pm_article_index_cnt: 13882
pm_article_index_cnt: SELECT
ID,
post_title,
post_date,
lead_img_url,
permalink,
co_authors,
rating,
article_category
FROM pm_article_index
WHERE 1=1
AND MATCH(article_category) AGAINST('+|film|' IN BOOLEAN MODE)
AND article_type = '|reviews|'
ORDER BY post_date DESC
LIMIT 108 OFFSET 1620
George Clooney returns with the strangely moving sci-fi melodrama The Midnight Sky
By Jesse Hassenger December 9, 2020 | 2:00pm
Narrative coincidences distract from Farewell Amor ’s thoughtful immigration story
By Roxana Hadadi December 8, 2020 | 9:00pm
Meryl Streep improvises on the ocean in Steven Soderbergh’s playful Let Them All Talk
By Mike D'Angelo December 8, 2020 | 8:00pm
Steven Yeun is a family man chasing the American dream in the soulful if lopsided Minari
By Beatrice Loayza December 8, 2020 | 6:10pm
A former pop star journeys To The Ends Of The Earth in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s terrific new film
By Lawrence Garcia December 7, 2020 | 7:30pm
Rachel Brosnahan is a moll on the run in refreshingly feminine gangster yarn I’m Your Woman
By Katie Rife December 4, 2020 | 6:00pm
Black Bear is two dramas in one, and Aubrey Plaza is great in both of them
By A.A. Dowd December 4, 2020 | 3:35pm
Hackneyed tearjerker All My Life plays like an adaptation of a “Live, Laugh, Love” sign
By Carlos Aguilar, Carlos Aguilar December 3, 2020 | 5:00pm
Frances McDormand finds a new life on the road in the sublime Nomadland
By Katie Rife December 3, 2020 | 4:00pm
Mads Mikkelsen gets smashed on life (and booze) in the day-drinker drama Another Round
By A.A. Dowd December 3, 2020 | 3:35pm
Isla Fisher gets her own Enchanted in the Disney Plus fairy tale Godmothered
By Caroline Siede December 2, 2020 | 5:00pm
The gripping 76 Days chronicles the chaotic start of the COVID-19 outbreak
By Mike D'Angelo December 2, 2020 | 3:35pm
Mayor finds cringe comedy and dread in the business of running a Palestinian city
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 1, 2020 | 8:00pm
Don’t look for Superintelligence , or even mild cleverness, in Melissa McCarthy’s new sci-fi comedy
By Jesse Hassenger December 1, 2020 | 6:00pm
An all-star cast goes to The Prom in Ryan Murphy’s insufferable Broadway adaptation
By Jesse Hassenger December 1, 2020 | 3:00pm
Soul is a sweet mash-up of earlier, deeper Pixar
By A.A. Dowd November 25, 2020 | 3:30pm
Stardust , the Bowie biopic without any Bowie songs, is velvet garbage
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 24, 2020 | 8:57pm
Alan Ball’s Uncle Frank smothers a great performance with lazy condescension
By Allison Shoemaker November 24, 2020 | 8:00pm
An unnecessary sequel to The Croods still has some prehistoric fun
By Jesse Hassenger November 23, 2020 | 5:00pm
There are two new Jackie Chan movies out today, but only one is dumb and fun
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 20, 2020 | 10:00pm
Ma Rainey ’ s Black Bottom is one final, brilliant showcase for Chadwick Boseman
By Shannon Miller November 20, 2020 | 5:00pm
Kristen Stewart celebrates the Happiest Season in a pioneering queer Christmas rom-com
By Caroline Siede November 19, 2020 | 6:00am
Riz Ahmed’s superb lead performance keeps Sound Of Metal on beat
By Katie Rife November 18, 2020 | 8:45pm
Kurt Russell is coming back to town in Netflix yuletide dud The Christmas Chronicles Part II
By Jesse Hassenger November 18, 2020 | 5:00pm
The Twentieth Century spruces up history with ejaculating cacti and Python-style hilarity
By Charles Bramesco November 18, 2020 | 4:00pm
A medical tragedy exposes a government’s deep-rooted flaws in the timely documentary Collective
By Noel Murray November 17, 2020 | 8:21pm
The Last Vermeer tells an irresistible true story… after a lot of useless misdirection
By Mike D'Angelo November 17, 2020 | 7:40pm
The New Mutants brings Fox’s X-Men franchise to an underwhelming end
By A.A. Dowd November 17, 2020 | 6:10pm
Sarah Paulson is the helicopter parent from hell in Hulu’s predictable but titillating Run
By Beatrice Loayza November 16, 2020 | 6:10pm
The Climb is the prickly, ambitious, gut-busting American comedy of the year
By A.A. Dowd November 11, 2020 | 10:00pm
Margot Robbie makes a captivating outlaw in the Dust Bowl thriller Dreamland
By Roxana Hadadi November 11, 2020 | 6:00pm
Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan run hot and cold in the period romance Ammonite
By Katie Rife November 11, 2020 | 4:45pm
Wolfwalkers is a magical, unsettling animated fable from the director of The Secret Of Kells
By Jason Shawhan November 11, 2020 | 3:50pm
In the moving documentary I Am Greta , a teenage activist faces impossible challenges
By Noel Murray November 10, 2020 | 6:45pm
Werner Herzog chases meteorites and those who love them in Fireball: Visitors From Darker Worlds
By Mike D'Angelo November 10, 2020 | 5:30pm
May Hillbilly Elegy mark the end of Trump-era myth-making about the white working class
By Katie Rife November 10, 2020 | 2:00pm
Vince Vaughn body-swaps into a slasher comedy with the fun horror hybrid Freaky
By Jesse Hassenger November 9, 2020 | 12:00pm
Throwback quirks aside, David Fincher’s Citizen Kane origin story Mank is conventional to a fault
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 6, 2020 | 7:25pm
The Dark And The Wicked lives up to its title
By Katie Rife November 5, 2020 | 6:43am
Charlie Hunnam and Jack O’Connell bring macho tenderness to boxing drama Jungleland
By Carlos Aguilar November 4, 2020 | 5:30pm
Despite Eva Green’s soulful performance, astronaut drama Proxima loses sight of the person inside the space suit
By Beatrice Loayza November 3, 2020 | 9:00pm
A Norwegian setting is the only unique thing about the superhero rehash Mortal
By Mike D'Angelo November 3, 2020 | 6:40pm
Kevin Costner and Diane Lane embark on a Western-ish mission to Let Him Go
By Jesse Hassenger November 2, 2020 | 5:00pm
Asylum seekers face horrors supernatural and not in the Netflix chiller His House
By Anya Stanley October 28, 2020 | 8:00pm
Holidate is a bawdy start to Netflix’s holiday rom-com slate
By Caroline Siede October 28, 2020 | 7:00am
If Steven Spielberg directed The Babadook , it would play a lot like Come Play
By A.A. Dowd October 28, 2020 | 7:00am
The Craft: Legacy is a kinder, gentler teen witch movie
By Katie Rife October 28, 2020 | 4:00am
Fire Will Come eventually and spectacularly lives up to its title
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 27, 2020 | 7:45pm
Frederick Wiseman’s mammoth-length City Hall finds humanity alongside the bureaucracy
By Mike D'Angelo October 27, 2020 | 7:00pm
After We Collided slides toward R-rated camp—but not far enough
By Caroline Siede October 23, 2020 | 5:00pm
A beloved indie duo levels up with the time-traveling genre bender Synchronic
By Katie Rife October 22, 2020 | 7:00pm
Horror comedy Bad Hair suffers from tousled commentary but is good for a few laughs
By Shannon Miller October 21, 2020 | 9:00pm
Robert Zemeckis zaps all the wicked black magic out of Roald Dahl’s The Witches
By A.A. Dowd October 21, 2020 | 4:00pm
Borat Subsequent Moviefilm brings Sacha Baron Cohen’s famous character into a changed landscape
By Jesse Hassenger October 21, 2020 | 4:00pm
Midnight In Paris finds a final hurrah for teenage life in one town’s prom preparations
By Roxana Hadadi October 20, 2020 | 7:00pm
Ben Wheatley’s demystified Rebecca is a pale imitation of the Hitchcock classic
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 15, 2020 | 4:00am
Don’t expect many scares from the first four movies in Amazon’s Welcome To The Blumhouse series
By A.A. Dowd October 14, 2020 | 7:55pm
Post-apocalyptic romance Love And Monsters makes an untimely case for leaving the bunker
By Mike D'Angelo October 14, 2020 | 4:00pm
Who robbed the new Liam Neeson thriller, Honest Thief , of its thrills?
By Katie Rife October 13, 2020 | 9:30pm
Jack London gets an Italian makeover in the tragic and romantic Martin Eden
By Beatrice Loayza October 13, 2020 | 8:00pm
Totally Under Control is a comprehensive account of how badly Trump bungled COVID
By Noel Murray October 13, 2020 | 11:00am
Dinesh D’Souza distorts and fulfills George Orwell’s warnings in his worthless Trump Card
By Vadim Rizov October 9, 2020 | 7:55pm
A family copes with a long prison sentence on both sides of the bars in the lyrical Time
By A.A. Dowd October 9, 2020 | 3:10pm
Robert De Niro family flick The War With Grandpa buries a cute premise under dumb pratfalls
By Mike D'Angelo October 9, 2020 | 4:00am
Jim Cummings’ inspired werewolf movie The Wolf Of Snow Hollow has way more laughs than scares
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 8, 2020 | 5:00pm
Radha Blank’s The Forty-Year-Old Version is a stunning comedy about compromise
By Shannon Miller October 8, 2020 | 1:00pm
Hulu’s Books Of Blood somehow manages to make Clive Barker bland
By Katie Rife October 7, 2020 | 7:10pm
Charm City Kings finds rousing coming-of-age drama in the dirt-bike culture of Baltimore
By Carlos Aguilar October 7, 2020 | 5:00pm
Adam Sandler churns out some seasonal Netflix content with the fitfully funny Hubie Halloween
By Jesse Hassenger October 7, 2020 | 4:10pm
Woody Allen’s worst creative impulses are on display in the long-delayed A Rainy Day In New York
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 7, 2020 | 2:30pm
A teen songbird navigates a world of honky tonk and ICE raids in the uneven Yellow Rose
By Lawrence Garcia October 6, 2020 | 8:00pm
Brandon Cronenberg does his name proud with the nightmarish mind and body horror of Possessor
By A.A. Dowd October 1, 2020 | 1:00pm
Dick Johnson Is Dead is surprisingly lighthearted for a film about a man facing his own demise
By Vikram Murthi September 30, 2020 | 4:50pm
Julie Taymor’s unfocused biopic The Glorias offers 4 Gloria Steinems but no insight
By Katie Rife September 30, 2020 | 2:35pm
Aya Cash thinks up some scary stories to tell in the dark in the smart but overlong Scare Me
By Jesse Hassenger September 29, 2020 | 8:00pm
Millennials unplug before a war of the worlds in the clever sci-fi comedy Save Yourselves!
By Mike D'Angelo September 29, 2020 | 7:00pm
Jessica Chastain sticks to her guns in the tired assassin thriller Ava
By Katie Rife September 26, 2020 | 12:15am
Sofia Coppola reunites with Bill Murray but leaves youthful rapture behind in the charming On The Rocks
By A.A. Dowd September 25, 2020 | 6:15pm
Netflix’s Boys In The Band isn’t as claustrophobic as the original, but still packs a punch
By Patrick Gomez September 25, 2020 | 7:01am
Aaron Sorkin finds another zingy, corny courtroom drama in The Trial Of The Chicago 7
By A.A. Dowd September 25, 2020 | 1:00am
Smart but unfocused, Sega doc Console Wars might have played too many video games as a kid
By William Hughes September 23, 2020 | 7:00am
Gina Rodriguez grounds Miranda July’s latest flight of whimsy, Kajillionaire
By Katie Rife September 22, 2020 | 1:00pm
Millie Bobby Brown solves a dull mystery in Netflix’s disappointing Enola Holmes
By Jesse Hassenger September 21, 2020 | 8:00pm
Alone is a lean, mean thrill machine from the director of Universal Soldier: Day Of Reckoning
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 16, 2020 | 8:29pm
Sean Durkin’s terrific The Nest is a haunted house movie without the ghosts
By Mike D'Angelo September 15, 2020 | 6:25pm
Everyone’s a sinner in Antonio Campos’ moody coal country crime drama The Devil All The Time
By Noel Murray September 14, 2020 | 8:30pm
Susan Sarandon, Kate Winslet, and Mia Wasikowska can’t enliven the end-of-life drama Blackbird
By Jesse Hassenger September 14, 2020 | 6:45pm
A therapist unravels in the deceptive Cannes favorite Sibyl
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 9, 2020 | 5:00pm
Wil Wheaton is a deadly friend in the ’80s techno-thriller throwback Rent-A-Pal
By Danette Chavez September 9, 2020 | 3:00pm
The alarming documentary All In offers a possible preview of November’s election
By Noel Murray September 8, 2020 | 8:00pm
The internet’s most infamous frog gets a documentary redemption in Feels Good Man
By Katie Rife September 4, 2020 | 8:00pm
The Broken Hearts Gallery tries to find catharsis in heartbreak
By Caroline Siede September 4, 2020 | 4:00pm
Mulan improves Disney’s live-action remake record but not by enough
By Beatrice Loayza September 3, 2020 | 4:00pm
A clunky twist dilutes the power of Janelle Monáe thriller Antebellum
By Anya Stanley August 31, 2020 | 7:20pm
Christopher Nolan’s sleek time-travel thriller Tenet is more confusing than exciting
By A.A. Dowd August 31, 2020 | 5:00pm
I’m Thinking Of Ending Things may be Charlie Kaufman’s strangest plunge into the life of the mind
By A.A. Dowd August 28, 2020 | 4:45pm
Bill & Ted Face The Music in a sequel that’s neither excellent nor completely bogus
By Katie Rife August 27, 2020 | 11:30pm
Purge parody The Binge is about as much fun as a hangover
By Jesse Hassenger August 26, 2020 | 7:00am
Armando Iannucci can’t fast-talk his way through The Personal History Of David Copperfield
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 25, 2020 | 9:00pm
Class Action Park memorializes the raddest, deadliest theme park in America
By Charles Bramesco August 25, 2020 | 6:00pm
Xavier Dolan finally says goodbye to youth in the wistful Matthias & Maxime
By Jason Shawhan August 24, 2020 | 5:25pm
Train To Busan sequel Peninsula is all zombie spectacle, no heart
By Shannon Miller August 19, 2020 | 1:00pm
Like its visionary hero, the quirky biopic Tesla is a noble failure
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky August 18, 2020 | 8:00pm
In Boys State , politics is kids’ stuff
By Erik Adams August 18, 2020 | 4:30pm
Russell Crowe is Unhinged in a trashy road-rage thriller peeling into theaters this week
By A.A. Dowd August 18, 2020 | 3:20pm
Ugly revelations complicate the Ren & Stimpy story retold by Happy Happy Joy Joy
By A.A. Dowd August 14, 2020 | 10:35pm
Forgettability is the superpower of Netflix's new Jamie Foxx vehicle Project Power
By Katie Rife August 14, 2020 | 1:25am
Iran’s imprisoned girls reflect on their lives and crimes in the heartbreaking Sunless Shadows
By A.A. Dowd August 7, 2020 | 9:50pm