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Galvanizing but ideologically narrow, The Fight is preaching to the choir
By Roxana Hadadi July 29, 2020 | 7:45pm
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The engrossing puzzle-box thriller A Girl Missing loses sight of its pieces
By Beatrice Loayza July 29, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Summerland is as pretty but one-dimensional as a postcard
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 28, 2020 | 7:50pm
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Netflix’s sexist rom-com sensation gets a minor upgrade in The Kissing Booth 2
By Caroline Siede July 24, 2020 | 7:00am
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Dave Franco’s indie slasher The Rental is barely worth one
By A.A. Dowd July 22, 2020 | 10:00pm
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Atonement comes at a heavy price in the unsettling feminist horror movie Amulet
By Toussaint Egan July 21, 2020 | 8:00pm
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Radioactive is a bomb
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 21, 2020 | 7:00pm
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At three grueling hours, The Painted Bird is the feel-bad movie of this year or any other
By A.A. Dowd July 15, 2020 | 8:20pm
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Jenny Slate is a ray of light cutting through the cluttered and rather dull Sunlit Night
By Shannon Miller July 15, 2020 | 2:40pm
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Relic is a haunted-house movie about the inside of the human mind
By Katie Rife July 9, 2020 | 7:30pm
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Charlize Theron and Kiki Layne kick off a more thoughtful kind of action franchise with The Old Guard
By Anya Stanley July 8, 2020 | 9:00pm
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Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets finds poetry at the bottom of a glass
By Vikram Murthi July 8, 2020 | 4:00pm
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Tom Hanks anchors the compelling nautical thriller Greyhound
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky July 7, 2020 | 9:00pm
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Guest Of Honour has the style of classic Atom Egoyan, but none of the inspiration
By Mike D'Angelo July 7, 2020 | 6:00pm
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Netflix’s enchanting Walter Mercado documentary radiates with Mucho Mucho Amor
By Danette Chavez July 7, 2020 | 4:30pm
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Andy Samberg falls into his own Groundhog Day in the sweet and inventive Palm Springs
By A.A. Dowd July 6, 2020 | 2:30pm
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A tropical resort backdrop isn't the only thing Sandleresque about Netflix's Desperados
By Katie Rife July 3, 2020 | 5:01am
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Werner Herzog explores the strange business of rented relatives in Family Romance, LLC
By A.A. Dowd July 2, 2020 | 2:00pm
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John Lewis deserved a more complex tribute to his legacy than Good Trouble
By Vikram Murthi June 30, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Catherine Deneuve and Juliette Binoche are together at last in the minor family drama The Truth
By Mike D'Angelo June 30, 2020 | 6:00pm
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Dave Bautista is another bruiser-turned-babysitter in the flimsy and long-delayed My Spy
By Jesse Hassenger June 25, 2020 | 10:00pm
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Will Ferrell trades sports for pop songs in Netflix’s funny, loopy Eurovision
By Jesse Hassenger June 25, 2020 | 5:00pm
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Mel Gibson and aggrieved cops make Force Of Nature as ill-timed as it is dull
By Anya Stanley, Anya Stanley June 24, 2020 | 2:45pm
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Jon Stewart’s political satire Irresistible would have looked obvious two presidents ago
By A.A. Dowd June 22, 2020 | 9:00pm
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Babyteeth puts a bitingly satirical spin on the teen cancer-girl romance
By Katie Rife June 18, 2020 | 9:00pm
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Kevin Bacon books the Airbnb from hell in ponderous Blumhouse chiller You Should Have Left
By A.A. Dowd June 18, 2020 | 6:30pm
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Right on time for the holiday, Miss Juneteenth offers a loving portrait of family and community
By Katie Rife June 17, 2020 | 9:00pm
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The director and the star of Carlos reunite for underwhelming spy thriller Wasp Network
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 17, 2020 | 8:00pm
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt can’t pilot around the outdated fear-mongering of hijack thriller 7500
By Shannon Miller June 16, 2020 | 9:45pm
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Josh Gad doing a bad accent is somehow the least of the annoyances in Disney’s Artemis Fowl
By Roxana Hadadi June 11, 2020 | 4:00pm
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Spike Lee goes to Vietnam with his politically muddled war movie Da 5 Bloods
By Ashley Ray-Harris June 10, 2020 | 1:00pm
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Hong Sang-soo’s Hill Of Freedom is an ingeniously absurd comedy of miscommunication
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 9, 2020 | 9:10pm
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You Don’t Nomi spotlights the cult of Showgirls, and how a big flop became a midnight sensation
By Alex McLevy June 9, 2020 | 1:00pm
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Judd Apatow fashions a low-laugh star vehicle for Pete Davidson in The King Of Staten Island
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 8, 2020 | 4:00pm
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The Last Days Of American Crime is a bloated sci-fi heist movie from the director of two Takens
By Jesse Hassenger June 5, 2020 | 5:00pm
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Kevin James playing a “scary” Nazi villain isn’t even the most ridiculous thing about Becky
By A.A. Dowd June 3, 2020 | 8:00pm
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The director and the star of Pontypool reunite for the sleepy, scuzzy thriller Dreamland
By William Hughes June 3, 2020 | 6:00pm
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Elisabeth Moss finds the dark soul of Shirley Jackson in a fittingly Gothic psychodrama
By Katie Rife June 3, 2020 | 2:04pm
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Willem Dafoe is an addict trying to keep it together in Abel Ferrara’s disarming Tommaso
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 2, 2020 | 9:00pm
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Hong Sang-soo adds to the pantheon of Vertigo riffs with the ambiguous Yourself And Yours
By Mike D'Angelo June 2, 2020 | 7:00pm
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We Are Freestyle Love Supreme is a feel-good origin story for Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first troupe
By Caroline Siede June 2, 2020 | 5:00pm
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Sci-fi wonder The Vast Of Night is an inspiring testament to resourceful indie filmmaking
By Katie Rife May 29, 2020 | 2:15pm
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Dakota Johnson wants to make records in the nice but oblivious The High Note
By Jesse Hassenger May 26, 2020 | 4:00pm
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For yet another vacation with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, take The Trip To Greece
By A.A. Dowd May 21, 2020 | 2:50pm
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Chef profile Diana Kennedy: Nothing Fancy offers food for thought but not much thought on food
By Roxana Hadadi May 20, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Bruno Dumont’s Joan Of Arc is a bit like Dreyer by way of Monty Python
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 20, 2020 | 4:00pm
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Issa Rae and Kumail Nanjiani make a winning pair in Netflix’s action-comedy The Lovebirds
By Katie Rife May 20, 2020 | 2:00pm
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Twists and turns hijack the affecting true story of The Painter And The Thief
By Mike D'Angelo May 19, 2020 | 6:00pm
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The Wrong Missy will leave you missing Adam Sandler’s Netflix comedies
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 15, 2020 | 2:33pm
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Abandon all hope, ye who are renting Scoob!
By Katie Rife May 15, 2020 | 7:00am
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Tom Hardy plays a fading Capone in a baroque portrait of the gangster's decline
By A.A. Dowd May 12, 2020 | 11:19pm
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An all-star lineup recounts psychedelic hijinks in Netflix documentary Have A Good Trip
By Charles Bramesco May 11, 2020 | 9:00pm
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Lifelong friends grow apart in the quiet, time-skipping Fourteen
By Jesse Hassenger May 11, 2020 | 7:20pm
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Booksmart’s Beanie Feldstein learns How To Build A Girl in a frustrating wish-fulfillment comedy
By Katie Rife May 8, 2020 | 5:30pm
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The new musical Valley Girl captures the neon but misses the fun of the ’80s original
By Gwen Ihnat May 8, 2020 | 1:00pm
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If you’re looking to jump in your seat, make a playdate with Z
By Katie Rife May 7, 2020 | 10:00pm
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Spaceship Earth offers a glowing, incomplete remembrance of a major scientific event
By A.A. Dowd May 7, 2020 | 7:00pm
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On A Magical Night is a surreal romantic fantasy without much to say
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 5, 2020 | 9:00pm
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Arkansas has a touch of Tarantino and the Coens, but not enough of its own noir flavor
By Noel Murray May 4, 2020 | 6:00pm
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Fun teen horror flick The Wretched does Rear Window with a witch
By A.A. Dowd May 1, 2020 | 9:15pm
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The director of Rubber returns with a deranged love story between a man and his jacket
By A.A. Dowd May 1, 2020 | 4:00pm
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Moonlight’s Ashton Sanders broods through the familiar Netflix drama All Day And A Night
By Katie Rife April 30, 2020 | 10:00pm
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For a 2-hour orgy of S&M and severed limbs, Liberté is pretty tedious
By Lawrence Garcia April 29, 2020 | 8:00pm
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Netflix takes another shot at Cyrano de Bergerac with queer love triangle The Half Of It
By Caroline Siede April 28, 2020 | 11:00pm
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The opioid crisis meets the rodeo in the indie drama Bull
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 28, 2020 | 7:18pm
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Beastie Boys Story is no sure shot
By Erik Adams April 24, 2020 | 5:00pm
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The Oklahoma teen drama To The Stars aims for subtle but lands on lukewarm
By Katie Rife April 23, 2020 | 4:00pm
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True History Of The Kelly Gang writes a powerful fictionalized biography of the outlaw
By A.A. Dowd April 23, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Chris Hemsworth reunites with some Marvel talent for the grisly but generic Extraction
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 22, 2020 | 3:00pm
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Ghost Town Anthology creeps up on you with its haunting premise
By Mike D'Angelo April 21, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Braveheart gets another sort-of sequel with the meager Robert The Bruce
By Jesse Hassenger April 21, 2020 | 6:00pm
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Why Don’t You Just Die! is a euphoric dose of pitch-black Russian violence
By William Hughes April 21, 2020 | 4:00pm
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Endings, Beginnings is an endless slog
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 16, 2020 | 3:05pm
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Elite academics meet gangland politics in the stylish teen drama Selah And The Spades
By Katie Rife April 15, 2020 | 8:45pm
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Fugitive thriller The Quarry stumbles during its slow trek into no country for old men
By Beatrice Loayza April 14, 2020 | 7:15pm
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Trolls World Tour is a shameless DreamWorks dance party you can attend from your couch
By Jesse Hassenger April 10, 2020 | 5:30pm
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Netflix’s Love Wedding Repeat adds some cringe to the rom-com
By Caroline Siede April 10, 2020 | 7:01am
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Master Of None’s Alan Yang retells his family’s immigration story in the poignant Tigertail
By Katie Rife April 10, 2020 | 7:00am
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Sea Fever is the accidental zeitgeist horror movie of our isolated here and now
By A.A. Dowd April 8, 2020 | 9:00pm
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The Grand Bizarre is a dazzling stop-motion marvel
By Mike D'Angelo April 7, 2020 | 5:00pm
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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
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The Ed Helms cop comedy Coffee & Kareem is laziness masquerading as irreverence
By Jesse Hassenger April 3, 2020 | 7:00am
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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
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The anti-gerrymandering doc Slay The Dragon is an uninspired call to action
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 31, 2020 | 10:21pm
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Netflix’s Crip Camp is a different kind of summer camp movie
By Katie Rife March 25, 2020 | 6:00pm
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Two new movies fail to exploit Jesse Eisenberg’s brainy talent and star power
By A.A. Dowd March 24, 2020 | 9:30pm
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Teen movie Banana Split is as artificial as fake fruit
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 24, 2020 | 7:20pm
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The powerful Never Rarely Sometimes Always puts a human face on the right to choose
By Katie Rife March 12, 2020 | 8:45pm
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Archie from Riverdale finds love, faith, and a guitar in the blandly inspirational I Still Believe
By Allison Shoemaker March 11, 2020 | 9:00pm
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Vin Diesel’s comic-book potboiler Bloodshot is dumb fun dressed like smart sci-fi
By A.A. Dowd March 11, 2020 | 4:15pm
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The Hunt is an anemic political comedy wrapped in a blood-soaked thriller
By Katie Rife March 11, 2020 | 3:35pm
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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
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Pete Davidson delivers small-time charms in Big Time Adolescence
By Caroline Siede March 10, 2020 | 5:30pm
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Gorgeous visuals make the shocking drama Swallow go down easy
By Katie Rife March 6, 2020 | 10:00pm
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Even Mark Wahlberg can do better than the forgettable Spenser Confidential
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 6, 2020 | 8:00am
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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
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If you think you know what Bacurau is all about, keep watching
By Katie Rife March 4, 2020 | 11:30pm
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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
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The Banker is rich only with biopic clichés
By Lawrence Garcia March 4, 2020 | 5:00pm
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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
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Ben Affleck dunks on his demons in the miraculously non-corny basketball drama The Way Back
By Charles Bramesco March 4, 2020 | 2:00pm
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Highbrow title aside, The Burnt Orange Heresy is a thriller of delectable surface pleasures
By Mike D'Angelo March 3, 2020 | 7:00pm
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Extra Ordinary is a warm, low-key trip to Ghostbusters territory
By Jesse Hassenger March 2, 2020 | 4:30pm
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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
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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
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Greed, for lack of a better word, is not good
By Vikram Murthi February 26, 2020 | 5:35pm
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The KKK redemption drama Burden means well but misses the bigger picture
By Katie Rife February 26, 2020 | 4:00pm
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The Whistlers is a delectable deadpan noir
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 25, 2020 | 9:00pm
