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Antonioni’s Le Amiche is an early gem that scarcely resembles his later ones
By Mike D'Angelo June 4, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Thoughts That Once We Had lacks the character of Los Angeles Plays Itself
By A.A. Dowd June 2, 2016 | 3:34pm
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out Of The Shadows is Michael Bay for kids
By Jesse Hassenger June 2, 2016 | 3:00pm
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Me Before You is a dry-eyed tearjerker
By Jesse Hassenger June 2, 2016 | 2:33pm
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The Witness puts a personal spin on a true crime and the apathy it inspired
By A.A. Dowd June 2, 2016 | 5:00am
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Popstar gives today’s Top 40 a little Spinal Tap
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 2, 2016 | 5:00am
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Preadolescent anxiety bleeds into eco-horror in the dreamy The Fits
By Noel Murray June 2, 2016 | 5:00am
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Martial-arts pic The Final Master hasn’t nearly enough fighting or grandeur
By Mike D'Angelo June 2, 2016 | 5:00am
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Approaching The Unknown is a monotonous space odyssey
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 2, 2016 | 5:00am
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Time To Choose is the rare hopeful environmentalist documentary
By Noel Murray June 1, 2016 | 5:00am
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Horror, comedy, and mystery energetically mingle in The Wailing
By Benjamin Mercer June 1, 2016 | 5:00am
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What the hell was Bill Plympton thinking with Hitler’s Folly?
By Mike D'Angelo June 1, 2016 | 5:00am
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Guns N’ Roses’ Duff McKagan deserves a better documentary than It’s So Easy
By Alex McLevy June 1, 2016 | 5:00am
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Criterion offers a loose trilogy from Wim Wenders, king of the road movie
By Mike D'Angelo May 28, 2016 | 5:00am
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Adam Sandler and David Spade blow another chance to be funny in The Do-Over
By Jesse Hassenger May 27, 2016 | 4:28pm
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An important filmmaker gets a disposable profile in Jia Zhangke, A Guy From Fenyang
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 26, 2016 | 5:00am
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Chevalier sees male bonding as a (literal) dick-measuring contest
By A.A. Dowd May 26, 2016 | 5:00am
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If you can’t guess where The Ones Below is going, you’re probably one of its characters
By Mike D'Angelo May 26, 2016 | 5:00am
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With Holy Hell, a cult survivor shares 22 years of footage from the inside
By A.A. Dowd May 26, 2016 | 5:00am
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Alice Through The Looking Glass should be a lot weirder than it is
By Jesse Hassenger May 24, 2016 | 5:10pm
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An uplifting doc reveals the stranger-than-fiction story of a YouTuber
By Noel Murray May 24, 2016 | 5:00am
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Unlocking The Cage doesn’t make the best case for its animal-rights cause
By Mike D'Angelo May 24, 2016 | 5:00am
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Apocalypse pits the strengths of the X-Men series against the weaknesses
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 23, 2016 | 5:00am
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Well, The Idol isn’t the worst film made about a singing-competition winner
By Mike D'Angelo May 23, 2016 | 5:00am
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Robert Altman affectionately skewered Hollywood with The Player
By Mike D'Angelo May 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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Pervert Park boldly expresses empathy for America’s most reviled
By A.A. Dowd May 19, 2016 | 2:00pm
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Kaili Blues takes a mysterious journey through memory and time
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 19, 2016 | 1:00pm
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Neighbors 2 is a good comedy with a surprisingly great Zac Efron
By Jesse Hassenger May 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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Maggie’s Plan is the off-brand version of a delightful Greta Gerwig comedy
By A.A. Dowd May 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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A revealing new documentary looks at the rise and fall of Anthony Weiner
By Noel Murray May 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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Shane Black delivers another fun mismatched-buddy riff with The Nice Guys
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Angry Birds Movie is infuriatingly unfunny
By Jesse Hassenger May 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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Penélope Cruz won’t let cancer bring her down in the maudlin Ma Ma
By Noel Murray May 17, 2016 | 5:00am
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Adrien Brody enlivens the hard-boiled clichés of Manhattan Night
By Adam Nayman May 17, 2016 | 5:00am
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Poltergeist haunts every lame frame of The Darkness
By A.A. Dowd May 13, 2016 | 3:00pm
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Shame it’s not 1998, when Money Monster might have looked relevant
By Jesse Hassenger May 12, 2016 | 3:30pm
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Search Party’s quest for laughs comes back empty-handed
By Katie Rife May 12, 2016 | 3:00pm
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Kill Zone 2 is a ballsy opera of martial-arts glory
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 12, 2016 | 2:00pm
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Cage and Travolta face off again, this time with competing budget vehicles
By A.A. Dowd May 12, 2016 | 1:00pm
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Colin Farrell goes full-on frumpy in the darkly deadpan The Lobster
By A.A. Dowd May 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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A High-Rise collapses into anarchy in this crazed class-warfare comedy
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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Terence Davies missteps with the sluggish Sunset Song
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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Jane Austen fits Whit Stillman like a glove in the witty Love & Friendship
By Mike D'Angelo May 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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Ewan McGregor plays Jesus (and the devil) during his Last Days In The Desert
By Jesse Hassenger May 12, 2016 | 5:00am
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A Monster With A Thousand Heads does wonders with a preposterous plot
By Mike D'Angelo May 10, 2016 | 1:59pm
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Bogart goes boldly unhinged in the essential noir In A Lonely Place
By Mike D'Angelo May 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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The animated psychosexual freak-out Belladonna Of Sadness is a major re-discovery
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 5, 2016 | 9:23pm
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Jean-Luc Godard’s perennially cool Band Of Outsiders returns to theaters
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 5, 2016 | 2:31pm
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Star Wars’ minor players take center stage in Elstree 1976
By Noel Murray May 5, 2016 | 2:00pm
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The cross-cultural pot dramedy Dough is both sweet and stale
By Katie Rife May 5, 2016 | 1:00pm
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Rob Reiner achieves a very minor comeback with Being Charlie
By Mike D'Angelo May 5, 2016 | 5:00am
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Cannes winner Dheepan is a bad Taxi Driver wannabe in disguise
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 5, 2016 | 5:00am
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Crowds should cheer the uplifting sports-doc Dark Horse
By Noel Murray May 5, 2016 | 5:00am
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It’s Avenger on Avenger in Marvel’s superior Captain America: Civil War
By A.A. Dowd May 3, 2016 | 9:11pm
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Tilda Swinton and Ralph Fiennes are aging rockers in the beguiling, muddled A Bigger Splash
By Jesse Hassenger May 3, 2016 | 4:52pm
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Easy Rider ushered in a new generation of filmmakers not born to follow
By Noel Murray April 30, 2016 | 5:00am
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Term Life is a father-daughter crime movie you can fall asleep to
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 29, 2016 | 8:02pm
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Ratchet & Clank comes to the big screen with a whimper and a thud
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 29, 2016 | 12:00am
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No actor escapes unscathed in the abysmal ensemble Mother’s Day
By Jesse Hassenger April 28, 2016 | 11:00pm
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Key and Peele are outrageously funny, even when Keanu isn’t
By A.A. Dowd April 28, 2016 | 7:15pm
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The Man Who Knew Infinity is a brainy snack in popcorn season
By Katie Rife April 28, 2016 | 3:58pm
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Viva is more sensitive PSA on drag culture than satisfying drama
By Mike D'Angelo April 28, 2016 | 2:00pm
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L’Attesa makes absolutely no sense, but it looks good doing it
By Mike D'Angelo April 28, 2016 | 1:00pm
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The Family Fang is too restrained for Jason Bateman and Nicole Kidman
By Jesse Hassenger April 28, 2016 | 5:00am
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The only thing interesting about Hemingway In Cuba is where it was shot
By Adam Nayman April 28, 2016 | 5:00am
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Ricky Gervais’ media satire Special Correspondents is all snark, no bite
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 28, 2016 | 5:00am
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More than 70 years later, Brief Encounter remains intensely poignant
By Mike D'Angelo April 23, 2016 | 5:00am
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Robert Drew’s Kennedy films chart the evolution of American politics—and American documentary
By Mike D'Angelo April 23, 2016 | 5:00am
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Matteo Garrone’s Tale Of Tales offers one macabre fable after another
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 21, 2016 | 5:00pm
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There’s not a lot to celebrate in the uneven horror anthology Holidays
By Katie Rife April 21, 2016 | 4:00pm
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Mads Mikkelsen gets grotesque in the unfunny Men & Chicken
By Mike D'Angelo April 21, 2016 | 3:00pm
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The Huntsman: Winter’s War is more fun than its wan predecessor
By Jesse Hassenger April 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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Elvis & Nixon struggles to turn a famous photo into a movie
By Jesse Hassenger April 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Meddler gives Susan Sarandon a surprisingly great role
By Jesse Hassenger April 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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The most memorable thing about A Hologram For The King is its title
By Keith Uhlich April 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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Nina reinvents an artist’s eventful life as a terrible movie about nothing
By Mike D'Angelo April 21, 2016 | 5:00am
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Gasland director Josh Fox wants to teach us How To Let Go Of The World
By Noel Murray April 19, 2016 | 5:00am
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Barcelona applies the famous Whit Stillman wit to anti-Americanism
By Mike D'Angelo April 16, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Measure Of A Man is not employment, says this affecting award-winner
By Mike D'Angelo April 14, 2016 | 4:00pm
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A New Year’s Eve special almost goes to hell in My Big Night
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 14, 2016 | 3:00pm
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Denys Arcand’s bland infidelity drama has An Eye For Beauty, but little else
By Mike D'Angelo April 14, 2016 | 2:00pm
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The Adderall Diaries wastes interesting questions on a James Franco character
By Katie Rife April 14, 2016 | 1:59pm
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Rio, I Love You, but you’re bringing me down
By Jesse Hassenger April 14, 2016 | 1:00pm
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Disney’s new take on The Jungle Book is gorgeous but under-conceived
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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Criminal doesn’t live up to its insane premise
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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It’s punks versus Nazis in Green Room’s grisly, terrifying battle of the bands
By A.A. Dowd April 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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The director of Once returns to his ’80s-rock youth with the earnest Sing Street
By A.A. Dowd April 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Next Cut revives the warm familiarity of Barbershop
By Jesse Hassenger April 14, 2016 | 5:00am
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There’s nothing celebratory about the punishing Israeli drama Wedding Doll
By Benjamin Mercer April 13, 2016 | 5:00pm
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Could Only Angels Have Wings be the greatest Hollywood movie of all time?
By Mike D'Angelo April 9, 2016 | 5:00am
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A new Blu-ray makes a case for John Carpenter’s Village Of The Damned
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 9, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Brazilian rodeo drama Neon Bull gets by on style and sharp detail
By Mike D'Angelo April 7, 2016 | 3:00pm
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Don’t even waste 11 Minutes on a movie this empty and pointless
By Mike D'Angelo April 7, 2016 | 2:00pm
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Skillful craft and creepy atmosphere make The Invitation worth accepting
By Katie Rife April 7, 2016 | 1:00pm
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Anna Kendrick and Sam Rockwell smarten up the dumb crime comedy Mr. Right
By Noel Murray April 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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Demolition does a rush job rehabbing American Beauty
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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The truths land Louder Than Bombs in this stylish, sensitive family drama
By A.A. Dowd April 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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Hardcore Henry captures the visceral thrill of watching someone play a video game
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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Melissa McCarthy stays in charge of her comic image with The Boss
By Jesse Hassenger April 7, 2016 | 5:00am
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Christopher Walken sings! (Too bad he’s not One More Time’s protagonist)
By Noel Murray April 5, 2016 | 5:00am
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God’s Not Dead 2: Jesus gets expelled from high school
By Vadim Rizov April 1, 2016 | 5:28pm
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Meet The Blacks writes some weird-ass Purge fan-fiction
By Jesse Hassenger April 1, 2016 | 3:04pm
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Backstreet’s back—and fighting zombies in Syfy’s idiotic Dead 7
By Alex McLevy April 1, 2016 | 1:00pm
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Standing Tall stands tall for French social workers, falls short on drama
By Mike D'Angelo March 31, 2016 | 5:00am
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Miles Ahead finds a novel solution to the biopic problem: Just make shit up!
By Mike D'Angelo March 31, 2016 | 5:00am
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The Dark Horse puts a gritty Kiwi spin on two feel-good genres
By Jesse Hassenger March 31, 2016 | 5:00am
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Russian Ark’s Aleksandr Sokurov invades the Louvre in Francofonia
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 31, 2016 | 5:00am
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A master filmmaker opens up in Afternoon
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 31, 2016 | 5:00am
