and Shakespeare, in a striking
Macbeth
By Jesse Hassenger
December 22, 2021 | 6:00pm
Penelope Cruz reunites with Pedro Almodóvar for the outstanding melodrama
Parallel Mothers
By Leila Latif
December 21, 2021 | 9:27pm
Keanu goes back through the looking glass in the legacy sequel
The Matrix Resurrections
By Katie Rife
December 21, 2021 | 4:00pm
Tilda Swinton hears a strange sound in the magnificently mysterious
Memoria
By Mike D'Angelo
December 20, 2021 | 5:30pm
Denzel Washington directs Michael B. Jordan in the cloying melodrama
A Journal For Jordan
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 20, 2021 | 1:30pm
American Underdog
is inoffensive, which is about the best you could ask of a Christian football movie
By Katie Rife
December 17, 2021 | 2:00pm
Sing 2
is sufferable only in comparison to the last tuneless round of cartoon karaoke
By Charles Bramesco
December 16, 2021 | 6:00pm
The Novice
is basically
Black Swan
for the college rowing crowd
By Craig D. Lindsey
December 16, 2021 | 12:30pm
Swan Song
wastes Mahershala Ali and a promising
Eternal Sunshine
-like sci-fi premise
By Vikram Murthi
December 15, 2021 | 10:40pm
Ben Affleck is the only thing remotely intoxicating about George Clooney’s
The
Tender Bar
By Jesse Hassenger
December 15, 2021 | 10:00pm
The Lost Daughter
is a haunting, astute drama about how much it sucks to be a mom
By Noel Murray
December 15, 2021 | 9:45pm
Peter Dinklage and his perfectly ordinary nose make for a solid
Cyrano
By Mike D'Angelo
December 14, 2021 | 8:45pm
Tedious prequel
The King’s Man
lacks the violent fun of its spy-movie predecessors
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 14, 2021 | 5:00pm
Spider-Man takes on a cross-franchise rogues gallery in the greatest-hits sequel
No Way Home
By A.A. Dowd
December 14, 2021 | 11:05am
For a movie that turns giant monsters into pro wrestlers,
Rumble
isn’t much fun
By Jesse Hassenger
December 13, 2021 | 9:00pm
Red Rocket
scores huge, tricky laughs from the foibles of a parasitic porn star
By A.A. Dowd
December 9, 2021 | 10:10pm
Sports dramas don't come much duller than
National Champions
By Noel Murray
December 8, 2021 | 2:00pm
Léa Seydoux has an existential crisis in the inscrutable
France
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 8, 2021 | 12:00pm
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire
Don’t Look Up
By Jesse Hassenger
December 8, 2021 | 12:00am
Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem can’t act around the Sorkinisms of
Being The Ricardos
By Jesse Hassenger
December 7, 2021 | 5:00pm
Believe it or not, the sideshow is the least compelling part of Guillermo del Toro’s
Nightmare Alley
By Katie Rife
December 3, 2021 | 2:30pm
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid
moves over to Disney+ for a brief, cheap-looking animated reboot
By Jesse Hassenger
December 3, 2021 | 8:00am
Steven Spielberg chases his musical dreams with a gorgeously faithful
West Side Story
By A.A. Dowd
December 2, 2021 | 9:00pm
Lesbian nun drama
Benedetta
is both profane
and
sublime—no wonder some Catholics hate it
By Katie Rife
December 2, 2021 | 5:00pm
Jeffrey Epstein looms over the gleefully offensive horror movie
The Scary Of Sixty-First
By Anya Stanley
December 1, 2021 | 6:40pm
With
The Hand Of God
, the director of
The Great Beauty
warmly revisits his childhood
By Leila Latif
December 1, 2021 | 4:50pm
The animated
Flee
paints a refugee’s story in vivid colors
By Noel Murray
December 1, 2021 | 1:00pm
Keira Knightley hosts a final Christmas in the hateful lump of holiday coal
Silent Night
By Jason Shawhan
November 30, 2021 | 8:01pm
Identifying as an animal takes on extra baggage in the thin, iffy parable
Wolf
By Mike D'Angelo
November 30, 2021 | 7:15pm
Riz Ahmed has bugs on the brain in the disappointing genre mishmash
Encounter
By Roxana Hadadi
November 30, 2021 | 3:00pm
Halle Berry lands some big dramatic punches in her directorial debut,
Bruised
By Jason Shawhan
November 24, 2021 | 3:00pm
Sandra Bullock shows off her tediously stoic side in Netflix’s
The Unforgivable
By Mike D'Angelo
November 24, 2021 | 2:00pm
This Thanksgiving, gorge yourself on the feel-bad family drama of
The Humans
By A.A. Dowd
November 23, 2021 | 11:00pm
Welcome To Raccoon City
lacks the stupid majesty of the previous
Resident Evils
By Charles Bramesco
November 23, 2021 | 2:00am
House Of Gucci
never reaches camp nirvana, even with Lady Gaga on its runway
By Katie Rife
November 22, 2021 | 11:00pm
Cannes winner
Drive My Car
is a hypnotic, beguiling portrait of life after loss
By Vikram Murthi
November 22, 2021 | 10:10pm
The COVID-era satire
Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn
is as loopy as its title
By Katie Rife
November 18, 2021 | 10:30pm
Paul Thomas Anderson returns to the Valley with the funny, shaggy, scattershot
Licorice Pizza
By A.A. Dowd
November 18, 2021 | 2:45pm
The Power Of The Dog
drops Benedict Cumberbatch into a haunting, troubling Western
By Katie Rife
November 17, 2021 | 11:15pm
Ethan Hawke tackles a dual role in the cryptic pandemic mood piece
Zeros And Ones
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
November 17, 2021 | 1:00pm
Joaquin Phoenix is unusually grounded in the family drama
C’mon C’mon
By Mike D'Angelo
November 16, 2021 | 10:00pm
Will Smith knows best as the father of Venus and Serena in
King Richard
By Jesse Hassenger
November 16, 2021 | 8:55pm
Encanto
upends Disney tradition with an adventure that never leaves home
By Caroline Siede
November 15, 2021 | 2:00pm
Andrew Garfield shines as the creator of
Rent
in the Netflix musical
Tick, Tick… Boom!
By Caroline Siede
November 12, 2021 | 5:30pm
Asghar Farhadi tackles the milkshake duck phenomenon in his thrillingly complex
A Hero
By A.A. Dowd
November 11, 2021 | 7:17pm
Home Sweet Home Alone
makes a persuasive argument for taxing the rich
By Katie Rife
November 11, 2021 | 2:00pm
Sexual abuse survivors direct their own stories in the poignant
Procession
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
November 10, 2021 | 8:45pm
Kenneth Branagh revisits the troubles (and Troubles) of his youth in the oddly remote
Belfast
By A.A. Dowd
November 10, 2021 | 6:30pm
Cusp
throws a Friday night flashlight on the lives of three Texas teens
By Roxana Hadadi
November 10, 2021 | 2:25pm
Mayor Pete
can’t find the warmth beneath the wonk of the former presidential candidate
By Mike D'Angelo
November 9, 2021 | 7:45pm
Clifford The Big Red Dog
gets smaller on his trip to the silver screen
By Jesse Hassenger
November 7, 2021 | 5:00pm
No yes man, stuffed suit, or petty tyrant is safe in the Hollywood satire
The Beta Test
By Katie Rife
November 4, 2021 | 1:15pm
The Rock, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot steal only a few laughs in Netflix’s
Red Notice
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
November 4, 2021 | 6:00am
The psychodramatic
Spencer
miscasts Kristen Stewart as a frazzled Princess Diana
By A.A. Dowd
November 4, 2021 | 1:00am
Tom Hanks makes the post-apocalypse cuddly in
Finch
By Mike D'Angelo
November 3, 2021 | 4:00pm
Sundance winner
Hive
tells a true story of hope in a hopeless place
By Roxana Hadadi
November 3, 2021 | 2:30pm
Antlers
drowns a good monster movie in dour metaphor
By A.A. Dowd
October 29, 2021 | 5:00pm
There are no new scares in
Paranormal Activity
’s trip to Amish country
By Anya Stanley
October 29, 2021 | 7:00am
Edgar Wright tries his hand at throwback thrills in the flawed, stylish
Last Night In Soho
By Katie Rife
October 28, 2021 | 2:10pm
The Souvenir: Part II
is the rare sequel to improve on its terrific predecessor
By Vadim Rizov
October 27, 2021 | 12:00pm
Eternals
turns the adventures of ageless space gods into just another Marvel movie
By A.A. Dowd
October 26, 2021 | 6:08pm
Why the hell did Netflix green light a zombie-light prequel to
Army Of The Dead
?
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
October 26, 2021 | 2:00pm
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga grapple with race and perception in the melodramatic
Passing
By Craig D. Lindsey
October 25, 2021 | 9:00pm
The intense
Attica
looks back at America’s most infamous prison riot
By Noel Murray
October 25, 2021 | 4:00pm
With
The French Dispatch
, Wes Anderson pens a dizzying, poignant love letter to
The New Yorker
By A.A. Dowd
October 21, 2021 | 6:00pm
Irreverent revenge Western
The Harder They Fall
falls flat
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
October 20, 2021 | 9:30pm
A Cop Movie
blurs the thin blue line between reality and police-thriller fiction
By Vikram Murthi
October 20, 2021 | 5:00pm
Becoming Cousteau
is a deep dive into the French icon’s life aquatic
By Noel Murray
October 19, 2021 | 8:35pm
Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy do their best to electrify a drab biopic
By Mike D'Angelo
October 19, 2021 | 6:45pm
A wry Megan Fox cameo is just one pleasure in the Netflix vampire movie
Night Teeth
By Jason Shawhan
October 19, 2021 | 6:05pm
After We Fell
is dreadful teen-franchise filler
By Caroline Siede
October 18, 2021 | 8:15pm
The massive
Dune
looks to the future and finds a classic Hollywood epic there
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
October 18, 2021 | 5:00am
Halloween Kills
can’t help but shoot (and stab and bludgeon) itself in the foot
By Katie Rife
October 13, 2021 | 9:00pm
Bergman Island
pays tribute to a master director without getting lost in his shadow
By Roxana Hadadi
October 13, 2021 | 2:25pm
Ridley Scott offers his own
Rashomon
with the star-studded period piece
The Last Duel
By A.A. Dowd
October 12, 2021 | 9:48pm
Todd Haynes captures the spirit of
The Velvet Underground
in an exhilarating new rock doc
By Vikram Murthi
October 12, 2021 | 6:00pm
Wheel Of Fortune And Fantasy
tells three beguiling tales of chance and romance
By Lawrence Garcia
October 12, 2021 | 3:25pm
Ghostbusters: Afterlife
is a dispiriting nostalgia exercise
By Jesse Hassenger
October 9, 2021 | 7:00pm
The future of friendship is glitchy and goofy in the mixed-up
Ron’s Gone Wrong
By Charles Bramesco
October 9, 2021 | 3:30pm
Welcome To The Blumhouse
brings
another
uneven quartet of horrors to Amazon
By Katie Rife
October 8, 2021 | 2:30pm
Between
Ted Lasso
seasons, Jason Sudeikis made the Coen-style thriller
South Of Heaven
By Craig D. Lindsey
October 7, 2021 | 4:25pm
Justin Bieber’s new concert film won’t change anyone’s mind about him
By Alex McLevy
October 6, 2021 | 7:00pm
The aftermath of a school shooting hangs over the stagey but well-acted
Mass
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
October 5, 2021 | 7:05pm
There's nothing to get excited about in the Netflix slasher
There's Someone Inside Your House
By Mike D'Angelo
October 5, 2021 | 3:12pm
The
V/H/S
series returns to the ’90s and to form with a gory new anthology
By A.A. Dowd
October 5, 2021 | 2:30pm
Lamb
is as much a strange domestic drama as an A24 horror movie
By Jesse Hassenger
October 4, 2021 | 5:49pm
The dire animated
Addams Family 2
could use more kooky and spooky
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
October 1, 2021 | 1:00pm
Venom returns in the faster, funnier, still underwhelming
Let There Be Carnage
By Jesse Hassenger
September 30, 2021 | 1:00pm
Horniness for cars is just one outrageous aspect of this year’s Cannes winner,
Titane
By Katie Rife
September 30, 2021 | 12:30pm
No Time To Die
is a sentimental, unsatisfying end to the Daniel Craig era of James Bond
By A.A. Dowd
September 29, 2021 | 4:59am
Dear Evan Hansen
is a misfire on just about every level
By Caroline Siede
September 22, 2021 | 8:54pm
Sex, drugs, and ballet don’t add up to much in
Birds Of Paradise
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
September 21, 2021 | 7:45pm
The Many Saints Of Newark
whacks all the humor, dimension, and weirdness out of
The Sopranos
By A.A. Dowd
September 21, 2021 | 3:48pm
The Mad Women's Ball
brings a dark chapter in medical history to lavish life
By Katie Rife
September 17, 2021 | 7:10pm
Dan Stevens as a dashing robot lover? That computes
By A.A. Dowd
September 17, 2021 | 2:25am
You’ll want to fly far, far away from the Melissa McCarthy dramedy
The Starling
By Katie Rife
September 16, 2021 | 2:05pm
Blue Bayou
buries a real-life nightmare under a lot of maudlin Hollywood phoniness
By Vikram Murthi
September 15, 2021 | 8:00pm
Clint Eastwood returns to cowboy country in
Cry Macho
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
September 15, 2021 | 3:45pm
The director of
Pulse
tries his hand at Hitchcockian melodrama with
Wife Of A Spy
By Noel Murray
September 15, 2021 | 2:15pm
Carrie Brownstein and St. Vincent make
The Nowhere Inn
a fun place to visit, but probably just once
By Alex McLevy
September 15, 2021 | 1:00pm
Gerard Butler has the time of his life in the crafty shoot-’em-up
Copshop
By Charles Bramesco
September 14, 2021 | 8:55pm
Nicolas Cage isn't nuts enough in the fitfully demented
Prisoners Of the Ghostland
By Mike D'Angelo
September 14, 2021 | 8:24pm
Call-center thriller
The Guilty
gives Jake Gyllenhaal a volatile one-man show
By A.A. Dowd
September 13, 2021 | 8:30pm
Jessica Chastain gives a pop-culture punching bag her redemption with
The Eyes Of Tammy Faye
By Katie Rife
September 13, 2021 | 3:15am
James Wan returns to the funhouse with the nutty, gnarly
Malignant
By A.A. Dowd
September 11, 2021 | 1:15am
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