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Drop
(2025)
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Peter Travers
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This expertly-done B movie plunges breakout star Meghann Fahy into one of the scariest situations ever—a first date. The dude (Brandon Sklenar) is a charmer, yet her phone keeps buzzing with text messages to kill him. Hang on for a nerve-jangling ride.
Posted Apr 11, 2025
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The Amateur
(2025)
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Peter Travers
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It’s a promising premise—a nerdy CIA decoder (Rami Malek) turns unlikely action hero when his wife (Rachel Brosnahan) is murdered by terrorists—but the movie promises more than it delivers in terms of suspense, escalating tension and a reason for being.
Posted Apr 11, 2025
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The Friend
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Naomi Watts and Bill Murray are funny and touching as the most recent guardians of a 150-pound Great Dane named Apollo, but the scene-stealing pup scampers off with this slight but irresistible character study and wins a special place in your heart.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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Death of a Unicorn
(2025)
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Peter Travers
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Charm magnets Jenna Ortega and Paul Rudd do their best to lift this horror comedy out of the quicksand of cliches that surround it but it’s a losing proposition.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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The Alto Knights
(2025)
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Peter Travers
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Even a double dose of the great Robert De Niro taking on the grandpa roles of feuding mob bosses Vito Genovese and Frank Costello, can’t lift this gimmicky, grating, draggy attempt to join the pantheon of classic gangster cinema. It’s a losing battle.
Posted Mar 21, 2025
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Black Bag
(2025)
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Peter Travers
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OK, Steven Soderbergh’s sleek, sexy spy thriller can be too cool for school. But oh the twisted, erotic mischief dished out by dynamos Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbinder as married spies, still hot for each other but worried that the other is a traitor
Posted Mar 14, 2025
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The Rule of Jenny Pen
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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This psychological thriller about a demonic hand puppet only works in fits and starts. But watching virtuoso actors John Lithgow and Geoffrey Rush let their freak flags fly as nursing home patients in a fight to the death is a blast of fun and fright
Posted Mar 07, 2025
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Mickey 17
(2025)
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Peter Travers
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Repeating his historic Oscar wins for Parasite is off the table for Bong Joon-ho. But together with an up-for-anything Robert Pattinson in multiple roles, Bong turns this scattershot sci-fi space opera into a buoyant social satire that really stings.
Posted Mar 07, 2025
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Riff Raff
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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How do you cram a cast of A-listers, led by Bill Murray, Jennifer Coolidge and Pete Davidson, into a crime caper so laugh deprived that calling it a comedy qualifies as false advertising? Here’s your answer. And it’s a crying shame.
Posted Feb 28, 2025
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My Dead Friend Zoe
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Forget the silly title. There’s a world of hurt behind the laughs as therapist Morgan Freemen treats a PTSD soldier (a very fine Sonequa Martin-Green), home from Afghanistan but still talking to the scrappy ghost of her army bestie (Natalie Morales).
Posted Feb 28, 2025
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The Monkey
(2025)
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Peter Travers
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Theo James plays twin brothers on the run from a toy monkey with blood-splattering murder on its mind. Director Oz Perkins doesn’t disappoint with his ferociously funny take on Stephen King’s short story even if he never reaches the horror heights.
Posted Feb 21, 2025
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Flow
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Latvia’s dark-horse entry in the animation Oscar sweeps doesn’t need dialogue (it has none) or A-list voices (also absent) to qualify as a thing of beauty as a cat and four fellow creatures carve out a future after a cataclysmic flood wipes out humanity.
Posted Feb 14, 2025
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Heart Eyes
(2025)
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Peter Travers
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For all its imperfections and borrowed horror inspirations, this cheeky romcom scarefest is still one movie valentine that delivers the goods for shudders and cuddles
Posted Feb 07, 2025
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Paddington in Peru
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Though the third round can't top the magic of the first two Paddingtons, it's still an exuberant gift of family fun that takes our bear home to Peru for new adventures and a tangle with a sinister singing nun played to the hilarious hilt by Olivia Colman
Posted Feb 07, 2025
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Companion
(2025)
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Peter Travers
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Director Drew Hancock kicks off the young movie year with an out-of-nowhere surprise, a fiendishly funny romcom scarefest that hits the fun bullseye and makes a star out of Sophie Thatcher as a hot date (for Jack Quaid) who doesn’t know her own power
Posted Jan 31, 2025
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The Performance
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Jeremy Piven tap dances for Hitler and turns playwright Arthur Miller’s cautionary short story about art’s accommodation to power into a well-meaning family project (his sister directed) that stumbles when it most needs to soar
Posted Jan 24, 2025
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Presence
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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In this shivery ghost story, director-editor-DP Steven Soderbergh proves a rich imagination can work wonders on a low budget and turn the familiar into something fresh and frightening
Posted Jan 24, 2025
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Wolf Man
(2025)
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Peter Travers
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Director Leigh Whannell knocked it out of the park with his riveting 2020 reboot of Invisible Man, but his take on Wolf Man is a limp, lazy excuse for thought-provoking horror. Worse, this long night’s journey into day is no fun at all
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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I'm Still Here
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Fact-based family dramas don’t come more intense or indelible than Walter Salles’s emotional powerhouse starring Golden Globe best actress winner Fernanda Torres as a Brazilian wife and mother who fights a military dictatorship to save her flesh and blood
Posted Jan 17, 2025
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All We Imagine as Light
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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In her first fiction feature, documentarian Payal Kapadia brings a poetic profundity to this
cinematic spellbinder about female sisterhood in a big city (Mumbai) full of societal, economic and political pressures that can force out intimacy and dreams
Posted Jan 10, 2025
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Better Man
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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In a world of humans, bad boy British pop rocker Robbie Williams casts himself as a computer=generated monkey. Too much? Maybe. But damn, this banger-infused biopic works like gangbusters under the visual magic of monkeyshines director Michael Gracey
Posted Jan 10, 2025
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The Room Next Door
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Spain’s legendary Pedro Almodóvar freights his first full-length film in English with tangled subplots, but nothing can dim the artistry of Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore who make this death-fixated tale of old friends in crisis feel thrillingly alive.
Posted Jan 03, 2025
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The Last Showgirl
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Gia Coppola’s film has barely a sketch of a plot, but soars on the quietly devastating performance of former Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson as an aging Vegas showgirl who learns her hopelessly outdated dance revue has been given the hook after 30 years
Posted Jan 03, 2025
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A Complete Unknown
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Forget the thin membrane of a soap opera plot— Timothée Chalamet acts and sings the young Bob Dylan to showstopping perfection, catching the mystery man in the exhilarating act of inventing himself as multitudes, always creating and always in the wind
Posted Dec 27, 2024
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Nosferatu
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Here’s your holiday counter-programming ticket to fear and trembling—a passion project for Robert Eggers who creates an atmosphere of creeping dread in which Bill Skarsgård and Lily-Rose Depp are to die for as a vampire Count and his trickiest victim
Posted Dec 27, 2024
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The Brutalist
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Brady Corbet’s engulfing masterpiece about an immigrant architect (an Oscarbound Adrien Brody) is the best movie of the year, but it’s also way more than that— an unsentimental; uncompromising thunderbolt of pure cinema that Corbet has built to last
Posted Dec 20, 2024
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Babygirl
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Nicole Kidman burns up the screen in Helena Reijn’s erotic spellbinder about why a married-with-children titan of industry would risk career suicide to find her true self by losing control with a young intern (Harris Dickinson) who bends her to his will
Posted Dec 20, 2024
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Nickel Boys
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Creative artistry radiates from every frame of this groundbreaker from RaMell Ross who joins with camera wiz Jomo Fray to take us inside the eyes of two young Black men (Ethan Herisse and Brandon Wilson) to expose the abuses in a Florida reform school.
Posted Dec 13, 2024
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Queer
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Luca Guadagnino's flawed but fascinating gay love story is lifted to the heights by Daniel Craig who captures his character’s sexual heat and yearning heart in a performance he seems to tear from his insides. Is an Oscar nomination next? That’s the idea.
Posted Dec 13, 2024
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Hard Truths
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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In Mike Leigh’s lacerating new film, Marianne Jean-Baptiste delivers a hall-of-fame acting triumph as a London housewife and mother who’s mad at the world and ready to give us all a tongue-lashing. She’s an emotional powderkeg ready to blow. Better duck
Posted Dec 06, 2024
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Nightbitch
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Amy Adams excels as a stay-at-home mom going so crazy in confinement that she turns into a feral dog in protest. It’s a daring idea until the script chickens out as a ferocious feminist fable and sinks into cotton-candy quicksand. Bummer
Posted Dec 06, 2024
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Maria
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Angelina Jolie fires up the best actress Oscar race as opera legend Maria Callas, but Pablo Larraín's muffled film take on the prima donna’s last days commits the cardinal sin that Callas never did as an artist by leaving us on the outside looking in.
Posted Nov 29, 2024
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September 5
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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The massacre of the Israel team at the 1972 Munich Olympics becomes a riveting docudrama on journalism under fire as seen through the contro lroom of ABC Sports doing live coverage. Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Leonie Benesch will pin you to your seat
Posted Nov 29, 2024
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Wicked
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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How do I love the film of the hit stage musical, let me count the ways, starting with the way Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande set the screen ablaze as frenemy witches and sets, costumes and songs to die for. Seeing this joyous eruption once is not enough.
Posted Nov 22, 2024
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Gladiator II
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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A qualified thumbs up for this sequel that can’t match the Oscar-winning best picture that spawned it, but the crowd will roar thanks to razzle-dazzle director Ridley Scott and a sensational, scene-stealing Denzel Washington as a villain worth cheering.
Posted Nov 22, 2024
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Red One
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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We all need a little Christmas now,but not this cynical cash grab faking it as holiday fun. The mind boggles that it cost $250 million to produce a big, bloated fiasco about Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans saving kidnapped Santa (J.K. Simmons). Bah, humbug
Posted Nov 15, 2024
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Blitz
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Set against the Nazi bombing of London, Steve McQueen's stirring WW2 epic misses greatness by failing to fully engage with the starker, deeper implications of seeing war through the eyes of a mixed-race child facing an evil that’s scarily close to home
Posted Nov 15, 2024
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Heretic
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Hugh Grant uses his charm for evil in this provocative cat-and-mouse game about the meaning, if any, of religion in a godless modern world. The romcom dreamboat of yore has been replaced by a diabolical presence eager to send us all to hell. What fun.
Posted Nov 08, 2024
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The Piano Lesson
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Neither a filmed play nor an actual movie, the muddled screen version of August Wilson’s great drama about systemic wrongs done to Black America is a mixed bag but also a stirring promise from producer Denzel Washington to preserve the work of a master.
Posted Nov 08, 2024
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Juror #2
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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In his maybe final film, Clint Eastwood, 94, overcomes a contrived script to build a tense, terrific legal thriller that indicts our broken justice system. Toni Collette and Nicholas Hoult help the master explore the gray area between heroism and villainy
Posted Nov 01, 2024
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Emilia Pérez
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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You've never seen anything like like Jacques Audiard’s Spanish musical about violent passions starring Zoë Saldaña, Selena Gomez and trans actress Karla Sofia Gascón in career-defining performances that take a piece out of you. This you don't want to miss
Posted Nov 01, 2024
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A Real Pain
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Take in the pleasure of real teamwork as gifted writer-director-actor Jesse Eisenberg joins an Oscar worthy Kieran Culkin for a tale of New York cousins on a tour of Poland where their late grandma survived a Nazi death camp. You’ll laugh till it hurts.
Posted Oct 25, 2024
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Conclave
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Ralph Fiennes delivers a master class in acting in Edward Berger's juicy, jolting mystery thriller that uses the fictional election of a new pope in Rome to mirror America’s own dirty politics. What fun! And the drama of It will pin you to your seat.
Posted Oct 25, 2024
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The Wild Robot
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Family audiences rejoice! The Oscar for Best Animated Film belongs right here in this enchanting tale of a robot, voiced by the amazing Lupita Nyong'o, who finds herself playing mother to a baby goose. The result is spectacular in every sense of the word.
Posted Oct 18, 2024
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Anora
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Mikey Madison, Oscar’s new Cinderella, leads a cast of crazies as a sex worker who finds her prince in the son of a dangerous Russian oligarch. No list of the year’s best films would be complete without Sean Baker’s whirwind of fun and social provocation.
Posted Oct 18, 2024
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The Apprentice
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Way better than you may have heard, this mesmerizing look at young Donald Trump (a sensational Sebastian Stan) and his legal dark prince Roy Cohn (a dynamite Jeremy Strong) provides funny and scary insights into the ego Trump developed to rule the world.
Posted Oct 11, 2024
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The Outrun
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Is that really Saoirse Ronan playing a blackout drunk with a violent temper? It is and against all odds she transforms a dreary addiction drama with an emotional powerhouse of a performance that should rank her high in the Oscar race for Best Actress.
Posted Oct 04, 2024
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Joker: Folie à Deux
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Here’s a sequel we didn't need, trapping Phoenix and the glorious Gaga in a joyless musical retread that sucks the life out of the party. Says she to Joker during a fantasy scene, "Come on, baby, let's give the people what they want." I'm still waiting.
Posted Oct 04, 2024
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Megalopolis
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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With so little to show for its staggering ambition to synthesize modern New York with the fall of the Roman Empire, Francis Ford Coppola's all-star, self-financed passion project is a mess, but the lion who made it is still roaring, even in winter.
Posted Sep 27, 2024
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Saturday Night
(2024)
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Peter Travers
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Reitman energetically tracks the lead-up to the first SNL in 1975, but it's only fitfully funny, leaving the cast struggling to register. Doing it best are Dylan O'Brien as Dan Aykroyd, Cory Michael Smith as Chevy Chase and Nicholas Braun in a dual role.
Posted Sep 27, 2024
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