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A confounding, oddly titled Oscar hopeful shrugs off its own intriguing mystery
By Mike D'Angelo
January 19, 2021 | 9:25pm
Notturno
offers
a striking look at the scars, but not the horrors, of life in a war zone
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
January 19, 2021 | 8:40pm
Some Kind Of Heaven
finds darkness beneath the sunny surface of a retirement community
By A.A. Dowd
January 14, 2021 | 8:25pm
The star-powered COVID drama
Locked Down
is nearly as annoying as, well, lockdown
By A.A. Dowd
January 13, 2021 | 8:00pm
Carey Mulligan and Ralph Fiennes delve for meaning in the sallow period drama
The Dig
By Katie Rife
January 13, 2021 | 3:00pm
Netflix’s
Outside The Wire
is
Training Day
meets
The Terminator,
but much less fun than either
By Mike D'Angelo
January 13, 2021 | 8:00am
The incisive
MLK/FBI
revisits the shameful surveillance campaign against Martin Luther King Jr.
By Carlos Aguilar
January 12, 2021 | 8:00pm
The White Tiger
plays like Netflix prestige CliffsNotes of an acclaimed bestseller
By Jesse Hassenger
January 12, 2021 | 5:25pm
Liam Neeson moseys into Clint Eastwood territory with
The Marksman
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
January 12, 2021 | 2:00pm
One Night In Miami...
pulses with the beating hearts of four legends
By Shannon Miller
January 6, 2021 | 9:00pm
The Reason I Jump
is a deeply empathetic autism documentary with an experimental touch
By Beatrice Loayza
January 6, 2021 | 12:00pm
The Dissident
brings a layered approach to the story of slain journalist Jamal Khashoggi
By Noel Murray
January 5, 2021 | 7:00pm
Robert Rodriguez goes back to the kids’ table with the sweet but chintzy
We Can Be Heroes
By Jesse Hassenger
December 25, 2020 | 8:00am
The moving Irish family drama
Herself
puts hardship and hope on equal footing
By Anya Stanley
December 21, 2020 | 6:20pm
Vanessa Kirby simmers with grief in the loud but hollow
Pieces Of A Woman
By Beatrice Loayza
December 21, 2020 | 4:00pm
There’s not enough action (or Wonder Woman!) in
Wonder Woman 1984
By Katie Rife
December 21, 2020 | 6:00am
Tessa Thompson shines in the old-school Hollywood romance
Sylvie’s Love
By Vikram Murthi
December 18, 2020 | 4:00pm
Anthony Hopkins delivers the most heartbreaking performance of his career in
The Father
By A.A. Dowd
December 18, 2020 | 3:09pm
Michael Ealy has a fatal attraction to Hilary Swank in the entertainingly dumb noir
Fatale
By Jesse Hassenger
December 18, 2020 | 2:00pm
Armageddon is free family therapy in the Gerard Butler disaster movie
Greenland
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 17, 2020 | 11:00pm
The grim and grisly
Hunter Hunter
earns its unforgettable ending
By Randall Colburn
December 17, 2020 | 4:15pm
Paul W.S. Anderson brings more video game mayhem to the big screen with
Monster Hunter
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 16, 2020 | 2:00pm
Promising Young Woman
is eye candy with a razor blade inside
By Katie Rife
December 14, 2020 | 8:30pm
Tom Hanks is the conscience of a divided nation in the old-school Western
News Of The World
By A.A. Dowd
December 11, 2020 | 10:30pm
The first movie inspired by the pandemic is here, and it sucks
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 10, 2020 | 9:00pm
2020 gets its
Serenity
with the epic “WTF?” of
Wild Mountain Thyme
By Katie Rife
December 9, 2020 | 9:00pm
Farm life is beautiful and brutal in
Gunda
, a wordless documentary
Babe
By A.A. Dowd
December 9, 2020 | 4:05pm
George Clooney returns with the strangely moving sci-fi melodrama
The Midnight Sky
By Jesse Hassenger
December 9, 2020 | 2:00pm
Narrative coincidences distract from
Farewell Amor
’s thoughtful immigration story
By Roxana Hadadi
December 8, 2020 | 9:00pm
Meryl Streep improvises on the ocean in Steven Soderbergh’s playful
Let Them All Talk
By Mike D'Angelo
December 8, 2020 | 8:00pm
Steven Yeun is a family man chasing the American dream in the soulful if lopsided
Minari
By Beatrice Loayza
December 8, 2020 | 6:10pm
A former pop star journeys
To The Ends Of The Earth
in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s terrific new film
By Lawrence Garcia
December 7, 2020 | 7:30pm
Rachel Brosnahan is a moll on the run in refreshingly feminine gangster yarn
I’m Your Woman
By Katie Rife
December 4, 2020 | 6:00pm
Black Bear
is two dramas in one, and Aubrey Plaza is great in both of them
By A.A. Dowd
December 4, 2020 | 3:35pm
Hackneyed tearjerker
All My Life
plays like an adaptation of a “Live, Laugh, Love” sign
By Carlos Aguilar, Carlos Aguilar
December 3, 2020 | 5:00pm
Frances McDormand finds a new life on the road in the sublime
Nomadland
By Katie Rife
December 3, 2020 | 4:00pm
Mads Mikkelsen gets smashed on life (and booze) in the day-drinker drama
Another Round
By A.A. Dowd
December 3, 2020 | 3:35pm
Isla Fisher gets her own
Enchanted
in the Disney Plus fairy tale
Godmothered
By Caroline Siede
December 2, 2020 | 5:00pm
The gripping
76 Days
chronicles the chaotic start of the COVID-19 outbreak
By Mike D'Angelo
December 2, 2020 | 3:35pm
Mayor
finds cringe comedy and dread in the business of running a Palestinian city
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 1, 2020 | 8:00pm
Don’t look for
Superintelligence
, or even mild cleverness, in Melissa McCarthy’s new sci-fi comedy
By Jesse Hassenger
December 1, 2020 | 6:00pm
An all-star cast goes to
The Prom
in Ryan Murphy’s insufferable Broadway adaptation
By Jesse Hassenger
December 1, 2020 | 3:00pm
Soul
is a sweet mash-up of earlier, deeper Pixar
By A.A. Dowd
November 25, 2020 | 3:30pm
Stardust
, the Bowie biopic without any Bowie songs,
is velvet garbage
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
November 24, 2020 | 8:57pm
Alan Ball’s
Uncle Frank
smothers a great performance with lazy condescension
By Allison Shoemaker
November 24, 2020 | 8:00pm
An unnecessary sequel to
The Croods
still has some prehistoric fun
By Jesse Hassenger
November 23, 2020 | 5:00pm
There are two new Jackie Chan movies out today, but only one is dumb
and
fun
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
November 20, 2020 | 10:00pm
Ma Rainey
’
s Black Bottom
is one final, brilliant showcase for Chadwick Boseman
By Shannon Miller
November 20, 2020 | 5:00pm
Kristen Stewart celebrates the
Happiest Season
in a pioneering queer Christmas rom-com
By Caroline Siede
November 19, 2020 | 6:00am
Riz Ahmed’s superb lead performance keeps
Sound Of Metal
on beat
By Katie Rife
November 18, 2020 | 8:45pm
Kurt Russell is coming back to town in Netflix yuletide dud
The Christmas Chronicles Part II
By Jesse Hassenger
November 18, 2020 | 5:00pm
The Twentieth Century
spruces up history with ejaculating cacti and Python-style hilarity
By Charles Bramesco
November 18, 2020 | 4:00pm
A medical tragedy exposes a government’s deep-rooted flaws in the timely documentary
Collective
By Noel Murray
November 17, 2020 | 8:21pm
The Last Vermeer
tells an irresistible true story… after a lot of useless misdirection
By Mike D'Angelo
November 17, 2020 | 7:40pm
The New Mutants
brings Fox’s
X-Men
franchise to an underwhelming end
By A.A. Dowd
November 17, 2020 | 6:10pm
Sarah Paulson is the helicopter parent from hell in Hulu’s predictable but titillating
Run
By Beatrice Loayza
November 16, 2020 | 6:10pm
The Climb
is the prickly, ambitious, gut-busting American comedy of the year
By A.A. Dowd
November 11, 2020 | 10:00pm
Margot Robbie makes a captivating outlaw in the Dust Bowl thriller
Dreamland
By Roxana Hadadi
November 11, 2020 | 6:00pm
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan run hot and cold in the period romance
Ammonite
By Katie Rife
November 11, 2020 | 4:45pm
Wolfwalkers
is a magical, unsettling animated fable from the director of
The Secret Of Kells
By Jason Shawhan
November 11, 2020 | 3:50pm
In the moving documentary
I Am Greta
, a teenage activist faces impossible challenges
By Noel Murray
November 10, 2020 | 6:45pm
Werner Herzog chases meteorites and those who love them in
Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds
By Mike D'Angelo
November 10, 2020 | 5:30pm
May
Hillbilly Elegy
mark the end of Trump-era myth-making about the white working class
By Katie Rife
November 10, 2020 | 2:00pm
Vince Vaughn body-swaps into a slasher comedy with the fun horror hybrid
Freaky
By Jesse Hassenger
November 9, 2020 | 12:00pm
Throwback quirks aside, David Fincher’s
Citizen Kane
origin story
Mank
is conventional to a fault
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
November 6, 2020 | 7:25pm
The Dark And The Wicked
lives up to its title
By Katie Rife
November 5, 2020 | 6:43am
Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell bring macho tenderness to boxing drama
Jungleland
By Carlos Aguilar
November 4, 2020 | 5:30pm
Despite Eva Green’s soulful performance, astronaut drama
Proxima
loses sight of the person inside the space suit
By Beatrice Loayza
November 3, 2020 | 9:00pm
A Norwegian setting is the only unique thing about the superhero rehash
Mortal
By Mike D'Angelo
November 3, 2020 | 6:40pm
Kevin Costner and Diane Lane embark on a Western-ish mission to
Let Him Go
By Jesse Hassenger
November 2, 2020 | 5:00pm
Asylum seekers face horrors supernatural and not in the Netflix chiller
His House
By Anya Stanley
October 28, 2020 | 8:00pm
Holidate
is a bawdy start to Netflix’s holiday rom-com slate
By Caroline Siede
October 28, 2020 | 7:00am
If Steven Spielberg directed
The Babadook
, it would play a lot like
Come Play
By A.A. Dowd
October 28, 2020 | 7:00am
The Craft: Legacy
is a kinder, gentler teen witch movie
By Katie Rife
October 28, 2020 | 4:00am
Fire Will Come
eventually and spectacularly lives up to its title
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
October 27, 2020 | 7:45pm
Frederick Wiseman’s mammoth-length
City Hall
finds humanity alongside the bureaucracy
By Mike D'Angelo
October 27, 2020 | 7:00pm
After We Collided
slides toward R-rated camp—but not far enough
By Caroline Siede
October 23, 2020 | 5:00pm
A beloved indie duo levels up with the time-traveling genre bender
Synchronic
By Katie Rife
October 22, 2020 | 7:00pm
Horror comedy
Bad Hair
suffers from tousled commentary but is good for a few laughs
By Shannon Miller
October 21, 2020 | 9:00pm
Robert Zemeckis zaps all the wicked black magic out of Roald Dahl’s
The Witches
By A.A. Dowd
October 21, 2020 | 4:00pm
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm
brings Sacha Baron Cohen’s famous character into a changed landscape
By Jesse Hassenger
October 21, 2020 | 4:00pm
Midnight In Paris
finds a final hurrah for teenage life in one town’s prom preparations
By Roxana Hadadi
October 20, 2020 | 7:00pm
Ben Wheatley’s demystified
Rebecca
is a pale imitation of the Hitchcock classic
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
October 15, 2020 | 4:00am
Don’t expect many scares from the first four movies in Amazon’s Welcome To The Blumhouse series
By A.A. Dowd
October 14, 2020 | 7:55pm
Post-apocalyptic romance
Love And Monsters
makes an untimely case for leaving the bunker
By Mike D'Angelo
October 14, 2020 | 4:00pm
Who robbed the new Liam Neeson thriller,
Honest Thief
, of its thrills?
By Katie Rife
October 13, 2020 | 9:30pm
Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic
Martin Eden
By Beatrice Loayza
October 13, 2020 | 8:00pm
Totally Under Control
is a comprehensive account of how badly Trump bungled COVID
By Noel Murray
October 13, 2020 | 11:00am
Dinesh D’Souza distorts and fulfills George Orwell’s warnings in his worthless
Trump Card
By Vadim Rizov
October 9, 2020 | 7:55pm
A family copes with a long prison sentence on both sides of the bars in the lyrical
Time
By A.A. Dowd
October 9, 2020 | 3:10pm
Robert De Niro family flick
The War With Grandpa
buries a cute premise under dumb pratfalls
By Mike D'Angelo
October 9, 2020 | 4:00am
Jim Cummings’ inspired werewolf movie
The Wolf Of Snow Hollow
has way more laughs than scares
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
October 8, 2020 | 5:00pm
Radha Blank’s
The Forty-Year-Old Version
is
a
stunning comedy about compromise
By Shannon Miller
October 8, 2020 | 1:00pm
Hulu’s
Books Of Blood
somehow manages to make Clive Barker bland
By Katie Rife
October 7, 2020 | 7:10pm
Charm City Kings
finds rousing coming-of-age drama in the dirt-bike culture of Baltimore
By Carlos Aguilar
October 7, 2020 | 5:00pm
Adam Sandler churns out some seasonal Netflix content with the fitfully funny
Hubie Halloween
By Jesse Hassenger
October 7, 2020 | 4:10pm
Woody Allen’s worst creative impulses are on display in the long-delayed
A Rainy Day In New York
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
October 7, 2020 | 2:30pm
A teen songbird navigates a world of honky tonk and ICE raids in the uneven
Yellow Rose
By Lawrence Garcia
October 6, 2020 | 8:00pm
Brandon Cronenberg does his name proud with the nightmarish mind and body horror of
Possessor
By A.A. Dowd
October 1, 2020 | 1:00pm
Dick Johnson Is Dead
is surprisingly lighthearted for a film about a man facing his own demise
By Vikram Murthi
September 30, 2020 | 4:50pm
Julie Taymor’s unfocused biopic
The Glorias
offers 4 Gloria Steinems but no insight
By Katie Rife
September 30, 2020 | 2:35pm
Aya Cash thinks up some scary stories to tell in the dark in the smart but overlong
Scare Me
By Jesse Hassenger
September 29, 2020 | 8:00pm
Millennials unplug before a war of the worlds in the clever sci-fi comedy
Save Yourselves!
By Mike D'Angelo
September 29, 2020 | 7:00pm
Jessica Chastain sticks to her guns in the tired assassin thriller
Ava
By Katie Rife
September 26, 2020 | 12:15am
Sofia Coppola reunites with Bill Murray but leaves youthful rapture behind in the charming
On The Rocks
By A.A. Dowd
September 25, 2020 | 6:15pm
Netflix’s
Boys In The Band
isn’t as claustrophobic as the original, but still packs a punch
By Patrick Gomez
September 25, 2020 | 7:01am
Aaron Sorkin finds another zingy, corny courtroom drama in
The Trial Of The Chicago 7
By A.A. Dowd
September 25, 2020 | 1:00am
Smart but unfocused, Sega doc
Console Wars
might have played too many video games as a kid
By William Hughes
September 23, 2020 | 7:00am
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