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The Second Civil War (1997) Caryn James This mildly entertaining and disappointing film plays as if its creators didn't trust the audience to get a more subtle satire.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Lumière! The Adventure Continues (2024) Alissa Wilkinson Making a film like this, which restores and celebrates some of the movies’ earliest creators and innovators, is a way to place faith in humanity.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Miroirs No. 3 (2025) Manohla Dargis Petzold likes to maintain a certain critical distance onscreen, but, oh, how beautifully he can move you to tears.
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Prosecutors (2025) Nicolas Rapold Violence may be kept largely offscreen in this particular story, but it’s written on the bodies of the broken prisoners. Here, fear lurks behind every other door.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Tow (2025) Glenn Kenny “Tow” is sunnier overall. Amanda has abundant humor even when she’s close to hitting bottom, and the movie steers into a “beat the system” narrative that packs some stirring “Erin Brockovich” energy.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Spacewoman (2024) Lisa Kennedy Credit the film’s taut editing and gravitational tug for bringing out our fears for the safety of commander and crew, despite the facts to the contrary that we absorb from the interviews.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Jeannette Catsoulis In its quest to give us a little bit of everything, it finally delivers not nearly enough of anything.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Palestine '36 (2025) Ben Kenigsberg The dynamics are rarely simply drawn, and if the film’s default mode is miniseries-expository, there are a few striking stylistic flourishes.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Marc by Sofia (2025) Natalia Winkelman These segments are the film’s richest, and not only because they offer a sumptuous trove of fashion-in-film references, but because they build to the documentary’s greatest insight: that fashion shows are pure drama.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Late Shift (2025) Beatrice Loayza Benesch’s beautifully controlled performance — a balancing act of anxious, fidgety physicality and poker-faced concentration — shows us the difficulty of honoring each patient’s humanity when workplace conditions demand efficiency over empathy.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Kontinental '25 (2025) Manohla Dargis A sharp, unforgiving satire about life, death and the politics of learned hopelessness, among other weighty subjects.
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Dead Lover (2025) Erik Piepenburg God bless Glowicki for pushing ahead as a genre leading lady who isn’t scared to tackle oddball characters in nutty films.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Alissa Wilkinson Beating them, in this installment, is now less about eating the rich and more about keeping them from eating everyone else.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
The Howling (1981) Vincent Canby ''The Howling'' is one of those movies whose lives depend on the mental lethargy of its characters.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Bushido (2024) Manohla Dargis Yet it’s the movie’s questioning of what makes a man a man, as well as its stillness, that leaves the strongest impression. Here, when men face each other across a Go board, they find themselves.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Space Cowboy (2024) Nicolas Rapold Kudos to Jennings for sharing the mettle required for free-falls, whether external or internal.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Slanted (2025) Brandon Yu It is no fun for a viewer to scoff at a film that purports to speak to pain that is real for many. But Slanted doesn’t actually have any interest in contending with those experiences seriously.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Reminders of Him (2026) Glenn Kenny Reminders of Him deserves credit for serving it all up unabashedly and without a single wink.
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Group: The Schopenhauer Effect (2026) Ben Kenigsberg It’s invigorating to watch these interactions, even if similar filmmaking methods have been used before.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
undertone (2025) Alissa Wilkinson Still, it’s a properly scary movie, the kind that merits watching in a theater with a good sound system.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare (2026) Natalia Winkelman Although chiefly a straightforward — and at points repetitive — synopsis of the events, "Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare" distinguishes itself in its devotion to elevating these men as heroes.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
War Machine (2026) Robert Daniels Though Ritchson tries to humanize 81’s sudden thrust into leadership, his tics, doubling as clichés, lack depth.
Posted Mar 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) Manohla Dargis Here, in this humble spot, there are tales of war but also joy, stories and those who, like Rosi, insistently and movingly, bridge the past with the present.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Anastasia (1956) Bosley Crowther Anatole Litvak has smartly staged [Anastasia] for a fine projection of its human ironies. And it is played with keen sensitivity by Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner and Helen Hayes.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Protector (2025) Beatrice Loayza Protector, directed by Adrian Grunberg, doesn’t have the finesse of that Liam Neeson movie, but it does have Milla Jovovich, who breathes life into this brooding, occasionally stiff revenge thriller.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Youngblood (2025) Glenn Kenny James, who made an impression as an aspiring Canadian rapper in 2024’s “Boxcutter,” is a model of naturalism here; he is most impressive when he shrouds himself in understatement.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Hoppers (2026) Alissa Wilkinson Hoppers possesses that certain charm that comes with pudgy beavers and dastardly caterpillars, and a touch of weird humor beside. Cute animals and a little absurdity can make any mildly overcrowded plot more watchable.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Napa Boys (2025) Calum Marsh The humor is over-the-top and often exaggeratedly juvenile, but like many nominally “dumb” comedies, it’s the product of a keen and deliberate intelligence.
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Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) Jeannette Catsoulis Heel slots neatly into the work of a director who luxuriates in pitch-black fables with chewy moral centers.
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André Is an Idiot (2025) Ben Kenigsberg He can’t be irreverent about his impending death forever, but it’s oddly uplifting to see him so committed to trying — while encouraging every viewer to get a colonoscopy.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Dolly (2025) Erik Piepenburg As an exploitation pastiche, Rod Blackhurst’s new sicko fairy tale is a knockout.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
THE BRIDE! (2026) Manohla Dargis The whole thing is exhausting, at times wincingly self-indulgent, entirely heartfelt and yet also relatable, perhaps especially for women who, when confronted with unrelenting monstrousness, need to give birth to their own monsters.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) Janet Maslin Mr. Verhoeven, working from a screenplay by Edward Neumeier and Michael Miner, is able to incorporate human sentiments and high-tech capabilities into this single ingenious figure, and play them off against each other in a thoroughly involving way.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Scream 7 (2026) Manohla Dargis The results are, by turns, amusing and lightly scary, though never truly surprising.
Posted Feb 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) Alissa Wilkinson So this is really a movie for hard-core McCartney (or Wings) fans who want to see all of the rare archival footage — or, conversely, for curious newbies who want a fast-paced introduction to one of the most talented songwriters of all time.
Posted Feb 27, 2026  Edit critic review
In the Blink of an Eye (2026) Alissa Wilkinson There’s just not enough space given to these characters to grow into full beings, or for us to understand the full import of their actions before we’re whisked away elsewhere.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
K-Pops! (2024) Brandon Yu Still, it has its momentary charms, mostly when it’s just .Paak and Rasheed riffing off each other, with the buoyant chemistry of a real father and son.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Idiotka (2025) Natalia Winkelman The movie’s devotion to family solidarity guarantees a measure of genuine feeling.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Ghost Elephants (2025) Lisa Kennedy Ghost Elephants resides in the intersection of science and lyrical reverie — Herzog’s treasured terrain. Here, the filmmaker focuses less on the elephants and more on the pursuers, the dreamers.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Dreams (2025) Jeannette Catsoulis “Dreams” might feel distant and frosty, but it has a lot to say about inequality and the prerogatives of privilege.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Two People Exchanging Saliva (2024) Jeannette Catsoulis Wonderfully acted and stunningly shot in ice-cold black and white, “Two People” shapes chillingly clever details and patient direction into a potent reminder that few things are more dangerous to authoritarianism than tenderness.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Inquisitor (2025) Nicolas Rapold Jordan seems to be speaking to us today as a voice of conscience and reason in a nation in crisis struggling to fulfill its promise.
Posted Feb 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Postman (1994) Janet Maslin As a rueful, warmly affecting film featuring a wonderful performance by Mr. Troisi, The Postman would be attention-getting even without the sadness that overshadows it.
Posted Feb 23, 2026  Edit critic review
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Alissa Wilkinson This is a fun movie, and a revealing one, too.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Midwinter Break (2026) Natalia Winkelman The saving grace of “Midwinter Break” is the pair of stellar leads, who would be appealing to watch just fumbling for their reading glasses. That also happens to be the pinnacle of action, however, within this prosaic drama.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
I Can Only Imagine 2 (2026) Lisa Kennedy It’s no overstatement to say that Tim, a mildly enigmatic man of devotion and gratitude, becomes the catalyst for the father and son. And Ventimiglia becomes the sequel’s saving grace.
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The Dreadful (2026) Brandon Yu The Dreadful faintly tugs at one strand of an interesting idea in this deeply silly horror fable: the hard fact of hunger.
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How to Make a Killing (2026) Manohla Dargis The story and the actors make "How to Make a Killing" easy to drift along with, even if it never coheres tonally, logically, or, really, any which way.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Psycho Killer (2026) Erik Piepenburg One could be forgiven for thinking that Polone and the screenwriter Andrew Kevin Walker wanted to prank audiences, not actually terrify them. It didn’t work.
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THX 1138 (1971) Vincent Canby It is not as either chase drama, or social commentary, that “THX 1138” is most interesting. Rather it's as a stunning montage of light, color and sound effects that create their own emotional impact.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
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