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Oct 30, 2024
Wanting to entertain you like it's 1992, definitely — but also of making a movie that tries to examine morality, accountability and the meaning of justice
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Oct 29, 2024
Jesse Eisenberg's story of two cousins reckoning with personal and historical tragedies while touring Poland establishes him as a first-rate director, and hands Kieran Culkin an Oscar-worthy role
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Oct 25, 2024
Ralph Fiennes leads an all-star cast in this thriller about cardinal sins, sinning cardinals and the sort of sheer campiness that will have you yelling "Holy Shit!"
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Oct 24, 2024
The comedian's attempt at anchoring an M. Night Shyamalan-style psychological thriller barely registers an afterthought
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Oct 24, 2024
Mati Diop's award-winning documentary 'Dahomey' chronicles how the return of stolen African artifacts reflects a larger identity crisis
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Oct 23, 2024
As Season Three brings the series to a close, it sees big changes for some characters, but still revels in the quiet moments and everyday messiness of life in small towns
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Oct 23, 2024
This Spidey-adjacent fan favorite finishes out his trilogy with the usual buddy-comedy-meets-blockbuster spectacle, some laughs, and bit of fan sentimentality
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Oct 18, 2024
Actor/director Anna Kendrick revisits the stranger-than-fiction pop culture moment in which a prolific murderer ended up on 'The Dating Game'
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Oct 17, 2024
Sequel to the 2022 horror hit puts a post-rehab female singer through the ringer, then hits 'repeat' on the creepy-grin button
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Oct 16, 2024
Did we happen to mention it's also a manic near-masterpiece that's set to make Mikey Madison a breakout star?
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Oct 15, 2024
Leaning into the chemistry among its actors, the Jason Segel-Harrison Ford series strikes a perfect balance of easy laughs and poignant moments
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Oct 11, 2024
Sue Kim's documentary following South Korea's free-diving haenyeo, beset by generational shifts and climate change, is as affirming as it is tragic
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Oct 11, 2024
Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield are the main reasons to see this chronologically skewed love story involving parenthood, terminal illness, tears and competitive cooking
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Oct 10, 2024
Canadian cult filmmaker Guy Maddin imagines a hilarious, surreal soap opera in which a G7 summit transforms into 'As the World Leaders Turn'
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Oct 09, 2024
When the two stars share the screen, this boxing comedy-thriller-psychodrama lands its punches
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Oct 09, 2024
Some assembly is required as the musical hyphenate uses animated LEGOs to recount his humble-origins-to-hitmaker arc, one tiny, plastic celebrity-avatar at a time
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Oct 07, 2024
Director Alfonso Cuarón and Cate Blanchett gift us with an elaborate revenge story, in which a mysterious book turns a woman's life into a cancel-culture nightmare
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Oct 04, 2024
The Oscar-nominated actor outdoes herself in this sometimes tortuous tale of an alcoholic learning how to live with sobriety
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Oct 03, 2024
Kudos to this follow-up to the $1 billion-grossing hit for delivering something more than a carbon copy of the angry-young-clown original. But who, exactly, is this musical sequel for?
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Oct 02, 2024
The answer rhymes with "schno," and we're pretty sure that Netflix's would-be hit was written by an AI program given the keywords "millennial thriller"
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Oct 01, 2024
Is the comics-to-screen formula played out? Yes. Should this series work harder to make good jokes about that? Yes.
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Sep 27, 2024
A sleeper hit out of Sundance, writer-director Megan Park's wry dramedy imagines a horny, stoned teen getting life lessons from her 39-year-old self
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Sep 26, 2024
This Australian series avoids the sophomore slump and reminds you that the only thing hotter than heavy petting is heavy pet-caretaking
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Sep 20, 2024
Part time-loop buddy comedy and part existential nightmare, this indie movie is a heartfelt head-scratcher — and a showcase for the great Mary-Louise Parker
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Sep 19, 2024
Remember when movie stars running around with guns, looking cool and cracking wise, was just another Friday night at the multiplex?
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Sep 18, 2024
WandaVision creator Jac Schaeffer gives the MCU's resident alpha witch the spotlight — and the chance for Hahn to do everything she does best
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Sep 18, 2024
Coralie Fargeat's bloody-as-hell satire lets the star flip the bird to showbiz's youth obsessions and beauty double standards — in the best (and grossest) way imaginable
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Sep 12, 2024
Reprising his character from the 2022 DC superhero thriller, the Oscar-nominated actor works hard to lift up a flightless Mob-war story. Nice try
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Sep 11, 2024
Showtime series based on Lisa Taddeo's nonfiction book about the sex lives of a trio of women introduces a fictionalized version of the author, too. But only one person's story stands out
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Sep 10, 2024
The actor who redefined James Bond goes for broke in Luca Guadagnino's beautiful, filthy, extraordinary take on William S. Burroughs' novel
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Sep 10, 2024
How to Die Alone is an extremely satisfying showcase for its creator-star's writing and acting skills
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Sep 09, 2024
Gracing the Toronto International Film Festival for world premiere of 'Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band," the singer waxed poetic about the film that covers "life, death, and everything in between"
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Sep 08, 2024
Clocking in just under four hours and channeling the vibe of 1970s epics, Brady Corbet's story of an architect struggling to realize a dream project is an instant classic
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Sep 08, 2024
Completely uninterested in connecting with viewers, this hero-worship biopic beats them over the head with propaganda
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Sep 06, 2024
Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne are sisters dealing with old wounds in this instant classic of family-dysfunction drama
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Sep 06, 2024
"Remember when" may be the lowest form of conversation, but the creator of TV's most influential show agreed to reflect on his life and work for this revealing two-part documentary
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Sep 04, 2024
The return of the Ghost With the Most is anything but D.O.A. — so why does this decent follow-up to the 1986 cult classic still feel like a letdown?
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Sep 03, 2024
The Apple TV series about a bumbling MI5 unit has been a sleeper hit. As Season 4 kicks off, we break down why it's so much damn fun
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Sep 01, 2024
Premiering at the Telluride Film Festival, Jason Reitman's recreation of the chaos behind the show's first episode is part sloppy tribute, part hilarious '70s underdog comedy
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Aug 29, 2024
New FX sitcom about a Texas high school teacher suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous students knows exactly how to win you over
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Aug 28, 2024
Season 4 features another A-list slate of suspects, neighbors, and cameos — but even the most delightful celebrity detours take the beloved comedy too far away from its core characters
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Aug 26, 2024
Nearly 50 years after his stunning debut 'The Spirit of the Beehive,' Victor Erice returns with an equally moving ode to the power of memories — and the movies
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Aug 22, 2024
The good news is that Bill Skarsgård is a solid poster boy for Hot Mall-Goth Summer. The bad news is: everything else about this DOA retread
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Aug 22, 2024
Zoë Kravitz's directorial debut finds Mr. Nice Guy Billionaire Channing Tatum hosting a party at his private island resort. Then things take a social-thriller turn
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Aug 15, 2024
Netflix doc on a program helping incarcerated men bond with their kids is moving, heartbreaking — and a reminder that our penal system is broken
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Aug 14, 2024
This latest addition to the enduring horror/sci-fi franchise uses the 1979 classic as a back-to-basics touchstone — and ends up coming off more like an overly reverent tribute
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Aug 13, 2024
Apple TV 's adaptation of Carl Hiassen's novel nail's the author's gallows humor and sunburnt-noir voice — and gives the 'Wedding Crashers' star a prime charm showcase
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Aug 11, 2024
Writer-director India Donaldson's debut drops a young woman in the middle of a middle-aged male malaise-fest, and immediately stakes a claim as one of the best movies of the year
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Aug 10, 2024
The 'Euphoria' star finds herself staying at German resort full of strange noises, odd time-loops and a mysterious stalker. Then things get really weird
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Aug 10, 2024
The 'Euphoria' star finds herself staying at German resort full of strange noises, odd time-loops and a mysterious stalker. Then things get really weird
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Aug 08, 2024
We'd say it's the worst video game movie ever — but that's way too limiting
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Aug 08, 2024
We'd say it's the worst video game movie ever — but that's way too limiting
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Aug 07, 2024
Her adaptation of Colleen Hoover's bestseller is the sort of middle-of-the-road melodrama that's generic enough to hit the spot
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Aug 05, 2024
You can totally catch a mass murderer at an 'Eras Tour'-like concert, M. Night Shyamalan is the world's greatest dad, and a few other takeaways from instantly camp classic
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Aug 02, 2024
A role-playing exercise imagines what might have happened if the military had taken part in the Jan. 6 insurrection — and the result is terrifying
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Aug 01, 2024
Doug Liman's heist-gone-wrong movie is one part Beantown noir, one part cracked buddy comedy, and a total flashback to a bygone era of filmgoing
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Aug 01, 2024
Netflix's teenage-detective show riffs on the archetype of the YA female sleuth — and the result is better than you'd think
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Jul 31, 2024
Real-life Irish-language group gets the origin-story treatment (sort of) with this properly outrageous, politically charged biopic
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Jul 30, 2024
Co-created by 'Batman: The Animated Series' producer Bruce Timms, this throwback to the hero's gritty early days is a blast
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Jul 27, 2024
Writer-director Sean Wang revisits his suburban youth in a coming-of-age dramedy that doesn't sentimentalize the hell that is adolescence
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Jul 23, 2024
The TV series from Taika Waititi and Jemaine Clement gets laughs, but lacks the memorable strangeness of the 1981 film
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Jul 23, 2024
The official MCU/X-Men crossover has arrived — along with enough meta-cameos, dead-franchise resurrections, punchlines involving 'The Music Man' and pegging, corporate synergy and fan service to crack a genre in half
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Jul 18, 2024
Natalie Portman and 'Queen's Gambit' breakout Moses Ingram star in a crime drama about race, class and murder in 1960s Baltimore
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Jul 18, 2024
The filmmaker — and America's film-history-professor laureate — pays tribute to the artists who gave us 'The Red Shoes,' 'Peeping Tom' and more
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Jul 17, 2024
Sequel to 1996 blockbuster won't blow you away, but it does give you a chance to watch Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones channel that old disaster/action movie feeling
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Jul 13, 2024
Doc on Faye Dunaway balances the good of her singular acting career, the bad of her reputation and the ugliness of her personal struggles in a lovely, if lopsided profile
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Jul 12, 2024
Colman Domingo and a cast of men with firsthand knowledge of the Rehabilitation Through the Arts program turn this backstage drama into an aria of pain and hope
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Jul 11, 2024
"Creepy" does not begin to describe director Osgood Perkins' take on an FBI agent tracking a mass murderer — or Nicolas Cage's WTF performance
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Jul 10, 2024
It has two real-deal movie stars, a sharp premise about marketing the space race, and a ring-a-ding retro 1960s vibe. So why does nothing about this movie work?
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Jul 10, 2024
It has two real-deal movie stars, a sharp premise about marketing the space race and a ring-a-ding retro 1960s vibe. So why does nothing about this movie work?
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Jul 09, 2024
The actor shows her range in Apple's new drama-mystery-thriller-buddy comedy (yeah, it's a lot) as an American expat emotionally adrift in a near-future Japan
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Jul 08, 2024
The duo behind 'X,' 'Pearl' and 'MaXXXine' open up about how they crafted an exciting, unique three-film run of horror movie history lessons
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Jul 08, 2024
The duo behind X, Pearl, and MaXXXine open up about how they crafted an exciting, unique three-film run of horror movie history lessons
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Jul 05, 2024
The final movie of director Ti West and Mia Goth's modern slasher trilogy is one long cocaine-and-neon throwback, blessed with another great performance by the 21st century's queen of screams
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Jul 03, 2024
The actor's return to the franchise that made him a megastar is a whole lotta Murphy — and even more Netflix-produced nostalgia
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Jun 28, 2024
America's cowboy dad returns to the genre that won him an Oscar — and the result is less 'Dances With Wolves' than Palms on Faces
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Jun 27, 2024
Franchise prequel rewinds to the beginning and watches as an extraordinary Lupita Nyong'o and her cat navigate a postapocalyptic Manhattan for survival... and a really good uptown slice
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Jun 27, 2024
Carmy, Sydney, Richie, and the gang bring as much heart, anxiety, and intensity as ever. Yet a slew of real-chef cameos, multiple Faks, and is-this-real-or-imaginary moments make these episodes feel slightly overstuffed
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Jun 26, 2024
Sean Penn's seen-it-all cabbie and Dakota Johnson's cynical passenger turn a ride home into the battle of the sexes — and we're the ones who lose
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Jun 25, 2024
Pulitzer-winning playwright Annie Baker's debut film is a perfect, rough gem of a story about an 11-year-old kid seeing the world through her imperfect mom's eyes
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Jun 25, 2024
Writer-director-producer Rapman puts a South London spin on a Netflix superhero drama whose main power is inspiring a sense of déjà vu
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Jun 21, 2024
In an era that praised Method intensity and hair-trigger volatility, the lanky Canadian established himself the perfect post-hippie, age-of-paranoia star and helped define a decade. His versatility, however, was boundless and timeless
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Jun 21, 2024
Austin Butler and Tom Hardy get their motors runnin' in director Jeff Nichols' tender, tough reinterpretation of old-school biker flicks
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Jun 19, 2024
'Green Border,' Oscar-nominated filmmaker Agnieszka Holland's searing drama about migrants used as pawns in a political stand-off, is compassionate, brutal, accusatory — and essential viewing
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Jun 18, 2024
The 94-year-old actor shoots (literally) and scores in this tale of a scammed Every-Gran who's out for revenge
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Jun 13, 2024
Candace Carty-Williams' story of a British-Jamaican woman suffering a quarter-life crisis is exactly the kind of smart, moving, beautifully told story we need more of
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Jun 12, 2024
Pixar's sequel to one of its best movies ups the emotional ante by tackling teenhood, including the negative parts. Especially the negative parts
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Jun 12, 2024
Jake Gyllenhaal is a hotshot lawyer accused of killing his lover in this limited series adaptation of Scott Turrow's bestseller. The verdict is: Not good
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Jun 09, 2024
The star isn't the only reason to see this fanciful, occasionally moving take on dying, grieving and highly symbolic parrots. Just the main one.
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Jun 07, 2024
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are back to shoot guns, kick ass, and crack you up as Miami's resident loose-cannon cops — except No. 4 has a secondary agenda
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Jun 07, 2024
Playing a fictionalized version of himself in a strange parallel existence, the writer-actor-"professional Julio" proves once again that he's master of his own universe
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Jun 06, 2024
'Game of Thrones' prequel still thinks confusion equals complexity, and that the spectacle of hot dragon-on-dragon action makes up for interchangeable characters
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Jun 06, 2024
Writer-director Ishana Shyamalan adapts A.M. Shine's popular novel about a cabin in the woods, a quartet of prisoners and something wicked programming its own supernatural Reality TV show
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Jun 05, 2024
The star and director/longtime buddy Richard Linklater turn a true story of a mild-mannered guy pretending to be a professional killer into a screwball crime-comedy hit
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Jun 04, 2024
Even a veteran Jedi master would lose patience with the latest Disney addition to the canon, which focuses on a pair of twins, revenge, and... zzzzz.
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Jun 03, 2024
HBO Original's three-part docuseries about a power struggle at the Texas Renaissance Festival offers displays of cruelty and humiliation — and precious little joy
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Jun 03, 2024
FX's dramatization of the Los Angeles Clippers' chaotic 2013-2014 season can't live up to the real horrors of team owner Donald Sterling's racist implosion
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Jun 02, 2024
A new take on an old horror-movie genre is part arthouse, part grindhouse — and all heads-being-pulled-through-bloody,-punctured-torsos. See it ASAP!
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May 31, 2024
Spanish filmmaker's Pablo Berger's story of two pals separated in an anthropomorphized NYC is funny, tragic, and flat-out brilliant
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May 30, 2024
The women of the cast presented a united front after Lindsay Hubbard and Carl Radke's breakup… at least until the reunion
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