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In The Aviary, Malin Akerman and Lorenza Izzo flee a cult leader’s mesmerizing control
By Courtney Howard April 29, 2022 | 4:30pm
Despite a gifted cast, Memory only evokes better films
By Luke Y. Thompson April 27, 2022 | 4:00pm
Hatching turns an odd bird’s shell into a nesting doll of dysfunctionBy Richard Newby April 27, 2022 | 3:33pm
In Firebird , a gay love affair leads to sorrow, tragedy and too much melodrama
By Mark Keizer April 26, 2022 | 9:00pm
Anaïs In Love wins over audiences with its heroine's consummate French charmsBy Jordan Hoffman April 26, 2022 | 8:00pm
The Bad Guys is just good enoughBy Luke Y. Thompson April 21, 2022 | 4:45pm
The Duke delivers a heartwarming take on a strange-but-true heistBy Brent Simon April 20, 2022 | 3:30am
9 Bullets is a misfire, despite taking aim at some easy targetsBy Courtney Howard April 18, 2022 | 10:00pm
The Cellar turns a terrific horror short into a longer—but not better—filmBy Richard Newby April 15, 2022 | 4:00pm
Chariot aspires to Lynchian surrealism, but falls shortBy Luke Y. Thompson April 15, 2022 | 9:00am
Mark Wahlberg gives faith-based filmmaking a (slightly) better name in Father Stu
By Brent Simon April 14, 2022 | 11:00am
Robert Eggers' The Northman offers Shakespearean drama wrapped in Old Norse vengeance
By Tomris Laffly April 12, 2022 | 3:38pm
Nicolas Cage rises to the Unbearable Weight of fan expectations
By Luke Y. Thompson April 12, 2022 | 5:00am
In Jacques Audiard’s Paris, 13th District, sex is easy, but love is hard
By Mark Keizer April 11, 2022 | 11:00am
In All The Old Knives , Chris Pine's spy lacks Jack Ryan's edge
By Luke Y. Thompson April 7, 2022 | 9:45pm
In The Girl And The Spider , characters speak volumes without saying very much
By Mark Keizer April 7, 2022 | 3:00pm
Ambulance is in a stylish hurry to go nowhere in particularBy Todd Gilchrist April 6, 2022 | 11:52pm
In Cow , a farm is a prison and death is the only escape for Andrea Arnold’s bovine protagonist
By Mark Keizer April 5, 2022 | 9:35pm
The Secrets Of Dumbledore buries timely messages under a mountain of mythologyBy Tomris Laffly April 5, 2022 | 2:00pm
Jim Carrey helps Sonic The Hedgehog 2 speed past its predecessor
By Todd Gilchrist April 5, 2022 | 12:03am
Valérie Lemercier’s Aline offers a bad karaoke cover of Celine Dion’s musical legacy
By Courtney Howard April 4, 2022 | 12:30pm
a-ha: The Movie takes on much more than the one song you knowBy Luke Y. Thompson April 4, 2022 | 11:00am
Judd Apatow’s The Bubble traps fictional A-listers—and his audience—in a pandemic-era film production
By Luke Y. Thompson April 1, 2022 | 1:00am
In Morbius , Jared Leto leads a coldblooded supervillain origin story
By Todd Gilchrist March 30, 2022 | 10:55pm
You Won’t Be Alone asks women, which witch are you?By Luke Y. Thompson March 29, 2022 | 9:00pm
With The Contractor, Chris Pine and Ben Foster’s third collaboration misses its mark
By Courtney Howard March 29, 2022 | 1:00pm
In Apollo 10 1/2 , Richard Linklater injects rocket fuel into childhood recollections
By Jordan Hoffman March 25, 2022 | 9:50pm
Naomi Watts’ real-life survival story Infinite Storm can’t handle its own truth
By Brent Simon March 24, 2022 | 9:45pm
In 7 Days , two mismatched singles seek common ground during COVID
By Richard Newby March 23, 2022 | 3:30pm
Sandra Bullock and Channing Tatum take audiences on a fun tour of The Lost City
By Jordan Hoffman March 23, 2022 | 5:00am
Everything Everywhere All At Once delivers exactly what its title promisesBy Jordan Hoffman March 21, 2022 | 11:00am
In Ahed’s Knee , Nadav Lapid sacrifices political discourse for personal reminiscence
By Brent Simon March 18, 2022 | 4:20pm
In Umma , Sandra Oh faces her worst nightmare—becoming her mother
By Martin Tsai March 18, 2022 | 1:15pm
With Deep Water , Adrian Lyne resuscitates the erotic thriller as contemplative, campy fun
By Todd Gilchrist March 16, 2022 | 4:00pm
Charlotte Gainsbourg's Jane By Charlotte turns home movies into a character study
By Todd Gilchrist March 15, 2022 | 6:08pm
Modest gangster thriller The Outfit is perfectly tailored to Oscar winner Mark Rylance
By Mark Keizer March 14, 2022 | 5:00pm
Ti West works more genre-manipulating magic with X
By Todd Gilchrist March 14, 2022 | 8:00am
Time-travel adventure The Adam Project sends the Free Guy team to middlebrow blandness
By Brent Simon March 10, 2022 | 9:35pm
In Gold , Zac Efron tries to polish his serious-actor bona fides
By Jordan Hoffman March 9, 2022 | 10:20pm
Turning Red delivers a timely message as it tackles a timeless topicBy Martin Tsai March 7, 2022 | 2:00pm
“Meat market” takes on disturbing new meaning in the dating-is-hell thriller Fresh
By Katie Rife March 2, 2022 | 1:00pm
Cuts are sharper than expected in the clumsy Palestinian thriller Huda's Salon
By Mike D'Angelo March 1, 2022 | 2:00pm
Colin Farrell explores the grief of the future in the beautiful sci-fi drama After Yang
By Jesse Hassenger March 1, 2022 | 12:00pm
The Batman is a flawed but striking pop-noir blockbusterBy A.A. Dowd February 28, 2022 | 5:00pm
Amy Poehler’s Lucy And Desi is a touching tribute to one of Hollywood’s most influential couples
By Noel Murray February 28, 2022 | 12:00pm
A transatlantic comedy crossover is the only thing fresh about A Madea Homecoming
By Craig D. Lindsey February 25, 2022 | 6:35pm
A real-life mother and daughter bond over blood magic in the occult horror film Hellbender
By Katie Rife February 23, 2022 | 11:00pm
The Cursed is a foggy, sluggish variation on the old-school werewolf movieBy Katie Rife February 18, 2022 | 3:20pm
Netflix massacres Texas Chainsaw with a lousy legacy sequel
By A.A. Dowd February 18, 2022 | 8:00am
Channing Tatum stars with, and directs, a good Dog
By Jesse Hassenger February 17, 2022 | 11:00pm
The future is analog in the charming sci-fi indie Strawberry Mansion
By Katie Rife February 16, 2022 | 9:40pm
Netflix's Downfall digs into what really caused the Boeing plane crashes
By Noel Murray February 15, 2022 | 9:10pm
Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg retrace familiar action-movie routes in Uncharted
By Mike D'Angelo February 15, 2022 | 4:21pm
The Playground is a battlefield in this harrowing drama about grade-school bullying
By A.A. Dowd February 11, 2022 | 9:26pm
Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet goes back to the dystopian future with Bigbug By Carlos Aguilar February 11, 2022 | 8:00am
Netflix’s teen-romance sequel Tall Girl 2 doesn’t have much space to grow
By Jesse Hassenger February 11, 2022 | 2:00am
The Sky Is Everywhere —and so are the clichés in this well-meaning YA tearjerkerBy Leila Latif February 10, 2022 | 5:00pm
Say "maybe" to Jennifer Lopez’s Marry Me
By Caroline Siede February 10, 2022 | 5:00pm
A Native boxer fights for her sister's life in the gritty Catch The Fair One
By Katie Rife February 9, 2022 | 10:33pm
Zoë Kravitz can’t escape big tech’s eyes and ears in Steven Soderbergh’s fun Kimi
By Mike D'Angelo February 9, 2022 | 8:00pm
Liam Neeson's latest action vehicle, Blacklight , is a shoddy pandemic production
By Craig D. Lindsey February 9, 2022 | 6:55pm
Charlie Day and Jenny Slate try to win back their exes in the rote rom-com I Want You Back
By Vikram Murthi February 9, 2022 | 5:00pm
A Night Of Knowing Nothing takes a sensuous look at student protests in IndiaBy Lawrence Garcia February 8, 2022 | 10:28pm
Death On The Nile takes a criminally long time getting to the crimeBy A.A. Dowd February 7, 2022 | 2:00pm
The Worst Person In The World is an exciting drama about how damn confusing your 30s areBy A.A. Dowd February 3, 2022 | 10:20pm
Moonfall is a moonfailBy Mike D'Angelo February 3, 2022 | 6:00pm
Older thankfully doesn’t mean wiser in the legacy sequel Jackass Forever
By Matt Schimkowitz February 2, 2022 | 5:00pm
The new direct-to-streaming Ice Age sequel is a generic chunk of content
By Jesse Hassenger January 28, 2022 | 8:00am
The Fallout is a surprisingly restrained drama about the aftermath of a school shootingBy Charles Bramesco January 26, 2022 | 9:00pm
Tim Roth ghosts his family for the beach life in the bleak, blank Sundown
By Leila Latif January 26, 2022 | 4:30pm
Adrien Brody takes out the trash in the visually elegant, verbally clunky Clean
By Jason Shawhan January 26, 2022 | 4:00pm
Futura offers a vivid COVID-era portrait of Italy’s youthBy Lawrence Garcia January 26, 2022 | 3:30pm
Finnish prizewinner Compartment No. 6 proves that rom-com formula works perfectly well with subtitles
By Mike D'Angelo January 25, 2022 | 8:45pm
Three-part Netflix doc jeen-yuhs offers an incomplete telling of the Kanye West story
By A.A. Dowd January 24, 2022 | 4:10am
Eight years after it was shot, dopey fantasy The King’s Daughter flops into theaters
By Charles Bramesco January 20, 2022 | 11:00pm
Seduction is conversion in the frictionless faith-based romance Redeeming Love
By A.A. Dowd January 18, 2022 | 7:30pm
Shot two years ago, The Pink Cloud is an eerie sci-fi premonition of pandemic life
By Katie Rife January 13, 2022 | 4:30pm
A new generation takes a stab at Scream in the first sequel without Wes Craven
By Katie Rife January 12, 2022 | 8:00am
Vanessa Kirby loses herself on the streets of New York in the dreamy Italian Studies
By Jesse Hassenger January 11, 2022 | 12:00pm
In the dazzling animated film Belle , a troubled teen becomes an internet sensation
By Noel Murray January 11, 2022 | 6:00am
Hotel Transylvania loses Adam Sandler, but retains its animated energy in Transformania By Jesse Hassenger January 10, 2022 | 5:00pm
Home-invasion thriller See For Me is a waste of a good gimmick
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 7, 2022 | 5:51pm
The 355 is the girlboss thriller the world really doesn't need right nowBy Katie Rife January 6, 2022 | 5:00pm
The Super Bob Einstein Movie is everything he’d want it to beBy 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 movieBy Katie Rife December 17, 2021 | 2:00pm
Sing 2 is sufferable only in comparison to the last tuneless round of cartoon karaokeBy Charles Bramesco December 16, 2021 | 6:00pm
The Novice is basically Black Swan for the college rowing crowdBy Craig D. Lindsey December 16, 2021 | 12:30pm
Swan Song wastes Mahershala Ali and a promising Eternal Sunshine -like sci-fi premiseBy 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 momBy 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 starBy 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 rebootBy 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
