3/1/22Cuts are sharper than expected in the clumsy Palestinian thriller Huda's SalonAlternating between two women's stories, the latest from Paradise Now's Hany Abu-Assad diminishes both
2/15/22Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg retrace familiar action-movie routes in UnchartedAdapted from the popular video game series, the whole thing plays like ersatz Indiana Jones
2/9/22Zoë Kravitz can’t escape big tech’s eyes and ears in Steven Soderbergh’s fun KimiAlexa, play an entertainingly dumb techno-thriller
2/3/22Moonfall is a moonfailWhen the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s… not exciting enough
1/25/22Finnish prizewinner Compartment No. 6 proves that rom-com formula works perfectly well with subtitlesThey’re opposites. They attract. Whaddaya need, a road map?
12/21/21The best films of 2021: The ballotsHere's how 10 critics voted in our annual poll on the year in movies
12/21/21The best films of 2021West Side Story, The Green Knight, and Licorice Pizza are among our favorite movies of the year
12/20/21One of the most famous Christmas songs ever is actually a real downer“Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” one of the most frequently played holiday songs, is both somber and…
12/20/21Tilda Swinton hears a strange sound in the magnificently mysterious MemoriaApichatpong Weerasethakul's Cannes prizewinner transforms "exploding head syndrome" into an offbeat odyssey
12/15/21The best movie scenes of 2021Some of the year's best movie moments came from No Time To Die, Shang-Chi, and Licorice Pizza
12/14/21Peter Dinklage and his perfectly ordinary nose make for a solid CyranoWere his singing as strong as his acting, it might have been a great Cyrano
12/14/21Only those with a stomach for nonstop anxiety should watch White LieA college kid fakes a cancer diagnosis in this riveting, deliberately opaque character study
12/2/21The best movies of 2001Where do Memento, Lord Of The Rings, and Mulholland Drive fall on our retrospective countdown?
11/30/21Identifying as an animal takes on extra baggage in the thin, iffy parable WolfFor George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp, being human ain’t all it’s cracked up to be
11/24/21Sandra Bullock shows off her tediously stoic side in Netflix’s The UnforgivableAdapted from a three-part British miniseries, this thriller/melodrama seems to have lost a lot in translation
11/16/21Joaquin Phoenix is unusually grounded in the family drama C’mon C’monHaving made films about his mother and father, Mike Mills turns his attention to the uncle
11/9/21Mayor Pete can’t find the warmth beneath the wonk of the former presidential candidatePete Buttigieg isn’t a terribly exciting documentary subject… which is part of what makes the documentary about him…
11/3/21Tom Hanks makes the post-apocalypse cuddly in FinchIt's the end of the world as we know it, and you'll feel fine
10/19/21Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy do their best to electrify a drab biopicThe Electrical Life Of Louis Wain is about a famous artist, but his art is the least interesting part of the movie
10/5/21There's nothing to get excited about in the Netflix slasher There's Someone Inside Your HouseThese teens make good company, but the horror movie in which they're trapped is strictly rote.