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This One’s For The Ladies —and for Magic Mike fans seeking a peek at the real thing
By Beatrice Loayza June 6, 2019 | 5:05pm
The Last Black Man In San Francisco is a delightful, overstuffed ode to the City By The Bay
By Vikram Murthi June 5, 2019 | 8:30pm
Ron Howard’s opera documentary Pavarotti can’t find the man behind the voice
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 5, 2019 | 6:00pm
Dark Phoenix turns one of the most celebrated arcs in all of comics into just another damn X-Men movie
By A.A. Dowd June 5, 2019 | 5:01am
Tough talk and wish fulfillment struggle for control of Mindy Kaling's talk-show comedy Late Night
By Jesse Hassenger June 3, 2019 | 2:00pm
As Rocketman rockets into theaters, Leto offers a more modest rock-musical biopic
By A.A. Dowd May 30, 2019 | 9:30pm
Sparkling star chemistry (and Keanu Reeves!) makes Always Be My Maybe a can’t-miss Netflix rom-com
By Gwen Ihnat May 30, 2019 | 3:30pm
Octavia Spencer brings unexpected depth to the small-town teen horror of Ma
By Katie Rife May 29, 2019 | 8:50pm
Want a crash course in money laundering? The Fall Of The American Empire has you covered
By Mike D'Angelo May 29, 2019 | 6:00pm
The Oscar-submitted Yomeddine is a sentimental but affecting ode to friendship among outcasts
By Roxana Hadadi May 29, 2019 | 4:00pm
The kaiju are cool, but the rest is a mess, in the supersized Godzilla: King Of The Monsters
By Katie Rife May 28, 2019 | 9:00pm
The disappointing Domino is one of Brian De Palma’s clumsiest and most tedious thrillers
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 28, 2019 | 8:00pm
Too Late To Die Young brings memories of an unusual childhood to transfixing life
By Mike D'Angelo May 28, 2019 | 7:30pm
The mini-adventures of Secret Life Of Pets 2 belong on a disc of bonus features, not in theaters
By Jesse Hassenger May 28, 2019 | 2:45pm
The Perfection is a shamelessly trashy B-movie in elevated horror drag
By Katie Rife May 23, 2019 | 8:30pm
The lifeless Disney remake Aladdin can’t muster the original’s magic
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 22, 2019 | 7:15pm
Hilarious, heartfelt, and horny, Booksmart redefines the teen comedy for Generation Z
By Katie Rife May 22, 2019 | 2:00pm
Brightburn doesn't live up to its "Superman as bad seed" premise
By Jesse Hassenger May 22, 2019 | 1:00pm
The Elton John biopic Rocketman works best when it remembers to be a musical
By Jesse Hassenger May 19, 2019 | 6:00pm
See You Yesterday cleverly blends sci-fi, youthful charm, and the harsh reality of police brutality
By Shannon Miller May 15, 2019 | 10:00pm
A Dog’s Journey is weapons-grade tearjerker material for dog lovers
By Katie Rife May 15, 2019 | 6:30pm
Trial By Fire turns a compelling real-life tragedy into just another docudrama
By Mike D'Angelo May 15, 2019 | 6:00pm
The Sun Is Also A Star turns a compelling premise into a lackluster teen romance
By Caroline Siede May 15, 2019 | 1:00pm
A rising Japanese master spins sublime romance out of cinematic doubles in Asako I & II
By Lawrence Garcia May 14, 2019 | 7:00pm
Photograph takes a quiet, affecting snapshot of a clichéd rom-com premise
By Jesse Hassenger May 13, 2019 | 9:30pm
Joanna Hogg’s gorgeous The Souvenir looks at a bad romance through the fog of memory
By A.A. Dowd May 13, 2019 | 4:30pm
A teenage bride finds pleasure inside and outside marriage in the sensuous The Third Wife
By Beatrice Loayza May 13, 2019 | 3:00pm
Parabellum is a less elegant but still thrilling rampage for the man, the myth, the legend: John Wick
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 10, 2019 | 8:15pm
Amy Poehler’s love for her castmates—and lots of alcohol—fuels her trip to Wine Country
By Katie Rife May 10, 2019 | 7:00pm
Anne Hathaway and Rebel Wilson’s new comedy The Hustle pulls an inelegant con
By Caroline Siede May 9, 2019 | 4:45pm
You can cheer for Diane Keaton and Jacki Weaver, and still see that Poms is a treacly dud
By Allison Shoemaker May 9, 2019 | 2:30pm
The director of American Psycho seeks empathy with the devil in Manson Family drama Charlie Says
By Katie Rife May 8, 2019 | 9:00pm
The Biggest Little Farm is a simplified, PR-friendly look at an agricultural triumph
By Vikram Murthi May 8, 2019 | 4:40pm
Willem Dafoe is Pasolini in Abel Ferrara’s long-delayed biopic of the murdered artist
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 7, 2019 | 8:30pm
Shakespeare superfan Kenneth Branagh finally plays the Bard himself in the resonant All Is True
By Mike D'Angelo May 7, 2019 | 5:10pm
Tolkien gives the Hobbit author his own Shakespeare In Love , minus the laughs
By Jesse Hassenger May 6, 2019 | 4:15pm
Zac Efron's Ted Bundy movie is an interesting, ambitious misfire
By A.A. Dowd May 4, 2019 | 2:15am
Seth Rogen woos Charlize Theron in the half-assed political rom-com Long Shot
By A.A. Dowd May 3, 2019 | 6:20pm
Detective Pikachu offers tomorrow’s nostalgia junk today
By Jesse Hassenger May 3, 2019 | 1:50pm
Cultural backdrop aside, El Chicano isn’t much more than a shoddy imitation Batman
By Vikram Murthi May 2, 2019 | 10:30pm
Hero director Zhang Yimou finds beauty in opposites in the visually stunning Shadow
By Katie Rife May 2, 2019 | 10:05pm
Dennis Quaid is the yuppie from Hell in the giggle-inducing home invasion thriller The Intruder
By Katie Rife May 2, 2019 | 4:00am
Tell It To The Bees crushes a tender midcentury love story under the weight of melancholy
By Roxana Hadadi May 1, 2019 | 10:30pm
Olivier Assayas tries his hand at the neurotic highbrow gabfest with Non-Fiction
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 1, 2019 | 8:00pm
Leave UglyDolls on the shelf
By Jesse Hassenger May 1, 2019 | 1:00pm
Werner Herzog lends his voice and brand, but little else, to the unilluminating Meeting Gorbachev
By Mike D'Angelo April 30, 2019 | 7:00pm
Ask Dr. Ruth offers a deeply satisfying portrait of the sex therapist’s life
By Josh Modell April 29, 2019 | 7:00pm
A rookie ranger faces a terrifying ordeal in the survival horror of Body At Brighton Rock
By Katie Rife April 24, 2019 | 10:15pm
Ralph Fiennes’ ballet biopic The White Crow can’t find its footing
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 24, 2019 | 8:00pm
Marvel’s grand Avengers experiment reaches its fun, uneven, sci-fi tearjerker Endgame
By A.A. Dowd April 24, 2019 | 5:45am
Kristen Stewart and Laura Dern duel over their shared creation in the one-sided biopic JT Leroy
By Mike D'Angelo April 23, 2019 | 7:50pm
A superb performance from Tessa Thompson anchors the hardscrabble drama of Little Woods
By Katie Rife April 19, 2019 | 11:05pm
Romeo and Juliet are reborn in Kenya in the vibrant lesbian romance Rafiki
By Katie Rife April 17, 2019 | 10:00pm
Teen Spirit has plenty of it
By Caroline Siede April 17, 2019 | 6:00pm
Curse Of La Llorona is more parody than expansion of the Conjuring universe
By Danette Chavez April 17, 2019 | 5:30pm
Hail Satan? is an insider look at an activist movement born to raise hell
By Katie Rife April 16, 2019 | 10:00pm
Under The Silver Lake is the perfect demented detective yarn for our paranoid age
By Mike D'Angelo April 16, 2019 | 4:00pm
Hong Sang-soo’s Grass turns banal people-watching into haunting artistic pursuit
By Lawrence Garcia April 15, 2019 | 8:20pm
In a month of superhero stories, the overstuffed but well-acted Fast Color goes its own way
By Allison Shoemaker April 15, 2019 | 7:00pm
To dramatize a real-life miracle, Breakthrough offers thoughts and prayers
By Jesse Hassenger April 15, 2019 | 4:00pm
A masterful breakthrough performance provides the predictable Dogman some bark and bite
By A.A. Dowd April 12, 2019 | 9:50pm
After thinks it’s beautiful, that’s what makes it tiresome
By Caroline Siede April 12, 2019 | 2:45pm
Elisabeth Moss unleashes her inner Courtney Love in the bravely abrasive rock drama Her Smell
By A.A. Dowd April 11, 2019 | 10:15pm
Neil Marshall's Hellboy is a loud, gory mess only a teenager could love
By Katie Rife April 10, 2019 | 10:00pm
The gripping war drama Girls Of The Sun prioritizes sisterhood over the full cultural story
By Roxana Hadadi April 10, 2019 | 7:00pm
The stars of Little make this semi-body-swapped comedy a lot of fun
By Jesse Hassenger April 10, 2019 | 4:00pm
An hour-long 3D shot is just one beguiling attraction of the movie-drunk Long Day's Journey Into Night
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 10, 2019 | 2:15pm
Rooney Mara is Mary Magdalene and Joaquin Phoenix is Christ in a holy bore of a biblical drama
By Mike D'Angelo April 9, 2019 | 8:00pm
However the new Tarantino turns out, it can’t be worse than The Haunting Of Sharon Tate
By Katie Rife April 5, 2019 | 9:30pm
Pet Sematary should have stayed buried
By A.A. Dowd April 5, 2019 | 2:30am
The Best Of Enemies is another feel-good movie about those darn racists
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 4, 2019 | 9:05pm
The moment Aretha Franklin steps on stage, Amazing Grace enters the concert film pantheon
By Vikram Murthi April 4, 2019 | 3:15pm
Robert Pattinson faces the mysteries of space, fatherhood, and The Fuck Box in the captivating High Life
By A.A. Dowd April 3, 2019 | 8:45pm
Brie Larson makes her directorial debut with the pastel naïveté of Unicorn Store
By Katie Rife April 3, 2019 | 5:50pm
Laika thinks bigger and smaller with the charming stop-animation adventure Missing Link
By Jesse Hassenger April 3, 2019 | 5:00am
For a movie about a famous massacre, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo is very dry
By Mike D'Angelo April 2, 2019 | 6:00pm
Unplanned is an abortion about abortion
By Vadim Rizov March 29, 2019 | 2:45pm
Matthew McConaughey gets in touch with his inner Beach Bum in a crazed comedy of carefree living
By A.A. Dowd March 27, 2019 | 5:00pm
The Brink gets nothing interesting out of following Steve Bannon around with a camera
By Mike D'Angelo March 26, 2019 | 7:00pm
Tribeca winner Diane is an awkward, modest, and subtly dreamlike character study
By Lawrence Garcia March 26, 2019 | 7:00pm
Tim Burton’ s live-action Dumbo bites the corporate hand that feeds it
By Katie Rife March 26, 2019 | 4:00pm
Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson are together at last, and regrettably dull, in The Highwaymen
By Jesse Hassenger March 26, 2019 | 12:00pm
Teen comedies are rarely as beautifully made as the sex-positive Slut In A Good Way
By Jesse Hassenger March 25, 2019 | 3:00pm
Shazam! zaps an old-fashioned superhero into a blockbuster world
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 23, 2019 | 10:00pm
Food, family, and history combine in the sweet, thin broth of Ramen Shop
By Katie Rife March 21, 2019 | 2:25pm
Jordan Peele doubles the horror and doubles the fun in the expertly crafted Us
By A.A. Dowd March 20, 2019 | 11:00pm
This week, and maybe any other, the terrorist-attack docudrama Hotel Mumbai is a grueling watch
By Mike D'Angelo March 20, 2019 | 8:00pm
Relaxer might be the grossest movie of the year
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 20, 2019 | 4:00pm
Mel Gibson is a cop on the edge in the equally queasy and thrilling Dragged Across Concrete
By A.A. Dowd March 20, 2019 | 3:05pm
The director of the Oscar-winning Son Of Saul dives back into the disturbing past with Sunset
By Mike D'Angelo March 19, 2019 | 4:15pm
There are few signs of life in the curiously dour alien-occupation drama Captive State
By A.A. Dowd March 15, 2019 | 4:00pm
With Ash Is Purest White , one of the world’s greatest filmmakers cuts together his greatest hits
By A.A. Dowd March 14, 2019 | 9:30pm
The Hummingbird Project could have used some of the crazed vision of its computer-age bandits
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 14, 2019 | 7:05pm
Giallo gets a porno-chic makeover in the kinky, queer, and colorful Knife + Heart
By Katie Rife March 14, 2019 | 3:00pm
At the animated Wonder Park , the view is lovely but the attractions don’ t fit together
By Jesse Hassenger March 14, 2019 | 2:00pm
The maudlin Five Feet Apart anoints a new pair of winning young stars
By Caroline Siede March 14, 2019 | 1:00pm
Keira Knightley steps into the dully familiar post-war love triangle of The Aftermath
By Mike D'Angelo March 13, 2019 | 8:00pm
The Mustang doesn’ t buck indie convention—it gives it a surge of new dramatic life
By Allison Shoemaker March 13, 2019 | 1:00pm
The gripping, numbing Combat Obscura detonates fantasies of military heroism
By Lawrence Garcia March 12, 2019 | 6:20pm
Nancy Drew is still smart and engaging, but her new movie is a little dull
By Jesse Hassenger March 12, 2019 | 1:00pm
A mystery is solved and a late master eulogized in the playful and humanistic 3 Faces
By A.A. Dowd March 8, 2019 | 4:00pm
Oscar Isaac and Ben Affleck blunder through a heavy heist in J.C. Chandor’ s Triple Frontier
By Mike D'Angelo March 7, 2019 | 7:00pm
The surreal Western Two Plains & A Fancy is as funny as it is aggravating
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 7, 2019 | 5:00pm
Julianne Moore gets her groove back in the delicate midlife romance Gloria Bell
By Katie Rife March 6, 2019 | 10:00pm
Black Mother is a personal, radical, expansive portrait of Jamaica and its people
By Lawrence Garcia March 6, 2019 | 4:00pm
Tragedy looms over the epically depressive debut/swan song An Elephant Sitting Still
By Mike D'Angelo March 5, 2019 | 9:00pm
The dream of the ’90s is alive in the underwhelming Captain Marvel
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 5, 2019 | 2:00pm
Tyler Perry gives a schlocky, sloppy goodbye to Madea with a Family Funeral
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 1, 2019 | 9:00pm