September 17, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Sprawling and intimate, Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest takes on sweeping political and personal ideas with equal assurance.
September 16, 2025
Alonso Duralde
A long, leaden, lugubrious ASMR video.
September 13, 2025
Ben Nicholson
Most famous for his role in the Critters franchise, Oldenburg celebrates Don Keith Opper’s contributions as a screenwriter.
September 11, 2025
Ben Nicholson
Scott Glenn is fantastic in Eugene the Marine, a genre-bender that uses heartwarming comedy and bloody giallo to rage against the dying of the light.
September 7, 2025
The Film Verdict
Golden Lion goes to Jim Jarmusch; Grand Jury Award to Gaza drama ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab’
September 2, 2025
Deborah Young
Kathryn Bigelow turns her prodigious talent for edge-of-seat action thrillers to the most terrifying horror show of them all: a rogue nuclear missile is headed straight for the USA and officialdom discovers the absurd inadequacy of available responses, in ‘A House of Dynamite’, a dazzling dark fantasy that leaves viewers shaken.
August 30, 2025
Max Borg
Guillermo del Toro’s lifelong obsession with Frankenstein and his Creature comes to thrilling, bombastic life in this new take on Mary Shelley’s novel.
August 26, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Wit, style, and some inescapably catchy songs has earned this Sony-Netflix animated feature a well-deserved global fandom.
August 21, 2025
Carmen Gray
In Yegor Troyanovsky’s warmly personal, bittersweet doc ‘Cuba & Alaska’, we follow a volunteer combat medic duo of two best friends on and off Ukraine’s wartime roads.
August 21, 2025
Carmen Gray
Shocking but sensitively handled, Ketevan Vashagashvili’s debut doc ‘9-Month Contract’ exposes exploitative practices in Georgian surrogacy agencies through one woman’s risky reality.
June 27, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Sequel to the sleeper hit veers away from horror into comic-thriller territory, delivering jolts and satirical laughs, though not quite enough of either.
June 26, 2025
Alonso Duralde
The cars go vroom but the characters fail to register in this technically proficient and dramatically vacant auto-racing saga.
June 18, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Danny Boyle and Alex Garland reteam for a sequel to their zombie smash that’s got a lot of heart – and other organs.
June 17, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Plenty of joyous visual detail in this Pixar story of a boy who wants to be abducted by aliens, but an excess of incident robs the characters of much depth.
June 10, 2025
The Film Verdict
Fans of the original have no reason to seek out the live-action remake, which competently rehashes the beloved animated classic while adding almost nothing new.
June 5, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Slight but entertaining, this “from the world of John Wick” spin-off emphasizes over-the-top weapon-based fights over stylish hand-to-hand combat.
May 30, 2025
Alonso Duralde
A Wes Anderson with all of the typefaces and upholsteries you’d expect, but none of the heart or soul of his best films.
May 28, 2025
Alonso Duralde
This reboot-remake-sequel never strays far from what’s expected but succeeds thanks to cornball charm and some stirring fight sequences.
May 20, 2025
Alonso Duralde
This pleasant-enough remake of the animated film never quite justifies why that animated film needed to be remade in the first place.
May 14, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Taking itself seriously while defying audiences to do likewise, this eighth entry features enough globe-trotting, jaw-dropping action to make the nearly three-hour running time fly right by.
May 13, 2025
Alonso Duralde
More snappy, shocking deaths in a satisfying sequel crafted to bring the mayhem to a conclusion. Maybe.
May 8, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Something is rotten in the state of Verona — namely, this insipid Kidz Bop take on one of the greatest romantic tragedies of all time.
April 29, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Entertaining Marvel team-up tale proves you can make a banquet out of odds and ends that were stuck in the back of the fridge.
April 6, 2025
Carmen Gray
Julien Elie’s stark, moody doc premiering at Visions du Réel ponders an Earth with no memory of the night sky’s stars, and a Texas town irrevocably altered by SpaceX’s promise of a colony on Mars.
March 19, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Disney’s umpteenth live-action remake of an animated classic turns out to be another bad apple.
March 8, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Jack Quaid’s hero can’t feel pain, and the energy-deficient movie can’t quite commit to its high concept.
February 28, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Director Alex Parkinson remakes his own deep-sea doc as a narrative feature but gets lost in the shallows.
February 20, 2025
Max Borg
Norway won the Golden Bear this year in Berlin with the endearingly awkward ‘Dreams’ (‘Drømmer’), the final installment in Dag Johan Haugerud’s trilogy about contemporary relationships.
February 15, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Might not reach the heights of its predecessor, but this latest adventure of the globe-trotting naif has all the heart, wit, musicality, and meaning that the Paddington franchise brings to bear.
February 6, 2025
Alonso Duralde
This mediocre and thoroughly forgettable action-comedy will, one hopes, be but a bump on the road of Ke Huy Quan’s big-screen resurgence.
February 3, 2025
Carmen Gray
Alexandra Makarova’s elegant, psychologically complex Cold War drama plumbs the inner dislocation of exile, and the poisonous workings of tyranny.
January 31, 2025
Carmen Gray
Ivan Salatic’s magnificently moody, intelligent and doom-laden vision of Montenegrin freedom fighting and exile questions the formation and undoing of national myth.
January 29, 2025
Alonso Duralde
This adaptation of the popular children’s-book series offers up hilarious gags and absurdist plotting, but a story this silly deserves more energetic pacing.
January 24, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Steven Soderbergh’s effectively low-key chiller puts an already-dysfunctional family into a haunted house.
January 17, 2025
Alonso Duralde
Leigh Whannell’s moody monster movie features gripping performances and effective jolts before running out of steam without fully pursuing its own ideas and metaphors.
January 14, 2025
Deborah Young
Filmmaker Roberto Andò combines a wary humanism with expert storytelling to expose the anti-heroic truth about Garibaldi’s 1860 invasion of Sicily to overthrow the Bourbon monarchy and unite Italy, though the comic subplots running through the film tend to be distracting and hard to digest.
December 20, 2024
Alonso Duralde
Our chief US film critic’s annual compilation of the year’s finest, including war, death, tennis, queer takes on pop culture, and hundreds of beavers.
December 17, 2024
Alonso Duralde
Better than a CG-animated prequel to a remake has any right to be, but director Barry Jenkins’ time and effort could surely be better applied elsewhere.
December 11, 2024
Alonso Duralde
This absurd (and violent) Spider-Man spinoff plays it so straight that it’s quite frequently hilarious, whether or not that was the intent.
December 7, 2024
Alonso Duralde
Kyle Mooney’s teen disaster comedy ‘Y2K’ starts out promisingly enough before blowing 2000 opportunities for thrills, laughs, or insight.
December 5, 2024
Alonso Duralde
Exquisite filmcraft and committed performances, yet Robert Eggers’ take on the silent-horror classic feels more like an adoring tribute than a rethinking or reimagining.
December 3, 2024
Oris Aigbokhaevbolo
Nine films have been sent to the 2025 Oscars by African countries. Will any one get a nomination?
November 26, 2024
Alonso Duralde
Shares most of the strengths and weaknesses of its predecessor, although at this point, novelty has sailed off to the seven seas. Kids who know the first movie by heart will delight in a second helping.
November 11, 2024
Alonso Duralde
Ridley Scott displays his prodigious gifts for violence and camp in this Roman sequel, but there’s a lot of filler.
November 6, 2024
Alonso Duralde
This search-and-rescue tale of a kidnapped Santa Claus doesn’t reinvent the action-movie wheel, but it’s a fun spin on holiday tropes.
November 4, 2024
Alonso Duralde
A cadre of feral siblings teach a small town the true meaning of Christmas in a rare faith-based film that doesn’t oversell its message.
October 26, 2024
Alonso Duralde
Robert Zemeckis’ fixed-camera observation of the passage of time is a slick and profoundly shallow movie aching for depth.
October 23, 2024
Alonso Duralde
Nothing means anything in the conclusion of Tom Hardy’s comic-book trilogy, which makes it either a complete waste of time or a superhero movie in its purest form.
October 16, 2024
Alonso Duralde
In his feature-film debut, painter Titus Kaphar exhibits his talents as a visual artist, if not as a screenwriter.
October 11, 2024
Alonso Duralde
Jason Reitman’s print-the-legend look behind the scenes of the birth of a legendary comedy TV fixture succeeds on its breathless “let’s put on a show” energy.
