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A deft Amanda Seyfried struggles to find nuance in
Seven Veils
' theatrical metaphor
By Brianna Zigler
March 6, 2025 | 2:00pm
A death in the family leads to chaos in the brilliant, shifting
On Becoming A Guinea Fowl
By Katie Rife
March 6, 2025 | 12:00pm
Wacky, angry, shaggy sci-fi
Mickey 17
works its underclass to the clone
By Jacob Oller
March 5, 2025 | 2:00pm
A screenlife riff on J-horror,
Bloat
is stuffed with clichés rather than scares
By Natalia Keogan
March 4, 2025 | 2:00pm
Veteran actors wage war in paranoid retirement home horror
The Rule Of Jenny Pen
By Matthew Jackson
March 4, 2025 | 7:00am
Last Breath
turns a real death-defying diving accident into a brisk thriller
By Brianna Zigler
February 27, 2025 | 9:00am
Rodgers and Hammerstein leave a lyricist spiraling in
Blue Moon
By Katarina Docalovich
February 24, 2025 | 2:00pm
Christoph Waltz is just some
Old Guy
in undercooked assassin mess
By Brianna Zigler
February 20, 2025 | 1:00pm
Griffin Dunne finds truth in low-key father-sons dramedy
Ex-Husbands
By Brent Simon
February 19, 2025 | 3:00pm
Daisy Ridley can't scrub away
Cleaner
's die-hard clichés
By Matt Schimkowitz
February 17, 2025 | 12:11pm
The Dead Thing
turns the hold of toxic relationships into slow-burn horror
By Brent Simon
February 14, 2025 | 11:00am
Bridget Jones: Mad About The Boy
reaches a mature franchise peak
By Caroline Siede
February 13, 2025 | 2:00pm
There's a hollow familiarity at the bottom of
The Gorge
By Brianna Zigler
February 13, 2025 | 12:00pm
The fourth
Captain America
enters a
Brave New World
of sequelizing Marvel leftovers
By Jesse Hassenger
February 12, 2025 | 12:00pm
Paddington In Peru
is still sweet as marmalade, but twice as messy
By Matt Schimkowitz
February 12, 2025 | 9:00am
A warm
Universal Language
persists through this comedy's bland, absurd tundra
By Jacob Oller
February 10, 2025 | 10:00am
An Irish blood feud escalates in the satisfying thriller
Bring Them Down
By Natalia Keogan
February 7, 2025 | 12:00pm
Parthenope
merely ogles an object of desire
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
February 6, 2025 | 1:00pm
Everything but the thought counts in the endearingly cheesy
Love Hurts
By Jacob Oller
February 6, 2025 | 12:01pm
Amy Schumer succumbs to streaming-comedy pastiche in the fittingly ambivalent
Kinda Pregnant
By Jesse Hassenger
February 5, 2025 | 2:00pm
A shocking allegation drives a parent-teacher conference into messy madness in
Armand
By Natalia Keogan
February 5, 2025 | 12:00pm
Holiday slasher
Heart Eyes
is as slick and disposable as a store-bought card
By Katie Rife
February 5, 2025 | 7:00am
Oz Perkins tells a gory cosmic joke with
The Monkey
By Katie Rife
February 3, 2025 | 9:00am
Kristen Stewart and Steven Yeun elevate the robotic sci-fi romance
Love Me
By Caroline Siede
January 30, 2025 | 1:00pm
You’re Cordially Invited
to sit through this laugh-free movie
By Brianna Zigler
January 30, 2025 | 11:00am
Ironically, the star of the aggressively silly
Dog Man
is its cat villain
By Andy Crump
January 29, 2025 | 12:00pm
Jennifer Lopez and Tonatiuh shine in a dulled version of
Kiss Of The Spider Woman
By Natalia Keogan
January 29, 2025 | 10:00am
Timely, lyrical wildfire drama
Rebuilding
faces devastation together
By Natalia Keogan
January 28, 2025 | 3:00pm
Sophie Thatcher makes a great
Companion
in an otherwise facile horror romp
By Jesse Hassenger
January 28, 2025 | 9:00am
Mark Wahlberg does anything but ground the pulp thriller
Flight Risk
By Andy Crump
January 23, 2025 | 6:00pm
Inheritance
shoots its generic thriller through the invigorating lens of an iPhone
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
January 22, 2025 | 12:00pm
Steven Soderbergh cracks another genre with the clever ghost story
Presence
By Jesse Hassenger
January 21, 2025 | 11:00am
The Colors Within
shine through in a musical slice-of-life anime
By Leigh Monson
January 20, 2025 | 7:00am
Jamie Foxx and Cameron Diaz are
Back In Action
for a familiar spy comedy
By B. Panther
January 16, 2025 | 9:00pm
Charming leads elevate business-as-usual buddy comedy
One Of Them Days
By Natalia Keogan
January 15, 2025 | 1:00pm
Nobody knows what it’s like, to be the
Wolf Man
By Jacob Oller
January 15, 2025 | 12:00pm
Unstoppable
struggles to pin down a new spin on sports movie clichés
By Leigh Monson
January 14, 2025 | 1:00pm
Sirens and shotguns light up Shakespeare in the in-game experiment
Grand Theft Hamlet
By Jacob Oller
January 13, 2025 | 9:55am
A mother's resilience becomes revolutionary in
I'm Still Here
By Manuel Betancourt
January 13, 2025 | 3:00am
Mega-macho sequel
Den Of Thieves 2: Pantera
pulls a funnier, chummier heist
By Matt Schimkowitz
January 9, 2025 | 9:00pm
Gaza’s filmmakers stand together in disparate dispatches
From Ground Zero
By Jacob Oller
January 2, 2025 | 9:00am
Don't Die: The Man Who Wants To Live Forever
skims the wrinkle-free surface
By Brent Simon
December 31, 2024 | 12:00pm
A subverted police procedural crumbles into predictable moralizing in
Santosh
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 27, 2024 | 2:00pm
A boxer reaches the top in
The Fire Inside
. Now what?
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 24, 2024 | 9:00am
Wallace & Gromit are as funny and exciting as ever in
Vengeance Most Fowl
By Jacob Oller
December 19, 2024 | 9:00am
Pedro Almodóvar obsesses over death, actresses, and bright colors in
The Room Next Door
By Natalia Keogan
December 19, 2024 | 2:00am
Dense and technically brilliant,
The Brutalist
reflects the bitter reality of assimilation
By Brianna Zigler
December 19, 2024 | 1:00am
Disney's taxidermized IP is brighter and livelier in
Mufasa: The Lion King
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
December 18, 2024 | 2:30pm
Keanu Reeves and two Jim Carreys kick
Sonic The Hedgehog 3
into enjoyable overdrive
By Matt Donato
December 18, 2024 | 9:38am
Jaume Collet-Serra returns to form even without Liam Neeson in the entertaining
Carry-On
By Jesse Hassenger
December 13, 2024 | 11:00am
Pamela Anderson outshines her own fable in
The Last Showgirl
By Brianna Zigler
December 12, 2024 | 10:00am
Lord Of The Rings
anime
War Of The Rohirrim
gallops down a well-trodden path
By Matt Schimkowitz
December 12, 2024 | 7:00am
A stunning, inventive adaptation sees through the eyes of the
Nickel Boys
By Tomris Laffly
December 12, 2024 | 2:46am
A career-best Ralph Fiennes leads a gripping search for the next pope in
Conclave
By Tomris Laffly
December 12, 2024 | 1:00am
The Sony Spider-Villain series goes out on top (sort of) with
Kraven The Hunter
By Jesse Hassenger
December 11, 2024 | 3:00pm
Don't think twice,
A Complete Unknown
is more than all right
By Tomris Laffly
December 10, 2024 | 12:00pm
Paul Schrader takes a fragmented look backwards with
Oh, Canada
By Jason Gorber
December 6, 2024 | 1:00am
Horror-comedy
Y2K
merely collects references on tech doomsday
By Brianna Zigler
December 5, 2024 | 12:00pm
A scattershot riff on
Midsommar
,
Get Away
is decidedly mid
By Natalia Keogan
December 5, 2024 | 11:00am
Marianne Jean-Baptiste rages against
Hard Truths
in bold, biting drama
By Jason Gorber
December 4, 2024 | 11:00am
In
Nightbitch
, monstrous motherhood has never been more mundane
By Natalia Keogan
December 4, 2024 | 10:00am
The elite sing off-key at humanity's curtain call in
The End
By Jacob Oller
December 4, 2024 | 7:00am
Schmaltz comes for a small town in wishlist-thin
That Christmas
By Jacob Oller
December 3, 2024 | 12:00pm
An oppressive, lavish
Nosferatu
approaches and death is a relief
By Katie Rife
December 2, 2024 | 4:30pm
David Gordon Green hangs a left turn into heartwarming kid antics with
Nutcrackers
By Jesse Hassenger
December 2, 2024 | 10:00am
A stirring Ralph Fiennes prevents
The Return
from being a failed
Odyssey
By Elijah Gonzalez
December 2, 2024 | 6:00am
Iranian thriller
The Seed Of The Sacred Fig
sprouts paranoia and isolation at home
By Matt Schimkowitz
November 27, 2024 | 8:00am
Moana 2
is lost at sea
By Jacob Oller
November 26, 2024 | 12:00pm
A typo makes its way to Jack Black's Satan in the dreadful
Dear Santa
By Matthew Jackson
November 26, 2024 | 6:00am
A gripping allegorical séance sets
The Piano Lesson
free
By Jacob Oller
November 21, 2024 | 11:00am
Strong leads and agile musical numbers can't fully colorize the first half of
Wicked
By Jesse Hassenger
November 19, 2024 | 3:00pm
Flow
doesn't need words to craft an engrossing survival fable
By Jacob Oller
November 19, 2024 | 8:00am
Chris Evans and The Rock slog through streaming-grade holiday cheer in
Red One
By Jesse Hassenger
November 13, 2024 | 10:00am
All We Imagine As Light
lingers on intimacy in the monsoon-drenched rat race
By Jacob Oller
November 12, 2024 | 12:00pm
Exhausted, decadent imperial decline prevails in maximalist sequel
Gladiator II
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
November 11, 2024 | 2:47pm
Christmas Eve In Miller’s Point masterfully celebrates a fleeting holiday spirit
By Natalia Keogan
November 11, 2024 | 1:35pm
Elevation
certainly isn't an elevated creature feature
By Brianna Zigler
November 8, 2024 | 11:00am
Andrea Arnold dabbles in bizarre surrealism with flawed fairy tale
Bird
By Natalia Keogan
November 7, 2024 | 8:00am
Emilia Pérez
wants a perfect body, she wants a perfect soul
By Natalia Keogan
November 6, 2024 | 11:00am
Cillian Murphy can't look away in poignant drama
Small Things Like These
By Brianna Zigler
November 5, 2024 | 12:00pm
Courtroom drama
Juror #2
is the best Clint Eastwood film in years
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
November 1, 2024 | 12:00pm
A simplistic microcosm of domestic America,
Here
is caged by clichés
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
October 31, 2024 | 12:00pm
Snoozy time-travel slasher
Time Cut
kills time (and little else) back in 2003
By Matt Donato
October 30, 2024 | 3:01am
A beast of conflicting genres,
Your Monster
gets trampled in the telling
By Tara Bennett
October 25, 2024 | 1:00pm
A country reclaims and reckons with stolen fragments of its history in
Dahomey
By Jacob Oller
October 25, 2024 | 8:00am
Tom Hardy takes one more hit-and-miss spin with a symbiote in
Venom: The Last Dance
By Jesse Hassenger
October 23, 2024 | 3:00pm
Clay weepy
Memoir Of A Snail
crawls through a gauntlet of misery
By Jacob Oller
October 23, 2024 | 7:00am
Crime comedy
Brothers
strains for wacky, achieves hacky
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
October 18, 2024 | 4:50pm
A killer represents misogyny’s magnitude in Anna Kendrick’s
Woman Of The Hour
By Anna McKibbin
October 18, 2024 | 10:00am
In the superior sequel
Smile 2
, even pop girlies get the blues
By Matt Schimkowitz
October 17, 2024 | 12:00pm
André Holland is the centerpiece of the lush, familiar family drama
Exhibiting Forgiveness
By Jacob Oller
October 17, 2024 | 10:00am
Guy Maddin spreads strange
Rumours
at an absurd political summit
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
October 16, 2024 | 7:00am
Timo Tjahjanto still hits harder than almost anyone else in messy action epic
The Shadow Strays
By Katie Rife
October 15, 2024 | 12:00pm
Steve McQueen's
Blitz
is a pitched battle between the conventions and strangeness of war
By Jesse Hassenger
October 11, 2024 | 11:23am
Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth share the world’s most mellow romance in
Lonely Planet
By Caroline Siede
October 10, 2024 | 7:00pm
Bland and unromantic,
We Live In Time
wastes it
By Brianna Zigler
October 10, 2024 | 1:29pm
Lego music doc
Piece By Piece
is only missing "puff" from its title
By Jesse Hassenger
October 9, 2024 | 10:00am
Pavements
takes the piss out of the fate(s) awaiting rock bands
By Jesse Hassenger
October 8, 2024 | 10:00am
Caddo Lake
loses a little girl, then loses the plot
By Jacob Oller
October 7, 2024 | 10:00am
The Platform 2
offers up a second, less satisfying helping of the same meal
By Matt Donato
October 4, 2024 | 9:30am
Sour and contemptuous,
Joker: Folie À Deux
fits right in with the original
By Jesse Hassenger
October 4, 2024 | 7:00am
You can't sweep the boogeyman away amid
Hold Your Breath
's Dust Bowl drudgery
By Natalia Keogan
October 3, 2024 | 1:17pm
Look Back
on art's power with this crushing, vibrant Tatsuki Fujimoto adaptation
By Elijah Gonzalez
October 3, 2024 | 12:00pm
Angelina Jolie's star power adds depth to tenuous biopic
Maria
By Brianna Zigler
October 3, 2024 | 7:00am
House Of Spoils
' restaurant horror is more rotten tomato than Michelin star
By Jacob Oller
October 2, 2024 | 11:00am
A friend group sheds their skins but not their baggage in funny whodunit
It’s What’s Inside
By Natalia Keogan
October 2, 2024 | 8:00am
The terrifically tense
Heretic
will make you believe in the power of Hugh Grant
By Matthew Jackson
October 1, 2024 | 7:00am
Family hurt runs deep in charming, sensitive two-hander
A Real Pain
By Brianna Zigler
September 30, 2024 | 8:00am
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