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Endings, Beginnings
is an endless slog
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
April 16, 2020 | 3:05pm
Elite academics meet gangland politics in the stylish teen drama
Selah And The Spades
By Katie Rife
April 15, 2020 | 8:45pm
Fugitive thriller
The Quarry
stumbles during its slow trek into no country for old men
By Beatrice Loayza
April 14, 2020 | 7:15pm
Trolls World Tour
is a shameless DreamWorks dance party you can attend from your couch
By Jesse Hassenger
April 10, 2020 | 5:30pm
Netflix’s
Love Wedding Repeat
adds some cringe to the rom-com
By Caroline Siede
April 10, 2020 | 7:01am
Master Of None
’s Alan Yang retells his family’s immigration story in the poignant
Tigertail
By Katie Rife
April 10, 2020 | 7:00am
Sea Fever
is the accidental zeitgeist horror movie of our isolated here and now
By A.A. Dowd
April 8, 2020 | 9:00pm
The Grand Bizarre
is a dazzling stop-motion marvel
By Mike D'Angelo
April 7, 2020 | 5:00pm
There’s a touch of fairy-tale
Antichrist
spookiness to the cult drama
The Other Lamb
By A.A. Dowd
April 3, 2020 | 5:30pm
The Ed Helms cop comedy
Coffee & Kareem
is laziness masquerading as irreverence
By Jesse Hassenger
April 3, 2020 | 7:00am
Despite its intriguing title,
Nona, If They Soak Me, I’ll Burn Them
is as exciting as a wet firecracker
By Katie Rife
April 2, 2020 | 4:00pm
The anti-gerrymandering doc
Slay The Dragon
is an uninspired call to action
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
March 31, 2020 | 10:21pm
Netflix’s
Crip Camp
is a different kind of summer camp movie
By Katie Rife
March 25, 2020 | 6:00pm
Two new movies fail to exploit Jesse Eisenberg’s brainy talent and star power
By A.A. Dowd
March 24, 2020 | 9:30pm
Teen movie
Banana Split
is as artificial as fake fruit
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
March 24, 2020 | 7:20pm
The powerful
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
puts a human face on the right to choose
By Katie Rife
March 12, 2020 | 8:45pm
Archie from
Riverdale
finds love, faith, and a guitar in the blandly inspirational
I Still Believe
By Allison Shoemaker
March 11, 2020 | 9:00pm
Vin Diesel’s comic-book potboiler
Bloodshot
is dumb fun dressed like smart sci-fi
By A.A. Dowd
March 11, 2020 | 4:15pm
The Hunt
is an anemic political comedy wrapped in a blood-soaked thriller
By Katie Rife
March 11, 2020 | 3:35pm
There’s a hint of an even more fascinating story in Netflix’s true-crime drama
Lost Girls
By Mike D'Angelo
March 10, 2020 | 7:00pm
Pete Davidson delivers small-time charms in
Big Time Adolescence
By Caroline Siede
March 10, 2020 | 5:30pm
Gorgeous visuals make the shocking drama
Swallow
go down easy
By Katie Rife
March 6, 2020 | 10:00pm
Even Mark Wahlberg can do better than the forgettable
Spenser Confidential
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
March 6, 2020 | 8:00am
Ken Loach grinds another honest man under the cruel gears of society in
Sorry We Missed You
By A.A. Dowd
March 5, 2020 | 4:25pm
If you think you know what
Bacurau
is all about, keep watching
By Katie Rife
March 4, 2020 | 11:30pm
The style is thrilling, even when the story isn’t, in Chinese gangster noir
The Wild Goose Lake
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
March 4, 2020 | 7:00pm
The Banker
is rich only with biopic clichés
By Lawrence Garcia
March 4, 2020 | 5:00pm
Kelly Reichardt’s
First Cow
finds an American creation myth in a touching portrait of friendship
By A.A. Dowd
March 4, 2020 | 3:50pm
Ben Affleck dunks on his demons in the miraculously non-corny basketball drama
The Way Back
By Charles Bramesco
March 4, 2020 | 2:00pm
Highbrow title aside,
The Burnt Orange Heresy
is a thriller of delectable surface pleasures
By Mike D'Angelo
March 3, 2020 | 7:00pm
Extra Ordinary
is a warm, low-key trip to
Ghostbusters
territory
By Jesse Hassenger
March 2, 2020 | 4:30pm
Wendy
is a glum gloss on
Peter Pan
from the director of
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
By A.A. Dowd
February 27, 2020 | 3:20pm
Saint Frances
finds grace, humor, and an ode to the female body in a familiar indie premise
By Beatrice Loayza
February 26, 2020 | 8:00pm
Greed
, for lack of a better word, is not good
By Vikram Murthi
February 26, 2020 | 5:35pm
The KKK redemption drama
Burden
means well but misses the bigger picture
By Katie Rife
February 26, 2020 | 4:00pm
The Whistlers
is a delectable deadpan noir
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
February 25, 2020 | 9:00pm
The Oscars should have made room for the intense and elemental
A White, White Day
By Mike D'Angelo
February 25, 2020 | 7:30pm
A new version of
The Invisible Man
makes one of his victims intensely visible
By Jesse Hassenger
February 25, 2020 | 7:00am
Pixar loses a little of the magic with
Onward
By A.A. Dowd
February 21, 2020 | 5:45pm
The spooky doll is an oddball delight, but
Brahms: The Boy II
is not
By Jesse Hassenger
February 21, 2020 | 2:51pm
Ana de Armas is way too good for the lousy, sub-De Palma thriller
The Night Clerk
By Katie Rife
February 20, 2020 | 2:00pm
The Last Thing He Wanted
is a thriller no one would want
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
February 19, 2020 | 7:30pm
With
Young Ahmed
, the Dardenne brothers fail to get inside the head of a teenage extremist
By A.A. Dowd
February 19, 2020 | 5:00pm
Love haunts Pedro Costa’s poetic and challenging
Vitalina Varela
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
February 19, 2020 | 4:00pm
A holy man fakes it until he makes it in the moving, Oscar-nominated
Corpus Christi
By Mike D'Angelo
February 18, 2020 | 6:00pm
Harrison Ford and
Call Of The Wild
get lost in the wilds of photorealistic animation
By Allison Shoemaker
February 17, 2020 | 8:00pm
Jane Austen's
Emma
gets
an oddball, sumptuous, and smart new adaptation
By Caroline Siede
February 17, 2020 | 7:14pm
No fantasies will be fulfilled by Blumhouse’s horror-leaning reboot of
Fantasy Island
By A.A. Dowd
February 14, 2020 | 5:00pm
Drenched in grit, gore, and neon,
VFW
is an action throwback that hits all the right notes
By Katie Rife
February 13, 2020 | 9:15pm
The Photograph
only occasionally snaps into focus
By Caroline Siede
February 13, 2020 | 5:00pm
No digital makeover (or smaller teeth) can fix everything wrong with
Sonic The Hedgehog
By A.A. Dowd
February 13, 2020 | 6:00am
The Berlin prizewinner
I Was At Home, But...
might be too inscrutable for its own good
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
February 12, 2020 | 9:00pm
There’s not enough
Wallace & Gromit
zaniness in the mild new
Shaun The Sheep
movie
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
February 12, 2020 | 7:00pm
Liam Neeson and Lesley Manville can’t cure what ails
Ordinary Love
By Vikram Murthi
February 12, 2020 | 4:00pm
Being shot at the Olympics is about all the Nick Kroll romance
Olympic Dreams
has going for it
By Mike D'Angelo
February 11, 2020 | 10:00pm
Anger becomes action in the moving
After Parkland
By Noel Murray
February 11, 2020 | 9:00pm
Netflix’s
To All The Boys
sequel
charms, though not quite as much as the original
By Caroline Siede
February 11, 2020 | 8:00pm
Christmas comes late with the subzero horror and creeping religious dread of
The Lodge
By A.A. Dowd
February 8, 2020 | 12:00am
Harley Quinn gets her groove back in DC’s wildly colorful, surprisingly gory
Birds Of Prey
By Katie Rife
February 6, 2020 | 9:00am
Alison Brie commits to the slyly funny but frustratingly ambiguous
Horse Girl
By Roxana Hadadi
February 5, 2020 | 10:00pm
Taboo romance gets a clumsy workout in
And Then We Danced
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
February 4, 2020 | 7:00pm
Gretel And Hansel
makes a spellbinding feast out of eerie atmosphere and occult imagery
By Katie Rife
January 31, 2020 | 5:00pm
Taylor Swift tiptoes toward something real in the Netflix documentary
Miss Americana
By Josh Modell
January 29, 2020 | 8:25pm
Blake Lively gets the Bond treatment in the overcooked
The Rhythm Section
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
January 29, 2020 | 5:00pm
It’s all
Downhill
for Will Ferrell and Julia Louis-Dreyfus in the broad
Force Majeure
remake
By A.A. Dowd
January 29, 2020 | 3:30pm
Sicily’s most notorious informant takes center stage in mob drama
The Traitor
By Mike D'Angelo
January 28, 2020 | 7:00pm
A twisted friendship blossoms in the rubble of war in the Cannes award winner
Beanpole
By Katie Rife
January 27, 2020 | 11:00pm
Harvey Weinstein is present through absence in Kitty Green’s gripping procedural
The Assistant
By A.A. Dowd
January 25, 2020 | 7:00pm
There’s star power but no drama in feature-length salute to sacrifice
The Last Full Measure
By Mike D'Angelo
January 24, 2020 | 4:00am
Color Out Of Space
combines Nic Cage, Richard Stanley, and H.P. Lovecraft to predictably wild effect
By Katie Rife
January 23, 2020 | 4:10pm
The Turning
drags
The Turn Of The Screw
into the ’90s, and then to a baffling dead end
By Jesse Hassenger
January 23, 2020 | 7:00am
Guy Ritchie stumbles through his greatest hits in the nostalgic crime caper
The Gentlemen
By Vikram Murthi
January 22, 2020 | 3:10pm
It was worth the decade-long wait for Jia Zhangke’s portrait of Shanghai,
I Wish I Knew
By Lawrence Garcia
January 21, 2020 | 9:00pm
Nocturama
director Bertrand Bonello returns with the eerie and entrancing
Zombi Child
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
January 21, 2020 | 8:00pm
Tyler Perry brings his dramatic clumsiness to Netflix with the thriller
A Fall From Grace
By Jesse Hassenger
January 17, 2020 | 7:30pm
Found-footage comedy
VHYes
is less fun than the late-night TV it’s spoofing
By A.A. Dowd
January 16, 2020 | 5:00pm
Robert Downey Jr. could have done less in
Dolittle
By Katie Rife
January 15, 2020 | 7:30pm
Without Michael Bay at the helm,
Bad Boys For Life
is an underwhelming sequel
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
January 15, 2020 | 6:30pm
Weathering With You
is an odd, enchanting teen romance from the director of
Your Name
By Noel Murray
January 14, 2020 | 8:00pm
The writer of
Beasts Of The Southern Wild
returns with the uneven but heartfelt
Troop Zero
By Mike D'Angelo
January 14, 2020 | 7:00pm
The director of
The Haunting Of Sharon Tate
sets his ghoulish sights on
The Murder Of Nicole Brown Simpson
By Katie Rife
January 11, 2020 | 12:55am
The derivative
Alien
gloss
Underwater
comes close to the platonic ideal of a January release
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
January 9, 2020 | 10:05pm
Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne are embattled BFFs in the stiff friend-com
Like A Boss
By Katie Rife
January 9, 2020 | 12:00am
Parisian cop drama
Les Misérables
speaks the same righteous language as Victor Hugo
By Allison Shoemaker
January 8, 2020 | 8:00pm
Three Christs
? In this economy?
By Vikram Murthi
January 7, 2020 | 9:07pm
The Grudge
’s J-horror rehash is all wet
By Katie Rife
January 3, 2020 | 8:30pm
Alfre Woodard delivers the performance of her career in the subversive prison drama
Clemency
By Roxana Hadadi
December 19, 2019 | 6:00pm
Yes,
Cats
is as bad as it looks
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 19, 2019 | 1:45am
The Song Of Names
is a chore of a mystery, even though its resolution is very moving
By Mike D'Angelo
December 18, 2019 | 10:30pm
Oscar hopeful
Invisible Life
is a slog of misfortune, until its poignant ending
By Lawrence Garcia
December 18, 2019 | 8:30pm
The fights are weaker but the story is stronger in Donnie Yen’s final Ip Man movie
By Mike D'Angelo
December 18, 2019 | 7:00pm
The Rise Of Skywalker
rebalances
Star Wars
into a force of safe, familiar fan service
By A.A. Dowd
December 18, 2019 | 10:20am
Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx bring sensitivity to the routine legal drama
Just Mercy
By Jesse Hassenger
December 17, 2019 | 6:00pm
Will Smith turns into a pigeon for
Spies In Disguise
, an animated caper for everyone or no one
By Jesse Hassenger
December 16, 2019 | 2:00pm
A new
Black Christmas
sharpens the feminist edge of the original but dulls its scares
By Beatrice Loayza
December 13, 2019 | 7:00pm
There’s little doubt or drama in Terrence Malick’s 3-hour tribute to moral resistance,
A Hidden Life
By Mike D'Angelo
December 12, 2019 | 9:20pm
Michael Bay brings his action mayhem (and Ryan Reynolds) to Netflix with
6 Underground
By Jesse Hassenger
December 12, 2019 | 5:00pm
Adam Sandler delivers the performance of his career in the audacious stress-machine comedy
Uncut Gems
By A.A. Dowd
December 11, 2019 | 11:15pm
What’s the point of a toothless
Rabid
remake?
By Katie Rife
December 11, 2019 | 11:00pm
Jumanji
lacks replay value in
The Next Level
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 10, 2019 | 9:20pm
Xavier Dolan vomits his feelings all over the incoherent
Death And Life Of John F. Donovan
By Mike D'Angelo
December 10, 2019 | 7:25pm
Bombshell
plays softball with Megyn Kelly and Fox News
By Katie Rife
December 9, 2019 | 2:30pm
Little Joe
puts a creepily mundane art-house spin on
Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
By A.A. Dowd
December 7, 2019 | 1:00am
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire
is the year’s sexiest and most rapturously romantic love story
By A.A. Dowd
December 6, 2019 | 6:25pm
Playmobil: The Movie
should have stayed in the toy box, or at least gone direct to streaming
By Jesse Hassenger
December 6, 2019 | 2:19pm
Say yes to the killer dress of the bizarre horror-comedy
In Fabric
By Katie Rife
December 4, 2019 | 11:00pm
Naomi Watts comes unglued in the claustrophobic but thin psychological thriller
The Wolf Hour
By Beatrice Loayza
December 4, 2019 | 9:50pm
Clint Eastwood turns the sad true story of Richard Jewell into another salute to American heroism
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 4, 2019 | 7:00pm
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