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Desperation pays darkly comic dividends in Steven Soderbergh’s No Sudden Move
By Mike D'Angelo June 29, 2021 | 2:03pm
With Zola , an epic Twitter thread becomes a stylish A24 road-trip caper
By Shannon Miller June 28, 2021 | 6:07pm
I Carry You With Me elevates everyday love—and loneliness—to mythic proportions
By Katie Rife June 25, 2021 | 3:08pm
It’s Liam Neeson vs. surface tension in Netflix’s passable thriller The Ice Road
By Mike D'Angelo June 25, 2021 | 7:00am
Werewolves Within puts a goofy, lycanthropic spin on the whodunit
By A.A. Dowd June 23, 2021 | 9:00pm
With Good On Paper, Netflix tries to subvert its own rom-com brand
By Caroline Siede June 22, 2021 | 11:00pm
In Sun Children , a legendary director shines a light on the exploited youth of Iran
By Roxana Hadadi June 22, 2021 | 4:15pm
Ilana Glazer gives birth to a nightmare in the pregnancy horror movie False Positive
By Katie Rife June 18, 2021 | 1:30am
A new documentary on Rita Moreno offers few fresh insights on the Puerto Rican legend’s story
By Tatiana Tenreyro June 17, 2021 | 8:50pm
Bring your own mushrooms to the fungus-monster eco thriller Gaia
By A.A. Dowd June 17, 2021 | 2:20pm
Summer Of 85 is France's insubstantial answer to Call Me By Your Name
By Lawrence Garcia June 16, 2021 | 8:00pm
Kevin Hart masters Fatherhood in a Netflix dramedy more maudlin than funny
By Jesse Hassenger June 16, 2021 | 4:00pm
The Little Mermaid riff Luca splashes around in the shallow end of the Pixar pool
By A.A. Dowd June 16, 2021 | 4:00pm
12 Mighty Orphans pulls at least a dozen clichés from the underdog sports movie playbook
By Mike D'Angelo June 15, 2021 | 9:05pm
Edgar Wright crafts a loving if overlong tribute to the enigmatic pop group Sparks
By Vikram Murthi June 15, 2021 | 7:00pm
Censor goes back to the cult ’80s, and makes horror feel dangerous again
By Jason Shawhan June 11, 2021 | 3:00pm
Holler sings a familiar tune about a forgotten town
By Katie Rife June 10, 2021 | 5:00pm
Peter Rabbit 2 pokes fun at its own flaws, when it should have just avoided them
By Jesse Hassenger June 10, 2021 | 3:00pm
Mark Wahlberg has Infinite lives in a blockbuster without enough soul
By A.A. Dowd June 10, 2021 | 7:00am
Tragic Jungle ’s plunge into the heart of darkness lacks the wildness of Herzog
By Lawrence Garcia June 9, 2021 | 7:00pm
Hitman’s Wife’s Bodyguard is so atrocious, it makes the original look like a classic
By A.A. Dowd June 9, 2021 | 5:40pm
Netflix’s Wish Dragon transports the Aladdin story to 21st-century China
By Caroline Siede June 9, 2021 | 1:00pm
Gina Rodriguez battles endless insomnia in the Netflix sci-fi snoozer Awake
By Mike D'Angelo June 8, 2021 | 11:00pm
Pierce Brosnan leads a bunch of supposed Misfits through a daring, silly heist
By Jesse Hassenger June 8, 2021 | 8:35pm
The “lost” George Romero movie The Amusement Park is a surreal plunge into the horror of getting old
By A.A. Dowd June 8, 2021 | 7:00pm
War breaks out between two high concepts in Christian Petzold’s Undine
By Mike D'Angelo June 2, 2021 | 3:00pm
Slow Machine is a paranoid thriller with a distinct lo-fi vibe
By Vikram Murthi June 2, 2021 | 1:00pm
Sundance award winner All Light, Everywhere illuminates the surveillance state
By Lawrence Garcia June 1, 2021 | 5:30pm
Spirit Untamed might confuse fans of those other cartoons about a horse named Spirit
By Jesse Hassenger June 1, 2021 | 4:00pm
The Devil Made Me Do It brings the Conjuring trilogy to a dispiriting close
By A.A. Dowd June 1, 2021 | 4:00pm
The great director Jia Zhangke profiles literary heroes in Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 26, 2021 | 9:45pm
Cruella is stylish and chaotic, just like its future Disney villain
By Katie Rife May 26, 2021 | 1:00pm
Plan B is a winning addition to the raunchy teen girl comedy canon
By Caroline Siede May 25, 2021 | 7:30pm
F9 has too much family-drama runway between the fast and furious stuff
By Jesse Hassenger May 25, 2021 | 4:00pm
In The Heights joyfully brings Lin-Manuel Miranda’s first hit musical to the screen
By Danette Chavez May 21, 2021 | 3:00pm
The feel-good Dream Horse is a true story we’ve heard before
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 19, 2021 | 7:00pm
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