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Run Amok (2026) Owen Gleiberman Alyssa Marvin, who has the rare actor’s gift of wearing her feelings on the outside even when the character she’s playing is holding them on the inside, makes that a convincing journey.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
The Weight (2026) Peter Debruge In the past, Hawke often played characters who were shy, scruffy and slightly unsure of themselves, but here he’s the film’s proactive problem solver -- a classical hero more than capable of carrying the film.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Leviticus (2026) Carlos Aguilar With “Leviticus,” Chiarella wields horror in defense of queer love, avoiding easy sentimentalism, while also not surrendering to hopelessness, all while still satisfying the audience’s cravings for effective, bone-chilling uneasiness.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Soul Patrol (2026) Lisa Kennedy The credits begin their roll with Jimmy Ruffin’s aching ballad “What Becomes of the Brokenhearted?” playing. Like Emanuel and his comrades, Harper and his film go a meaningful way in asking and offering an answer to that plaint.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Chasing Summer (2026) Peter Debruge A familiar “you can’t go home again” story (till now, Reese Witherspoon had a corner on the market) that miraculously doesn’t feel like we’ve heard it before, even if the moral is perfectly clear from the get-go.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
American Doctor (2026) Murtada Elfadl It is a necessary watch because it dares its audience not to look away, forcing the question not only of whose story is told, but whose deaths matter and make headlines.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
In the Blink of an Eye (2026) Siddhant Adlakha While presented as a trio of interconnected stories, "In the Blink of an Eye" plays more like three disparate TV series smushed into a single feature.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
The Wrecking Crew (2026) Richard Kuipers The crux of the movie is how well Bautista and Momoa fire off each other once Jonny returns to his roots in Hawai’i... The action stars may not be great actors in the classical sense but they are more than competent and acquit themselves well.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass (2026) Owen Gleiberman A flagrant concoction that wants to do nothing more than make you laugh, and at that it succeeds. Yet in its way, there’s a bit of a vision to it.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Rock Springs (2026) Guy Lodge Miao has a brisk, tingling command of atmosphere, and if she occasionally seems still in search of a style all her own, this promising debut has a human touch and point of view that are rather more distinctive within the genre.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Send Help (2026) Peter Debruge What’s so much fun about “Send Help,” beyond its twisted B-movie premise and refreshing disinterest in anything more highfalutin than handing Linda a chance to turn the tables, is how unpredictable it manages to be.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Wicker (2026) Peter Debruge One could say the filmmakers have been strategically reverent toward the source material, but slyly disrespectful in all other respects.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Union County (2026) Peter Debruge The make-or-break ingredient turns out to be British actor Will Poulter, whose immersive commitment dovetails beautifully with Meeks’ unvarnished sensibility.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Frank & Louis (2026) Guy Lodge For stars Rob Morgan and Kingsley Ben-Adir, meanwhile, it’s a pleasingly patient and generous showcase: Both give performances of exquisite composure, with roiling anguish beneath the stillness.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Invite (2026) Owen Gleiberman [Lives up to expectations] in a way that’s so original, so brimming with surprise, so fresh and up-to-the-minute in its perceptions of how relationships work (or don’t), that you watch it in a state of rapt immersion and delight.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
zi (2026) Guy Lodge If the film weren’t so arresting to look at, it could often be absorbed with eyes closed: If its larger message is elusive, “Zi” advocates for taking the world in at your own sensory pace.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
The Gallerist (2026) Peter Debruge Facile but fun... The movie is full of art-world in-jokes, but breezes right past its many plot holes, which are more conspicuous than the slashes in Lucio Fontana’s “Spatial Concept” canvases.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
The Shitheads (2026) Carlos Aguilar Sure, the case can be made for this contrast between scatological humor and serious insight working as a mirror for how quickly a person’s reality can shift from joy to sorrow, but the overall effect is puzzling.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
The Musical (2026) Guy Lodge A Tony-winning stage actor who has long been a trusty indie ensemble player, Brill seizes his most substantial film role to date with sneering relish.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty! (2026) Siddhant Adlakha While trying to confront grief with a sense of mischief, the movie’s impish tonal approach takes the sting out of death a little too often, rendering its catharsis null. It’s hard not to respect a big swing, but Wladyka ultimately misses.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
undertone (2025) Siddhant Adlakha Although it eventually leans into traditional genre hallmarks, its introductory musings are novel, taking the form of a one-woman performance showcase that makes ingenious use of visual and auditory negative space.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
One in a Million (2026) Guy Lodge One in a Million is one of those close-quarters character-study docs filmed with such intimate fluidity that you almost forget the complexities of inserting a camera in this fraught domestic space.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
Buddy (2026) Owen Gleiberman Casper Kelly is a talent to watch. In Buddy, he’s essentially reviving an old joke and doing multiple variations on it. But he has a gleefully rich understanding of the inner insanity that can drive pop culture.
Posted Jan 25, 2026  Edit critic review
Josephine (2026) Peter Debruge The standout of this year’s Sundance Film Festival competition, in terms of both audacity of subject and maturity of execution.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
I Want Your Sex (2026) Peter Debruge Once you get past the shock, the plot falls apart. But that hardly matters, since Araki’s achieved his main goal: getting a repressed generation to loosen up about sex by pushing the boundaries between profound and profane.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Moment (2026) Owen Gleiberman I’m sorry, but this is not how an effective mockumentary works. I actually think “The Moment” should have pushed further into crackpot satirical extremes.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Disciple (2026) Chris Willman It’s fair to say there won’t be a juicier story revolving around record collecting in our lifetimes. The “Shaolin” saga makes for an amusing yarn, well told, in “The Disciple.”
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The Oldest Person in the World (2026) Peter Debruge Whatever comes next (and the movie makes a beautiful kind of peace with not knowing) Green has given his subjects an incredible gift: the kind of immortality only cinema can provide.
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez (2026) Carlos Aguilar As much as the doc is explicitly celebratory, its existence is inherently a political statement, just like Valdez’s oeuvre. To spotlight a Mexican American pioneer who still stands proud in all the nuances of his identity feels necessarily defiant.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Lady (2026) Guy Lodge In some ways, Nwosu’s script subverts expectations. In others, it traces a classic, bittersweet arc of growth and self-realization even when plans are thrown off course.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Carousel (2026) Owen Gleiberman A flawed drama that can be disjointed, but by the end the movie feels worth it: mannered at times, touchingly real at others.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Clika (2026) Dennis Harvey What’s curious is that “Clika” spends so much time on things it doesn’t know how to do well, and so little on the most enjoyable element here: any scene where JayDee is singing.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The History of Concrete (2026) Peter Debruge Wilson feigns interest in “something that occupies so much of your visual environment.” But mostly, what he’s pulled off here is a DIY parody of nonfiction filmmaking, poking fun at everything in a movie about nothing.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Last First: Winter K2 (2026) Owen Gleiberman The Last First is a revealing look at how they risked their lives for an ideal, maybe for an addiction. It’s a movie that shows us the dark side of literally getting high. That’s engrossing, to a point, but it’s not exhilarating.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The Rip (2026) Peter Debruge Between the sheer complexity of the plot and the intricate way Carnahan assembles the puzzle, “The Rip” is easily worth a second viewing. Having done so myself, I can attest that it’s even more satisfying on closer inspection.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Mercy (2026) Owen Gleiberman The premise of “Mercy” makes it sound like the sort of thin, doctrinaire anti-technology, anti-police-state thriller that Arnold Schwarzenegger would have starred in 40 years ago. But the movie turns out to be a notch or two better than you expect.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Peter Debruge Brooks’ best quality as a writer is the way he wears his heart on his sleeve, writing characters who do the same. But there’s a clunkiness here that suggests test screenings or studio notes cost the movie key exposition.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Peter Debruge For genre aficianados, it’s bold, mind-bending work which satisfies that so-often-frustrated craving for a zombie movie with brains.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Owen Gleiberman Is “Primate” a slickly executed piece of slaughterhouse shlock? Very much so. Yet Ben, as a slasher, represents a minor triumph of practical effects.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
People We Meet on Vacation (2026) Guy Lodge What keeps things diverting, and sometimes even interesting, is the genuine but necessarily tentative chemistry between its stars, one staging an all-out charm offensive and the other projecting a flintier allure.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Owen Gleiberman Greenland: Migration is one of the soggiest excuses for a sequel in memory. The first Greenland, released at the end of 2020, was an environmental disaster movie. The new one is a post-disaster slog. It should have been called “Rubble.”
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Under the Flags, the Sun (2025) Carlos Aguilar An unsettling and informative introduction to Paraguay’s recent past, “Under the Flag, the Sun” attests to the notion of humanity’s interconnectivity even before the age of the internet.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not (2025) Owen Gleiberman Zenovich isn’t doing a harangue against “cancel culture.” She’s asking, in a far more ingenuous and exploratory way: What do we think about someone like Chevy Chase?
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Dutchman (2025) Murtada Elfadl The film adds modern references and takes place in the present, but its treatment of the play’s themes remains murky and marred by an inability to let go of what director Andre Gaines evidently considers to be a sacred text.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Dandelion’s Odyssey (2025) Carlos Aguilar After seeing the heroes fend for themselves, the resolution feels every bit as emotional as those in Don Bluth’s “The Land Before Time” or Disney’s “Dinosaur,” achieved with a fraction of the resources.
Posted Dec 30, 2025  Edit critic review
David (2025) Guy Lodge A proficient family entertainment that’s nonetheless a little too precision-engineered to feel truly stirring. Faith, “David” has in spades; soul, not so much.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Anaconda (2025) Peter Debruge The jokes practically write themselves, which is why it’s surprising that there aren’t more of them.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
A Sad and Beautiful World (2025) Carlos Aguilar Contrived by design, the premise eventually earns enough goodwill for one to play along.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
The Great Flood (2025) Dennis Harvey It’s an ambitious shotgun marriage of too many ideas that end up seeming underdeveloped and rushed within a conventional feature runtime.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants (2025) Owen Gleiberman Don Drymon, the director of “Search for SquarePants,” was one of the show’s founding creative talents, and he certainly knows how to keep the butt jokes popping, but I’m sorry, they are not surprising butt jokes.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
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