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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
The Choral (2025) Kyle Smith Despite dealing with an oratorio, “The Choral” is more of a medley, briefly touching on one theme after another, but never convincingly.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Cover-Up (2025) John Anderson “In case anybody cares,” he tells his directors at one point, “this is becoming less and less fun.” Speak for yourself.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Best You Can (2025) John Anderson The boomer afflictions that create the situations in “The Best You Can” -- physical, mental, financial, attitudinal -- are handled gently, though with enough weight to provide a foundation for the charm brought by Ms. Sedgwick and Mr. Bacon.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Kyle Smith The determination to find greatness in the ordinary gives “Song Sung Blue” a magical, unforced luminescence that much more immodest films usually lack.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
David (2025) Kyle Smith David may be a towering figure of biblical lore, but this telling of a chapter of his story is not merely animated, it’s cartoonish.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Kyle Smith The digital delights of “Fire and Ash” are simply unsupported by any dramatic foundation; the script is so ludicrously weak that you might as well try to balance a rocket ship on top of a styrofoam cup.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Breakdown: 1975 (2025) John Anderson His premise is flawed, and not just in terms of release dates.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Kyle Smith Diabolically entertaining. Based on the novel by the pseudonymous Freida McFadden, “The Housemaid” is a delightful hall of mirrors in which reality turns out to be subject to infinite modification.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Goodbye June (2025) Zachary Barnes That Goodbye June comes instead from a script by someone born this century may have something to do with the fact that it feels less like a wise and thoughtful drama than a mopey Christmas pageant.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Sarah Squirm: Live + In The Flesh (2025) John Anderson It may well be an act, but her humor can be interpreted as a Beckettian grin in the face of overwhelming 21st-century angst, even existential terror.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Kyle Smith “Ella McCay” is not quotable. It is not believable. It is not likable. It’s not even digestible. For an ordinary filmmaker, it would be merely a disaster. For James L. Brooks, it’s more like a tragedy.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Scarlet (2025) Kyle Smith Hosoda can hardly be blamed for failing to answer these questions, but he can be blamed for pointlessly bringing them up in the first place. The many self-interrogating interludes are intended to add depth but serve only to create a drag on the action.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Influencers (2025) John Anderson “Influencers” both dwells in and demolishes an online, text-happy, selfie-saturated world, one that thrives on misinformation and FOMO-mongering and drives CW more than a little crazy. Watching poseurs brought down is fun, though. So is Ms. Naud.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
The Baltimorons (2025) John Anderson The texture of the picture, as well as some camera moves straight out of the ’70s, makes this Jay Duplass-directed anti-rom-com into an instant retro-holiday chestnut, a double eggnog with a small-batch bourbon chaser.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Architecton (2024) John Anderson Great artists major in defiance and minor in delusion: You will want to see what I have to offer, and love it, even if it is unfamiliar, disquieting and as ravishingly uncommercial as “Architecton.”
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Between Goodbyes (2024) John Anderson “Between Goodbyes” concerns the most important event that ever happened to the real people in this real story. And yet it is precisely a lack of hyperbole or hysteria -- a quieting control, one might say -- that makes it so moving.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Reflection in a Dead Diamond (2025) John Anderson The energy and style serve as an homage to Euro-spy thrillers of the past, but the technique also accomplishes something that’s been tried multiple times but not quite so well: translating the visual tack -- and smack -- of a graphic novel into cinema.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo (2025) John Anderson It’s a real shame Mr. Út didn’t speak to the people behind “The Stringer” because, given his absence, the film becomes far too much of an exercise in shame.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember (2025) John Anderson The new project is clearly out to teach us things and does... “Chris Hemsworth: A Road Trip to Remember” is also a family portrait, and a tender one.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Louvre Heist: Minute By Minute (2025) John Anderson An economical and fairly breathless dash around the French capital, the crime scene and the details of the as-yet-unsolved robbery.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Zootopia 2 (2025) Kyle Smith Alone among the major studios, the Mouse House is invested in an ongoing project to, as they say on campus, interrogate, subvert and effectively make amends for its own past stories. That impulse can be tiresome, and in “Zootopia 2” it is.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Kyle Smith The story begs for an elegant solution. The one presented is about as elegant as a demolition derby conducted at a landfill.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
La Grazia (2025) Kyle Smith Mr. Sorrentino is only in his 50s (and Mr. Servillo, in his 60s, is younger than the man he portrays), yet he has made a film about seniority that captures its subject so sensitively that it is, in an unassuming way, glorious.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Little Trouble Girls (2025) Zachary Barnes Formally and dramatically, the movie has poise, which only strengthens its depiction of girls thrown off balance by growing up.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) Kyle Smith If it’s an extravagant demand of time it’s an even more extravagant pleasure, the rare film worth a trip out to the cinema for full immersion.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Champagne Problems (2025) John Anderson It may be that movie jokes have more traction in a movie so aware of being a movie, and the humor probably works as well as it does because it comes out of the bleu and is so incongruous to the general mood of the piece.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
ONE SHOT with Ed Sheeran (2025) John Anderson At one hour and one minute, “One Shot With Ed Sheeran” is both a novelty and a mini-immersion in its star’s music, which is fairly sui generis.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Train Dreams (2025) John Anderson The film acknowledges the bones of Johnson’s story... The execution is nevertheless lush, sometimes startlingly beautiful, and painterly and evocative of Johnson’s elegiac theme about a bygone America.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Kyle Smith That Wicked: For Good falls short of greatness doesn’t mean it’s bad. There’s plenty of cause to rejoicify, notably the visual splendor, the charming central friendship and some pretty songs, notably “For Good."
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Rental Family (2025) Kyle Smith It’s a strange idea for a movie that, while lacking such structural niceties as an obvious goal to be met, proves an oddly touching experience, somber yet slightly absurd.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Kyle Smith When everyone is amazingly amazing at being amazing, however, the experience is so rote that you’ll be rooting for something to go hideously wrong. Or at least for somebody to seem a little bit endangered once in a while.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Zachary Barnes Visually epic, sonically relentless and otherwise fatuous, the film has a dramatic inertia occasionally punctuated by eruptions of utter catastrophe -- a series of shocks that leaves you singed, shaken and not much better for it.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Kyle Smith All in good fun for a B-movie, and “P: B” does not pretend to be anything else.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Christy (2025) Kyle Smith Though Mr. Michôd doesn’t do much to make the routine aspects of the film better than or even different from its many forebears, Christy’s grit and determination make her a singular figure in those final scenes.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Nuremberg (2025) Kyle Smith Like everyone else on hand, Mr. Woodall deserves a better director than he gets here, just as the audience deserves a better script than one that asks us to believe Göring was so clever he nearly dodged blame for the Holocaust.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
Life After (2025) John Anderson While the art of the argument these days seems to require the use of the most extreme cases available, Mr. Davenport does report on some fairly shocking ones.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
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