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Propeller One-Way Night Coach (2026) Owen Gleiberman If “Propeller One-Way Night Coach” lets you know anything genuine, it’s that Travolta, at an early age, looked around at his life and thought it was magical. That, in its way, is a gift, one that in movie after movie he has reflected back to his fans.
Posted May 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Hope (2026) Jessica Kiang You will have learnt to mostly ignore the janky VFX anyway. Best to sit back and enjoy the human drama, human stunts and unflagging human comedy of this alien-encounter movie.
Posted May 18, 2026  Edit critic review
The Beloved (2026) Owen Gleiberman It’s a meaty and enjoyable entry in the genre, one that updates it to the present day, when it’s not as easy as it once was for a director to bully a cast and crew.
Posted May 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Paper Tiger (2026) Owen Gleiberman You can feel James Gray wanting to will something like a Lumet version of Greek tragedy... But even the scene-to-scene skill of Gray’s direction can’t stop the movie from turning into a mixture of the grandiose and the implausible.
Posted May 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Gentle Monster (2026) Jessica Kiang Gentle Monster is a meticulously plausible depiction of the dissolution of a family under the most trust-annihilating of circumstances, but that is all it is.
Posted May 16, 2026  Edit critic review
John Lennon: The Last Interview (2026) Owen Gleiberman What’s bittersweet about “The Last Interview” is that it actually gives you a concrete vision of where John Lennon would have been heading had he not been felled by a madman’s bullet.
Posted May 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Decorado (2025) Carlos Aguilar An argument can be had about what will end up being the “best” animated feature released in 2026 -- it’s early -- but there’s little chance another film can dethrone “Decorado” as the most mind-bending.
Posted May 15, 2026  Edit critic review
All of a Sudden (2026) Jessica Kiang It achieves a kind of levitating grace, before depositing you back down in your seat again, a slightly different, slightly mended version of the person you were before.
Posted May 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Meltdown (2026) Jessica Kiang The Meltdown is another fine showcase for Martelli’s poise and promise as a director, but nine-tenths of it remain underwater.
Posted May 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Parallel Tales (2026) Owen Gleiberman No one is saying that Farhadi has to stick to his familiar and often starkly artful mode of neorealist drama. But Parallel Tales, it’s my grim duty to report, is a meandering and rather amorphous mess.
Posted May 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Fatherland (2026) Owen Gleiberman The film has been made in a spirit of nearly fetishistic meticulousness; it’s as subtle as a fine wine. Yet Fatherland, as an experience, is so steeped in ideas that in the end it’s more heady than haunting.
Posted May 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Obsession (2025) Guy Lodge Obsession initially seems simplistic, and even a bit silly, in its rehash of the age-old monkey’s paw trope. Like the consequences of that ill-considered wish, however, it proves eerily hard to shake.
Posted May 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma (2026) Jessica Kiang Schoenbrun’s delirious third film is their most accomplished, most persuasive and most playful movie yet.
Posted May 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Nagi Notes (2026) Guy Lodge Conflict courses through Koji Fukada‘s subtly stirring new film to increasingly urgent, disquieting effect, raising the human stakes of polite everyday exchanges and encounters.
Posted May 13, 2026  Edit critic review
A Woman's Life (2026) Guy Lodge The film reinvents no wheels but its details are specific and rewarding.
Posted May 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Butterfly Jam (2026) Guy Lodge Butterfly Jam is most rewarding at its most relaxed, when Balagov’s flair for movement, ambience and particularity of place is most generously on display, in tandem with “Nickel Boys” DP Jomo Fray’s propulsive camerawork.
Posted May 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Punisher: One Last Kill (2026) Jordan Moreau Thanks to Bernthal finally letting loose, “One Last Kill” cements his Punisher as one of Marvel’s most singular performances.
Posted May 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Electric Kiss (2026) Owen Gleiberman The Electric Kiss is so overcalculated, so stuffy and labored, so infatuated with its own conceits that I suspect it will end up satisfying virtually no one.
Posted May 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Is God Is (2026) Guy Lodge Both wildly entertaining and viciously upsetting, this remarkable debut boldly reaps what others have sown.
Posted May 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) (2026) Owen Gleiberman “Hit Me Hard and Soft” is a concert film that doesn’t look and feel like other concert films. It’s a true experience, because of a combination of the show itself and the way that Cameron has filmed it.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Mortal Kombat II (2026) Owen Gleiberman Mortal Kombat II, a sequel to the 2021 Mortal Kombat reboot, is still an old-school video-game trash extravaganza: all sound and fury and flying bodies and jargony world-building, propped up by a sludgy excuse for a story.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC (2026) Owen Gleiberman A sizzling concert doc that captures the two benefit shows that John Lennon led at Madison Square Garden on August 30, 1972.
Posted May 01, 2026  Edit critic review
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea (2026) Beatrice Loayza In any case, this new film can be watched without having seen any of the previous chapters, though that’s mostly because the plot is cookie-cutter generic.
Posted May 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Swapped (2026) Owen Gleiberman When the characters meet Boogle, a purple-blue grouper-like fish with a luxurious multicolored seaweed back, the character, voiced by Tracy Morgan, gives the film a spark.
Posted May 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Amazomania (2026) Murtada Elfadl It may not offer closure, but in its discomfort and contradictions, “Amazomania” reflects a broader reality where such reckonings remain incomplete and deeply contested.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The Last Critic (2026) Owen Gleiberman “The Last Critic” is a portrait of a venerable voice, but mostly it’s a testament to everything a great critic is: a priest, a fan, an assassin, an aesthete, a merciless truth-teller, and a vessel of love.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Hokum (2026) Carlos Aguilar Buoyed by Scott’s level-headed turn, Hokum is a proficient horror exploit, which hinges on atmosphere instead of gore, even if its many frightening threads feel disjointed, like rooms in distinctly different hotels.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) Guy Lodge None of the stars here is slacking, and their combined, easily resumed chemistry ensures that this sequel, for good long stretches, feels like old times -- even if it’s hard to imagine fans of its predecessor cherishing repeat viewings.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Just Kids (2025) Murtada Elfadl The documentary’s format may be conventional -- featuring camera-facing talking heads and interviews with the central trio and their families -- but it still makes a powerful, humanizing case for those impacted by the decision.
Posted Apr 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Deep Water (2026) Owen Gleiberman As a director, he has a sixth sense for how to reduce actors to walking slabs of pulp. Yet there’s no denying that Renny Harlin, in his utilitarian action-hack way, has some chops.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Apex (2026) Guy Lodge You won’t remember it long after the credits roll, but it’s a happy throwback to a time when more junk-food cinema got to look and sound and feel this good, albeit on a far bigger canvas.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sheep Detectives (2026) Guy Lodge There’s wisdom amid the silliness, as the story gently makes a case for the necessity of grief, mindfulness and mortal awareness... That’s more than you might expect from a film called The Sheep Detectives.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Everyone Is Lying to You for Money (2025) Owen Gleiberman A lively, knife-sharp, impeccably researched and reported documentary that answers every conceivable question you’ve ever had about crypto, and does so in a way that’s brisk and funny and illuminating rather than intimidating.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Michael (2026) Owen Gleiberman Simply put, this is not a movie about Michael Jackson’s dark side. Yet the surprise of “Michael” is how well it plays, and what an engrossing middle-of-the-road biopic it is.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Lorne (2026) Owen Gleiberman If you’re a “Saturday Night Live” fan, you’re not going to want to miss “Lorne,” since it’s a puckishly delightful and revealing movie.
Posted Apr 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Variations on a Theme (2026) Guy Lodge The film belongs to Farmer, Jacobs’ own grandmother, who gives Hettie an unfussy sturdiness of mien and spirit to counter the growing, sighing frailty of her person, and a steady, narrow stare that occasionally seems to see through time..
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Guy Lodge Brashly violent, clattery and pleasingly untied to any direct predecessor, the result is more generic than its braggy auteur claims might promise, but there’s a lot here for gorehounds to feast on.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Balls Up (2026) Guy Lodge A mostly pretty innocuous affair, it’s neither good nor bad to any memorable degree, not as riotous as it could have been but not devoid of low-hanging laughs either. It is, in other words, a down-the-middle streaming comedy.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Thrash (2026) Owen Gleiberman This is a Netflix and Chomp movie, just 80 minutes long (if you don’t count the closing credits), and the compact run time does more than keep “Thrash” from wearing out its welcome.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Outcome (2026) Guy Lodge It’s hard to imagine this mumbling, shambling man holding multiplex masses in his thrall. As such, he’s a poignant void, but a void nonetheless, and even at a slim 84 minutes, Hill’s doleful film can’t keep us interested in his plight.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Mile End Kicks (2025) Owen Gleiberman Mile End Kicks wants to mirror the haphazard freedom of a young woman out on her own... To that end, the writer-director, Chandler Levack, establishes an agreeably slapdash attitude of hedonistic adventure.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Hunting Matthew Nichols (2024) Dennis Harvey A competently crafted if unmemorable thriller perhaps most impressive for its off-screen enterprise.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Marc by Sofia (2025) Owen Gleiberman I went into the movie eager to see how [Coppola] might dress up the by-now traditional template of a fashion documentary. "Marc by Sofia,” however, turns out to be a surprisingly standard, not-all-that-enthralling entry in the genre.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Mother Mary (2026) Owen Gleiberman This is the David Lowery-est David Lowery movie ever made. Which is to say that by the end of it, you may be scratching your head to the point of wanting your money back.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate (1997) Emanuel Levy The director overcomes the limitations of an extremely small budget with considerable technical panache that helps evoke a fanciful mood but doesn’t slight the tale’s more serious points.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
You, Me & Tuscany (2026) Guy Lodge At nearly every turn, this duly sun-soaked but canned-feeling exercise serves to illustrate just how hard it is to pull off an airy bauble like “Under the Tuscan Sun” or “While You Were Sleeping.”
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Money From Home (1953) Variety Staff George Marshall directs the Hal Wallis production at a pace that alternates between fast laughs and slow giggles, but the material in the Hal Kanter and James Allardice script is too thin.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mouthpiece (1932) Alfred Rushford Greason Flaws and all, it makes an absorbing bit of entertainment, filled with tension and movement. Production is expert and acting throughout uniformly excellent, particularly William's vigorous performance, just sufficiently exaggerated.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Faces of Death (2026) Owen Gleiberman A halfway clever retro slasher movie that, as directed and co-written by Daniel Goldhaber, actually has something on its mind.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Exit 8 (2025) Jessica Kiang While it doesn’t pretend to some grand philosophy, the movie’s sparseness does give it some mileage as an allegory for how changing things up is the only way to break a cycle of destructive, circular thinking.
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
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