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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
The Little Mermaid riff Luca splashes around in the shallow end of the Pixar pool
By A.A. Dowd June 16, 2021 | 4:00pm
Kevin Hart masters Fatherhood in a Netflix dramedy more maudlin than funny
By Jesse Hassenger 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
The Devil Made Me Do It brings the Conjuring trilogy to a dispiriting close
By A.A. Dowd June 1, 2021 | 4:00pm
Spirit Untamed might confuse fans of those other cartoons about a horse named Spirit
By Jesse Hassenger 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
Spring Blossom is the rare drama about teenage life made by an actual teenager
By Leila Latif May 19, 2021 | 4:00pm
The writer of You’re Next holds a Seance in his twisty directorial debut
By Katie Rife May 19, 2021 | 3:00pm
Repugnant revolution thriller New Order stirs only the gag reflex
By Lawrence Garcia May 18, 2021 | 9:10pm
Don’t expect much drama or dirt from the rosy P!nk tour doc All I Know So Far
By Alex McLevy May 18, 2021 | 5:25pm
A Quiet Place Part II is a muffled echo of the original’s thrills
By A.A. Dowd May 18, 2021 | 3:00pm
Amy Adams spies a convoluted Rear Window mystery in The Woman In The Window
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 13, 2021 | 11:00pm
Angelina Jolie’s Those Who Wish Me Dead is a Saturday afternoon thriller for the streaming era
By A.A. Dowd May 12, 2021 | 8:50pm
Berlin winner There Is No Evil tells four stories to condemn the death penalty
By Roxana Hadadi May 12, 2021 | 6:15pm
Potential violence haunts every frame of the superb Killing Of Two Lovers
By Mike D'Angelo May 12, 2021 | 2:40pm
Chris Rock brings some fresh blood to the late-stage sequel Spiral: From The Book Of Saw
By Katie Rife May 12, 2021 | 1:00pm
Screenlife takes a turn for the dull with Profile , a thriller about catfishing terrorists
By Jesse Hassenger May 12, 2021 | 12:00am
The Perfect Candidate is an underdog political fable that earns its feel-good moments
By Allison Shoemaker May 11, 2021 | 6:00pm
The claustrophobic Netflix thriller Oxygen will take your breath away
By Katie Rife May 11, 2021 | 4:00pm
Zack Snyder liberates himself from superhero glumness with zombie heist flick Army Of The Dead
By A.A. Dowd May 11, 2021 | 2:00pm
Mads Mikkelsen climbs aboard the Taken train with the uneven, darkly comic Riders Of Justice
By Charles Bramesco May 10, 2021 | 7:40pm
“Internet bad” is about as deep as the satire goes in Gia Coppola’s insufferable Mainstream
By Katie Rife May 7, 2021 | 9:15pm
We find Netflix’s Monster guilty of crimes against subtlety and nuance
By Vikram Murthi May 7, 2021 | 1:00pm
Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie re-team for cheap, satisfying thrills in Wrath Of Man
By Jesse Hassenger May 6, 2021 | 10:00pm
Above Suspicion is beneath everyone involved—especially Emilia Clarke
By Craig D. Lindsey May 5, 2021 | 9:00pm
It’s complicated for Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish in the awful dementia rom-com Here Today
By Mike D'Angelo May 5, 2021 | 4:00pm
State Funeral finds absurdities and metaphors in archival footage of Stalin’s wake
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 4, 2021 | 9:25pm
The Mitchells Vs. The Machines fights off animated routine with great jokes and characters
By Jesse Hassenger May 4, 2021 | 4:25pm
The Disciple is a smart, wry drama about the pitfalls of following your dreams
By A.A. Dowd April 30, 2021 | 7:00am
Zhang Yimou misplaces the suspense in the black-and-white spy games of Cliff Walkers
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 29, 2021 | 8:27pm
Separation plasters a lousy custody drama with the wallpaper of a crappy horror movie
By A.A. Dowd April 29, 2021 | 5:00am
Amanda Seyfried sifts through the gaslight of ghostly Netflix potboiler Things Heard And Seen
By Katie Rife April 28, 2021 | 10:00pm
Nobody passes go in Iceland’s monopoly drama The County
By Mike D'Angelo April 28, 2021 | 6:00pm