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The Blackcoat’s Daughter rises from release-date purgatory to give everyone the creeps
By A.A. Dowd March 30, 2017 | 5:00am
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Sad timeliness provides The Zookeeper’s Wife with more power than it earns
By Esther Zuckerman March 30, 2017 | 5:00am
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All This Panic lets the world revolve, for once, around some smart teenage girls
By A.A. Dowd March 29, 2017 | 5:00am
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Even by biopic standards, Cézanne Et Moi goes way too heavy on the bio
By Mike D'Angelo March 29, 2017 | 5:00am
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David Lynch: The Art Life is as close a look as the director has ever allowed
By Sean O'Neal March 29, 2017 | 5:00am
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Karl Marx City uncovers a dark mystery from the files of the East German secret police
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 28, 2017 | 5:00am
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Slamma Jamma is a basketball movie by way of Ed Wood
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 24, 2017 | 5:35pm
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The most retro thing about CHIPS is the gay panic
By Katie Rife March 23, 2017 | 6:45pm
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An amusing teen fantasy slowly morphs into a clunky reboot in Power Rangers
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 23, 2017 | 5:00pm
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Life comes at you fast when you’re being hunted by a hostile space octopus
By A.A. Dowd March 23, 2017 | 3:15pm
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A woman’s fetus commands her to kill in pitch-black slasher comedy Prevenge
By Katie Rife March 23, 2017 | 5:00am
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American Anarchist cooks up an unsavory recipe for scolding an interview subject
By Alex McLevy March 23, 2017 | 5:00am
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Dig Two Graves is a low-budget visual treat with a side of high-concept indigestion
By Mike D'Angelo March 22, 2017 | 5:00am
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I Called Him Morgan examines one of jazz’s most macabre stories
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 22, 2017 | 5:00am
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Woody Harrelson softens Daniel Clowes’ misanthropic Wilson for the big screen
By A.A. Dowd March 22, 2017 | 5:00am
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The Devil’s Candy plays its heavy-metal horror riff fast and loud
By Katie Rife March 16, 2017 | 3:35pm
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Song To Song resonates a little louder than Terrence Malick’s last few reveries
By Jesse Hassenger March 16, 2017 | 3:12pm
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Before going clean for Marvel, James Gunn conducted The Belko Experiment
By A.A. Dowd March 16, 2017 | 2:56pm
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The decades-later sequel T2 Trainspotting chooses nostalgia
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 16, 2017 | 5:00am
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Why remake Beauty And The Beast and do nothing new with its tale as old as time?
By A.A. Dowd March 15, 2017 | 10:26pm
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Hirokazu Koreeda’s After The Storm is a breezy portrait of a sore loser
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 15, 2017 | 5:00am
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They should have taken the You’ve Got Mail route with this Lubitsch remake, Frantz
By Mike D'Angelo March 14, 2017 | 5:00am
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A restored Taipei Story offers a fresh chance to discover the genius of Edward Yang
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 14, 2017 | 5:00am
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The Sense Of An Ending withholds endlessly, squandering a terrific Jim Broadbent
By Mike D'Angelo March 9, 2017 | 6:00am
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Kristen Stewart browses for ghosts in Olivier Assayas’ unclassifiable Personal Shopper
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 9, 2017 | 6:00am
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There’s plenty to chew on in the audacious cannibal drama Raw
By Katie Rife March 9, 2017 | 6:00am
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Fiction poisons reality in Actor Martinez, an offbeat portrait of a would-be star
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 8, 2017 | 6:00am
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Emphasis is on the “my” in the unilluminating My Scientology Movie
By A.A. Dowd March 8, 2017 | 6:00am
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King Kong goes to war in the Vietnam-themed monster mash Skull Island
By A.A. Dowd March 7, 2017 | 6:00am
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The incomparable Shirley MacLaine has The Last Word on a generic crowd-pleaser
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 3, 2017 | 7:10pm
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The Shack dares to ask, “What if God were a character actor?”
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 2, 2017 | 8:00pm
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Don’t get trapped in the loop of Before I Fall, a mopey Groundhog Day for teens
By A.A. Dowd March 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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Anne Heche and Sandra Oh beat the living hell out of each other in Catfight
By A.A. Dowd March 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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Table 19 is as exhausting as a real wedding reception
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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A dramatic turn feels out of place in the cartoonish cringe comedy Donald Cried
By Mike D'Angelo March 1, 2017 | 6:00am
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Good performances are squandered on Wolves, a flimsy takeoff of The Gambler
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 1, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Wolverine series gets a superb sendoff with the brutal, R-rated Logan
By A.A. Dowd February 28, 2017 | 4:10pm
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Blue Ruin’s Macon Blair makes an uneven, sporadically funny directorial debut
By A.A. Dowd February 25, 2017 | 7:38pm
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The car-chase thriller Collide runs on fumes
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 24, 2017 | 8:20pm
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Rock Dog is a direct-to-streaming cheapie at a movie-ticket price
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 24, 2017 | 6:00am
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They really should have found a way to get some Nirvana songs into As You Are
By A.A. Dowd February 23, 2017 | 9:50pm
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The Girl With All The Gifts tries to put a fresh spin on overripe zombie clichés
By Katie Rife February 23, 2017 | 6:00am
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Jordan Peele shifts from comedy to horror with the smart, cutting Get Out
By A.A. Dowd February 23, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Oscar-nominated My Life As A Zucchini is sweet, when it’s not being grim as hell
By Mike D'Angelo February 22, 2017 | 6:00am
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The wannabe historical epic Bitter Harvest bears sappy fruit
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 22, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Great Wall is a stupidly awesome eyeful
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 17, 2017 | 12:10am
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Even with two strong stars, Lovesong is nearly as generic as its title
By A.A. Dowd February 16, 2017 | 1:45pm
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Four female directors bring competing visions to the horror anthology XX
By Katie Rife February 16, 2017 | 6:00am
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Charlie Day and Ice Cube face off in the feeble Fist Fight
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 16, 2017 | 6:00am
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A Cure For Wellness is about as weird as modern Hollywood movies get
By A.A. Dowd February 16, 2017 | 6:00am
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James Franco has directed some bad movies, but none as boring as In Dubious Battle
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 15, 2017 | 6:00am
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Current events enhance the tragic power of immigrant drama From Nowhere
By Mike D'Angelo February 15, 2017 | 6:00am
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Love means ignoring every red flag in the sloppy sequel Fifty Shades Darker
By Katie Rife February 9, 2017 | 4:50pm
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David Oyelowo and Rosamund Pike outshine the filmmaking in A United Kingdom
By Jesse Hassenger February 9, 2017 | 6:00am
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Chapter 2 gives John Wick an irresistibly surreal follow-up
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 8, 2017 | 11:35pm
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The Oscar-nominated Land Of Mine uncovers another World War II horror story
By A.A. Dowd February 8, 2017 | 6:00am
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Kedi might look like a glorified cute cat video, but it has plenty to say about people, too
By Mike D'Angelo February 8, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Lego Batman Movie turns Bat mythology into a giant toybox
By Jesse Hassenger February 6, 2017 | 9:55pm
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Samara goes digital in Rings, but this is still just a faded copy of last decade’s scares
By A.A. Dowd February 3, 2017 | 9:21pm
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A Journey To The West sequel suffers without Stephen Chow’s direction
By Jesse Hassenger February 3, 2017 | 6:15pm
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Our hearts can’t handle the industrial-strength schmaltz of The Space Between Us
By A.A. Dowd February 2, 2017 | 8:34pm
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The Little Mermaid gets a grotesque makeover in the horror-musical hybrid The Lure
By Katie Rife February 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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Dark Night is a mysterious elegy for the victims of the Aurora movie-theater shooting
By A.A. Dowd February 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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Sorry War On Everyone, but it’s not the best time for a comedy about giddily corrupt cops
By Mike D'Angelo February 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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Robert De Niro is more of a dirty grandpa than a king of comedy in The Comedian
By Jesse Hassenger February 2, 2017 | 6:00am
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Oklahoma City would have really benefited from the long-form Made In America treatment
By Mike D'Angelo February 1, 2017 | 6:00am
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Strong direction can’t overcome story flaws in supernatural chiller Don’t Knock Twice
By Alex McLevy February 1, 2017 | 6:00am
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A transgender YouTube star creates her own spotlight in This Is Everything
By Noel Murray January 31, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Final Chapter is a weak retread of Resident Evil’s greatest hits
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 28, 2017 | 10:29pm
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The Ring and The Grudge collide in the teen-friendly J-horror flick Sadako Vs. Kayako
By Katie Rife January 27, 2017 | 11:01pm
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Asghar Farhadi puts his spin on Death Wish (sort of) in The Salesman
By Mike D'Angelo January 26, 2017 | 6:00am
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Maybe next time A Dog’s Purpose can be reincarnated as a good movie
By Katie Rife January 26, 2017 | 6:00am
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Kung Fu Yoga is even sillier than its title
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 26, 2017 | 6:00am
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Behemoth finds poetry in China’s industrial badlands
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 25, 2017 | 3:00pm
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James Franco takes on the tricky role of an “ex-gay” activist in I Am Michael
By Noel Murray January 25, 2017 | 6:00am
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xXx: Return Of Xander Cage is gloriously dumb, just like its title
By Katie Rife January 20, 2017 | 5:00am
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The deliriously entertaining Split is M. Night Shyamalan gone wild
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 19, 2017 | 6:00am
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Michael Fassbender can’t make something fresh out of Trespass Against Us
By A.A. Dowd January 19, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Resurrection Of Gavin Stone can’t find humor in good faith
By Jesse Hassenger January 19, 2017 | 6:00am
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The gimmicky neo-noir Detour feels like a film school project
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 18, 2017 | 4:54pm
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Suction cups, prog rock, wolves: Staying Vertical’s beguiling oddities keep coming
By Mike D'Angelo January 18, 2017 | 6:00am
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For the Iranian teen girls of Starless Dreams, life behind bars sadly beats the alternative
By Noel Murray January 17, 2017 | 6:00am
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Jamie Foxx is a dirty cop in the lean, mean, and completely implausible Sleepless
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 13, 2017 | 8:15pm
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No, you seriously shouldn’t think about The Bye Bye Man—or see it, for that matter
By A.A. Dowd January 12, 2017 | 7:44pm
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The Son Of Joseph is a droll parable from one of film’s great eccentrics
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 12, 2017 | 6:00am
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A literal monster truck is far from the stupidest thing about Monster Trucks
By Jesse Hassenger January 12, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Crash is a poor man’s financial thriller
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 11, 2017 | 6:00am
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The only thing exciting about Alone In Berlin is the fact that it’s a true story
By Mike D'Angelo January 11, 2017 | 6:00am
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No one talks and everyone moves in the adventurous dance/cinema hybrid Ma
By Mike D'Angelo January 11, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Underworld franchise keeps sucking in Blood Wars
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 9, 2017 | 1:57pm
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The Jackie Chan wartime caper Railroad Tigers never builds up steam
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 5, 2017 | 6:00am
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Some prime Nic Cage overacting is just a distraction from Arsenal’s faults
By Jesse Hassenger January 5, 2017 | 6:00am
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The Ardennes is just another stroll down the mean streets of crime cinema
By Mike D'Angelo January 5, 2017 | 6:00am
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Two lovers scratch the six-year itch in the insightful but undercooked Between Us
By A.A. Dowd January 5, 2017 | 6:00am
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Matthew McConaughey becomes both a rich and a poor man in Gold
By Jesse Hassenger December 30, 2016 | 6:00am
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Ben Affleck gets serious about his pulp fiction in Live By Night
By Jesse Hassenger December 27, 2016 | 4:46pm
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Adam Driver mellows out in Jim Jarmusch’s beautiful ode to ordinary living, Paterson
By A.A. Dowd December 21, 2016 | 6:00am
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Passengers strains the considerable charms of Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence
By Katie Rife December 20, 2016 | 12:15pm
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Martin Scorsese finally gets his solemn, powerful Silence off the ground
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
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Toni Erdmann is the 3-hour, achingly sad prankster comedy of the year
By Mike D'Angelo December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
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Good performances can’t blast Hidden Figures out of prestige convention
By Jesse Hassenger December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
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Patriots Day turns the Boston Marathon bombing into a mostly gripping procedural
By Benjamin Mercer December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
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Mike Mills writes more memoir-in-montage with the intoxicating 20th Century Women
By A.A. Dowd December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
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What the hell are Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard doing in Assassin’s Creed?
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2016 | 8:00pm
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Ken Loach overdoes the misery in the final stretch of his Cannes-winning I, Daniel Blake
By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
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Denzel Washington shines in an inconsistent adaptation of August Wilson’s classic Fences
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
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Fairy tales and family tragedy converge in the kid-friendly melodrama A Monster Calls
By Noel Murray December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
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The animated karaoke bash Sing aims for cute but lands on irritating
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
