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If only the crime-romance Racer And The Jailbird moved as fast as its cars
By A.A. Dowd May 2, 2018 | 2:45pm
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RBG makes an unconvincing case for the Supreme Court’s most memed Justice, Ruth Bader Ginsburg
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 1, 2018 | 8:10pm
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WWI melodrama The Guardians strays from its valuable vision of life on the home front
By Mike D'Angelo May 1, 2018 | 7:40pm
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Charlize Theron, Diablo Cody, and Jason Reitman reunite for a terrific movie about motherhood
By Jesse Hassenger April 30, 2018 | 3:00pm
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Robert Smigel helps Adam Sandler deliver the best Happy Madison movie in ages with The Week Of
By Jesse Hassenger April 27, 2018 | 6:05pm
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Kings imagines the 1992 Los Angeles riots as a mess of racism, weird sex dreams, and slapstick
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 27, 2018 | 4:10pm
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Let The Sunshine In pairs a great director with a great star, but words cloud their chemistry
By A.A. Dowd April 26, 2018 | 9:20pm
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Alia Shawkat tries to fast-forward through courtship in the hipster sex comedy Duck Butter
By Katie Rife April 25, 2018 | 11:40pm
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Infinity War is just way too much movie for one Avengers movie
By A.A. Dowd April 25, 2018 | 8:03pm
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The Oscar-winning director of A Fantastic Woman returns to grief and repression in the subtle, sensual Disobedience
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 25, 2018 | 7:35pm
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Isabelle Huppert as Mrs. Hyde sounds like a much cooler movie than the one we get
By Mike D'Angelo April 24, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Paula Patton and Omar Epps Traffik in some watchable garbage
By Jesse Hassenger April 20, 2018 | 3:00pm
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Amy Schumer stars in I Feel Pretty, a high-concept rom-com with more product placements than laughs
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 18, 2018 | 8:00pm
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William Friedkin's ridiculous documentary The Devil And Father Amorth is almost trashy enough to be funny
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 18, 2018 | 4:45pm
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Super Troopers 2 is a waste of a high
By Sean O'Neal April 17, 2018 | 7:00pm
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A theater hit, the horror anthology Ghost Stories fails to translate its scares to the big screen
By Mike D'Angelo April 17, 2018 | 4:35pm
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The director of The Artist turns in a shallow portrait of a film icon with Godard Mon Amour
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 16, 2018 | 8:45pm
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This Is Our Land draws gutsy drama from France’s right-wing resurgence, but whiffs where it matters
By Mike D'Angelo April 16, 2018 | 6:00pm
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There's no escape from a South American purgatory in the Kafkaesque comedy Zama
By A.A. Dowd April 13, 2018 | 12:00am
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Blumhouse dares to be stupid with the contrived teen horror of Truth Or Dare
By Katie Rife April 11, 2018 | 9:45pm
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The Rock cracks wise as monsters run amok in the lunatic arcade adaptation Rampage
By A.A. Dowd April 11, 2018 | 9:00pm
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Chiwetel Ejiofor can't absolve Come Sunday of its many dramatic sins
By Vikram Murthi April 11, 2018 | 8:31pm
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Alicia Vikander and James McAvoy drown in Submergence, a romance that’s mostly water
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 11, 2018 | 6:30pm
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The dabbing, rapping medieval metal musical Jeannette is even stranger than it sounds
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 10, 2018 | 10:22pm
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Rodeo cowboys play themselves in the fascinating The Rider
By Mike D'Angelo April 10, 2018 | 6:30pm
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Been wanting to show your 6-year-old a movie about World War I? Meet Sgt. Stubby!
By Jesse Hassenger April 10, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Casting Shia LaBeouf as a famous asshole is Borg Vs. McEnroe’s only masterstroke
By A.A. Dowd April 9, 2018 | 10:00pm
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Jon Hamm is a lush on a mission in Beirut, an entertaining but forgettable spy thriller
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 9, 2018 | 8:45pm
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Joaquin Phoenix is a human wrecking ball in Lynne Ramsay's electrifying You Were Never Really Here
By A.A. Dowd April 6, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Helen Hunt leads a grieving volleyball team through a perfunctory, predictable Miracle Season
By Jesse Hassenger April 5, 2018 | 1:00pm
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The striking Outback oater Sweet Country views Aussie history through a Western lens
By A.A. Dowd April 5, 2018 | 12:15am
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A UFO cult is only the beginning in The Endless, a new sci-fi whatsit from the directors of Spring
By Katie Rife April 4, 2018 | 10:00pm
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The experimental documentary Good Luck mines gold from the oldest industry
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 4, 2018 | 3:45pm
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Michelle Pfeiffer disappears into literal and figurative darkness in the bold Where Is Kyra?
By Mike D'Angelo April 3, 2018 | 8:00pm
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John Krasinski does his best Shyamalan with the shivery good fun of A Quiet Place
By A.A. Dowd April 3, 2018 | 6:40pm
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The Apatovian Blockers is two comedies in one, and they're both pretty funny
By Jesse Hassenger April 3, 2018 | 6:00pm
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Don't expect any Black Stallion magic from Lean On Pete's shatteringly sad boy-and-his-horse story
By A.A. Dowd April 2, 2018 | 10:00pm
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Chappaquiddick retells a Kennedy scandal in the style of a David Fincher procedural
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 2, 2018 | 3:45pm
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The First Wives Club meets Fatal Attraction in Tyler Perry's overwrought Acrimony
By Katie Rife March 30, 2018 | 11:04pm
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God's still not dead, and Dana Loesch is A Light In Darkness, at the end of this hysterical trilogy
By Vadim Rizov March 29, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Finding Your Feet wastes an overqualified cast on a creaky retirement-age romance
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 29, 2018 | 6:30pm
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Lynn Shelton’s ex-con drama Outside In proves that not all Duplasses are created equal
By Mike D'Angelo March 27, 2018 | 6:30pm
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An amateur sleuth digs into a Hollywood mystery in the gorgeous neo-noir Gemini
By Jesse Hassenger March 27, 2018 | 2:00pm
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Steven Spielberg finds fun, and maybe even a soul, in the pandering pastiche of Ready Player One
By A.A. Dowd March 27, 2018 | 12:00am
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There are maybe 4 movies packed into Ismael’s Ghosts, and at least one of them is terrific
By A.A. Dowd March 23, 2018 | 10:15pm
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The terminally ill romance Midnight Sun won’t so much jerk your tears as bore you to them
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 23, 2018 | 8:13am
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The appeal of Sherlock Gnomes is strictly elementary
By Jesse Hassenger March 23, 2018 | 1:00am
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A brave little girl battles cliché in the sappy but effective I Kill Giants
By Katie Rife March 21, 2018 | 10:40pm
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On an Isle Of Dogs, Wes Anderson uses stop-motion to construct one of his most wondrous worlds
By A.A. Dowd March 21, 2018 | 10:25pm
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The mediocrity of Paul, Apostle Of Christ is still better than most faith-based entertainment
By Mike D'Angelo March 21, 2018 | 9:00pm
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Guillermo Del Toro’s geeky Pacific Rim gets an impersonal sequel in Uprising
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 21, 2018 | 7:15pm
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Steven Soderbergh commits himself to the crazy premise (and cheap iPhone imagery) of Unsane
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 21, 2018 | 2:50pm
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Roxanne Roxanne takes an unconventional approach to the life of a legendary female rapper
By Vikram Murthi March 20, 2018 | 5:20pm
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A Cannes winner returns to the classroom, but not to form, with disappointing thriller The Workshop
By Mike D'Angelo March 20, 2018 | 4:30pm
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I Can Only Imagine devoting an entire movie to one bad song
By Jesse Hassenger March 16, 2018 | 6:15pm
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Turns out that a boring Tomb Raider movie might be worse than a really dumb and silly one
By A.A. Dowd March 14, 2018 | 6:35pm
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The slick 7 Days In Entebbe waxes nostalgic for the days when terrorists wore turtlenecks
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 13, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Benji returns to do Bourbon Street and encourage prayer in a new Netflix movie
By Vadim Rizov March 13, 2018 | 6:40pm
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100 years after the Spring Offensive, war is still hell and Journey’s End is still good
By Mike D'Angelo March 13, 2018 | 5:25pm
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The disaster-slash-chase flick The Hurricane Heist is more of a mild breeze
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 9, 2018 | 8:55pm
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Gringo calls back to the heyday of star-studded Elmore Leonard crime capers
By A.A. Dowd March 8, 2018 | 9:05pm
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The sequel Prey At Night slashes The Strangers’ home-invasion premise into... art?
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 8, 2018 | 8:00am
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Netflix’s The Outsider is the generic Jared Leto yakuza thriller no one wanted
By Mike D'Angelo March 8, 2018 | 5:00am
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Two teen girls forge a dark friendship in the tense, blackly comic Thoroughbreds
By A.A. Dowd March 7, 2018 | 10:05pm
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A Wrinkle In Time alternates clumsiness with moments of honesty and grace
By Jesse Hassenger March 7, 2018 | 5:00pm
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A dictator’s cronies jockey for power in Veep creator Armando Iannucci’s The Death Of Stalin
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 6, 2018 | 10:25pm
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Isabelle Huppert gets mixed up in a love triangle in the playful, spontaneous Claire's Camera
By Mike D'Angelo March 6, 2018 | 5:00pm
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Chronicle Of Anna Magdalena Bach, the strangest music biopic ever made, returns in a 50th-anniversary restoration
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky March 2, 2018 | 7:50pm
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Bruce Willis has a Death Wish in Eli Roth's faithfully fascist, gun-nut remake
By A.A. Dowd March 2, 2018 | 2:00am
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The historical action-horror hybrid Mohawk makes America the bogeyman
By Katie Rife February 28, 2018 | 11:15pm
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They Remain pushes The Good Place’s William Jackson Harper to an unsettling bad place
By Alex McLevy February 28, 2018 | 5:30pm
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The frustrating Did You Wonder Who Fired The Gun? ponders racism and erasure by way of true crime
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 27, 2018 | 9:40pm
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Addiction is the real monster of Werewolf, a striking addition to the junkies-in-love genre
By Mike D'Angelo February 27, 2018 | 8:10pm
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Love, Simon often plays like sweetly progressive, second-rate TV
By Jesse Hassenger February 27, 2018 | 7:30am
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Mute is a flabbergasting futuristic dud from the director of Moon and Warcraft
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 23, 2018 | 8:00am
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Alex Garland's Annihilation is weirder, wilder, and much scarier than Ex Machina
By A.A. Dowd February 22, 2018 | 11:25pm
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The YA adaptation Every Day never grows into its tricky body-swapping premise
By Jesse Hassenger February 22, 2018 | 11:00pm
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Home is where the ghosts are in the moldy Gothic horror of The Lodgers
By Katie Rife February 21, 2018 | 11:30pm
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Game Night amiably goofs on the slick crime thrillers of David Fincher
By A.A. Dowd February 21, 2018 | 2:00am
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History repeats: First as tragedy, then as farce, and finally as a rote biopic in The Young Karl Marx
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 19, 2018 | 9:20pm
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Samson tries to put an evangelical spin on the Bible’s horniest strongman
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 16, 2018 | 8:00pm
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Jennifer Lawrence tweaks her action-heroine steeliness in the half-trashy Red Sparrow
By Jesse Hassenger February 16, 2018 | 5:50pm
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About as subtle as its title, Nostalgia still provides a fine showcase for Jon Hamm
By A.A. Dowd February 14, 2018 | 11:45pm
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Kristin Scott Thomas brings life to The Party
By Katie Rife February 14, 2018 | 11:10pm
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The entertaining and ambitious Black Panther breaks from the Marvel formula
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 14, 2018 | 9:45am
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A strong lead performance can’t push Western beyond its own conceit
By Mike D'Angelo February 13, 2018 | 7:00pm
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Aardman takes sports comedies back to the Stone Age in Early Man
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 13, 2018 | 4:00pm
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Skip Fifty Shades and spend Valentine Day’s with the kinky, hysterical Double Lover instead
By A.A. Dowd February 12, 2018 | 11:05pm
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Looking Glass will make you nostalgic for when Nic Cage did movies with Brian De Palma
By Jesse Hassenger February 12, 2018 | 7:15pm
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An experiment in stunt casting, The 15:17 To Paris is one of Clint Eastwood’s strangest films—and one of his worst
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 8, 2018 | 11:00pm
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At least Fifty Shades Freed liberates us from watching these dumb movies
By Katie Rife February 8, 2018 | 5:25pm
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Alex Ross Perry does Woody doing Bergman in the tedious art-house throwback Golden Exits
By A.A. Dowd February 7, 2018 | 2:40pm
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The Ritual is a chore
By Mike D'Angelo February 6, 2018 | 7:25pm
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Brie Larson's musical Basmati Blues rides the line between charming and embarrassing
By Jesse Hassenger February 5, 2018 | 7:30pm
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Peter Rabbit turns a classic character from children’s lit into an insufferable dick
By Jesse Hassenger February 5, 2018 | 6:45pm
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Netflix’s sci-fi surprise release The Cloverfield Paradox isn’t as original as its marketing gimmick
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky February 5, 2018 | 5:15pm
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Guns create ghosts in Winchester, a hokey horror misfire “inspired by actual events”
By A.A. Dowd February 2, 2018 | 9:05pm
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The director of Pulse leads an invasion of the body snatchers in the goofy-creepy Before We Vanish
By A.A. Dowd February 1, 2018 | 4:40pm
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The animated Bilal proves Christians don't have a monopoly on inspirational junk
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 31, 2018 | 9:10pm
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From Lebanon comes The Insult, an Oscar nominee that pulls its punches
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 30, 2018 | 9:00pm
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The late, great Abbas Kiarostami ends his career on the vanguard with the adventurous 24 Frames
By Mike D'Angelo January 30, 2018 | 7:40pm
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National Lampoon biopic A Futile And Stupid Gesture laughs at and with Doug Kenney
By Charles Bramesco January 25, 2018 | 9:42pm
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The Maze Runner series makes an exit with the proficient, energetic sci-fi junk of The Death Cure
By Jesse Hassenger January 24, 2018 | 11:15pm
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The Chinese crime comedy Have A Nice Day blurs the line between comics and animation
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 24, 2018 | 5:50pm
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Mediterranea gets an inferior follow-up in the neo-realist coming-of-age story A Ciambra
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky January 23, 2018 | 10:15pm
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The cloying Please Stand By goes where feel-good movies about autism have gone before
By Mike D'Angelo January 23, 2018 | 8:15pm
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Nicolas Cage tries to kill his kids (and a pool table) in the pitch-black horror comedy Mom And Dad
By A.A. Dowd January 19, 2018 | 4:05pm
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The Final Year is both a love letter and gut punch to the Obama presidency
By Josh Modell January 18, 2018 | 9:30pm
