Latest comments
-
June 20, 2024242
You Can’t Stay Here
Todd Verow’s thriller “You Can’t Stay Here” takes viewers into the heart…
-
June 19, 2024247
The Contestant
Sometimes, the revolution is televised. In 1998, an aspiring comedian auditioned for…
-
June 20, 2024229
Thanksgiving
After promising us back in 2007 that “white meat … dark meat…
-
August 23, 2024548
The Crow
Good movies always have integrity, but not-good movies can have integrity, too.…
-
June 20, 2024243
Cora Bora
“What is wrong with you?” multiple characters ask titular heroine Cora (Meg…
-
June 20, 2024281
Limbo
The Australian actor Simon Baker has spent a good portion of his…
-
June 20, 2024255
Monolith
Lily Sullivan, who broke through with an impressively physical performance in last year’s…
-
June 20, 2024236
The Truth About Charlie
Regina Lambert has been married for three months. She returns to Paris…
-
August 23, 2024594
Hell Hole
The Adams Family—a group of filmmakers led by father John Adams, mother…
-
June 20, 2024240
You’ll Never Find Me
“I’m afraid you knocked on the wrong door.” When Paul (Brendan Rock)…
-
June 20, 2024233
His chauffeur chases ambulances
I like movies about smart guys who are wise asses, and think…
-
June 20, 2024247
What You Wish For
The issue of the spoiler remains a critical one in cinematic discourse.…
-
June 20, 2024947
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The most gripping aspects of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds…
-
June 20, 2024249
Zen and the art of rifle maintenance
“The American” allows George Clooney to play a man as starkly defined…
-
June 20, 2024227
Ren Faire
Lance Oppenheim’s three-part HBO docuseries “Ren Faire” walks that fine line between…
-
June 20, 2024277
The Dancer Upstairs
John Malkovich’s “The Dancer Upstairs” was filmed before 9/11, and is based…
-
June 20, 2024287
Dirty Pretty Things
The hall porter is sent upstairs to repair a blocked toilet, and…
-
August 23, 2024560
Blink Twice
Early in Zoë Kravitz’s directorial debut, we are introduced to Slater King…
-
June 20, 2024263
Musica
In the romantic comedy “Música,” Rudy is a young man who experiences…
-
June 20, 2024238
Space: The Longest Goodbye
The crew of a space craft peering out its window at the…
-
June 20, 2024233
Bella
“I’m not a singer; I’m a dancer!” Bella Lewitzky defiantly refused to…
-
June 28, 2024435
Last Summer
With her creamy wardrobe of tasteful neutrals and dreamy mansion in the Paris suburbs, Léa Drucker’s…
-
June 20, 2024236
Boy Kills World
Several enemies of the state are murdered on live TV in a…
-
June 20, 2024250
The most dangerous job in the Army
A lot of movies begin with poetic quotations, but “The Hurt Locker”…
-
June 20, 2024283
Identity
It is a dark and stormy night. A violent thunderstorm howls down…
-
June 20, 2024416
The Kitchen
A directorial debut for both co-directors, Oscar-winning actor Daniel Kaluuya and Kibwe…
-
June 20, 2024575
The American Society of Magical Negroes
I wish I could erase “The American Society of Magical Negros” from…
-
June 20, 2024247
Remembering Gene Wilder
Gene Wilder couldn’t have chosen a better stage name. “Gene” is so…
-
June 20, 2024248
Young Woman and the Sea
Daisy Ridley battles jellyfish and the patriarchy with equal pluck and aplomb…
-
August 9, 2024451
Twilight of the Warriors: Walled In
It’s hard to imagine that this summer will see a better crowd-pleaser…
-
June 20, 2024298
Stopmotion
The conceit of a tortured and socially maladjusted artist whose obsessive pursuit…
-
June 21, 2024427
Copa 71
The #1 record holder for attendance at a women’s sporting event in…
-
June 20, 2024233
Suitable Flesh
While neither particularly profound nor earth-shatteringly scary, “Suitable Flesh” is better than…
-
June 20, 2024249
Handling the Undead
Zombies don’t have to be fast. It’s a fun novelty sometimes, sure.…
-
June 19, 2024321
The Idea of You
Tell me if this sounds familiar: A romantic couple, one American, one…
-
July 19, 2024555
Find Me Falling
When many of us think of vacationing on the Mediterranean, the first…
-
August 16, 2024640
Consumed
There’s a great high-concept premise at the start of “Consumed,” an otherwise…
-
June 20, 2024248
Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World
A corporate video is not art, as much as its director might…
-
June 20, 2024234
Aisha
Letitia Wright gives a quietly powerful performance in “Aisha” as a young…
-
June 20, 2024386
American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders
In August 1991, an accomplished freelance writer named Danny Casolaro was found…
-
June 20, 2024227
Insomnia
He looks exhausted when he gets off the plane. Troubles are preying…
-
June 20, 2024241
Relax, I’m From the Future
Rhys Darby is perfectly cast as the wholesome, dopey time traveler in…
-
July 12, 2024320
Family Portrait
What is it about the sound of wind? It can be undeniably…
-
June 20, 2024246
Red Dragon
“Red Dragon” opens with the pleasure of seeing Hannibal Lecter as he…
-
June 20, 2024243
Atlas
When it comes to the handful of names who are defiantly keeping…
-
June 21, 2024373
Hummingbirds
It feels limiting or a disservice to call “Hummingbirds” simply a documentary.…
-
August 23, 2024625
The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-eAT
Not gonna lie, this had me in the first half. In its…
-
June 20, 2024266
Sasquatch Sunset
Four tall, scruffy creatures amble through a storybook forest. They walk, they…
-
June 20, 2024250
Star Wars — Episode I: The Phantom Menace
We are re-posting this review in honor of the re-release for the…
-
June 20, 2024337
The Bikeriders
From the very first scene of “The Bikeriders,” director Jeff Nichols is…
-
June 26, 2024375
Kinds of Kindness
After the comparatively “normal” visions of “The Favourite” and “Poor Things,” Yorgos…
-
June 20, 2024238
Sting
Ninety-one minutes, including seven for closing credits, isn’t enough for “Sting,” a…
-
July 12, 2024533
Dandelion
Writer-director Nicole Riegel’s “Dandelion” takes place over a mere number of days,…
-
June 20, 2024246
The Mill
Lil Rel Howery, who broke into big-screen acting as the comic relief…
-
June 20, 2024240
Rebel Moon – Part Two: The Scargiver
Will there ever be a version of “Rebel Moon—Part 2: The Scargiver”…
-
June 20, 2024232
Murder by Numbers
Richard and Justin, the high school killers in “Murder by Numbers,” may…
-
June 20, 2024239
De Niro and Norton in a psychological duel
“Stone” has Robert De Niro and Edward Norton playing against type and…
-
August 23, 2024539
Between the Temples
Nathan Silver’s “Between the Temples” opens with a loud, keening blast from…
-
June 20, 2024247
No One Will Save You
Brian Duffield’s newest feature, “No One Will Save You,” is a sci-fi…
-
June 20, 2024248
Civil War
Whatever you expect from an Alex Garland movie, he always gives you something…
-
June 19, 2024239
In the Land of Saints and Sinners
After the one-two gut punch of garbage filmmaking that was “Blacklight” and…
-
June 28, 2024469
The Human Surge 3
We film lovers perpetually bang the drum about how cinema enables us…
-
June 20, 2024239
Humane
The Cronenberg cinematic family tree adds another branch this week with the…
-
June 20, 2024319
Outlaw Posse
Watching “Outlaw Posse,” you get the sense that writer-director Mario Van Peebles…
-
July 19, 2024416
Crossing
“Istanbul is a place…where people come to disappear.” This is the sad…
-
June 20, 2024254
If
If you’re lucky enough to attend an early screening of John Krasinski’s…
-
June 20, 2024229
Enough
“Enough” is a nasty item masquerading as a feminist revenge picture. It’s…
-
June 20, 2024268
The Missing
New York magazine ran a cover story years ago calling John Ford’s…
-
June 20, 2024248
Abandon
“Abandon” is a moody, effective thriller for about 80 percent of the…
-
June 20, 2024288
Veselka: The Rainbow on the Corner at the Center of the World
Documentaries about cultural hotspots are as common as the film festivals that…
-
June 20, 2024274
Back to Black
Director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s “Back to Black” invokes a single question, one fans…
-
August 15, 2024405
Good Bad Things
“Good Bad Things” is an intimate, small story about the gigantic issue that…
-
August 16, 2024418
The Good Half
“Are you lost?,” an old lady at the mall asks sad-sack Renn Wheeland…
-
July 19, 2024424
Customs Frontline
Last year, Hong Kong filmmaker Herman Yau directed at least two of…
-
August 9, 2024532
Not Not Jazz
There’s a scene in “Not Not Jazz,” a film about the fusion…
-
June 20, 2024286
Divinity
In a world where the imagination of indie sci-fi can often struggle…
-
June 20, 2024279
International intrigue rings true
Sydney Pollack’s “The Interpreter” is a taut and intelligent thriller, centering on…
-
June 21, 2024415
Fancy Dance
The story of settler colonialism in North America is one of disappeared…
-
June 19, 2024237
Lazareth
Three people sit down to dinner at a remote cabin in the…
-
June 20, 2024240
Queens
The shots are unreal. We fly behind and next to a bee…