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A transatlantic comedy crossover is the only thing fresh about A Madea Homecoming
By Craig D. Lindsey February 25, 2022 | 6:35pm
A real-life mother and daughter bond over blood magic in the occult horror film Hellbender
By Katie Rife February 23, 2022 | 11:00pm
The Cursed is a foggy, sluggish variation on the old-school werewolf movieBy Katie Rife February 18, 2022 | 3:20pm
Netflix massacres Texas Chainsaw with a lousy legacy sequel
By A.A. Dowd February 18, 2022 | 8:00am
Channing Tatum stars with, and directs, a good Dog
By Jesse Hassenger February 17, 2022 | 11:00pm
The future is analog in the charming sci-fi indie Strawberry Mansion
By Katie Rife February 16, 2022 | 9:40pm
Netflix's Downfall digs into what really caused the Boeing plane crashes
By Noel Murray February 15, 2022 | 9:10pm
Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg retrace familiar action-movie routes in Uncharted
By Mike D'Angelo February 15, 2022 | 4:21pm
The Playground is a battlefield in this harrowing drama about grade-school bullying
By A.A. Dowd February 11, 2022 | 9:26pm
Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet goes back to the dystopian future with Bigbug By Carlos Aguilar February 11, 2022 | 8:00am
Netflix’s teen-romance sequel Tall Girl 2 doesn’t have much space to grow
By Jesse Hassenger February 11, 2022 | 2:00am
Say "maybe" to Jennifer Lopez’s Marry Me
By Caroline Siede February 10, 2022 | 5:00pm
The Sky Is Everywhere —and so are the clichés in this well-meaning YA tearjerkerBy Leila Latif February 10, 2022 | 5:00pm
A Native boxer fights for her sister's life in the gritty Catch The Fair One
By Katie Rife February 9, 2022 | 10:33pm
Zoë Kravitz can’t escape big tech’s eyes and ears in Steven Soderbergh’s fun Kimi
By Mike D'Angelo February 9, 2022 | 8:00pm
Liam Neeson's latest action vehicle, Blacklight , is a shoddy pandemic production
By Craig D. Lindsey February 9, 2022 | 6:55pm
Charlie Day and Jenny Slate try to win back their exes in the rote rom-com I Want You Back
By Vikram Murthi February 9, 2022 | 5:00pm
A Night Of Knowing Nothing takes a sensuous look at student protests in IndiaBy Lawrence Garcia February 8, 2022 | 10:28pm
Death On The Nile takes a criminally long time getting to the crimeBy A.A. Dowd February 7, 2022 | 2:00pm
The Worst Person In The World is an exciting drama about how damn confusing your 30s areBy A.A. Dowd February 3, 2022 | 10:20pm
Moonfall is a moonfailBy Mike D'Angelo February 3, 2022 | 6:00pm
Older thankfully doesn’t mean wiser in the legacy sequel Jackass Forever
By Matt Schimkowitz February 2, 2022 | 5:00pm
The new direct-to-streaming Ice Age sequel is a generic chunk of content
By Jesse Hassenger January 28, 2022 | 8:00am
The Fallout is a surprisingly restrained drama about the aftermath of a school shootingBy Charles Bramesco January 26, 2022 | 9:00pm
Tim Roth ghosts his family for the beach life in the bleak, blank Sundown
By Leila Latif January 26, 2022 | 4:30pm
Adrien Brody takes out the trash in the visually elegant, verbally clunky Clean
By Jason Shawhan January 26, 2022 | 4:00pm
Futura offers a vivid COVID-era portrait of Italy’s youthBy Lawrence Garcia January 26, 2022 | 3:30pm
Finnish prizewinner Compartment No. 6 proves that rom-com formula works perfectly well with subtitles
By Mike D'Angelo January 25, 2022 | 8:45pm
Three-part Netflix doc jeen-yuhs offers an incomplete telling of the Kanye West story
By A.A. Dowd January 24, 2022 | 4:10am
Eight years after it was shot, dopey fantasy The King’s Daughter flops into theaters
By Charles Bramesco January 20, 2022 | 11:00pm
Seduction is conversion in the frictionless faith-based romance Redeeming Love
By A.A. Dowd January 18, 2022 | 7:30pm
Shot two years ago, The Pink Cloud is an eerie sci-fi premonition of pandemic life
By Katie Rife January 13, 2022 | 4:30pm
A new generation takes a stab at Scream in the first sequel without Wes Craven
By Katie Rife January 12, 2022 | 8:00am
Vanessa Kirby loses herself on the streets of New York in the dreamy Italian Studies
By Jesse Hassenger January 11, 2022 | 12:00pm
In the dazzling animated film Belle , a troubled teen becomes an internet sensation
By Noel Murray January 11, 2022 | 6:00am
Hotel Transylvania loses Adam Sandler, but retains its animated energy in Transformania By Jesse Hassenger January 10, 2022 | 5:00pm
Home-invasion thriller See For Me is a waste of a good gimmick
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 7, 2022 | 5:51pm
The 355 is the girlboss thriller the world really doesn't need right nowBy Katie Rife January 6, 2022 | 5:00pm
The Super Bob Einstein Movie is everything he’d want it to beBy Michael Walsh December 28, 2021 | 4:00pm
Sundance drama Jockey doesn’t race beyond sports-movie formula
By Lawrence Garcia December 27, 2021 | 2:00pm
A Coen brother goes solo, with help from Denzel and Shakespeare, in a striking Macbeth
By Jesse Hassenger December 22, 2021 | 6:00pm
Penelope Cruz reunites with Pedro Almodóvar for the outstanding melodrama Parallel Mothers
By Leila Latif December 21, 2021 | 9:27pm
Keanu goes back through the looking glass in the legacy sequel The Matrix Resurrections
By Katie Rife December 21, 2021 | 4:00pm
Tilda Swinton hears a strange sound in the magnificently mysterious Memoria
By Mike D'Angelo December 20, 2021 | 5:30pm
Denzel Washington directs Michael B. Jordan in the cloying melodrama A Journal For Jordan
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 20, 2021 | 1:30pm
American Underdog is inoffensive, which is about the best you could ask of a Christian football movieBy Katie Rife December 17, 2021 | 2:00pm
Sing 2 is sufferable only in comparison to the last tuneless round of cartoon karaokeBy Charles Bramesco December 16, 2021 | 6:00pm
The Novice is basically Black Swan for the college rowing crowdBy Craig D. Lindsey December 16, 2021 | 12:30pm
Swan Song wastes Mahershala Ali and a promising Eternal Sunshine -like sci-fi premiseBy Vikram Murthi December 15, 2021 | 10:40pm
Ben Affleck is the only thing remotely intoxicating about George Clooney’s The Tender Bar
By Jesse Hassenger December 15, 2021 | 10:00pm
The Lost Daughter is a haunting, astute drama about how much it sucks to be a momBy Noel Murray December 15, 2021 | 9:45pm
Peter Dinklage and his perfectly ordinary nose make for a solid Cyrano
By Mike D'Angelo December 14, 2021 | 8:45pm
Tedious prequel The King’s Man lacks the violent fun of its spy-movie predecessors
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 14, 2021 | 5:00pm
Spider-Man takes on a cross-franchise rogues gallery in the greatest-hits sequel No Way Home
By A.A. Dowd December 14, 2021 | 11:05am
For a movie that turns giant monsters into pro wrestlers, Rumble isn’t much fun
By Jesse Hassenger December 13, 2021 | 9:00pm
Red Rocket scores huge, tricky laughs from the foibles of a parasitic porn starBy A.A. Dowd December 9, 2021 | 10:10pm
Sports dramas don't come much duller than National Champions
By Noel Murray December 8, 2021 | 2:00pm
Léa Seydoux has an existential crisis in the inscrutable France
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 8, 2021 | 12:00pm
Leonardo DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence cope with disaster in the despairing satire Don’t Look Up
By Jesse Hassenger December 8, 2021 | 12:00am
Nicole Kidman and Javier Bardem can’t act around the Sorkinisms of Being The Ricardos
By Jesse Hassenger December 7, 2021 | 5:00pm
Believe it or not, the sideshow is the least compelling part of Guillermo del Toro’s Nightmare Alley
By Katie Rife December 3, 2021 | 2:30pm
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid moves over to Disney+ for a brief, cheap-looking animated rebootBy Jesse Hassenger December 3, 2021 | 8:00am
Steven Spielberg chases his musical dreams with a gorgeously faithful West Side Story
By A.A. Dowd December 2, 2021 | 9:00pm
Lesbian nun drama Benedetta is both profane and sublime—no wonder some Catholics hate it
By Katie Rife December 2, 2021 | 5:00pm
Jeffrey Epstein looms over the gleefully offensive horror movie The Scary Of Sixty-First
By Anya Stanley December 1, 2021 | 6:40pm
With The Hand Of God , the director of The Great Beauty warmly revisits his childhood
By Leila Latif December 1, 2021 | 4:50pm
The animated Flee paints a refugee’s story in vivid colors
By Noel Murray December 1, 2021 | 1:00pm
Keira Knightley hosts a final Christmas in the hateful lump of holiday coal Silent Night
By Jason Shawhan November 30, 2021 | 8:01pm
Identifying as an animal takes on extra baggage in the thin, iffy parable Wolf
By Mike D'Angelo November 30, 2021 | 7:15pm
Riz Ahmed has bugs on the brain in the disappointing genre mishmash Encounter
By Roxana Hadadi November 30, 2021 | 3:00pm
Halle Berry lands some big dramatic punches in her directorial debut, Bruised
By Jason Shawhan November 24, 2021 | 3:00pm
Sandra Bullock shows off her tediously stoic side in Netflix’s The Unforgivable
By Mike D'Angelo November 24, 2021 | 2:00pm
This Thanksgiving, gorge yourself on the feel-bad family drama of The Humans
By A.A. Dowd November 23, 2021 | 11:00pm
Welcome To Raccoon City lacks the stupid majesty of the previous Resident Evils By Charles Bramesco November 23, 2021 | 2:00am
House Of Gucci never reaches camp nirvana, even with Lady Gaga on its runwayBy Katie Rife November 22, 2021 | 11:00pm
Cannes winner Drive My Car is a hypnotic, beguiling portrait of life after loss
By Vikram Murthi November 22, 2021 | 10:10pm
The COVID-era satire Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn is as loopy as its title
By Katie Rife November 18, 2021 | 10:30pm
Paul Thomas Anderson returns to the Valley with the funny, shaggy, scattershot Licorice Pizza
By A.A. Dowd November 18, 2021 | 2:45pm
The Power Of The Dog drops Benedict Cumberbatch into a haunting, troubling WesternBy Katie Rife November 17, 2021 | 11:15pm
Ethan Hawke tackles a dual role in the cryptic pandemic mood piece Zeros And Ones
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 17, 2021 | 1:00pm
Joaquin Phoenix is unusually grounded in the family drama C’mon C’mon
By Mike D'Angelo November 16, 2021 | 10:00pm
Will Smith knows best as the father of Venus and Serena in King Richard
By Jesse Hassenger November 16, 2021 | 8:55pm
Encanto upends Disney tradition with an adventure that never leaves homeBy Caroline Siede November 15, 2021 | 2:00pm
Andrew Garfield shines as the creator of Rent in the Netflix musical Tick, Tick… Boom!
By Caroline Siede November 12, 2021 | 5:30pm
Asghar Farhadi tackles the milkshake duck phenomenon in his thrillingly complex A Hero
By A.A. Dowd November 11, 2021 | 7:17pm
Home Sweet Home Alone makes a persuasive argument for taxing the richBy Katie Rife November 11, 2021 | 2:00pm
Sexual abuse survivors direct their own stories in the poignant Procession
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 10, 2021 | 8:45pm
Kenneth Branagh revisits the troubles (and Troubles) of his youth in the oddly remote Belfast
By A.A. Dowd November 10, 2021 | 6:30pm
Cusp throws a Friday night flashlight on the lives of three Texas teensBy Roxana Hadadi November 10, 2021 | 2:25pm
Mayor Pete can’t find the warmth beneath the wonk of the former presidential candidateBy Mike D'Angelo November 9, 2021 | 7:45pm
Clifford The Big Red Dog gets smaller on his trip to the silver screenBy Jesse Hassenger November 7, 2021 | 5:00pm
No yes man, stuffed suit, or petty tyrant is safe in the Hollywood satire The Beta Test
By Katie Rife November 4, 2021 | 1:15pm
The Rock, Ryan Reynolds, and Gal Gadot steal only a few laughs in Netflix’s Red Notice
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 4, 2021 | 6:00am
The psychodramatic Spencer miscasts Kristen Stewart as a frazzled Princess Diana
By A.A. Dowd November 4, 2021 | 1:00am
Tom Hanks makes the post-apocalypse cuddly in Finch
By Mike D'Angelo November 3, 2021 | 4:00pm
Sundance winner Hive tells a true story of hope in a hopeless place
By Roxana Hadadi November 3, 2021 | 2:30pm
Antlers drowns a good monster movie in dour metaphorBy A.A. Dowd October 29, 2021 | 5:00pm
There are no new scares in Paranormal Activity ’s trip to Amish country
By Anya Stanley October 29, 2021 | 7:00am
Edgar Wright tries his hand at throwback thrills in the flawed, stylish Last Night In Soho
By Katie Rife October 28, 2021 | 2:10pm
The Souvenir: Part II is the rare sequel to improve on its terrific predecessorBy Vadim Rizov October 27, 2021 | 12:00pm
Eternals turns the adventures of ageless space gods into just another Marvel movieBy A.A. Dowd October 26, 2021 | 6:08pm
Why the hell did Netflix green light a zombie-light prequel to Army Of The Dead ?
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 26, 2021 | 2:00pm
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga grapple with race and perception in the melodramatic Passing
By Craig D. Lindsey October 25, 2021 | 9:00pm
The intense Attica looks back at America’s most infamous prison riot
By Noel Murray October 25, 2021 | 4:00pm
With The French Dispatch , Wes Anderson pens a dizzying, poignant love letter to The New Yorker
By A.A. Dowd October 21, 2021 | 6:00pm
Irreverent revenge Western The Harder They Fall falls flat
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 20, 2021 | 9:30pm
A Cop Movie blurs the thin blue line between reality and police-thriller fictionBy Vikram Murthi October 20, 2021 | 5:00pm
Becoming Cousteau is a deep dive into the French icon’s life aquaticBy Noel Murray October 19, 2021 | 8:35pm
