Movie Review
Are you looking for recommendations about the best and worst in current film releases? Our movie reviews try to get past brief opinions and dig into why a given movie works, and what it has to offer.
Luke Scott’s debut film copies Ex Machina and Splice, but without the cultural and technological questions.
Amazon Studios’ latest, starring Michael Shannon and Rachel Weisz, is a wandering journey to one great scene.
This is hands-down one of the best horror movies of the year.
Jeff Bridges and Chris Pine star in this tense, heartfelt neo-Western, the latest film to reexamine the myth of American outlaws.
When beauty is almost more important than storytelling
The latest DC movie lightens the tone and brings in some fun, but it’s incoherent and scattershot.
Anna Gunn stars in a film that’s half Wall Street thriller, half gender-role study.
The first Bourne film to be co-written by director Paul Greengrass prioritizes repetitive revenge over everything else.
The third film in the rebooted Trek universe keeps its characters scrambling, but gives audiences plenty of reasons to love them again.
His latest film is pretty but shallow, and hard to relate to
GKIDS’ latest animated feature brings simplicity back to theatrical animation
Not a lot happens in this quirky, sleepy movie, and the action is erratic when it comes.
A bludgeoning, cathartic, American horror
Taika Waititi’s follow-up to What We Do In The Shadows turns the same comedy bigger and faster
This time, Refn fetishizes femininity the way his films Drive and Only God Forgives fetishize masculinity
The sequel to 2003’s Finding Nemo isn’t entirely necessary, but it’s a sweet, sensitive complement to the earlier film.
There’s bullying, embarrassing selfies, first kisses — and intense violence.
The reports of this film’s artistic death have been greatly exaggerated
Anna Rose Holmer’s poetic debut doesn’t need words to tell its hypnotic story.
This movie would have made much more sense at around half the length
Can Lonely Island gags make up an entire movie?
The new Anthony Weiner documentary never feels like a one-sided apologia, because it gives the 2013 mayoral candidate enough screen time to damn himself with his own mesmerizing words and actions.
Also Zac Efron, shirtless and soulful
It’s a fine character study and L.A. noir pastiche, but a messy mystery
In this world, failure to find love — or an acceptable fake equivalent — is punished by lobsterdom
Unfortunately, the ads may chase off the people who would love it most
How can so many varied characters all have the same glower?
Our spoiler-free review of the latest MCU ensemble piece.
The film, about deception at a New York radio station, wastes a strong start on a tepid finish
Ben Wheatley’s adaptation is a chilly, violent class struggle
Five films address the struggle for adult identity in radically different ways
Tom Tykwer’s adaptation of Dave Eggers’ novel is spotty, but ultimately good-hearted.
This straight-faced but enjoyably silly film deals with fame, power, and celebrity impersonations
How Nerdland, Dean, and Poor Boy take similarly awkward characters in very different directions
The new film is subtle about taking sides, except against the establishment
The film completes his trilogy about salvation through song
The studio’s recent live-action remakes are cash-ins, but this one stakes out its own territory
Arms are lacerated, bones snapped, skulls are stabbed, and not everyone makes it out alive, but The Ain’t Rights certainly make good on the promise of “Nazi Punks F*ck Off.”