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Spring Blossom
is the rare drama about teenage life made by an actual teenager
By Leila Latif
May 19, 2021 | 4:00pm
The writer of
You’re Next
holds a
Seance
in his twisty directorial debut
By Katie Rife
May 19, 2021 | 3:00pm
Repugnant revolution thriller
New Order
stirs only the gag reflex
By Lawrence Garcia
May 18, 2021 | 9:10pm
Don’t expect much drama or dirt from the rosy P!nk tour doc
All I Know So Far
By Alex McLevy
May 18, 2021 | 5:25pm
A Quiet Place Part II
is a muffled echo of the original’s thrills
By A.A. Dowd
May 18, 2021 | 3:00pm
Amy Adams
spies a convoluted
Rear Window
mystery in
The Woman In The Window
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
May 13, 2021 | 11:00pm
Angelina Jolie’s
Those Who Wish Me Dead
is a Saturday afternoon thriller for the streaming era
By A.A. Dowd
May 12, 2021 | 8:50pm
Berlin winner
There Is No Evil
tells four stories to condemn the death penalty
By Roxana Hadadi
May 12, 2021 | 6:15pm
Potential violence haunts every frame of the superb
Killing Of Two Lovers
By Mike D'Angelo
May 12, 2021 | 2:40pm
Chris Rock brings some fresh blood to the late-stage sequel
Spiral: From The Book Of Saw
By Katie Rife
May 12, 2021 | 1:00pm
Screenlife takes a turn for the dull with
Profile
, a thriller about catfishing terrorists
By Jesse Hassenger
May 12, 2021 | 12:00am
The Perfect Candidate
is an underdog political fable that earns its feel-good moments
By Allison Shoemaker
May 11, 2021 | 6:00pm
The claustrophobic Netflix thriller
Oxygen
will take your breath away
By Katie Rife
May 11, 2021 | 4:00pm
Zack Snyder liberates himself from superhero glumness with zombie heist flick
Army Of The Dead
By A.A. Dowd
May 11, 2021 | 2:00pm
Mads Mikkelsen climbs aboard the
Taken
train with the uneven, darkly comic
Riders Of Justice
By Charles Bramesco
May 10, 2021 | 7:40pm
“Internet bad” is about as deep as the satire goes in Gia Coppola’s insufferable
Mainstream
By Katie Rife
May 7, 2021 | 9:15pm
We find
Netflix’s
Monster
guilty of crimes against subtlety and nuance
By Vikram Murthi
May 7, 2021 | 1:00pm
Jason Statham and Guy Ritchie re-team for cheap, satisfying thrills in
Wrath Of Man
By Jesse Hassenger
May 6, 2021 | 10:00pm
Above Suspicion
is beneath everyone involved—especially Emilia Clarke
By Craig D. Lindsey
May 5, 2021 | 9:00pm
It’s complicated for Billy Crystal and Tiffany Haddish in the awful dementia rom-com
Here Today
By Mike D'Angelo
May 5, 2021 | 4:00pm
State Funeral
finds absurdities and metaphors in archival footage of Stalin’s wake
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
May 4, 2021 | 9:25pm
The Mitchells Vs. The Machines
fights off animated routine with great jokes and characters
By Jesse Hassenger
May 4, 2021 | 4:25pm
The Disciple
is a smart, wry drama about the pitfalls of following your dreams
By A.A. Dowd
April 30, 2021 | 7:00am
Zhang Yimou misplaces the suspense in the black-and-white spy games of
Cliff Walkers
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
April 29, 2021 | 8:27pm
Separation
plasters a lousy custody drama with the wallpaper of a crappy horror movie
By A.A. Dowd
April 29, 2021 | 5:00am
Amanda Seyfried sifts through the gaslight of ghostly Netflix potboiler
Things Heard And Seen
By Katie Rife
April 28, 2021 | 10:00pm
Nobody passes go in Iceland’s monopoly drama
The County
By Mike D'Angelo
April 28, 2021 | 6:00pm
Tom Clancy reboot
Without Remorse
wastes Michael B. Jordan’s star power
By Jesse Hassenger
April 28, 2021 | 4:00pm
Dave Grohl gets a bunch of famous musicians back in the van for
What Drives Us
By Alex McLevy
April 28, 2021 | 1:37pm
Asylum seekers endure a
Limbo
of loneliness and
Friends
reruns in this fish-out-of-water dramedy
By Roxana Hadadi
April 27, 2021 | 9:25pm
About Endlessness
offers crucifixions, a Hitler cameo… and a moving coda for a master director
By Charles Bramesco
April 26, 2021 | 8:35pm
The new
Mortal Kombat
is a death match with boredom
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
April 22, 2021 | 11:00pm
Four’s a crowd in Netflix’s involving deep-space survival saga
Stowaway
By Mike D'Angelo
April 22, 2021 | 7:00am
Together Together
arranges a touching platonic love story for Ed Helms and Patti Harrison
By A.A. Dowd
April 21, 2021 | 8:45pm
Barbara Crampton shows why she’s a horror legend in the pulpy, uneven
Jakob’s Wife
By Katie Rife
April 16, 2021 | 2:00pm
Ben Wheatley’s eco-thriller
In The Earth
has one terrific scene and a lot of boring hooey
By A.A. Dowd
April 14, 2021 | 8:00pm
Nazis, time travel, and creepy dolls are only a hint of what haunts
The Banishing
’s house
By Leila Latif
April 14, 2021 | 5:00pm
Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer squander their super talent in Netflix’s lazy
Thunder Force
By Katie Rife
April 9, 2021 | 7:00am
The slick sci-fi allegory
Voyagers
launches
Lord Of The Flies
into space
By A.A. Dowd
April 7, 2021 | 11:00pm
Night In Paradise
brings a stylish, wearyingly grim South Korean crime epic to Netflix
By Jason Shawhan
April 7, 2021 | 4:40pm
The brutal, rewarding
Moffie
fires a Full Metal Jacket into the apartheid era
By Lawrence Garcia
April 6, 2021 | 8:00pm
Blindingly obvious subtext dims the scares of blackout horror movie
The Power
By Mike D'Angelo
April 6, 2021 | 7:00pm
Malmkrog
is like sitting through the longest, most eloquent freshman philosophy debate ever
By A.A. Dowd
April 2, 2021 | 10:00pm
Holy crap,
The Unholy
is a bore
By A.A. Dowd
April 1, 2021 | 6:30pm
Sex positive cringe comedy
Shiva Baby
is the good kind of stressful
By Katie Rife
March 31, 2021 | 7:10pm
Eric André brings his pranks to the movies with the funny, warmhearted
Bad Trip
By Jesse Hassenger
March 31, 2021 | 4:10pm
Concrete Cowboy
turns a unique subculture into a coming-of-age cliché
By Carlos Aguilar
March 31, 2021 | 3:00pm
Funny Face
puts cinematic scare quotes on a paean to urban authenticity
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
March 30, 2021 | 8:00pm
Lesotho makes a haunting, hypnotic Oscars debut with
This Is Not A Burial, It’s A Resurrection
By Lawrence Garcia
March 30, 2021 | 6:00pm
Godzilla Vs. Kong
delivers all the giddy monster-on-monster mayhem a kaiju fan could desire
By Katie Rife
March 29, 2021 | 3:00pm
The brutal, misanthropic
Violation
takes revenge to its most nightmarish extremes
By Katie Rife
March 25, 2021 | 2:00pm
Shoplifters Of The World
is nothing but reference porn for fans of The Smiths
By Josh Modell
March 25, 2021 | 1:00pm
Bob Odenkirk is
Nobody
you want to mess with in this stylish
Death Wish
redux
By A.A. Dowd
March 22, 2021 | 4:00pm
Drab pro-life propaganda
Roe V. Wade
lacks the wingnut zing of its Pure Flix cousins
By Charles Bramesco
March 22, 2021 | 1:00pm
Even Benedict Cumberbatch can’t make the real-life spy games of
The Courier
exciting
By Mike D'Angelo
March 16, 2021 | 7:00pm
The Snyder Cut is a much longer
Justice League
, but not a better one
By A.A. Dowd
March 15, 2021 | 4:00pm
Operation Varsity Blues
digs deep into the true story of the celebrity college admissions scandal
By Noel Murray
March 12, 2021 | 6:34pm
The Truffle Hunters
is a rare treat for gourmets and dog lovers alike
By Katie Rife
March 10, 2021 | 6:00pm
It’s a firm no on Jennifer Garner’s parenting comedy
Yes Day
By Charles Bramesco
March 10, 2021 | 3:00pm
A Black collective turns a house into a sanctuary in the nimble and Godardian
The Inheritance
By Vikram Murthi
March 9, 2021 | 9:00pm
Coming 2 America
is a royally underwhelming parody of its predecessor
By Shannon Miller
March 4, 2021 | 8:00pm
A great sci-fi idea elevates Daisy Ridley and Tom Holland’s bumpy YA adventure
Chaos Walking
By A.A. Dowd
March 4, 2021 | 3:50pm
Eddie Huang’s high school basketball melodrama
Boogie
bricks most of its shots
By Noel Murray
March 4, 2021 | 1:00am
Cop comedy
Keep An Eye Out
has the anything-goes absurdity of a closing
SNL
sketch
By Mike D'Angelo
March 3, 2021 | 8:00pm
Boss Level
is a time loop of bad jokes, tedious action, and Mel Gibson villainy
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
March 3, 2021 | 7:00pm
The revolution is in Mom’s zine collection in Amy Poehler’s riot grrrl nostalgia trip
Moxie
By Katie Rife
March 1, 2021 | 9:45pm
Raya And The Last Dragon
is a formulaic but sometimes moving addition to the Disney princess canon
By Danette Chavez
March 1, 2021 | 8:39pm
Underwhelming undersea road trip
Sponge On The Run
squeezes SpongeBob dry
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
February 27, 2021 | 8:00am
The problem with making a Tom and Jerry movie is that you can’t make it about Tom and Jerry
By Erik Adams
February 26, 2021 | 7:00pm
Billie Eilish: The World’s A Little Blurry
charts a superstar’s rise with home-movie intimacy
By Alex McLevy
February 26, 2021 | 2:30am
Cherry
is an embarrassing bid for prestige from Marvel’s biggest hitmakers
By A.A. Dowd
February 25, 2021 | 5:00pm
Netflix’s
Biggie: I Got A Story To Tell
spotlights the personal side of the rapper’s life
By Craig D. Lindsey
February 24, 2021 | 10:00pm
For better and worse, the
Wrong Turn
remake takes some unusual turns
By Katie Rife
February 24, 2021 | 5:00pm
Oscar contender
Night Of The Kings
is a prison drama steeped in magical realism
By Beatrice Loayza
February 23, 2021 | 10:25pm
It’s the audience that loses in Lee Daniels’ bloated
The United States Vs. Billie Holiday
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
February 19, 2021 | 5:00pm
A woman falls in love (and lust) with a carnival ride in the quirky, luminous
Jumbo
By Katie Rife
February 18, 2021 | 3:40pm
The wicked Netflix neo-noir
I Care A Lot
is just the right amount of wrong
By Noel Murray
February 16, 2021 | 7:50pm
The star-studded Noël Coward adaptation
Blithe Spirit
fails to enchant
By Caroline Siede
February 16, 2021 | 6:00pm
Two years before
Birds Of Prey,
Cathy Yan made a splash with
Dead Pigs
By Katie Rife
February 12, 2021 | 9:05pm
Both maudlin and cruel,
Breaking News In Yuba County
deserves no special bulletin
By Allison Shoemaker
February 12, 2021 | 6:55pm
Supernatural or psychological, the slow-burn horrors of
Sator
are difficult to shake
By Anya Stanley
February 12, 2021 | 4:05pm
Nic Cage is a silent brute in the chintzy
Five Nights At Freddy’s
mockbuster
Willy’s Wonderland
By A.A. Dowd
February 12, 2021 | 3:35pm
Netflix’s
To All The Boys
series ends on a high note
By Caroline Siede
February 12, 2021 | 2:00am
Kristen Wiig’s vacation comedy
Barb & Star Go To Vista Del Mar
is a silly, delightful trip
By Jesse Hassenger
February 12, 2021 | 2:00am
Katherine Waterston and Vanessa Kirby embark on a frontier romance in
The World To Come
By Katie Rife
February 10, 2021 | 10:05pm
Robin Wright battles grief, bears, and a bad script in her off-the-grid survival drama
Land
By Beatrice Loayza
February 10, 2021 | 3:55pm
The Mauritanian
transforms a memoir of unlawful detention into just another shouty courtroom drama
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
February 9, 2021 | 10:45pm
The delightfully offbeat
French Exit
offers Michelle Pfeiffer
her best role in ages
By Mike D'Angelo
February 9, 2021 | 10:00pm
Help! We’re trapped in the cycle of yet another time-loop story,
The Map Of Tiny Perfect Things
By A.A. Dowd
February 9, 2021 | 8:00pm
Russia’s Oscar hopeful
Dear Comrades!
is spin disguised as a history lesson
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
February 3, 2021 | 6:00pm
A timely pandemic tests one couple’s love in the otherwise forgettable
Little Fish
By Charles Bramesco
February 3, 2021 | 4:00pm
Despite Owen Wilson’s strong performance,
Bliss
can only simulate a compelling sci-fi drama
By Jesse Hassenger
February 2, 2021 | 9:00pm
Sibling rivalry and diseased sheep drive the sentimental Sam Neill drama
Rams
By Mike D'Angelo
February 2, 2021 | 8:00pm
France’s Oscar entry
Two Of Us
is a clandestine romance that plays like a horror movie
By Caroline Siede
February 2, 2021 | 6:30pm
Judas And The Black Messiah
is an electrifying showcase for two of today’s most exciting actors
By Katie Rife
February 2, 2021 | 4:00am
The director of
Room 237
cracks the code of simulation theory with
A Glitch In The Matrix
By A.A. Dowd
January 31, 2021 | 10:40pm
Georgia’s slow-burn Oscars entry
Beginning
unravels a crisis of faith, one trauma at a time
By Katie Rife
January 28, 2021 | 4:00pm
Ghosts of
The Shining
and
Barton Fink
haunt the hotel corridors of
The Night
By Randall Colburn
January 27, 2021 | 8:00pm
Colin Firth and Stanley Tucci blaze brightly in the heartbreaking
Supernova
By Shannon Miller
January 27, 2021 | 6:00pm
Zendaya and John David Washington spar—and rage against reviews like this—in the dull
Malcolm & Marie
By Vikram Murthi
January 27, 2021 | 3:35pm
Generic redemption drama
Palmer
expects us to buy Justin Timberlake as a hardened ex-con
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
January 27, 2021 | 12:00pm
A24 horror rises again with the unnerving
Saint Maud
By Katie Rife
January 26, 2021 | 10:00pm
Even Naomi Watts can’t fly above the inspirational pap of Netflix’s
Penguin Bloom
By Mike D'Angelo
January 26, 2021 | 7:25pm
Denzel Washington returns to the manhunt business in the enjoyably clichéd
The Little Things
By A.A. Dowd
January 26, 2021 | 6:00pm
Jason Segel is a rock of selflessness in the sugarcoated cancer drama
Our Friend
By A.A. Dowd
January 21, 2021 | 11:00pm
Identifying Features
is among the greatest, most devastating films about Mexico’s drug war
By Carlos Aguilar
January 20, 2021 | 9:30pm
1982
muddies a compelling historical snapshot with
Jojo Rabbit
whimsy
By Roxana Hadadi
January 20, 2021 | 7:30pm
Deeply felt daddy issues distinguish
The Salt Of Tears
from every other Philippe Garrel romance
By Lawrence Garcia
January 20, 2021 | 5:20pm
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