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Martin Scorsese finally gets his solemn, powerful Silence off the ground
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 20, 2016 | 6:00am
What the hell are Michael Fassbender and Marion Cotillard doing in Assassin’s Creed ?
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2016 | 8:00pm
“Why Him? ” Bryan Cranston asks of James Franco in this sporadically funny hackwork
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
The animated karaoke bash Sing aims for cute but lands on irritating
By Jesse Hassenger December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
Fairy tales and family tragedy converge in the kid-friendly melodrama A Monster Calls
By Noel Murray December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
Denzel Washington shines in an inconsistent adaptation of August Wilson’s classic Fences
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
Ken Loach overdoes the misery in the final stretch of his Cannes-winning I, Daniel Blake
By Mike D'Angelo December 19, 2016 | 6:00am
Pedro Almodóvar directs his new melodrama, Julieta , like a tense thriller
By Mike D'Angelo December 16, 2016 | 6:00am
Trollhunter follow-up The Autopsy Of Jane Doe is pretty, but a little stiff
By Katie Rife December 16, 2016 | 6:00am
The Bad Kids spends time with troubled teens who fall through the cracks
By Noel Murray December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
Neruda is possibly even bolder than Pablo Larraín’s other 2016 biopic, Jackie
By Mike D'Angelo December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
Will Smith goes glum for the twisty treacle of Collateral Beauty
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 15, 2016 | 6:00am
The year’s second Obama origin story, Barry , goes deeper into the president’s past
By A.A. Dowd December 14, 2016 | 6:00am
Rogue One is an adventure to Star Wars ’ dark side
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 13, 2016 | 6:36pm
This magical melodrama has Two Lovers And A Bear , and not much else
By Mike D'Angelo December 12, 2016 | 6:00am
Michael Keaton shines in the fast-food business procedural of The Founder
By Jesse Hassenger December 9, 2016 | 6:00pm
The glorious La La Land anchors its daydream dazzle to real life
By A.A. Dowd December 8, 2016 | 6:00am
Beyond The Gates grafts family drama onto a killer-board-game movie
By Katie Rife December 8, 2016 | 6:00am
Tons of funny stars can’t make this Office Christmas Party worth attending
By A.A. Dowd December 8, 2016 | 6:00am
Contract To Kill isn’t just bad—it’s Steven Seagal bad
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 8, 2016 | 6:00am
Burn Country builds off a true story, finding a strong message but weak drama
By Mike D'Angelo December 7, 2016 | 6:00am
I Am Not Your Negro turns an abandoned James Baldwin book into a brilliant doc
By Noel Murray December 6, 2016 | 6:00am
Michael Shannon and Imogen Poots are a good pair with nowhere to go in Frank & Lola
By Jesse Hassenger December 6, 2016 | 6:00am
The half-baked horror of Incarnate would have worked better in comic-book form
By Katie Rife December 2, 2016 | 7:45pm
Natalie Portman reveals the artifice and the agony of Jackie in an arresting biopic
By A.A. Dowd December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
Nick Cave’s One More Time With Feeling is an intimate but not invasive portrait of grief
By Sean O'Neal December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
Don’t be fooled by the artfulness: The Eyes Of My Mother is deeply fucked up
By A.A. Dowd December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
An overqualified Shia LaBeouf can’t rescue Man Down
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
Mia Hansen-Løve’s Things To Come finds the meaning of life in the little things
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky December 1, 2016 | 6:00am
Run The Tide won’t score Taylor Lautner the prestige his Twilight costars have earned
By Mike D'Angelo November 30, 2016 | 6:00am
The Duelist is a ludicrous revenge fantasy without the fun
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 30, 2016 | 6:00am
Bobby Sands’ historic hunger strike gets a thorough, thoughtful documentary
By Noel Murray November 29, 2016 | 6:00am
Old Stone struggles to make drama out of China’s insane auto-accident laws
By Mike D'Angelo November 29, 2016 | 6:00am
Lion doesn’t quite make its true story roar
By Esther Zuckerman November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
Two actresses chafe against the industry (and each other) in the jagged Always Shine
By Mike D'Angelo November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
Even with Jessica Chastain in the role, Miss Sloane is less cool than her movie thinks
By Jesse Hassenger November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
A dormant director finally returns with the intoxicatingly strange Evolution
By Mike D'Angelo November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
Mifune: The Last Samurai analyzes the universal appeal of a Japanese actor
By Noel Murray November 23, 2016 | 6:00am
Bad Santa 2 lazily repackages an old Christmas present
By A.A. Dowd November 22, 2016 | 5:59pm
50 years later, Au Hasard Balthazar remains an unconventional masterpiece
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 22, 2016 | 3:12pm
Warren Beatty’s Rules Don’t Apply offers an odd tribute to the myth of Howard Hughes
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 22, 2016 | 6:00am
Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard headline the rousingly old-fashioned war drama Allied
By A.A. Dowd November 22, 2016 | 6:00am
Moana introduces yet another Disney Princess, but adds a bit of progress
By Jesse Hassenger November 21, 2016 | 6:00am
Tom Ford frames stories within stories in the postmodern Nocturnal Animals
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 17, 2016 | 8:10pm
Casey Affleck has a hard homecoming in the masterful, moving Manchester By The Sea
By A.A. Dowd November 17, 2016 | 6:00am
If Whiplash were an uncritical portrait of a boxer, it would look like Bleed For This
By A.A. Dowd November 17, 2016 | 6:00am
The Harry Potter prequel Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them can’t find itself
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 17, 2016 | 6:00am
For a smart, funny teen movie, go to The Edge Of Seventeen
By Jesse Hassenger November 17, 2016 | 6:00am
Directorial debuts are rarely as confident, stylish, and devastating as Divines
By Mike D'Angelo November 17, 2016 | 6:00am
The lazy Life On The Line places John Travolta back on the grid
By Jesse Hassenger November 16, 2016 | 6:00am
The clown from Slipknot dumbs RoboCop way, way down with Officer Downe
By Mike D'Angelo November 16, 2016 | 6:00am
Uncle Kent 2 is a weird, self-indulgent indie in-joke
By Noel Murray November 16, 2016 | 6:00am
It’s man vs. allegorical reptile in Studio Ghibli’s stunning The Red Turtle
By Noel Murray November 16, 2016 | 6:00am
I Am Not Madame Bovary , the heroine of this uneven Chinese protest yarn insists
By Mike D'Angelo November 16, 2016 | 6:00am
It’s a small eternity before Shut In delivers anything resembling a thrill
By Mike D'Angelo November 11, 2016 | 11:04pm
Kevin James’ True Memoirs Of An International Assassin is a subpar spoof
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 11, 2016 | 8:05pm
Paul Verhoeven is back with a vengeance with the corrosive Elle
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 10, 2016 | 6:35am
Arrival has arrived to probe your brain and abduct your heart
By A.A. Dowd November 10, 2016 | 6:00am
The Love Witch paints the battle of the sexes with a gaudy Technicolor brush
By Katie Rife November 10, 2016 | 6:00am
Even with ample charms, Almost Christmas stuffs itself on melodrama
By Jesse Hassenger November 10, 2016 | 6:00am
Neither the drama nor the horror of The Monster really works
By A.A. Dowd November 10, 2016 | 6:00am
Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk is an uneven technical breakthrough
By Jesse Hassenger November 10, 2016 | 6:00am
In telling the USS Indianapolis ’ story, Men Of Courage is out of its depth
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 8, 2016 | 6:00am
Nic Cage goes after Bin Laden in the fitfully funny Army Of One
By Jesse Hassenger November 4, 2016 | 4:45pm
Only the most bitter nihilists will think Trash Fire is funny
By Katie Rife November 3, 2016 | 3:13pm
Loving is a crime in this undramatic dramatization of a famous court case
By A.A. Dowd November 3, 2016 | 5:00am
Mel Gibson’s Hacksaw Ridge makes a gruesome case for non-violence
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 3, 2016 | 5:00am
Paul Schrader’s Dog Eat Dog is an exercise in pulpy gratuitousness
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 3, 2016 | 5:00am
The Ivory Game needlessly crafts a thriller out of an advocacy doc
By Mike D'Angelo November 3, 2016 | 5:00am
The effects in Doctor Strange will blow your mind, even if the story doesn’t
By A.A. Dowd November 2, 2016 | 5:00am
Peter And The Farm profiles a lonely and disturbed soul
By Mike D'Angelo November 2, 2016 | 5:00am
Daisy Ridley narrates the uplifting adventures of The Eagle Huntress
By Esther Zuckerman November 1, 2016 | 3:50pm
Trolls hides a profound message in a sickly sweet confection
By Gwen Ihnat October 31, 2016 | 5:00am
Inferno tries to find the fun in a Dan Brown thriller
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 27, 2016 | 5:00am
Jim Jarmusch gives Iggy Pop the usual rock-doc treatment in Gimme Danger
By Mike D'Angelo October 27, 2016 | 5:00am
Werner Herzog goes Into The Inferno , won’t shut up about it
By Mike D'Angelo October 27, 2016 | 5:00am
By Sidney Lumet takes an uncritical stance on a departed icon’s career
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 27, 2016 | 5:00am
I Am The Pretty Thing That Lives In The House creeps by on spectacular mood
By A.A. Dowd October 27, 2016 | 5:00am
The faith-based biopic I’m Not Ashamed blames Columbine on Darwin
By Vadim Rizov October 21, 2016 | 6:40pm
Horror master Kiyoshi Kurosawa finds evil next door in Creepy
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 21, 2016 | 6:10pm
Boo! A Madea Halloween fears young people
By Jesse Hassenger October 21, 2016 | 3:40pm
Ewan McGregor flattens American Pastoral into ’60s cliché
By A.A. Dowd October 21, 2016 | 1:35pm
Oldboy director Park Chan-wook gets romantic (really!) with The Handmaiden
By A.A. Dowd October 20, 2016 | 7:10pm
In A Valley Of Violence finds Ti West stumbling outside of horror
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 20, 2016 | 3:45pm
One of 2016’s best, Moonlight unfolds a coming-of-age story with poetic grace
By A.A. Dowd October 20, 2016 | 3:45pm
Keeping Up With The Joneses is soft around the middle
By Katie Rife October 20, 2016 | 3:33pm
Jack Reacher: Never Go Back is as corny as its title
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 20, 2016 | 5:00am
Ouija: Origin Of Evil is much better than it needs to be
By Katie Rife October 20, 2016 | 5:00am
Rob Zombie sends in the clowns with his abysmal death-match thriller 31
By A.A. Dowd October 19, 2016 | 5:27pm
Michael Moore finds focus (and technical glitches) in TrumpLand
By Jesse Hassenger October 19, 2016 | 4:16pm
An A-list cast and crew make a C+ courtroom drama with The Whole Truth
By Noel Murray October 19, 2016 | 5:00am
Fire At Sea is two good documentaries that don’t go great together
By Mike D'Angelo October 19, 2016 | 5:00am
30 years later, Henry remains a bone-chilling Portrait Of A Serial Killer
By Mike D'Angelo October 19, 2016 | 5:00am
Justin Timberlake gets the thrilling Stop Making Sense treatment
By Noel Murray October 17, 2016 | 4:24pm
If Max Steel were a toy, it would be forgotten 10 minutes out of the box
By A.A. Dowd October 14, 2016 | 8:02pm
What Now? is a better Kevin Hart vehicle than most of his studio comedies
By Jesse Hassenger October 13, 2016 | 2:42pm
Kristen Stewart shines in the sensitive short story collection Certain Women
By A.A. Dowd October 13, 2016 | 5:00am
Christopher Guest returns to mockumentaries with the formulaic Mascots
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 13, 2016 | 5:00am
Aquarius gives Sonia Braga the great starring role she’s always deserved
By Mike D'Angelo October 13, 2016 | 5:00am
Christine is an arresting biopic about a reporter’s on-air suicide
By Mike D'Angelo October 13, 2016 | 5:00am
Desierto looks to the border for B-movie thrills
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 13, 2016 | 5:00am
Political satire and monster mayhem collide in Shin Godzilla
By Katie Rife October 13, 2016 | 5:00am
Batfleck becomes a different kind of monied ass-kicker in The Accountant
By A.A. Dowd October 13, 2016 | 5:00am
In the dazzling documentary Sky Ladder , a Chinese artist aims high
By Noel Murray October 12, 2016 | 5:00am
Slight and sweet, Little Sister scores one for the weirdos
By Katie Rife October 12, 2016 | 5:00am
A Japanese artist gets an offbeat animated biopic in Miss Hokusai
By Noel Murray October 12, 2016 | 5:00am
The gripping Tower highlights bravery in the face of horror
By Mike D'Angelo October 11, 2016 | 5:00am
Tweens can do better than the cartoon garishness of Middle School
By Jesse Hassenger October 7, 2016 | 5:00am