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King Of Thieves is an embarrassing misstep for its stars, its director, and its writer
By Katie Rife January 24, 2019 | 2:45am
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The director of The Lives Of Others goes back to the Cold War in the Oscar-nominated Never Look Away
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 22, 2019 | 8:40pm
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M. Night Shyamalan mashes up two past hits into the wacky superhero sequel Glass
By A.A. Dowd January 17, 2019 | 6:00am
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The Standoff At Sparrow Creek is a lean, efficient, and disturbingly timely crime thriller
By Katie Rife January 16, 2019 | 7:45pm
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The director of Attack The Block gets family-friendly with the uneven The Kid Who Would Be King
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 14, 2019 | 9:00pm
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An award-winning lead performance can’t steer The Heiresses into insightful drama
By Mike D'Angelo January 14, 2019 | 7:10pm
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The Keanu Reeves sci-fi movie Replicas is so terrible it could give you an existential crisis
By A.A. Dowd January 11, 2019 | 9:00pm
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Kevin Hart helps Bryan Cranston loosen up in the pandering remake The Upside
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 10, 2019 | 7:45pm
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A Dog's Way Home is a sweet, simple family film with a bizarre morbid streak
By Katie Rife January 10, 2019 | 5:00pm
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Rust Creek is a slow-burn survival thriller that defies expectations
By Katie Rife January 5, 2019 | 12:00am
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Escape Room unlocks goofy, disposable B-movie fun
By Katie Rife January 3, 2019 | 11:30pm
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Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly hit career lows in the abysmally unfunny Holmes & Watson
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 26, 2018 | 2:30am
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The gorgeous throwback romance Cold War finds love and strife on both sides of the Iron Curtain
By A.A. Dowd December 22, 2018 | 12:35am
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Jennifer Lopez’s overstuffed Second Act offers three movies for the price of one
By Caroline Siede December 20, 2018 | 6:10pm
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The disastrous Welcome To Marwen strands a fascinating true story in the uncanny valley
By A.A. Dowd December 20, 2018 | 4:45pm
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Reilly & Coogan make a good Laurel & Hardy in the otherwise unexceptional Stan & Ollie
By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2018 | 6:00pm
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After a clumsy opening statement, RBG biopic On The Basis Of Sex effectively argues its case
By Caroline Siede December 19, 2018 | 5:05pm
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Christian Bale’s Dick Cheney impression is the only virtue of the glib, superficial Vice
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 17, 2018 | 8:30pm
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Nicole Kidman gets her hands dirty in the gritty L.A. crime thriller Destroyer
By Katie Rife December 17, 2018 | 3:30pm
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The 8-hour genocide documentary Dead Souls justifies its mammoth length
By A.A. Dowd December 14, 2018 | 9:00pm
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Bumblebee may be the best Transformers movie, but does that mean it’s any good?
By Jesse Hassenger December 14, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Barry Jenkins follows Moonlight with the gorgeous James Baldwin adaptation If Beale Street Could Talk
By A.A. Dowd December 14, 2018 | 1:00am
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Clint Eastwood re-emerges from retirement for one last drug run in The Mule
By Jesse Hassenger December 12, 2018 | 9:00pm
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Lars von Trier argues with himself in unpleasant serial-killer drama The House That Jack Built
By A.A. Dowd December 12, 2018 | 7:45pm
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A spoonful of nostalgia helps the calculated Mary Poppins Returns go down
By Charles Bramesco December 12, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Lord Of The Rings vets bring the steampunk world of Mortal Engines to sputtering life
By Katie Rife December 12, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Netflix’s post-apocalyptic Sandra Bullock vehicle Bird Box fumbles in the dark
By Katie Rife December 12, 2018 | 11:00am
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The manipulative Cannes award-winner Capernaum pleads for your pity at every turn
By Mike D'Angelo December 11, 2018 | 9:00pm
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Like its hero, Aquaman is big, cheesy, and fun
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 11, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Julia Roberts frets about her beautiful boy in the year's weaker teen addict drama, Ben Is Back
By A.A. Dowd December 6, 2018 | 4:15pm
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Natalie Portman plays a cynical pop star for an overstimulated age in the glib Vox Lux
By Katie Rife December 5, 2018 | 11:30pm
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With Mowgli, Andy Serkis brings a marginally darker Jungle Book to Netflix
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 5, 2018 | 9:30pm
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The micro-indie The Great Pretender finds comedy in art, self-deception, and gonorrhea
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 4, 2018 | 9:30pm
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Boys’-weekend cringefest Tyrel puts Jason Mitchell through the microaggression ringer
By Vikram Murthi December 4, 2018 | 7:00pm
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There’s nothing spooky and a lot irritating about the showbiz-family affair Clara’s Ghost
By Mike D'Angelo December 4, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Like a costume-drama Heat, Mary Queen Of Scots keeps Saoirse Ronan and Margot Robbie apart
By Jesse Hassenger December 4, 2018 | 3:40pm
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Only briefly does The Possession Of Hannah Grace exorcise Exorcist cliché
By Jesse Hassenger November 30, 2018 | 1:00pm
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In the bleak, fascinating People’s Republic Of Desire, the techno-dystopian future is now
By Katie Rife November 29, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Superhero dimensions collide in a funny, gorgeously psychedelic Spider-Man cartoon
By Jesse Hassenger November 28, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem open old wounds in Asghar Farhadi’s too familiar Everybody Knows
By Mike D'Angelo November 27, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Anna And The Apocalypse is a holiday-horror cocktail of singing, maiming, and clichés
By April Wolfe November 27, 2018 | 5:15pm
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There are surprises aplenty in the beguiling Cannes prize-winner Happy As Lazzaro
By Lawrence Garcia November 27, 2018 | 4:00pm
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The Favourite is a sharp-tongued costume drama with a delirious, disorienting edge
By Katie Rife November 21, 2018 | 1:00am
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Hey, at least this dopey new Robin Hood is a little more fun than the last one
By A.A. Dowd November 20, 2018 | 9:45pm
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Kurt Russell gives his all as DILF Santa in The Christmas Chronicles
By Charles Bramesco November 19, 2018 | 10:30pm
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This year’s big Cannes winner, Shoplifters, is an affecting ode to the families we choose
By Mike D'Angelo November 19, 2018 | 10:00pm
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Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma is a beautiful if incomplete tribute to the women who raise us
By Danette Chavez November 19, 2018 | 3:30pm
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The watched becomes the watcher in the brilliantly inverted techno-thriller Cam
By Katie Rife November 16, 2018 | 8:30pm
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Creed II can’t match the impact of its predecessor, but lands some powerful blows
By Jesse Hassenger November 16, 2018 | 6:00pm
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With Green Book, a Farrelly brother is here to make you laugh, cry, and feel better about racism
By A.A. Dowd November 16, 2018 | 4:31pm
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Jinn tells a familiar coming-of-age story from a fresh point of view
By Katie Rife November 15, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Steve McQueen’s thrilling heist movie Widows has more on its mind than a big score
By A.A. Dowd November 14, 2018 | 9:20pm
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Disney goes viral with an ambitious, overstuffed Wreck-It Ralph sequel
By Jesse Hassenger November 14, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne build an Instant Family in a comedy more touching than funny
By Caroline Siede November 14, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Willem Dafoe plays Van Gogh, a man 25 years his junior, in the reductive biopic At Eternity’s Gate
By Mike D'Angelo November 13, 2018 | 8:30pm
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Shoah: Four Sisters extends the legacy of Claude
Lanzmann’s essential Holocaust film
By Lawrence Garcia November 13, 2018 | 5:45pm
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Chris Pine plays a Scottish Outlaw King in an epic without a sense of purpose
By Jesse Hassenger November 9, 2018 | 6:15pm
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There's not much magic in the plotty, reference-heavy Fantastic Beasts sequel
By A.A. Dowd November 8, 2018 | 9:15pm
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In horror hybrid Overlord, the only thing worse than a living Nazi is an undead one
By Mike D'Angelo November 8, 2018 | 9:00pm
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You’re a dull one, Mr. Grinch—at least in this latest retelling of the classic Seuss tale
By Jesse Hassenger November 7, 2018 | 5:00pm
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The Coens head West (and to Netflix) in the grimly comic anthology The Ballad Of Buster Scruggs
By A.A. Dowd November 6, 2018 | 11:30pm
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The Girl In The Spider’s Web pits Lisbeth Salander against multiple foes—and the franchise machine
By Katie Rife November 6, 2018 | 6:35pm
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There’s a touch of Nathan For You absurdity to the droll sports documentary Infinite Football
By Lawrence Garcia November 6, 2018 | 5:45pm
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Opening on Election Day, The Front Runner is the absolute worst movie for the political moment
By Mike D'Angelo November 5, 2018 | 10:00pm
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One week after releasing his epic, indie director Patrick Wang offers the thinner Grief Of Others
By A.A. Dowd November 2, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Tiffany Haddish goes broader than ever for Tyler Perry in the sporadically funny Nobody's Fool
By Jesse Hassenger November 2, 2018 | 3:45pm
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Lost for decades, Orson Welles’ The Other Side Of The Wind is a brilliant blast of ’70s Hollywood mania
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 1, 2018 | 6:35pm
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The Nutcracker And The Four Realms is another flavorless remake from the Disney magic machine
By Katie Rife November 1, 2018 | 12:00am
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Searching For Ingmar Bergman doesn’t uncover much fresh insight about his life and work
By Mike D'Angelo October 30, 2018 | 9:25pm
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The Eminem-produced satire Bodied knows every dis you’ll have and gets there first
By April Wolfe October 30, 2018 | 8:30pm
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Joel Edgerton follows up The Gift with the Oscar-ready gay-conversion drama Boy Erased
By Lawrence Garcia October 29, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Gerard Butler dives into the watchably dumb submarine thriller Hunter Killer
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 25, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Burning elevates a minimalist class-warfare mystery into one of the best movies of the year
By A.A. Dowd October 25, 2018 | 7:25pm
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You’ve never seen anything quite like Border
By Katie Rife October 24, 2018 | 9:15pm
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The wonderful Shirkers reclaims a lost film by chronicling its rollicking DIY production
By Vikram Murthi October 24, 2018 | 4:30pm
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Luca Guadagnino’s Suspiria remake transforms lurid thrills into high art
By Katie Rife October 24, 2018 | 1:00pm
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Bohemian Rhapsody sings when it digs into Queen’s eccentric creative process
By Jesse Hassenger October 23, 2018 | 9:12pm
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Right now, even Frederick Wiseman shouldn’t get away with an apolitical look at small-town America
By Mike D'Angelo October 23, 2018 | 9:00pm
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Art and community collide in the fantastic, small-town epic A Bread Factory
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 23, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Johnny English Strikes Again continues the mild adventures of Rowan Atkinson's un-super spy
By Jesse Hassenger October 22, 2018 | 4:30pm
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Just in time for Halloween, Caniba gets up close and sickeningly personal with a real-life cannibal
By A.A. Dowd October 21, 2018 | 12:00am
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Aubrey Plaza leads a parade of bad taste and noir misfits in An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 17, 2018 | 7:00pm
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The Price Of Everything puts the complexities of the art world on breathtaking display
By Allison Shoemaker October 17, 2018 | 4:40pm
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Can You Ever Forgive Me? finally gives Melissa McCarthy the dramatic vehicle she deserves
By Katie Rife October 17, 2018 | 4:10pm
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Michael Shannon is refreshingly ordinary in What They Had, a family drama with focus issues
By Caroline Siede October 17, 2018 | 11:00am
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Mélanie Laurent makes an uneven but urgent crime drama from Nic Pizzolatto’s Galveston
By Mike D'Angelo October 16, 2018 | 8:30pm
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One-man show The Guilty effectively transfers Rear Window to a police call center
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 16, 2018 | 8:00pm
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The new Halloween isn’t just a pale imitation of the original—it’s an inferior H20
By A.A. Dowd October 16, 2018 | 7:15pm
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Paul Dano steps behind the camera with the bland coming-of-age drama Wildlife
By Lawrence Garcia October 15, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Jonah Hill makes his auspicious if uneven filmmaking debut with a Mid90s nostalgia trip
By Jesse Hassenger October 15, 2018 | 4:20pm
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The director of The Raid doesn't tone things down one bit for the gory folk-horror of Apostle
By Katie Rife October 11, 2018 | 10:00pm
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Steve Carell and Timothée Chalamet anchor the father-son addiction drama Beautiful Boy
By A.A. Dowd October 11, 2018 | 9:05pm
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Maggie Gyllenhaal shines in The Kindergarten Teacher, even as the script hobbles her efforts
By Vikram Murthi October 10, 2018 | 9:00pm
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Paul Greengrass crosses the line into bad taste with his latest docudrama of real terror, 22 July
By A.A. Dowd October 10, 2018 | 8:30pm
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Thunder Road makes cringe comedy from despair
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 10, 2018 | 7:45pm
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Haunted Halloween rehashes Goosebumps’ monster mash
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 10, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Drew Goddard turns his dial to “noir” in the twisty crime thriller Bad Times At The El Royale
By Katie Rife October 10, 2018 | 2:50pm
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The fountain of wit dries up in The Happy Prince, an Oscar Wilde biopic about his sad last days
By Mike D'Angelo October 9, 2018 | 9:20pm
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The star and director of La La Land reunite for First Man’s spectacular trip to the moon
By A.A. Dowd October 9, 2018 | 8:15pm
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Ike Barinholtz and Tiffany Haddish tackle the rancor of the Trump era by taking The Oath
By Jesse Hassenger October 8, 2018 | 7:45pm
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Heavy Trip pays affectionate tribute to the dork inside every metalhead
By Katie Rife October 3, 2018 | 10:40pm
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The writer-director of The Savages takes on an awkward subject in Private Life
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 3, 2018 | 8:45pm
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Bradley Cooper and Lady Gaga breathe new soul into an old Hollywood fable, A Star Is Born
By A.A. Dowd October 3, 2018 | 5:25pm
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A new Venom movie still isn't sure what to do with Spider-Man's creepy foe
By Jesse Hassenger October 3, 2018 | 3:30am
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Peter Bogdanovich pays stodgy tribute to a comedy legend in The Great Buster
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 2, 2018 | 10:30pm
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Javier Bardem’s exposed gut stars as Pablo Escobar in the hokey Loving Pablo
By Mike D'Angelo October 2, 2018 | 6:30pm
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The theme-park slasher Hell Fest is as exciting as waiting in line
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 28, 2018 | 7:40pm
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The Hate U Give gives the world a new kind of teen movie
By Allison Shoemaker September 28, 2018 | 6:10pm
