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Addiction is the real monster of Werewolf, a striking addition to the junkies-in-love genre
By Mike D'Angelo February 27, 2018 | 8:10pm
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Love, Simon often plays like sweetly progressive, second-rate TV
By Jesse Hassenger February 27, 2018 | 7:30am
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Mute is a flabbergasting futuristic dud from the director of Moon and Warcraft
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 23, 2018 | 8:00am
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Alex Garland's Annihilation is weirder, wilder, and much scarier than Ex Machina
By A.A. Dowd February 22, 2018 | 11:25pm
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The YA adaptation Every Day never grows into its tricky body-swapping premise
By Jesse Hassenger February 22, 2018 | 11:00pm
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Home is where the ghosts are in the moldy Gothic horror of The Lodgers
By Katie Rife February 21, 2018 | 11:30pm
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Game Night amiably goofs on the slick crime thrillers of David Fincher
By A.A. Dowd February 21, 2018 | 2:00am
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History repeats: First as tragedy, then as farce, and finally as a rote biopic in The Young Karl Marx
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 19, 2018 | 9:20pm
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Samson tries to put an evangelical spin on the Bible’s horniest strongman
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 16, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Jennifer Lawrence tweaks her action-heroine steeliness in the half-trashy Red Sparrow
By Jesse Hassenger February 16, 2018 | 5:50pm
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About as subtle as its title, Nostalgia still provides a fine showcase for Jon Hamm
By A.A. Dowd February 14, 2018 | 11:45pm
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Kristin Scott Thomas brings life to The Party
By Katie Rife February 14, 2018 | 11:10pm
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The entertaining and ambitious Black Panther breaks from the Marvel formula
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 14, 2018 | 9:45am
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A strong lead performance can’t push Western beyond its own conceit
By Mike D'Angelo February 13, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Aardman takes sports comedies back to the Stone Age in Early Man
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 13, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Skip Fifty Shades and spend Valentine Day’s with the kinky, hysterical Double Lover instead
By A.A. Dowd February 12, 2018 | 11:05pm
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Looking Glass will make you nostalgic for when Nic Cage did movies with Brian De Palma
By Jesse Hassenger February 12, 2018 | 7:15pm
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An experiment in stunt casting, The 15:17 To Paris is one of Clint Eastwood’s strangest films—and one of his worst
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 8, 2018 | 11:00pm
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At least Fifty Shades Freed liberates us from watching these dumb movies
By Katie Rife February 8, 2018 | 5:25pm
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Alex Ross Perry does Woody doing Bergman in the tedious art-house throwback Golden Exits
By A.A. Dowd February 7, 2018 | 2:40pm
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The Ritual is a chore
By Mike D'Angelo February 6, 2018 | 7:25pm
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Brie Larson's musical Basmati Blues rides the line between charming and embarrassing
By Jesse Hassenger February 5, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Peter Rabbit turns a classic character from children’s lit into an insufferable dick
By Jesse Hassenger February 5, 2018 | 6:45pm
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Netflix’s sci-fi surprise release The Cloverfield Paradox isn’t as original as its marketing gimmick
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 5, 2018 | 5:15pm
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Guns create ghosts in Winchester, a hokey horror misfire “inspired by actual events”
By A.A. Dowd February 2, 2018 | 9:05pm
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The director of Pulse leads an invasion of the body snatchers in the goofy-creepy Before We Vanish
By A.A. Dowd February 1, 2018 | 4:40pm
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The animated Bilal proves Christians don't have a monopoly on inspirational junk
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 31, 2018 | 9:10pm
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From Lebanon comes The Insult, an Oscar nominee that pulls its punches
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 30, 2018 | 9:00pm
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The late, great Abbas Kiarostami ends his career on the vanguard with the adventurous 24 Frames
By Mike D'Angelo January 30, 2018 | 7:40pm
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National Lampoon biopic A Futile And Stupid Gesture laughs at and with Doug Kenney
By Charles Bramesco January 25, 2018 | 9:42pm
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The Maze Runner series makes an exit with the proficient, energetic sci-fi junk of The Death Cure
By Jesse Hassenger January 24, 2018 | 11:15pm
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The Chinese crime comedy Have A Nice Day blurs the line between comics and animation
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 24, 2018 | 5:50pm
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Mediterranea gets an inferior follow-up in the neo-realist coming-of-age story A Ciambra
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 23, 2018 | 10:15pm
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The cloying Please Stand By goes where feel-good movies about autism have gone before
By Mike D'Angelo January 23, 2018 | 8:15pm
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Nicolas Cage tries to kill his kids (and a pool table) in the pitch-black horror comedy Mom And Dad
By A.A. Dowd January 19, 2018 | 4:05pm
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The Final Year is both a love letter and gut punch to the Obama presidency
By Josh Modell January 18, 2018 | 9:30pm
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The low-rent Heat clone Den Of Thieves gives Gerard Butler his best role in ages
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 18, 2018 | 8:05pm
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John Hawkes gets his Coen brothers on in the appealingly generic Small Town Crime
By Katie Rife January 17, 2018 | 11:10pm
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Chris Hemsworth takes on the Taliban in 12 Strong, a war movie that’s more ho-hum than gung ho
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 17, 2018 | 8:40pm
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Forever My Girl is barely a love story, but it wants you to swoon anyway
By Jesse Hassenger January 17, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Studio Ghibli alums keep the company’s whimsical spirit alive with Mary And The Witch’s Flower
By Mike D'Angelo January 16, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Corporate training meets high art in the offbeat Dim The Fluorescents
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 12, 2018 | 11:15pm
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Taraji P. Henson’s Proud Mary is a great leading woman in search of a good movie
By Katie Rife January 12, 2018 | 8:10pm
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The Inside remake is a cut below its insanely violent inspiration
By A.A. Dowd January 12, 2018 | 3:45pm
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If only every January thriller were as smart-dumb as Liam Neeson's The Commuter
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 10, 2018 | 8:10pm
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Jack Black and Jenny Slate can’t find the satire in The Polka King’s goofy true crime
By Jesse Hassenger January 10, 2018 | 7:20pm
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Lover For A Day is the latest relationship study in shades of gray from Philippe Garrel
By Mike D'Angelo January 9, 2018 | 6:15pm
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The charming Paddington 2 is the rare live-action kids' movie adults can bear
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 8, 2018 | 11:14pm
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Shelved for years, the eerie Before I Wake offers a welcome alternative to the usual January jump scares
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 5, 2018 | 4:30pm
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The dark and creepy gets dull and creaky in Insidious: The Last Key
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 4, 2018 | 9:00pm
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In Between shines a light on sexism, but risks trivializing it
By Mike D'Angelo January 3, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Just in time for Christmas, Happy End offers the grueling greatest hits of Michael Haneke
By A.A. Dowd December 22, 2017 | 10:05pm
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Will Smith's Netflix blockbuster Bright is stunning in its audacity—and its stupidity
By Katie Rife December 22, 2017 | 5:00pm
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Alexander Payne thinks too small with his Matt Damon shrinking comedy Downsizing
By A.A. Dowd December 22, 2017 | 11:40am
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Father Figures is an Owen Wilson/Ed Helms comedy that’s barely there at all
By Jesse Hassenger December 22, 2017 | 12:00am
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Annette Bening pays tribute to a forgotten icon in Film Stars Don’t Die In Liverpool
By Katie Rife December 21, 2017 | 5:00pm
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Removing Kevin Spacey isn't the only way they could have improved All The Money In The World
By A.A. Dowd December 21, 2017 | 4:10pm
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Hugh Jackman follows some very stupid dreams in his new musical The Greatest Showman
By Jesse Hassenger December 20, 2017 | 6:00am
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Even Diane Kruger going after Nazis can't save the blunt courtroom drama In The Fade
By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2017 | 7:00pm
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Pitch Perfect 3 is still likable, but it's singing on fumes
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2017 | 1:30pm
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Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle gets by on the strength of its la-la-la-la-la-lead-leads
By Katie Rife December 19, 2017 | 6:35am
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The good and the bad of Aaron Sorkin are on full display in his directorial debut, Molly's Game
By Mike D'Angelo December 15, 2017 | 7:23pm
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Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland go on a sentimental journey in The Leisure Seeker
By Katie Rife December 14, 2017 | 9:00pm
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The Old West is clinically depressed in the grim Christian Bale oater Hostiles
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 14, 2017 | 5:00pm
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The mediocre Ferdinand mostly fails to bring a beloved kid-lit bestseller to life
By Vikram Murthi December 13, 2017 | 5:15pm
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Errol Morris boldly mixes nonfiction and fiction to tackle the unsolved mystery of Wormwood
By Mike D'Angelo December 12, 2017 | 10:00pm
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The Last Jedi locates that middle-chapter, Empire Strikes Back mojo
By A.A. Dowd December 12, 2017 | 5:50pm
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A quirky Bill Pullman lights up the ho-hum Western The Ballad Of Lefty Brown
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 12, 2017 | 4:00pm
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The Morgan Freeman geezer comedy Just Getting Started can't even get it up
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 8, 2017 | 11:00pm
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Foxtrot is a striking triptych of war, grief, and fate
By A.A. Dowd December 8, 2017 | 10:40pm
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P.T. Anderson reunites with Daniel Day-Lewis for the exquisite mad love of Phantom Thread
By A.A. Dowd December 7, 2017 | 11:20pm
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The gorgeously humane Quest documents a tumultuous decade in one family’s life
By Josh Modell December 7, 2017 | 11:15pm
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Margot Robbie skates around the diet-Scorsese tricks of the Tonya Harding biopic I, Tonya
By A.A. Dowd December 6, 2017 | 6:50pm
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Steven Spielberg can’t make great drama out of The Post’s timely celebration of journalism
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 6, 2017 | 2:00pm
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Wonder Wheel is one of Woody Allen's sourest, stagiest, and most disturbingly personal movies
By A.A. Dowd December 1, 2017 | 12:16am
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Finland's deadpan Aki Kaurismäki comes home with the Capra-esque Other Side Of Hope
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 30, 2017 | 11:45pm
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The Disaster Artist is a lousy tribute to the greatest bad movie of our time
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 30, 2017 | 8:00am
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Cannes winner Loveless is a bracing reminder that things aren’t going great in Russia either
By Mike D'Angelo November 29, 2017 | 9:30pm
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Guillermo Del Toro’s love of other movies is the real romantic center of The Shape Of Water
By A.A. Dowd November 29, 2017 | 8:15pm
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Charles Dickens gets his own superfluous origin story in The Man Who Invented Christmas
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 22, 2017 | 4:30pm
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There aren’t many summer love stories as rapturously bittersweet as Call Me By Your Name
By A.A. Dowd November 22, 2017 | 2:25pm
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Gary Oldman struggles to lead Joe Wright’s eye-catching Darkest Hour
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 21, 2017 | 10:45pm
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The winning Coco sends Pixar to the great beyond
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 17, 2017 | 11:30pm
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The animated trifle The Star passes the Nativity through its ass
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 16, 2017 | 9:30pm
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Jim & Andy’s long-lost Jim Carrey footage reveals the madness in the Method
By Mike D'Angelo November 15, 2017 | 11:00pm
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Denzel Washington delivers a rare bad performance in the shapeless Roman J. Israel, Esq.
By A.A. Dowd November 15, 2017 | 9:30pm
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Wonder is just sweet enough not to give you a toothache
By Katie Rife November 15, 2017 | 8:15pm
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The superheroes of Justice League deserve better than another misbegotten blockbuster
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 15, 2017 | 7:00pm
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It’s one against the bigoted world for the trans heroine of the engaging A Fantastic Woman
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 14, 2017 | 11:30pm
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On The Beach At Night Alone mixes the painfully personal with the thrillingly unexplained
By Mike D'Angelo November 14, 2017 | 10:30pm
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The ambitious Mudbound gives a prestige literary epic the soul of a character study
By A.A. Dowd November 14, 2017 | 9:15pm
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The beautiful but uneven Porto will make you miss Anton Yelchin all the more
By Jesse Hassenger November 13, 2017 | 9:40pm
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Daddy’s Home 2 doubles the daddies, but not the laughs
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 10, 2017 | 12:00am
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A real-life Irish massacre offers brutal facts, but little mystery, in Alex Gibney's No Stone Unturned
By Josh Modell November 9, 2017 | 5:30pm
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The unpredictable Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri pits Frances McDormand against the world
By A.A. Dowd November 9, 2017 | 3:57pm
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A perfect mystery jumps the rails in the star-studded Murder On The Orient Express
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 8, 2017 | 10:45pm
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Real emotions battle a muddled metaphor in the campus Carrie riff Thelma
By A.A. Dowd November 8, 2017 | 7:30pm
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Richard Linklater takes on war and grief in Last Flag Flying
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 3, 2017 | 12:00pm
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Woody Harrelson’s makeup isn’t the worst thing about LBJ
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 2, 2017 | 6:45pm
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Takashi Miike rings in 100 movies with the garish, gory comic-book fun of Blade Of The Immortal
By Katie Rife November 2, 2017 | 4:45pm
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A Bad Moms Christmas offers little reason to celebrate
By Jesse Hassenger November 1, 2017 | 8:00pm
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My Friend Dahmer remakes a serial killer into a sympathetic outcast
By Katie Rife November 1, 2017 | 4:10pm
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Kiyoshi Kurosawa relocates to France with the underdeveloped Daguerrotype
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 31, 2017 | 9:00pm
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The low-key Princess Cyd is a coming of age without the drama
By Mike D'Angelo October 31, 2017 | 7:00pm
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Greta Gerwig's uproarious, beautiful Lady Bird puts the average coming-of-age comedy to shame
By A.A. Dowd October 31, 2017 | 2:53pm
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A documentary about Trump’s election night offers little beyond shitty memories
By Josh Modell October 30, 2017 | 4:10pm
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Ragnarok gives Thor the multiple buddy comedies he's always deserved
By A.A. Dowd October 30, 2017 | 1:48am
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A sparkling new restoration resurrects Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s moody Daughter Of The Nile
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 27, 2017 | 10:40pm
