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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
Apartment 7A
muddles its
Rosemary’s Baby
riff
By Natalia Keogan
September 26, 2024 | 9:00am
Salem's Lot
has no heart and no stakes
By Jacob Oller
September 25, 2024 | 11:59pm
Saturday Night
, exhilarating and frustrating, makes it up as it goes along
By Jesse Hassenger
September 25, 2024 | 12:00pm
In
The Wild Robot
, the future's about what we save, not what we build
By Matthew Jackson
September 25, 2024 | 10:00am
A sci-fi through-line lets horror anthology
V/H/S/Beyond
probe deeper than its peers
By Matthew Jackson
September 24, 2024 | 10:00am
Art the Clown kills Christmas in
Terrifier 3
, his best outing yet
By Matthew Jackson
September 20, 2024 | 4:29pm
Mediocre sci-fi
Omni Loop
needs the chance for a do-over
By Brent Simon
September 19, 2024 | 7:00am
A riveting Halle Berry survives a post-apocalyptic cabin in the woods in
Never Let Go
By Natalia Keogan
September 18, 2024 | 11:00am
Sebastian Stan can change, but not that much, in absurdly sharp
A Different Man
By Drew Gillis
September 17, 2024 | 1:00am
Uglies
puts the “why?” back into “YA”
By Jacob Oller
September 16, 2024 | 10:00am
Kevin Smith returns to his roots (again) for teen-centric
The 4:30 Movie
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
September 13, 2024 | 12:09pm
Speak No Evil
is a tongue-tied American remake of a Danish horror gem
By Natalia Keogan
September 13, 2024 | 11:00am
Time keeps on slippin’ (and tripping) in snappy, sappy coming-of-age
My Old Ass
By Jacob Oller
September 12, 2024 | 12:00pm
Transformers One
is no more, and no less, than meets the eye
By Leigh Monson
September 12, 2024 | 9:00am
A subtle, sordid affair goes off the deep end in the rewardingly paradoxical
Queer
By Jason Gorber
September 11, 2024 | 4:07pm
Squirmy, funny body horror
Booger
turns a cat lady into a cat-lady
By Matthew Jackson
September 11, 2024 | 12:00pm
Blunt object body horror
The Substance
is bloody, feminist catharsis in action
By Katie Rife
September 10, 2024 | 11:00am
Kevin Costner trudges ever westward with the methodical
Horizon: An American Saga—Chapter 2
By Rory Doherty
September 10, 2024 | 10:00am
The chaos of Sean Baker's Cinderella story
Anora
coheres into quiet beauty
By Jason Gorber
September 9, 2024 | 12:00pm
Look Into My Eyes
validates the healing power, if not supernatural ability, of psychic readings
By Brianna Zigler
September 6, 2024 | 4:56pm
The Front Room
wears out its welcome as quickly as its in-law from hell
By Elijah Gonzalez
September 6, 2024 | 7:00am
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
reinvigorates Tim Burton’s stale brand, returning to practical playfulness
By Anna McKibbin
September 6, 2024 | 1:36am
A soft, sentimental portrait of familial grief,
His Three Daughters
is carried by its stars
By Brianna Zigler
September 5, 2024 | 2:04pm
Jeremy Saulnier goes full Rambo with his elementally satisfying thriller
Rebel Ridge
By Jesse Hassenger
September 4, 2024 | 12:00pm
Brad Pitt and George Clooney play fixers in
Wolfs
, a caper that needs some fixing
By Rory Doherty
September 4, 2024 | 10:00am
Babygirl
brilliantly captures the feeling of falling in lust
By Anna McKibbin
September 3, 2024 | 10:00am
Artificial horror movie
AfrAId
cuts too many corners and fails its simple assignment
By Leigh Monson
August 30, 2024 | 12:00pm
Reagan's ugly hagiography is middle-of-the-night History Channel nonsense
By Alex Lei
August 30, 2024 | 7:00am
Heavenly father, please protect us from the ridiculous exorcism horror
The Deliverance
By Jacob Oller
August 29, 2024 | 10:00am
A vanished star links the movies and mortality in the captivating
Close Your Eyes
By Jacob Oller
August 28, 2024 | 12:00pm
The Crow
proves that the last thing a movie about trauma needs is even more trauma
By Matthew Jackson
August 23, 2024 | 12:00pm
John Woo turns action opera into streaming pop with his generic remake of
The Killer
By Jacob Oller
August 23, 2024 | 3:01am
Between The Temples
' odd-couple screwball turns the screws
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
August 22, 2024 | 2:47pm
The Adams Family's filmmaking evolves alongside a body-snatching parasite in
Hell Hole
By Natalia Keogan
August 22, 2024 | 10:30am
Zoë Kravitz shows off her cinephile chops with familiar, entertaining social thriller
Blink Twice
By Brianna Zigler
August 21, 2024 | 5:23pm
Alien: Romulus
is a franchise reanimated, not reborn
By Natalia Keogan
August 16, 2024 | 11:00am
Mediocre esthetician thriller
Skincare
only goes skin deep
By Brianna Zigler
August 15, 2024 | 12:00pm
Prison stands between fathers and their
Daughters
in poignant, lovely documentary
By Brent Simon
August 12, 2024 | 12:00pm
Cloying and clumsy,
It Ends With Us
weaves a domestic abuse fantasy
By Brianna Zigler
August 9, 2024 | 3:00pm
Borderlands
is a scuzzy, quippy grind through a visual wasteland
By Jarrod Jones
August 9, 2024 | 11:00am
Cuckoo
's stylish horror might've been better if it'd made even less sense
By Katie Rife
August 8, 2024 | 3:00pm
Dramatic subtlety makes
Good One
's coming-of-age a great one
By Katie Rife
August 8, 2024 | 1:43pm
It's easy to overindulge on the tragedy buffet of
The Supremes At Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat
By Leigh Monson
August 7, 2024 | 10:30pm
Harold And The Purple Crayon
is a bit more colorful than the adaptation deserves
By Leigh Monson
August 2, 2024 | 2:00pm
War Game
depressingly stress tests American democracy
By Brent Simon
August 2, 2024 | 12:30pm
Josh Hartnett squirms and plots through M. Night Shyamalan's perfectly thrilling
Trap
By Jesse Hassenger
August 2, 2024 | 9:30am
The Instigators
stages a crime comedy as generic as its title
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
August 1, 2024 | 12:00pm
Rowdy Irish rap biopic
Kneecap
can’t hang for the long haul
By Jacob Oller
July 30, 2024 | 12:30pm
Chicken For Linda!
is a
joyeux
animated feast for the eyes and soul
By Cindy White
July 30, 2024 | 10:00am
Eno
matches its subject's inventiveness with a dazzling, generative mosaic
By Manuel Betancourt
July 29, 2024 | 11:00am
Evil takes root in the traditionally slow-burn folk horror
Starve Acre
By Matt Schimkowitz
July 25, 2024 | 12:30pm
Sharp coming-of-age
Dìdi
observes the teen transition from MySpace to Facebook
By Jacob Oller
July 24, 2024 | 1:30pm
Shelby Oaks
fumbles Chris Stuckmann's collection of horror references
By Jason Gorber
July 24, 2024 | 10:00am
Deadpool & Wolverine
battle superhero bullshit to a stalemate
By Jesse Hassenger
July 23, 2024 | 6:00pm
Elijah Wood returns to New Zealand for the charming father-daughter adventure
Bookworm
By Jason Gorber
July 22, 2024 | 10:30am
An unlikely duo’s rambling trip becomes a tapestry of Istanbul in
Crossing
By Natalia Keogan
July 19, 2024 | 12:30pm
Franchise duties drag
Twisters
’ competent thrills down to earth
By Matt Schimkowitz
July 18, 2024 | 1:45pm
The daredevil charms of
Skywalkers: A Love Story
teeter on the edge of reality
By Emma Keates
July 18, 2024 | 1:14pm
My Spy The Eternal City
succumbs to its adolescent growing pains
By Leigh Monson
July 17, 2024 | 2:00pm
Oddity
's horror is more than its mannequin, though that thing is pretty freaky too
By Matthew Jackson
July 16, 2024 | 5:00pm
You already know the Louis C.K. scandal (and lack of consequences) that
Sorry/Not Sorry
recaps
By Brianna Zigler
July 12, 2024 | 4:30pm
Mythologized artists receive a restrained overview in
Made In England: The Films Of Powell & Pressburger
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
July 11, 2024 | 9:30pm
Sing Sing
presents a well-acted yet declawed survey of the potential for prison "reform"
By Natalia Keogan
July 11, 2024 | 2:45pm
Uninspiring
Once
cover song
Dandelion
hides KiKi Layne's formidable voice
By Courtney Howard
July 10, 2024 | 6:00pm
The masterfully unsettling
Longlegs
creeps through a rotten world
By Matthew Jackson
July 10, 2024 | 2:00pm
Space-age rom-com
Fly Me To The Moon
fails to launch
By Cindy White
July 9, 2024 | 6:10pm
National Anthem
takes a shallow dip in a queer cowboy oasis
By Natalia Keogan
July 9, 2024 | 4:30pm
Kill
review: Gratuitous, sadistic, enjoyable action and not much else
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
July 3, 2024 | 4:30pm
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