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4/4
Magellan (2025) Michael Andor Brodeur The scale of the film remains resolutely epic, in part because Diaz is patient and in part because he’s insistent on telling this story of conquest and domination on his terms.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) Jane Horwitz "North" is not a movie that will entertain kids.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Mercy (2026) Sonia Rao Almost every narrative choice is ludicrous. And yet, “Mercy” is also a hoot and a half.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
A Private Life (2025) Naveen Kumar “A Private Life” pokes fun at the idea that the subconscious can be concretely interpreted, and intervened upon, for a fee that adds up to a middle-class life.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
All That's Left of You (2025) Sonia Rao A multigenerational epic written and directed by Cherien Dabis, a Palestinian American, that explores what it feels like to live through relentless trauma.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
2.5/4
The Rip (2026) Travis M. Andrews Let’s cut to the chase. If you like hard-bitten crime and cop genre B-movies with an extra heaping of all the clichés, you’ll dig The Rip.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Monica Hesse With Fastvold at the helm, we see the same specificity and confidence tuned toward a very feminine work. How richly satisfying to see a film where the strongest relationship is between a woman and her spiritual journey.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Sonia Rao Fiennes anchors the film with his remarkably layered performance, relishing Kelson’s eccentricities while conveying the underlying anguish of a man losing his grip on what his life once was.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) Paul Attanasio As directed by Rob Reiner, "Stand by Me" has a quality of seriousness, and of relaxation, that you hardly ever see in movies made about kids.
Posted Jan 12, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Sonia Rao Montgomery makes the most of a supporting role, convincingly bouncing back and forth between palpable fear and light mockery.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Michael Andor Brodeur This time, the view of the horizon and sea is clear. In Ben Hania’s hands, what is real and what is imagined matters less once reality becomes unimaginable.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
No Other Choice (2025) Ty Burr There are winners in “No Other Choice,” but as Park makes clear in the film’s quietly devastating final images, they’ve won at a cost that hollows the soul. No translation necessary.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
4/4
The Plague (2025) Sonia Rao A psychological horror film reminding viewers of just how cruel adolescence can be.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Is This Thing On? (2025) Stephanie Merry Was it really the marriage that made them miserable, or did they do that on their own? There’s no easy answer to that one. But watching them work it out is great fun.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Anaconda (2025) Chris Klimek Rudd and Black are not technically playing themselves, but they may as well be, so dependent is the film on the leads’ familiar comic personas.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Marty Supreme (2025) Monica Hesse The fact that Marty’s singular talent isn’t building a decoder to win World War II but rather smacking a tiny ball with a tiny paddle across a tiny net is both absurd and relatable, beautiful and pathetic.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
The Secret Agent (2025) Michael Andor Brodeur The Secret Agent suggests something more consequential with its gripping portrait of political resistance: that survival is a matter of both watching and watching over one another.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Sonia Rao The frenetic energy of its arrow-shooting and boat-exploding amps up anxiety, while gorgeous visuals of dusky skies and sparkling water lapping up on the shore remind you of what the Na’vi fight to protect.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
1/4
Ella McCay (2025) Sonia Rao Brooks may want us to believe Ella has a strong sense of purpose and direction, but he can’t fool us into concluding the same of his film.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Goodbye June (2025) Sonia Rao It is clear Winslet took it upon herself to handle her son’s screenplay with great care. The brilliant actress turns out to be a competent director. She’s also a very good mom.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) Richard Harrington "The Abyss" is a skillful meld of technology and emotion.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
A Christmas Carol (1984) Tom Shales The adapter, Roger O. Hirson, and the director, Clive Donner, have reinvigorated the tale, and Scott gives Scrooge the breath of life. This version is so splendid it is likely to become the preferred edition for years to come.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Left-Handed Girl (2025) Jada Yuan The joy of this film is seeing so much of it through I-Jing’s unjaded eyes. Taipei really does seem magical when experienced by someone 3 feet tall.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Eternity (2025) Sonia Rao Eternity, which marks Irish director David Freyne’s first American production, is a sweet and amusing yet ultimately flimsy exploration of long-lost love and meaningful companionship.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Sonia Rao Like its predecessors, the new film, which takes place at a small Catholic church in Upstate New York, is hilarious and twisty-turny enough to keep you enthralled until the very end.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Hamnet (2025) Naveen Kumar As a meditative study on what’s often left outside the frame, the film is a literal revelation. It’s also a beautifully crafted punch to the gut.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Jay Kelly (2025) Michael Andor Brodeur It’s beautifully shot, bustles with strong performances by a roundly endearing cast and indulges in an old-Hollywood elegance well-suited to its story: the late-life crisis of its titular megastar, played — embodied, really — by George Clooney.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Rental Family (2025) Stephanie Merry The arc of the film seems clear; we’re about to witness people rediscovering the importance of human connection. Grab the tissues!
Posted Nov 21, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Sentimental Value (2025) Monica Hesse The world feels, instead, lived-in and deeply human: an emotional palette that will seem familiar to fans of Trier and Reinsve's previous collaboration.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Wicked: For Good (2025) Naveen Kumar Despite its packed agenda, the film can also feel meandering and directionless.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Michael Andor Brodeur Richard Linklater’s “Nouvelle Vague” — an uncanny homage to French New Wave master Jean-Luc Godard and, specifically, the making of his 1960 breakthrough, “Breathless” — balances its fervor with a stunning cinematic undertaking.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Come See Me in the Good Light (2025) Stephanie Merry Director Ryan White tenderly captures Gibson’s new normal of living with a deadly disease and awakening to “the brevity of it all.” But the movie is more than an admonition for the living; it’s also an achingly bittersweet love story about caregiving.
Posted Nov 17, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Philip Kennicott The film honors Hujar not by impersonating him, but by doing exactly what he did in a different medium: demanding we look long and hard at the world.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
The Running Man (2025) Chris Klimek Wright has an appealing and spry leading man in Glen Powell, who channels the boiling rage of his accidental-insurgent character, Ben Richards, far more persuasively than Ah-nold did.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
1.5/4
Now You See Me: Now You Don't (2025) Sonia Rao Their character arcs, too, disappear from memory as soon as the credits roll, a most unfortunate vanishing act.
Posted Nov 13, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Christy (2025) Sonia Rao A run-of-the-mill biopic that suffers from its inability to convey what truly sets Christy’s narrative apart from the rest.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Die My Love (2025) Sonia Rao An astonishing lead performance by Jennifer Lawrence keeps Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” from falling apart — which is ironic, given that the new film depicts her ripping at the seams.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Nuremberg (2025) Monica Hesse My God, we should all see this movie. Show it again and again.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Train Dreams (2025) Travis M. Andrews This meditation on life is a 102-minute respite from a world that never gives us a chance to slow down and realize how beautiful it truly is.
Posted Nov 06, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Hedda (2025) Naveen Kumar Set in the British countryside, there is something deeply American about its emphasis on the pursuit of pleasure and self-determination to the point of catastrophic excess: The volume on Ibsen’s social realism has been ratcheted to extremes.
Posted Nov 03, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
It Was Just an Accident (2025) Janice Page If anyone has the right to make a revenge fantasy, it’s Jafar Panahi. And yet, this movie isn’t that. Panahi doesn’t make statement films; he makes question films, designed to instigate soul-searching and debate.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/5
Bugonia (2025) Michael Andor Brodeur Lanthimos digs into the absurdity (and cruelty) that attends our desire to care for one another — one that can easily curdle into an appetite for destruction. In the flickering basement light of “Bugonia,” humanity comes off like an alien instinct.
Posted Oct 29, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Blue Moon (2025) Naveen Kumar It’s a worthy effort.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Sonia Rao It’s a bold, claustrophobic movie that wouldn’t work without Byrne.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
2.5/4
Frankenstein (2025) Travis M. Andrews Visually, the film is a sumptuous feast.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Chris Richards “Nebraska” was a triumph because it refused to fulfill anyone’s expectations. “Deliver Me From Nowhere” valorizes that decision while missing its chance to do the same.
Posted Oct 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Dracula (1979) Gary Arnold From opening wolf howls through ominous, ambiguous concluding images, it sustains an exciting, witty, erotically compelling illusion of supernatural mystery and terror.
Posted Oct 20, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
Good Fortune (2025) Sonia Rao While well-intentioned, this is a movie about class consciousness that lacks in self-awareness. Its plentiful laughs ring hollow.
Posted Oct 17, 2025  Edit critic review
2/4
After the Hunt (2025) Monica Hesse The kind of statement that makes you feel like you’re watching a movie not about real people but about how eight years after #MeToo, we still haven’t figured out how to talk about it at all.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
3.5/4
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Ty Burr For all that, the director has made a drama of people doing their jobs with preparation and skill, experience and forethought, and if none of that may be able to save their skins, at least they’re doing their best.
Posted Oct 14, 2025  Edit critic review
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