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For better and worse, the Wrong Turn remake takes some unusual turns
By Katie Rife February 24, 2021 | 5:00pm
Oscar contender Night Of The Kings is a prison drama steeped in magical realism
By Beatrice Loayza February 23, 2021 | 10:25pm
It’s the audience that loses in Lee Daniels’ bloated The United States Vs. Billie Holiday
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 19, 2021 | 5:00pm
A woman falls in love (and lust) with a carnival ride in the quirky, luminous Jumbo
By Katie Rife February 18, 2021 | 3:40pm
The wicked Netflix neo-noir I Care A Lot is just the right amount of wrong
By Noel Murray February 16, 2021 | 7:50pm
The star-studded Noël Coward adaptation Blithe Spirit fails to enchant
By Caroline Siede February 16, 2021 | 6:00pm
Two years before Birds Of Prey, Cathy Yan made a splash with Dead Pigs
By Katie Rife February 12, 2021 | 9:05pm
Both maudlin and cruel, Breaking News In Yuba County deserves no special bulletin
By Allison Shoemaker February 12, 2021 | 6:55pm
Supernatural or psychological, the slow-burn horrors of Sator are difficult to shake
By Anya Stanley February 12, 2021 | 4:05pm
Nic Cage is a silent brute in the chintzy Five Nights At Freddy’s mockbuster Willy’s Wonderland
By A.A. Dowd February 12, 2021 | 3:35pm
Netflix’s To All The Boys series ends on a high note
By Caroline Siede February 12, 2021 | 2:00am
Kristen Wiig’s vacation comedy Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar is a silly, delightful trip
By Jesse Hassenger February 12, 2021 | 2:00am
Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby embark on a frontier romance in The World To Come
By Katie Rife February 10, 2021 | 10:05pm
Robin Wright battles grief, bears, and a bad script in her off-the-grid survival drama Land
By Beatrice Loayza February 10, 2021 | 3:55pm
The Mauritanian transforms a memoir of unlawful detention into just another shouty courtroom dramaBy Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 9, 2021 | 10:45pm
The delightfully offbeat French Exit offers Michelle Pfeiffer
By Mike D'Angelo February 9, 2021 | 10:00pm
Help! We’re trapped in the cycle of yet another time-loop story, The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things
By A.A. Dowd February 9, 2021 | 8:00pm
Russia’s Oscar hopeful Dear Comrades! is spin disguised as a history lesson
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 3, 2021 | 6:00pm
A timely pandemic tests one couple’s love in the otherwise forgettable Little Fish
By Charles Bramesco February 3, 2021 | 4:00pm
Despite Owen Wilson’s strong performance, Bliss can only simulate a compelling sci-fi drama
By Jesse Hassenger February 2, 2021 | 9:00pm
Sibling rivalry and diseased sheep drive the sentimental Sam Neill drama Rams
By Mike D'Angelo February 2, 2021 | 8:00pm
France’s Oscar entry Two Of Us is a clandestine romance that plays like a horror movie
By Caroline Siede February 2, 2021 | 6:30pm
Judas And The Black Messiah is an electrifying showcase for two of today’s most exciting actorsBy Katie Rife February 2, 2021 | 4:00am
The director of Room 237 cracks the code of simulation theory with A Glitch In The Matrix
By A.A. Dowd January 31, 2021 | 10:40pm
Georgia’s slow-burn Oscars entry Beginning unravels a crisis of faith, one trauma at a time
By Katie Rife January 28, 2021 | 4:00pm
Ghosts of The Shining and Barton Fink haunt the hotel corridors of The Night
By Randall Colburn January 27, 2021 | 8:00pm
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci blaze brightly in the heartbreaking Supernova
By Shannon Miller January 27, 2021 | 6:00pm
Zendaya and John David Washington spar—and rage against reviews like this—in the dull Malcolm & Marie
By Vikram Murthi January 27, 2021 | 3:35pm
Generic redemption drama Palmer expects us to buy Justin Timberlake as a hardened ex-con
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 27, 2021 | 12:00pm
A24 horror rises again with the unnerving Saint Maud
By Katie Rife January 26, 2021 | 10:00pm
Even Naomi Watts can’t fly above the inspirational pap of Netflix’s Penguin Bloom
By Mike D'Angelo January 26, 2021 | 7:25pm
Denzel Washington returns to the manhunt business in the enjoyably clichéd The Little Things
By A.A. Dowd January 26, 2021 | 6:00pm
Jason Segel is a rock of selflessness in the sugarcoated cancer drama Our Friend
By A.A. Dowd January 21, 2021 | 11:00pm
Identifying Features is among the greatest, most devastating films about Mexico’s drug warBy Carlos Aguilar January 20, 2021 | 9:30pm
1982 muddies a compelling historical snapshot with Jojo Rabbit whimsyBy Roxana Hadadi January 20, 2021 | 7:30pm
Deeply felt daddy issues distinguish The Salt Of Tears from every other Philippe Garrel romance
By Lawrence Garcia January 20, 2021 | 5:20pm
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 zoneBy Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 19, 2021 | 8:40pm
Some Kind Of Heaven finds darkness beneath the sunny surface of a retirement communityBy 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 bestsellerBy 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 legendsBy Shannon Miller January 6, 2021 | 9:00pm
The Reason I Jump is a deeply empathetic autism documentary with an experimental touchBy Beatrice Loayza January 6, 2021 | 12:00pm
The Dissident brings a layered approach to the story of slain journalist Jamal KhashoggiBy 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 insideBy 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 themBy 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 cityBy 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 PixarBy A.A. Dowd November 25, 2020 | 3:30pm
Stardust , the Bowie biopic without any Bowie songs, is velvet garbageBy 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 BosemanBy 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 hilarityBy 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 misdirectionBy Mike D'Angelo November 17, 2020 | 7:40pm
The New Mutants brings Fox’s X-Men franchise to an underwhelming endBy 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 yearBy 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 titleBy 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 slateBy Caroline Siede October 28, 2020 | 7:00am
