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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.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
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.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
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.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
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.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
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.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
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
Billy Preston: That's The Way God Planned It (2024) Glenn Kenny As tough a life as Preston had, the music that buoys this chronicle is a constant source of joy.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip (2026) Glenn Kenny While expansively anarchic to a fault, the movie’s anger, and its pride, is convincing.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Wuthering Heights (2026) Manohla Dargis [Fennell] tosses out ideas about women, men, sex, freedom and dominance, even while eliding the question of Heathcliff’s race, and trying to transmit the power of Brontë’s writing visually.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Scarlet (2025) Maya Phillips “Scarlet” curiously manages to be both too close to “Hamlet,” and not close enough, leaving this vengeance story in its own no man’s land.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
My Father's Shadow (2025) Alissa Wilkinson It’s that sharp contrast of beauty with an undercurrent of pain that makes “My Father’s Shadow” so bittersweet, and it’s why it cuts to the quick.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
GOAT (2026) Brandon Yu It’s a story with few surprises and mostly rudimentary emotional concepts, but is enlivened by artwork with colorful texture and a dynamic animation style.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
By Design (2025) Natalia Winkelman Kramer has constructed an ironically detached artifact that invites questions about ownership and image and then bats them away, making it a frustrating experience with an intriguing veneer.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Cold Storage (2026) Manohla Dargis A B-movie throwback with plentiful winks, it has few thrills, but it has a touch of science, a plausible-enough threat, suitably disgusting splatter, appealing actors and a fleet running time.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Alissa Wilkinson The weird gets piled on top of more weird, and there are twists and revelations and — well, I don’t really think it’s a satisfying ending, but you might, and it certainly lands with a bang.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Jeannette Catsoulis Viewed charitably, “Nirvanna” is both a mockumentary and a pensive scan of the road not taken, its pell-mell energy tempered by pathos.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Crime 101 (2026) Ben Kenigsberg Like lovingly warmed leftovers, it has its satisfactions: a charismatic cast, evocative Los Angeles location work, the sort of granular details on diamond couriering and insurance valuation that might give impressionable viewers ideas.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) J. Hoberman "Stranger on the Third Floor” is a fantastic tale given authority by its sets, special effects and production design.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Queen of Chess (2026) Alissa Wilkinson It’s a good story, well told, and Polgar makes for an interesting subject.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026) Erik Piepenburg As sketched, thinly, by the returning writers Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland, Maya is a shapeless, cookie-cutter final girl -- apropos for this hapless finale, girl.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Manohla Dargis It’s near-unbearable, and as powerful as it is narratively useful.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Pillion (2025) Jeannette Catsoulis Walking a line as delicate as shattered silk, “Pillion” deftly navigates between salacious and sweet, raunchy and romantic.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The President's Cake (2025) Ben Kenigsberg The President’s Cake is only superficially a story of youthful resilience. The deprivations and darkness of the dictatorship, which immiserates the Iraqi people even as it demands performative displays of happiness, lurk around every corner.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Kokuho (2025) Brandon Yu Yet, even as it periodically languishes, the film comes back around, with some moving flourishes, to stamp its idea: To witness these vicissitudes over a lifetime, is to see the beauty, bloodshed and loneliness of true artistic greatness.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Jimpa (2025) Natalia Winkelman If only the film didn't ask the audience to invest in so very many subplots; the clutter ends up sucking the air out of all of them.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Calle Málaga (2025) Lisa Kennedy When Clara arrived, María Ángeles might well have been living her best life. She becomes a woman intent on living an even better one.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Muppet Show (2026) James Poniewozik “The Muppet Show,” it turns out, doesn’t need to be retooled for a new era, because the Muppets exist outside of time. These are, in fact, your grandparents’ Muppets, and your parents’. And yet they’re exactly the Muppets you need right now.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
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