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James Wan returns to the funhouse with the nutty, gnarly
Malignant
By A.A. Dowd
September 11, 2021 | 1:15am
The aspiring drag queen of
Everybody's Talking About Jamie
is an accidental throwback
By Jesse Hassenger
September 9, 2021 | 6:56pm
Language Lessons
is charming—especially for a movie shot on Zoom
By Katie Rife
September 9, 2021 | 2:20pm
The Card Counter
deals Oscar Isaac a losing hand
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
September 8, 2021 | 7:40pm
Kristen Bell and Kirby Howell-Baptiste turn to a life of coupon crimes in the mildly amusing
Queenpins
By Jesse Hassenger
September 8, 2021 | 2:00pm
Mountain-climbing doc
The Alpinist
is stunning—when the subject lets the directors shoot
By Mike D'Angelo
September 7, 2021 | 9:05pm
Another elite assassin, another rampage—haven’t we seen Netflix’s
Kate
before?
By Charles Bramesco
September 3, 2021 | 5:25pm
Yakuza Princess
is pretty dull for a movie called
Yakuza Princess
By Katie Rife
September 2, 2021 | 7:50pm
Buried within COVID anthology
The Year Of The Everlasting Storm
is the best film of 2021
By Mike D'Angelo
September 2, 2021 | 7:15pm
Camila Cabello leads a
Cinderella
for the
Mamma Mia!
crowd
By Caroline Siede
September 1, 2021 | 4:00pm
Riz Ahmed is a rapper battling illness in the surreal, slight
Mogul Mowgli
By Vikram Murthi
September 1, 2021 | 3:30pm
On the cusp of the anniversary, Netflix’s
Worth
finds little to say about September 11th
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
August 31, 2021 | 8:00pm
Anne At 13,000 Feet
is a harrowing, mysterious portrait of mental illness
By Mike D'Angelo
August 31, 2021 | 6:30pm
TikToker Addison Rae promotes some brands in Netflix’s atrocious remake
He’s All That
By Caroline Siede
August 27, 2021 | 7:00am
A new
Candyman
reconsiders the bogeyman
By Anya Stanley
August 25, 2021 | 4:00pm
No Man Of God
inserts Ted Bundy into a
Silence Of The Lambs
scenario
By Mike D'Angelo
August 24, 2021 | 6:00pm
James McAvoy and Sharon Horgan are stuck
Together
in another damn COVID movie
By Jesse Hassenger
August 24, 2021 | 5:35pm
Eastern action meets Western superhero formula in Marvel's
Shang-Chi And The Legend Of The Ten Rings
By Katie Rife
August 23, 2021 | 4:00pm
It's Jason Momoa versus Big Pharma in Netflix's dopey
Sweet Girl
By Craig D. Lindsey
August 20, 2021 | 7:00am
Maggie Q, Michael Keaton, and slick direction elevate the assassin boilerplate of
The Protégé
By Jesse Hassenger
August 19, 2021 | 11:00pm
The trippy
Cryptozoo
cages fantastic beasts inside a boring story
By Noel Murray
August 19, 2021 | 1:00pm
Rebecca Hall’s new horror movie,
The Night House
, puts the metaphor before the scares
By Katie Rife
August 18, 2021 | 5:30pm
Hugh Jackman is a gumshoe of lost memories in the sci-fi noir
Reminiscence
By A.A. Dowd
August 18, 2021 | 5:00pm
Sean Penn squares off against his daughter in dysfunctional family/crime drama
Flag Day
By Mike D'Angelo
August 17, 2021 | 6:36pm
Literal snoozefest
Demonic
is no comeback for
District 9
director Neill Blomkamp
By Charles Bramesco
August 16, 2021 | 8:45pm
Days
is a moving culmination for one of cinema’s greatest director-star pairings
By A.A. Dowd
August 12, 2021 | 5:00pm
Don’t Breathe 2
goes full
T2
, turning a memorable monster into some kind of hero
By Jesse Hassenger
August 12, 2021 | 5:00pm
Ema
is a decadent drama of sex, fire, and dance from the director of
Jackie
By Katie Rife
August 11, 2021 | 10:00pm
Pucker up for the lackluster finale to Netflix's
Kissing Booth
By Caroline Siede
August 10, 2021 | 11:00pm
Respect
makes an unintentional
Walk Hard
from Aretha Franklin’s extraordinary story
By Vikram Murthi
August 10, 2021 | 8:30pm
This year's big Sundance winner,
CODA
, is moving in spite of its clichés
By Noel Murray
August 10, 2021 | 7:12pm
Hulu's
Homeroom
is a fascinating snapshot of teen advocacy on the cusp of a pandemic
By Carlos Aguilar
August 9, 2021 | 7:07pm
The interminable
PAW Patrol
movie will make parents howl for release
By Jesse Hassenger
August 9, 2021 | 6:06pm
The Ryan Reynolds action-comedy
Free Guy
is a
Truman Show
for the
Fortnite
age
By A.A. Dowd
August 5, 2021 | 4:20pm
A disturbed kid engineers his own
Home Alone
in the eerie allegory
John And The Hole
By A.A. Dowd
August 4, 2021 | 10:02pm
Udo Kier takes his Jazzy on one last joyride in the touching
Swan Song
By Katie Rife
August 4, 2021 | 9:03pm
John David Washington gets his own
The Fugitive
in the forgettable Netflix thriller
Beckett
By Roxana Hadadi
August 4, 2021 | 8:00pm
Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard belt their way through
Annette
, the weirdest
Star Is Born
riff ever
By Mike D'Angelo
August 3, 2021 | 4:18pm
Jean-Claude Van Damme dons many amusing wigs in the otherwise forgettable
The Last Mercenary
By Charles Bramesco
July 30, 2021 | 7:00am
Matt Damon fights for his daughter in
Stillwater
, an unusual drama from the director of
Spotlight
By Jesse Hassenger
July 28, 2021 | 6:36pm
The Suicide Squad
is vulgar, immature, and gratuitous—and that's what's great about it
By Katie Rife
July 28, 2021 | 6:00pm
Sabaya
offers a firsthand account of a dangerous search and rescue operation
By Carlos Aguilar
July 28, 2021 | 5:00pm
The “before life” drama
Nine Days
is a bold vision of the great beyond
By Noel Murray
July 27, 2021 | 7:20pm
Nothing is necessarily what it seems in the sneaky whistleblower doc
Enemies Of The State
By Mike D'Angelo
July 27, 2021 | 4:15pm
The Rock and Emily Blunt can't steer Disney's
Jungle Cruise
towards bigger thrills
By Jesse Hassenger
July 27, 2021 | 4:00pm
Dev Patel and David Lowery give Arthurian legend a new tint of A24 dread in
The Green Knight
By A.A. Dowd
July 26, 2021 | 4:00pm
Shailene Woodley in amazing hats is about all
The Last Letter From Your Lover
has going for it
By Leila Latif
July 22, 2021 | 11:00pm
The directors of
Inside
put their spin on
Candyman
in the folkloric slasher
Kandisha
By Katie Rife
July 22, 2021 | 6:30pm
What a drag it is getting
Old
in M. Night Shyamalan’s spooky new thriller
By A.A. Dowd
July 22, 2021 | 4:00pm
Henry Golding plays
Snake Eyes
in a slick G.I. Joe origin story
By Jesse Hassenger
July 22, 2021 | 7:00am
Mark Wahlberg isn’t up to the emotional legwork of the anti-bullying drama
Joe Bell
By A.A. Dowd
July 21, 2021 | 7:00pm
You’ll be rooting for the comet in the indulgent apocalyptic comedy
How It Ends
By Katie Rife
July 21, 2021 | 5:00pm
Val
tells the life story of Val Kilmer, in the words and through the camera lens of Val Kilmer
By Vikram Murthi
July 21, 2021 | 4:00pm
Be amused, be very amused by the
dog-sized housefly of
Mandibles
By Mike D'Angelo
July 20, 2021 | 4:55pm
Fear Street: 1666
isn’t a great movie, but it is a satisfying conclusion to the Netflix saga
By A.A. Dowd
July 16, 2021 | 7:00am
Her Socialist Smile
is a daring look at Helen Keller’s life and activism
By Lawrence Garcia
July 15, 2021 | 11:00am
Roadrunner
both dispels and reinforces the myth of Anthony Bourdain
By Katie Rife
July 14, 2021 | 8:28pm
Space Jam: A New Legacy
is one big, witless commercial for Warner Bros. properties
By A.A. Dowd
July 14, 2021 | 7:00pm
Tournament Of Champions
fails to take
Escape Room
to the next level
By Jesse Hassenger
July 14, 2021 | 2:00pm
Can You Bring It
takes a fascinating look at a landmark dance piece of the AIDS era
By Beatrice Loayza
July 13, 2021 | 7:20pm
Pig
is so much richer and stranger than the Nicolas Cage revenge thriller it appears to be
By Mike D'Angelo
July 13, 2021 | 4:10pm
Gunpowder Milkshake
is a better Jackie Chan homage than a
John Wick
riff
By Caroline Siede
July 13, 2021 | 7:01am
Cynics need not apply to the sunny spoken-word celebration of
Summertime
By Katie Rife
July 8, 2021 | 5:00pm
Fear Street
goes back to 1978 for a gory but plodding
Friday The 13th
riff
By A.A. Dowd
July 7, 2021 | 4:00pm
The Woman Who Ran
glows with glimmers of a summertime masterpiece
By Lawrence Garcia
July 6, 2021 | 10:30pm
Chris Pratt joins
The Tomorrow War
, a battle royale between dozens of other sci-fi movies
By Jesse Hassenger
July 1, 2021 | 7:00pm
Let’s pray that
The Forever Purge
is the last Purge
By Anya Stanley
June 30, 2021 | 7:55pm
Meet the new
Boss Baby,
pretty much the same as the old
Boss Baby
By Katie Rife
June 30, 2021 | 6:30pm
Netflix’s first
Fear Street
movie wants you to scream like it’s 1994
By A.A. Dowd
June 30, 2021 | 4:45pm
On and off stage, Questlove’s
Summer Of Soul
is an invigorating and inspiring concert film
By Katie Rife
June 30, 2021 | 3:00pm
America: The Motion Picture
is a political comedy without political ideas—or good jokes
By William Hughes
June 30, 2021 | 7:01am
Black Widow
is a fun dysfunctional family sitcom, until it goes full Marvel
By A.A. Dowd
June 29, 2021 | 4:00pm
Desperation pays darkly comic dividends in Steven Soderbergh’s
No Sudden Move
By Mike D'Angelo
June 29, 2021 | 2:03pm
With
Zola
, an epic Twitter thread becomes a stylish A24 road-trip caper
By Shannon Miller
June 28, 2021 | 6:07pm
I Carry You With Me
elevates everyday love—and loneliness—to mythic proportions
By Katie Rife
June 25, 2021 | 3:08pm
It’s Liam Neeson vs. surface tension in Netflix’s passable thriller
The Ice Road
By Mike D'Angelo
June 25, 2021 | 7:00am
Werewolves
Within
puts a goofy, lycanthropic spin on the whodunit
By A.A. Dowd
June 23, 2021 | 9:00pm
With
Good On Paper,
Netflix tries to subvert its own rom-com brand
By Caroline Siede
June 22, 2021 | 11:00pm
In
Sun Children
, a legendary director shines a light on the exploited youth of Iran
By Roxana Hadadi
June 22, 2021 | 4:15pm
Ilana Glazer gives birth to a nightmare in the pregnancy horror movie
False Positive
By Katie Rife
June 18, 2021 | 1:30am
A new documentary on Rita Moreno
offers few fresh insights on the Puerto Rican legend’s story
By Tatiana Tenreyro
June 17, 2021 | 8:50pm
Bring your own mushrooms to the fungus-monster eco thriller
Gaia
By A.A. Dowd
June 17, 2021 | 2:20pm
Summer Of 85
is France's insubstantial answer to
Call Me By Your Name
By Lawrence Garcia
June 16, 2021 | 8:00pm
Kevin Hart masters
Fatherhood
in a Netflix dramedy more maudlin than funny
By Jesse Hassenger
June 16, 2021 | 4:00pm
The
Little Mermaid
riff
Luca
splashes around in the shallow end of the Pixar pool
By A.A. Dowd
June 16, 2021 | 4:00pm
12 Mighty Orphans
pulls at least a dozen clichés from the underdog sports movie playbook
By Mike D'Angelo
June 15, 2021 | 9:05pm
Edgar Wright crafts a loving if overlong tribute to the enigmatic pop group Sparks
By Vikram Murthi
June 15, 2021 | 7:00pm
Censor
goes back to the cult ’80s, and makes horror feel dangerous again
By Jason Shawhan
June 11, 2021 | 3:00pm
Holler
sings a familiar tune about a forgotten town
By Katie Rife
June 10, 2021 | 5:00pm
Peter Rabbit 2
pokes fun at its own flaws, when it should have just avoided them
By Jesse Hassenger
June 10, 2021 | 3:00pm
Mark Wahlberg has
Infinite
lives in a blockbuster without enough soul
By A.A. Dowd
June 10, 2021 | 7:00am
Tragic Jungle
’s plunge into the heart of darkness lacks the wildness of Herzog
By Lawrence Garcia
June 9, 2021 | 7:00pm
Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard
is so atrocious, it makes the original look like a classic
By A.A. Dowd
June 9, 2021 | 5:40pm
Netflix’s
Wish Dragon
transports the
Aladdin
story to 21st-century China
By Caroline Siede
June 9, 2021 | 1:00pm
Gina Rodriguez battles endless insomnia in the Netflix sci-fi snoozer
Awake
By Mike D'Angelo
June 8, 2021 | 11:00pm
Pierce Brosnan leads a bunch of supposed
Misfits
through a daring, silly heist
By Jesse Hassenger
June 8, 2021 | 8:35pm
The “lost” George Romero movie
The Amusement Park
is a surreal plunge into the horror of getting old
By A.A. Dowd
June 8, 2021 | 7:00pm
War breaks out between two high concepts in Christian Petzold’s
Undine
By Mike D'Angelo
June 2, 2021 | 3:00pm
Slow Machine
is a paranoid thriller with a distinct lo-fi vibe
By Vikram Murthi
June 2, 2021 | 1:00pm
Sundance award winner
All Light, Everywhere
illuminates the surveillance state
By Lawrence Garcia
June 1, 2021 | 5:30pm
Spirit Untamed
might confuse fans of those other cartoons about a horse named Spirit
By Jesse Hassenger
June 1, 2021 | 4:00pm
The Devil Made Me Do It
brings the
Conjuring
trilogy to a dispiriting close
By A.A. Dowd
June 1, 2021 | 4:00pm
The great director Jia Zhangke profiles literary heroes in
Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
May 26, 2021 | 9:45pm
Cruella
is stylish and chaotic, just like its future Disney villain
By Katie Rife
May 26, 2021 | 1:00pm
Plan B
is a winning addition to the raunchy teen girl comedy canon
By Caroline Siede
May 25, 2021 | 7:30pm
F9
has too much family-drama runway between the fast and furious stuff
By Jesse Hassenger
May 25, 2021 | 4:00pm
In The Heights
joyfully brings
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first hit musical to the screen
By Danette Chavez
May 21, 2021 | 3:00pm
The feel-good
Dream Horse
is a true story we’ve heard before
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
May 19, 2021 | 7:00pm
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