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Family Movie (2026) Stephen Saito While little is taken seriously by the filmmakers, Dan Beers’ script does just enough dramatic legwork to get at the heart of the family’s issues.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
They Will Kill You (2026) Siddhant Adlakha Rapidly-diminishing returns, with derivative formal flourishes that largely recall other, better films. It is, by the time its credits roll, completely exhausting.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Forbidden Fruits (2026) Owen Gleiberman That, in fact, is what makes the film original — its perception that for these girls, progressive anger is now inseparable from fashion.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Basic (2026) Courtney Howard Cute but never cloying, the romantic comedy’s good-natured humor and heart connect in a smart, refreshingly unfussy manner.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Power Ballad (2026) Owen Gleiberman What makes “Power Ballad” a terrific film is how much we believe this story. Rudd makes Rick a fully felt presence, a gifted musician with a dad-rock swagger.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Saviors (2026) Siddhant Adlakha Hamedani’s comedic stylings ensure the film retains some semblance of momentum, even when it runs in circles.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Over Your Dead Body (2026) Owen Gleiberman “Over Your Dead Body” may on some level be a hyper-violent video game, but it’s like a video game as staged by Hitchcock.
Posted Mar 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Sender (2026) Courtney Howard Boldly off-kilter, brilliant and bizarre, its dark humor and taut psychological horror are laced together in a delightfully heady blend.
Posted Mar 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Pizza Movie (2026) Guy Lodge “Pizza Movie” is disposable, practically by design, but it may have happened upon a comic duo worth reteaming.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Kill Me (2026) Stephen Saito Externalizing the steps of deeply internal emotional progress Jimmy and Margot make with one another’s help can occasionally seem like a separate pursuit from satisfying genre expectations when it really does appear there’s a killer on the loose.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Drag (2026) Dennis Harvey It’s a narrow, somewhat one-note, crisis-driven premise that might’ve worked just as well as a short. To the filmmakers’ credit, though, tension and edgy humor are sustained for nearly 90 minutes of caustic entertainment.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Crash Land (2026) Carlos Aguilar “Crash Land” moves through familiar avenues structurally, yet its winsome nitwits become its greatest virtue.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel (2026) Owen Gleiberman “The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers” is totally worth seeing, but the film feels like an indirect act of contrition, which may be why it turns into an overdone lament.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
I Love Boosters (2026) Owen Gleiberman The movie, a tall tale of clothes encounters, doesn’t always work. Yet there’s something disarming about how Riley’s sense of play holds this street-smart meta-rebellion fantasy together. He loves boosters, and everything else he shows you.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Reminders of Him (2026) Owen Gleiberman “Reminders of Him” is notably restrained -- a good thing more than not, even if the film does get a bit languid at times. It tells its story without making us feel used.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
The Education of Jane Cumming (2026) Guy Lodge The result is easily the most satisfying screen outing yet for this story material: a classically well-made and affectingly performed period drama.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Flies (2026) Guy Lodge If “Flies” is familiar in many senses, it’s too warmly and honestly felt to feel formulaic, and while its young lead Bastian Escobar is winsome as can be, the film is colored by a deeper melancholy that staves off cutesiness.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars (2026) Murtada Elfadl Only intermittently entertaining. It has moments of beauty and even poetry, but too many others of tedium.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Project Hail Mary (2026) Owen Gleiberman Project Hail Mary wants to be the kind of "great escape we need right now," and I have no doubt that many will hail it as one. So forgive me if I say that it’s not a very good movie.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) Owen Gleiberman Can this monster delinquent be rehabilitated? Theoretically, that’s an interesting question, except that the way this happens is so garishly contrived that we can only go with the movie by putting any plea for reality on permanent hold.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Anastasia (1956) Variety Staff The legit hit Anastasia has been made into a wonderfully moving and entertaining motion picture from start to finish, and the major credit inevitably must go to Ingrid Bergman who turns in a great performance.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Phantom Lady (1944) Variety Staff In addition to a fine script prepared by Bernard C. Schoenfeld, director Robert Siodmak maintains an arresting pace, utilizing camera angles and intimations to greatest effect.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) Guy Lodge “The Immortal Man” serves as a handsome reminder of what always felt quite cinematic about the series -- both in its beefy-but-pulpy storytelling and its robust, well-patinated production values.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
THE BRIDE! (2026) Owen Gleiberman It’s like “Joker 2” starring a grunge version of the Munsters, with dollops of “Sid and Nancy” and “Natural Born Killers.” Except that the movie doesn’t move.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Hoppers (2026) Owen Gleiberman “Hoppers” never stops surprising you in rudely antic ways, and that’s the essence of its delight.
Posted Mar 02, 2026  Edit critic review
An American Pastoral (2024) Guy Lodge Edler’s calmly watchful film trusts in viewers to see the national forest for the trees.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Scream 7 (2026) Owen Gleiberman Williamson has gone back to basics, but the result is a “Scream” sequel that, while it nods in the direction of being seductively convoluted, is really just…basic.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Happy Birthday (2025) Alissa Simon Goher, a screenwriter and producer making her feature debut, proves herself to be a director-writer of uncommon sensitivity. She draws a performance of astonishing depth from Doha Ramadan as Toha.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
Midwinter Break (2026) Owen Gleiberman “Midwinter Break” does nothing earth-shattering (it remains wee), but the movie touchingly colors in how it might be possible for two people to know each other too well and also not well enough.
Posted Feb 25, 2026  Edit critic review
A Child of My Own (2026) Guy Lodge As the film works toward a concluding note of uplift that brings as many questions as answers, one wonders if a straighter documentary telling would be more rewarding.
Posted Feb 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Postman (1994) Derek Elley Troisi gives a warm, ironic performance to treasure. But with little extra assist from Radford’s by-the-numbers direction, and a script that starts to become very diffused about halfway through, the bottom line is it’s a performance in a vacuum.
Posted Feb 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Ballad of Judas Priest (2026) Catherine Bray There’s plenty to chew on here, then, even if some outside of the metal community might struggle to name a Priest song.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
I Can Only Imagine 2 (2026) Owen Gleiberman Even if you go into “I Can Only Imagine 2” feeling immersed in the Bart Millard saga, the new movie is a bit of an odd duck, like a faith-based drama on tranquilizers, because it keeps tossing out conflicts that aren’t all that major (or convincing).
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Salvation (2026) Catherine Bray This apposite demonstration of religious convictions being used to prop up concrete actions, spurred on and given fuel by tribalist rivalries, elevates “Salvation” from a merely striking mood piece to an astute psychological study.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The Blood Countess (2026) Guy Lodge It’s more or less a one-joke enterprise -- but when said joke is casting a maximally domineering Isabelle Huppert as a hungry, horny, haute couture-inclined incarnation of Báthory, there’s a devoted audience for whom it will go very far indeed.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
We Are All Strangers (2026) Guy Lodge The film is consistently involving and finally moving, sparked especially by Chen regular Yeo Yann Yann’s wonderful performance as an immigrant outsider in this family and society alike.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
A New Dawn (2026) Murtada Elfadl A New Dawn marks a strong entry into the animation world, and promises much more from Shinomiya. Perhaps next time he can collaborate with an experienced screenwriter.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
How to Make a Killing (2026) Owen Gleiberman In the age of “Dexter” and “Succession” and “Beef,” “How to Make a Killing” just plays as a patchy amusement. Yet I was held by it; the film’s acrid riffs on the hidden depravity of the new greed culture keep it aloft.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Wolfram (2025) Catherine Bray One of the film’s greatest strengths is its look and feel. That’s perhaps unsurprising, since Thornton once more acts as his own DP.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Nina Roza (2026) Guy Lodge A film of many subtle, tricky marvels, Geneviève Dulude-De Celles‘s slowly bewitching “Nina Roza” comes closer than many to conveying that strange, imprecise separation of the soul.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
At the Sea (2026) Guy Lodge A drab and laborious recovery drama with a mystifying amount of major-league talent behind it.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip (2026) Owen Gleiberman Perry’s performance is a spectacular piece of high-wire burlesque. There’s an extraordinary spontaneity to it.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Rose (2026) Guy Lodge For all the Olympian acting craft it showcases, “Rose” is no mere performance vehicle.. It’s a work so tightly disciplined in every aspect that any bum thespian note would shatter the whole immaculate construction.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Nightborn (2026) Catherine Bray Grint is a fine choice for the role of Jon, as his screen persona works well with the character's schlubby, well-meaning passivity.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Rosebush Pruning (2026) Guy Lodge Does “Rosebush Pruning” lose some perspective in all this dazzle? Perhaps. But if you’re going to eat the rich, the film reasons, they may as well be delicious.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Dao (2026) Guy Lodge Though its supersized scale and meandering narrative structure may deter less adventurous arthouse distributors, [Alain] Gomis’s latest work nonetheless feels like his most vibrantly expansive and accessible.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Mouse (2026) Peter Debruge A mix of actors of wildly different experience levels, the ensemble meshes together beautifully, reflecting the idea that none of these characters knows quite how to navigate the situation.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
A Prayer for the Dying (2026) Guy Lodge It’s an imposing, ascetic debut, braced by performances of formidable grit and commitment from Johnny Flynn and John C. Reilly.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Everybody Digs Bill Evans (2026) Guy Lodge What could feel contrived emerges as elegant and honestly felt, a study not just of the tumult that often produces great art, but the silence too.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
In A Whisper (2026) Murtada Elfadl These are believable people, giving the actors complicated feelings to play with. Only when Bouzid deals with the repercussions of homophobic Tunisian laws does the melodrama tip into ham-handedness.
Posted Feb 14, 2026  Edit critic review
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