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Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Esther Zuckerman Cameron spins moments of genuinely awe, even if he frustratingly repeats familiar beats of The Way of Water. Still, there’s also something comforting about returning to this land...
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Mark Leydorf ...all the best bits are in the first installment. And yet this brassy, candy-colored Battle of Algiers takes one of the clearest stands against authoritarianism and White supremacy you’ll find in theaters. It couldn’t be more timely.
Posted Nov 22, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Esther Zuckerman All these multilayered performances are housed in some of the most virtuosic filmmaking I’ve seen in recent memory.
Posted Sep 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Freakier Friday (2025) Esther Zuckerman Freakier Friday, directed by Nisha Ganatra, has defied the odds. It’s charming and genuinely sweet, and it made me both giggle and tear up. That alone is a win.
Posted Aug 05, 2025  Edit critic review
The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) Esther Zuckerman While Superman felt bracingly modern with the political sentiments to boot, The Fantastic Four has a halo of cobwebs it can’t quite shake off.
Posted Jul 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Superman (2025) Esther Zuckerman ...Gunn’s big swings with this movie aren’t merely about sticking it to anti-immigrant bigots, and it would be a mistake to overstate its seriousness. But like his golden age roots of truth and justice,...this Superman also stands for something bigger...
Posted Jul 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Zone of Interest (2023) Mark Leydorf The Zone of Interest...is easily one of the most disturbing movies you’ll ever see. Once again, [Jonathan Glazer] challenges us to look at films—and the world—from an unexpected and uncomfortable perspective.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Poor Things (2023) Mark Leydorf Poor Things will delight plenty of organs besides your brain.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
May December (2023) Mark Leydorf Unsettling as it is, May December is darkly funny to the end.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Civil War (2024) Esther Zuckerman There are no mystifying forces at work in Civil War; everyone you see on screen is terrifyingly mundane.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) Esther Zuckerman Vol. 3 keeps much of the goofy humor of previous Guardians installments and melds it with a wonderfully bizarro and often deeply tragic narrative...
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: The Way of Water (2022) Esther Zuckerman The wild glory of the visuals will take your mind off the dopiness of the dialogue.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Materialists (2025) Esther Zuckerman So often we’re asked to look down upon characters who crave wealth. Materialists is merely being realistic: It’s something we all think about.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
The Brutalist (2024) Amanda Kolson Hurley ...[The Brutalist] invites us to see the maligned style [of Brutalism] as a language for expressing spirituality and the weight of history, fundamental human concerns. And that may mark a gradual shift in public perception.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Conclave (2024) Mark Leydorf Conclave may irritate or offend millions of Catholics, but despite its gaudy plot, it gets one thing absolutely right. The future of the church and the spiritual and everyday lives of 1.4 billion people hinge on...ruthless ambition.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
The Last of the Sea Women (2024) Esther Zuckerman It’s a visually stunning portrait of a group of funny, passionate women. Yes, it could stand to be a little more rigorous, but it’s a breezy introduction to a fascinating world.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Joker: Folie à Deux (2024) Esther Zuckerman Folie à Deux is a punishingly dull affair. It’s a pointless sequel with very little plot. It wastes the talent on screen, and it squanders the genuinely intriguing conceit of its characters breaking into song.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024) Mark Leydorf Beetlejuice Beetlejuice may not be intellectually nourishing, and it’s not all politically correct, but it’s a blast.
Posted Jul 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) Esther Zuckerman There’s dumb fun -- like the best of the last trilogy, Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, which puts dinos in the trappings of a haunted house film. And then there’s just dumb. This falls into the latter category.
Posted Jun 30, 2025  Edit critic review
F1 The Movie (2025) Esther Zuckerman It’s not as if F1 bucks sports movie conventions; it just executes them, for the most part, extremely well.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Mountainhead (2025) Esther Zuckerman There’s an immediacy to Armstrong’s satire that’s almost impulsive. But the anger that spurred Mountainhead’s creation is also its best quality. Armstrong is pissed off and has decided to channel that into brutal jokes.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Thunderbolts* (2025) Esther Zuckerman To my shock, Thunderbolts* is the best thing Marvel has put out in ages -- a well-acted piece of popcorn entertainment that balances zippy humor with actual depth. Is it a cinematic masterpiece? No. Will it restore your faith in the franchise? Maybe yes.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Nosferatu (2024) Esther Zuckerman It gives the Nosferatu tale back some of the power that it has lost over countless representations. Here, you’re left in Dracula’s thrall, his craggy fingers around your throat.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Mufasa: The Lion King (2024) Esther Zuckerman Simply put, it looks really weird when photorealistic lions sing songs by Lin-Manuel Miranda. But what really drags Mufasa down is the lackluster storyline and the bluntly obvious screenplay by Jeff Nathanson.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Gladiator II (2024) Esther Zuckerman Gladiator II is ultimately a bigger, more bombastic and thematically messier movie than Gladiator, but it thrives on excellent performances and Scott’s knack for capturing ferocious fight sequences.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked (2024) Esther Zuckerman Wicked will likely never win over skeptics or those who have an allergy to earnestness, but longtime devotees of the admittedly silly but big-hearted musical will fall in love bringing newcomers into their club.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Juror #2 (2024) Esther Zuckerman It feels like one of those endlessly rewatchable ’90s legal thrillers, and it also has some weighty stuff on its mind as it interrogates the nature of what actually makes a man guilty and what it means to have justice served.
Posted Jun 24, 2025  Edit critic review
28 Years Later (2025) Esther Zuckerman One of the strangest, most exhilarating blockbusters in recent memory. It's a truly bizarre piece of art that's somehow both grotesque and extremely moving.
Posted Jun 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Warfare (2025) Esther Zuckerman The result is a film that’s effective but hard to recommend. Is it well made? Incredibly. Is it strongly acted? Indeed... Should you rush to the theater? That depends. It will undoubtedly make you feel awful … but that’s also sort of the point.
Posted Apr 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Disney's Snow White (2025) Christopher Palmeri Walt Disney Co.’s new live-action update of its animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs is a thoroughly enjoyable family film in a world that badly needs them.
Posted Mar 19, 2025  Edit critic review
A Real Pain (2024) Mark Leydorf Actors: Beware of vanity projects... But if you must write and direct yourself in a leading role -- as Jesse Eisenberg has done in A Real Pain, his bittersweet road trip film -- at least make it a role you haven’t already played.
Posted Nov 02, 2024  Edit critic review
Anora (2024) Mark Leydorf We set aside our quibbles about whether Baker’s intention is to edify or titillate. Ani is on an adventure unlike anything we’ve ever seen in a movie, into power and pain and -- after a giddy detour into absurdity -- something approaching actualization.
Posted Oct 17, 2024  Edit critic review
The Crow (2024) Esther Zuckerman A genuinely perplexing film. I mean that on a broad level: How did Hollywood struggle for decades to reboot this property and end up with such a lackluster product?
Posted Aug 22, 2024  Edit critic review
Alien: Romulus (2024) Esther Zuckerman [One particular creative choice is] an unintentional, chilling vision of the future that has nothing to do with chest-bursting monsters. You might find this palatable. For me, it ruined what was otherwise a fun, icky trip to space.
Posted Aug 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga (2024) Mark Leydorf For a movie about a post-apocalyptic dystopia, it’s very funny, particular when Hemsworth is chewing the scenery.
Posted May 29, 2024  Edit critic review
Dune: Part Two (2024) James Tarmy Dune: Part Two is an undeniable triumph -- a kinetic, beautifully shot exercise in wish-fulfillment whose denouement is so brutal it makes Taken seem like a model of nonviolent conflict resolution.
Posted Mar 01, 2024  Edit critic review
Madame Web (2024) Esther Zuckerman On screen, Johnson can’t help but appear a little mortified as she claws her way through leaden dialogue and a plot that goes nowhere.
Posted Feb 14, 2024  Edit critic review
Mean Girls (2024) Esther Zuckerman The latest version of this tale, while in no way challenging its predecessor, is better than it has any right to be, thanks to an extremely talented young cast, creative staging and some strong new jokes.
Posted Jan 10, 2024  Edit critic review
Ferrari (2023) Mark Leydorf Although it explores some major psychological terrain, from marital discord to suffocating ambition to devastating loss, Ferrari barely scratches the surface of the man.
Posted Dec 22, 2023  Edit critic review
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023) Esther Zuckerman I will say this for Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the long-in-the-works sequel to 2018’s Aquaman starring Jason Momoa in the title role: I laughed quite a bit. Does it matter that the funniest parts weren’t supposed to be humorous? Not really.
Posted Dec 22, 2023  Edit critic review
All of Us Strangers (2023) Mark Leydorf Elegiac [and] beautifully filmed.
Posted Dec 20, 2023  Edit critic review
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) Esther Zuckerman Ballad is a satisfying, well-acted melodrama with moral gray areas and real stakes for its characters.
Posted Nov 16, 2023  Edit critic review
Priscilla (2023) Sarah Rappaport There is no Elvis music in Priscilla. Not much hip shaking, either. His famous jumpsuits barely appear. Instead, the spotlight is on his wife, Priscilla, in Sofia Coppola’s pastel-hued biopic...
Posted Nov 06, 2023  Edit critic review
Fair Play (2023) Esther Zuckerman It’s moody and tense, and it features captivating performances from its leads, Alden Ehrenreich and Phoebe Dynevor. But it’s peppered with false moments that undercut the experience, repeatedly pulling the viewer out of the action.
Posted Sep 28, 2023  Edit critic review
Dumb Money (2023) James Tarmy Hamstrung by a desire to valorize the little guy, the movie misses the point: The GameStop short squeeze was about how collective action can shift the balance of power from the few to the many.
Posted Sep 21, 2023  Edit critic review
Red, White & Royal Blue (2023) Ella Ceron Those who haven’t read the novel will have a good time watching Alex and Henry’s story unfold, but this is a movie for the fans.
Posted Aug 11, 2023  Edit critic review
Oppenheimer (2023) Esther Zuckerman This is dense material that’s thoroughly engrossing and by its end, shattering.
Posted Jul 19, 2023  Edit critic review
Barbie (2023) Esther Zuckerman It would be easy to lean into the camp aspects of the role, but Robbie takes on Barbie with a wide-eyed earnestness.
Posted Jul 19, 2023  Edit critic review
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023) Mark Leydorf [Mangold] serves up a flesh-and-blood cartoon with plenty of thrills and laughs and even a bit of pathos.
Posted Jun 29, 2023  Edit critic review
The Flash (2023) Esther Zuckerman Although it’s not without some fun moments, The Flash often substitutes cameos for genuine thrills, and a general aura of exhaustion hovers over it all.
Posted Jun 07, 2023  Edit critic review
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