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It was worth the decade-long wait for Jia Zhangke’s portrait of Shanghai, I Wish I Knew
By Lawrence Garcia January 21, 2020 | 9:00pm
Nocturama director Bertrand Bonello returns with the eerie and entrancing Zombi Child
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 21, 2020 | 8:00pm
Tyler Perry brings his dramatic clumsiness to Netflix with the thriller A Fall From Grace
By Jesse Hassenger January 17, 2020 | 7:30pm
Found-footage comedy VHYes is less fun than the late-night TV it’s spoofing
By A.A. Dowd January 16, 2020 | 5:00pm
Robert Downey Jr. could have done less in Dolittle
By Katie Rife January 15, 2020 | 7:30pm
Without Michael Bay at the helm, Bad Boys For Life is an underwhelming sequel
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 15, 2020 | 6:30pm
Weathering With You is an odd, enchanting teen romance from the director of Your Name
By Noel Murray January 14, 2020 | 8:00pm
The writer of Beasts Of The Southern Wild returns with the uneven but heartfelt Troop Zero
By Mike D'Angelo January 14, 2020 | 7:00pm
The director of The Haunting Of Sharon Tate sets his ghoulish sights on The Murder Of Nicole Brown Simpson
By Katie Rife January 11, 2020 | 12:55am
The derivative Alien gloss Underwater comes close to the platonic ideal of a January release
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 9, 2020 | 10:05pm
Tiffany Haddish and Rose Byrne are embattled BFFs in the stiff friend-com Like A Boss
By Katie Rife January 9, 2020 | 12:00am
Parisian cop drama Les Misérables speaks the same righteous language as Victor Hugo
By Allison Shoemaker January 8, 2020 | 8:00pm
Three Christs ? In this economy?
By Vikram Murthi January 7, 2020 | 9:07pm
The Grudge ’s J-horror rehash is all wet
By Katie Rife January 3, 2020 | 8:30pm
Alfre Woodard delivers the performance of her career in the subversive prison drama Clemency
By Roxana Hadadi December 19, 2019 | 6:00pm
Yes, Cats is as bad as it looks
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 19, 2019 | 1:45am
The Song Of Names is a chore of a mystery, even though its resolution is very moving
By Mike D'Angelo December 18, 2019 | 10:30pm
Oscar hopeful Invisible Life is a slog of misfortune, until its poignant ending
By Lawrence Garcia December 18, 2019 | 8:30pm
The fights are weaker but the story is stronger in Donnie Yen’s final Ip Man movie
By Mike D'Angelo December 18, 2019 | 7:00pm
The Rise Of Skywalker rebalances Star Wars into a force of safe, familiar fan service
By A.A. Dowd December 18, 2019 | 10:20am
Michael B. Jordan and Jamie Foxx bring sensitivity to the routine legal drama Just Mercy
By Jesse Hassenger December 17, 2019 | 6:00pm
Will Smith turns into a pigeon for Spies In Disguise , an animated caper for everyone or no one
By Jesse Hassenger December 16, 2019 | 2:00pm
A new Black Christmas sharpens the feminist edge of the original but dulls its scares
By Beatrice Loayza December 13, 2019 | 7:00pm
There’s little doubt or drama in Terrence Malick’s 3-hour tribute to moral resistance, A Hidden Life
By Mike D'Angelo December 12, 2019 | 9:20pm
Michael Bay brings his action mayhem (and Ryan Reynolds) to Netflix with 6 Underground
By Jesse Hassenger December 12, 2019 | 5:00pm
Adam Sandler delivers the performance of his career in the audacious stress-machine comedy Uncut Gems
By A.A. Dowd December 11, 2019 | 11:15pm
What’s the point of a toothless Rabid remake?
By Katie Rife December 11, 2019 | 11:00pm
Jumanji lacks replay value in The Next Level
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 10, 2019 | 9:20pm
Xavier Dolan vomits his feelings all over the incoherent Death And Life Of John F. Donovan
By Mike D'Angelo December 10, 2019 | 7:25pm
Bombshell plays softball with Megyn Kelly and Fox News
By Katie Rife December 9, 2019 | 2:30pm
Little Joe puts a creepily mundane art-house spin on Invasion Of The Body Snatchers
By A.A. Dowd December 7, 2019 | 1:00am
Portrait Of A Lady On Fire is the year’s sexiest and most rapturously romantic love story
By A.A. Dowd December 6, 2019 | 6:25pm
Playmobil: The Movie should have stayed in the toy box, or at least gone direct to streaming
By Jesse Hassenger December 6, 2019 | 2:19pm
Say yes to the killer dress of the bizarre horror-comedy In Fabric
By Katie Rife December 4, 2019 | 11:00pm
Naomi Watts comes unglued in the claustrophobic but thin psychological thriller The Wolf Hour
By Beatrice Loayza December 4, 2019 | 9:50pm
Clint Eastwood turns the sad true story of Richard Jewell into another salute to American heroism
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 4, 2019 | 7:00pm
Midnight Family shines a spinning, neon-blue spotlight on an urgent medical crisis
By Vikram Murthi December 3, 2019 | 10:00pm
Daniel Isn’t Real , and neither are the thrills, in this horror-movie cousin to Fight Club
By Lawrence Garcia December 3, 2019 | 9:00pm
13 years after the scandal, A Million Little Pieces finally becomes a mediocre movie
By Mike D'Angelo December 3, 2019 | 8:20pm
War is a ride in the technically impressive but remote one-shot combat epic 1917
By A.A. Dowd November 27, 2019 | 6:40pm
Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne are Aeronauts who soar in a hot-air balloon but bore on land
By Jesse Hassenger November 26, 2019 | 10:15pm
The Two Popes dreams up an unconvincing talk between the Vatican’s most recent residents
By Mike D'Angelo November 26, 2019 | 9:00pm
Knives Out at once revives and daringly subverts the old-school whodunit
By A.A. Dowd November 26, 2019 | 7:30pm
There’s more style than substance in the Bonnie & Clyde riff Queen & Slim
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 25, 2019 | 10:00pm
Greta Gerwig’s Little Women vibrantly celebrates ambition, creativity, kindness, and love
By Katie Rife November 25, 2019 | 5:00pm
Here and there, A Beautiful Day In The Neighborhood captures the radical kindness of Mr. Rogers
By A.A. Dowd November 21, 2019 | 11:30pm
Varda By Agnès is a joyful, generous parting gift from the mother of the French New Wave
By Katie Rife November 20, 2019 | 3:25pm
Chadwick Boseman gets a non-superhero star vehicle with the solid throwback 21 Bridges
By Jesse Hassenger November 18, 2019 | 2:00pm
Trey Edward Shults swings for the emotional fences with the polarizing Waves
By Charles Bramesco November 15, 2019 | 9:20pm
Frozen II echoes without amplifying the magic of the record-breaking original
By A.A. Dowd November 14, 2019 | 7:15pm
What the hell is Todd Haynes doing behind the camera of generic docudrama Dark Waters ?
By Mike D'Angelo November 13, 2019 | 10:00pm
Ian McKellen and Helen Mirren face off in the deceptively lame The Good Liar
By Jesse Hassenger November 13, 2019 | 7:00pm
Matt Damon and Christian Bale win one for the dads in the entertaining Ford V Ferrari
By Jesse Hassenger November 13, 2019 | 6:00pm
A severed hand crawls across Paris in the dynamic animated curiosity I Lost My Body
By Mike D'Angelo November 12, 2019 | 9:35pm
New Yorkers wax pessimistic on our grim present and unlikely future in The Hottest August
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 12, 2019 | 9:25pm
Kristen and Patrick Stewart aren’t related, but they are the best part of Charlie ’ s Angels
By Katie Rife November 12, 2019 | 8:00pm
Even with Anna Kendrick and Bill Hader in the sleigh, Disney’s Noelle is no Christmas miracle
By Gwen Ihnat November 12, 2019 | 4:54pm
Cannes winner Atlantics tells a richly imagined ghost story
By Lawrence Garcia November 11, 2019 | 9:00pm
Adam Driver makes congressional oversight exciting in the political drama The Report
By Noel Murray November 11, 2019 | 8:00pm
The John Cena comedy Playing With Fire knows as little about kids as its fireman heroes
By Jesse Hassenger November 7, 2019 | 9:00pm
Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson face the end of their Marriage Story in a brilliant tragicomedy
By A.A. Dowd November 7, 2019 | 3:56pm
Shia LaBeouf plays his own dad in the glorified therapy session Honey Boy
By Katie Rife November 6, 2019 | 9:40pm
Midway is a middling war movie from the director of Independence Day
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 6, 2019 | 2:00pm
A coal-lump twist can’t dampen the fleabaggy charms of Last Christmas
By Charles Bramesco November 6, 2019 | 8:00am
Nic Cage doesn’t even try to upstage his animal costars in the lousy zoological action thriller Primal
By Mike D'Angelo November 5, 2019 | 9:00pm
The Kingmaker gawks at obscene wealth, but finds a much more disturbing legacy behind it
By Lawrence Garcia November 5, 2019 | 8:30pm
The new Lady And The Tramp feels like a ’90s update of a ’50s classic
By Caroline Siede November 4, 2019 | 9:00pm
Jeremy Renner sings in the paint-by-numbers kids’ flick Arctic Dogs
By Katie Rife November 1, 2019 | 10:29pm
Like poor Danny Torrance, Doctor Sleep can’t escape the long shadow of The Shining
By A.A. Dowd October 31, 2019 | 10:15pm
Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro reunite for one last gripping crime epic, The Irishman
By A.A. Dowd October 31, 2019 | 3:45pm
This Halloween, Light From Light offers a ghost story meant to comfort, not frighten
By Vikram Murthi October 30, 2019 | 8:00pm
Cynthia Erivo makes a compelling Harriet Tubman in a slightly shallow biopic of the American hero
By Roxana Hadadi October 30, 2019 | 6:30pm
The creator of The Cremaster Cycle offers a less intriguing vision in Redoubt
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 29, 2019 | 8:00pm
If you see just one Steve Bannon doc, make it Errol Morris’ deceptively polite American Dharma
By Mike D'Angelo October 29, 2019 | 7:00pm
Edward Norton returns to directing, and to New York City, with the all-star Motherless Brooklyn
By Jesse Hassenger October 28, 2019 | 4:45pm
Emma Roberts leads the rich-girl resistance in the exquisite, flimsy YA fantasy Paradise Hills
By Katie Rife October 24, 2019 | 6:23pm
Countdown will leave you counting the minutes until you’re not watching it anymore
By A.A. Dowd October 24, 2019 | 4:10pm
It’s good cop vs. bad cops in the generic Black And Blue
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 24, 2019 | 5:00am
“Debate me, you coward” takes movie form in Adam Carolla’s abysmal No Safe Spaces
By Vadim Rizov October 23, 2019 | 6:00pm
The Kill Team takes on the toxic masculinity of war, but any real insight is AWOL
By Roxana Hadadi October 23, 2019 | 5:05pm
Dark Fate can’t outrun the Terminator franchise’s past
By Jesse Hassenger October 22, 2019 | 11:00pm
Berlin winner Synonyms is a stylish but obvious fish-out-of-water allegory
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 22, 2019 | 8:50pm
Isabelle Huppert leads a packed ensemble in Ira Sachs’ mild Euro gabfest Frankie
By Mike D'Angelo October 22, 2019 | 8:10pm
Benedict Cumberbatch and Michael Shannon duel over electricity in a long-delayed Current War
By Jesse Hassenger October 22, 2019 | 2:00am
Jojo Rabbit puts a Kiwi clown nose on a treacly, middlebrow Holocaust movie
By A.A. Dowd October 17, 2019 | 11:20pm
Only diehards need bother with Kevin Smith’s crude and lazy Jay And Silent Bob Reboot
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 16, 2019 | 9:30pm
Wounds wants to sell you a cursed smartphone, but the service sucks
By Joshua Alston October 16, 2019 | 8:15pm
The Lighthouse is an insanely inspired buddy comedy in the key of A24 horror
By A.A. Dowd October 16, 2019 | 6:00pm
10 years in the making, Zombieland: Double Tap is just overkill
By Katie Rife October 16, 2019 | 3:15pm
There’s little Spotlight urgency in the church-scandal drama By The Grace Of God
By Mike D'Angelo October 15, 2019 | 9:30pm
Syrian war doc The Cave wants to be empowering, but it’s mostly just numbing
By Vikram Murthi October 15, 2019 | 6:30pm
Angelina Jolie is less Mistress Of Evil than one-liner machine in another mildly revisionist Maleficent
By Jesse Hassenger October 15, 2019 | 1:00pm
Okay, Jexi : Find a funnier comedy
By Beatrice Loayza October 11, 2019 | 8:45pm
The new Addams Family is all together okay
By Katie Rife October 10, 2019 | 9:30pm
Parasite may be Bong Joon Ho’s most thrilling ride on the genre-hopping Snowpiercer express
By A.A. Dowd October 10, 2019 | 3:00pm
Will Smith fights himself in Ang Lee’s dopey but thrilling Gemini Man
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 9, 2019 | 9:00pm
Tim Heidecker’s On Cinema hits the big screen in the underwhelming Mister America
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 8, 2019 | 9:30pm
In My Room is a withering character study of the last man on Earth
By Mike D'Angelo October 8, 2019 | 7:00pm
Timothée Chalamet doesn’t want to be The King —and who would, in a kingdom this dull?
By Jesse Hassenger October 7, 2019 | 7:00pm
Joaquin Phoenix goes full Taxi Driver for the shallow but striking psychodrama of Joker
By A.A. Dowd October 3, 2019 | 2:00pm
Stephen King and Joe Hill adaptation In The Tall Grass tries to make plants terrifying
By Katie Rife October 2, 2019 | 9:00pm
Memory is a superficial look at the origins of Alien
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 1, 2019 | 8:00pm
Antonio Banderas brings what Pain And Glory he can to Pedro Almodóvar's new quasi-memoir
By Mike D'Angelo October 1, 2019 | 6:40pm
Truth is stranger than the fiction of Natalie Portman’s diaper-free Lucy In The Sky
By A.A. Dowd October 1, 2019 | 4:30pm
How do you make a real-life evil clown boring? Just call Wrinkles The Clown
By Josh Modell September 30, 2019 | 8:30pm
Low Tide finds urgent thrills instead of stranger things in the Amblin days of summer
By Jesse Hassenger September 30, 2019 | 8:00pm
Eddie Murphy goes back to the '70s for the blaxploitation biopic Dolemite Is My Name
By Katie Rife September 26, 2019 | 9:45pm
Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat is a Big Short that comes up short
By A.A. Dowd September 25, 2019 | 5:30pm