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Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man (2026) John Anderson Many actors are pigeonholed by a successful TV series. Mr. Murphy remains aloft.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
1000 Women in Horror (2025) John Anderson “1000 Women” is briskly entertaining and wildly informative as a clip show, insightful in its academic analysis, and the structure of the film enables a tidy organization of an often messy bunch of films.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Prosecutors (2025) Zachary Barnes If the movie’s just-so fatalism is less than galvanizing, it’s also soberly convincing. With grim history as his guide, Mr. Loznitsa has crafted a compressed yet potent work of cinema.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Marc by Sofia (2025) Kyle Smith Fashion is fleeting; this film is positively disposable.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Project Hail Mary (2026) Kyle Smith Project Hail Mary is at its core a kids’ movie. That lessens its gravity, a bit. But it also makes it the kind of film that will send happy viewers soaring into orbit, again and again.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Seized (2026) Zachary Barnes Though the film isn’t of much aesthetic distinction, it tells a story of such robustly drawn characters and bright battle lines that it feels almost ready-made for a Broadway-musical adaptation.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Nuisance Bear  (2026) Zachary Barnes The film doubles as a fascinating study of humans’ engagement with their environment, exploring not-always-predictable differences between the approach of the local Inuit population and nonindigenous people with particular ideas about conservation.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Barbara Forever (2026) Zachary Barnes A beautifully assembled introduction to Hammer’s adventurous life and work.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Remake (2025) Zachary Barnes “I used to call myself your father; I used to call myself a filmmaker,” Mr. McElwee says in voiceover... Yet “Remake” shows him still to be a formidable artist in the face of tragedy, and one whose comically askew sensibility remains intact.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Reminders of Him (2026) Kyle Smith The least attentive audience member will spot every lame development from miles away.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
undertone (2025) Kyle Smith The final sound the movie creates is a disappointed groan from the audience. Should Mr. Tuason get some writing help, though, he might become a formidable filmmaker.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Scream 7 (2026) Kyle Smith If there’s a single witty idea in the entire two-hour slog, I missed it.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
THE BRIDE! (2026) Kyle Smith Like Dr. F. himself, Ms. Gyllenhaal has unleashed a monster on unsuspecting countrymen. A witty theater owner would match the mood by selling torches and pitchforks at the concession stand.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Fukushima: A Nuclear Nightmare (2026) John Anderson While essentially a disaster film, the visually alarming and nerve-racking “Fukushima” is also a cross-cultural psychodrama, about an industry, and perhaps a society, having a meltdown all its own.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Paul McCartney: Man on the Run (2025) John Anderson There are embarrassing moments. They aren’t explained away. But in a deliberately raggedy film, we find a raggedy man.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Ghost Elephants (2025) Kyle Smith The lean, athletic Mr. Herzog, 83 years old, seems as spry and eager as ever, and his global enthusiasm remains a force of nature in itself. “Ghost Elephants” takes its place as yet another of the director’s essential forays into the wild and unknown.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Kyle Smith Mr. Luhrmann has done us all a service by combing through the available footage, coming up with many clips the public hasn’t seen before, and delivering an Elvis who in the ’70s was not always at his best but was still a spangled dynamo.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
How to Make a Killing (2026) Kyle Smith [Glen Powell] could easily put his skills to use playing a duplicitous sociopath in a psychological drama, but as a comedy “Killing” is simply dead.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Midwinter Break (2026) Kyle Smith Though the story wells with tenderness, it isn’t executed with much verve. Ms. Findlay’s direction is patient to a fault.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Four Rational People (2025) Zachary Barnes The legacy of the Emerson String Quartet includes dozens of recordings, and it’s probably in those that the deepest lessons lie. For anyone curious to meet the musicians who made them, “Four Rational People” is a decent introduction.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible (2024) John Anderson Like Sun Ra’s music, the motion picture is deliberately fractured, the virtues to be found in the departures from the expected, the familiar, the comfortable.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
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Erin Brockovich (2000) Joe Morgenstern This is a terrific movie, with a starring performance by Julia Roberts that's as funny, romantic and justifiably self-confident as any seen on the screen since Hollywood's golden age.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Crime 101 (2026) Kyle Smith That “Crime 101” seeks to position itself as a successor to “Heat” is laughable. A more accurate title would have been “Lukewarmth.”
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Zachary Barnes The movie is, among other things, very specifically and unabashedly Canadian, and made with evident love for its city. But I expect this is a comedy that can transcend borders.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Wuthering Heights (2026) Kyle Smith When you’ve got two actors as luminous as Ms. Robbie and Mr. Elordi, you don’t need them to say clever things, and they don’t.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Heaven (1987) Peter Tonguette The argument may not be as strong as the best apologetics, but it makes for an endlessly engaging, one-of-a-kind film.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Chocolat (2000) Joe Morgenstern A truly astonishing exercise in retro-Gallic nostalgia. I kept gagging on this treacly fantasy as I haven't done since poor Ms. Caron played opposite Horst Buchholz in Joshua Logan's screen version of "Fanny."
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Joe Morgenstern This is a drama to savor, a spectacle to revel in, a romance to inhale, between gasps.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Pillion (2025) Zachary Barnes It could have been simply shocking, revving its engine in sexed-up style. Instead, as a vehicle for a pair of wonderful performances, “Pillion” purrs.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Calle Málaga (2025) Kyle Smith Ms. Touzani, whose previous films included 2019’s “Adam” and 2022’s “The Blue Caftan,” has made a film of simple, light appeal, relying heavily on her star’s late-blooming impishness.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Dracula (2025) Kyle Smith Mr. Jones is not a star and falls short of generating the level of creepy charisma Gary Oldman displayed in the 1992 film. Meant to be all-powerful and spellbinding, he comes across as merely eccentric.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Queen of Chess (2026) John Anderson Ms. Kennedy does such an outstanding job of creating suspense out of what is now 30-year-old history... I don’t play chess. It didn’t matter.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Miracle: The Boys of '80 (2026) John Anderson All this is recalled in highly entertaining fashion, the highlights on ice interspersed with the warm memories of the players, many of whom still harbor mixed feelings about Brooks.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The Invite (2026) Kyle Smith The script by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (based on a 2020 Spanish film) is an increasingly high-stakes farce that turns surprisingly poignant in its more low-key third act.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
I Want Your Sex (2026) Kyle Smith Ms. Wilde is outrageously funny in the movie, whose sexually explicit nature was an eyebrow-raiser even for this famously unruly celebration of edgy work.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
A Poet (2025) Zachary Barnes A comedy that’s frequently smart in its consideration of art, class, commerce and curdled ambition. But if poetry is about saying a lot in a little, then by the end of its two-hour runtime A Poet comes off more like funny but flabby prose.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Mercy (2026) Kyle Smith The biggest mystery involved in “Mercy” is not who killed Mrs. Raven but why a star with Mr. Pratt’s everyman charisma keeps choosing such mediocre projects.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Arco (2025) Kyle Smith One of those old-fashioned feature cartoons that seems aimed at pleasing half-asleep old people rather than lively youngsters.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Beast of War (2025) John Anderson It’s terrifying -- perhaps more terrifying in how it compels the viewer to imagine being in the same situation than in how the subsequent shark attacks are actually staged; some viewers will likely be as disturbed by the claustrophobia as by the teeth.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Sound of Falling (2025) Kyle Smith The film is, in a sense, a necrology that takes a bleak and unsentimental stance on human suffering. Its effects are woozily disorienting, as though we’re all just ghosts drifting through spaces occupied by much more lasting things such as houses.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Kyle Smith Quirky touches, dry wit and first-rate characterizations make “The Bone Temple” a rare treat and one of the finest zombie movies I’ve seen, not to mention a major improvement from last summer’s third entry in the series.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
The Rip (2026) John Anderson A sturdily entertaining, hyper-kinetic avalanche of action propelled by equal parts bullets and f-bombs.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Young Mothers (2025) Kyle Smith Like many shallow effects-driven blockbusters, the supposedly deep “Young Mothers” has nothing to say. Does it have any reason to exist other than to serve up poverty porn?
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
OBEX (2025) Kyle Smith The strangely fascinating use of ancient technology -- dot-matrix printers, floppy disks, a mid-’80s computer that was then known as the Macintosh -- is a pleasure, though far from the only one in “OBEX.”
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Out of the Past (1947) Peter Cowie “Out of the Past,” despite its dense pattern of flashbacks, deception and betrayal, unfolds with a lucidity rare in film noir.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not (2025) John Anderson Mr. Chase still tries to be funny here, sometimes desperately, and isn’t. Which along with a career’s worth of ill will puts the sting in “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not.”
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Kyle Smith Certain to be rated the greatest 2.5-hour ping-pong movie ever, Marty Supreme takes a tired formula only to pull it apart and reassemble it with wicked intent, like a psychotic toddler experimenting on his sister’s hapless doll.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Zachary Barnes Delivered in a style that evokes its historical moment while also cutting across time to the present, it lands with the enthralling, incantatory force of urgent prayer.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Kyle Smith Those who dread being knocked over the head with a political message can rest easy; it’s an amusing caper, not a stern lecture.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Anaconda (2025) Kyle Smith Jack Black and Paul Rudd are nearly always enjoyable, even when working with less-than-scintillating material, and each has a boyish streak that’s exactly the right register for this exercise in silliness.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
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