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‘Where the Crawdads Sing’ Film Review: Mediocrity Drips Like Spanish Moss in Bestseller Adaptation
Daisy Edgar-Jones does what she can to save this film from clichés and soap-opera plotting
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‘The Sea Beast’ Film Review: Netflix Animated Feature Feels Both Sloppy and Stylish at Every Level
Director and co-writer Chris Williams brings big ideas (and flat characters) and sweeping action (and clunky animation details) to this epic tale
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‘Minions: The Rise of Gru’ Film Review: Yellow Subservients Return, More Irritating Than Ever
These jaundiced annoyances are clearly a big money-maker, but this latest go-round serves only to spotlight the lack of creativity in studio animation
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‘Wildhood’ Film Review: Indigenous LGBTQ Coming-of-Age Tale Follows Its Own Path
A Mi’kmaq teenager reclaims his culture and embraces his sexuality in this moving and surprising road-trip story
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‘Cha Cha Real Smooth’ Film Review: Dakota Johnson in Charming Coming-of-Age Dramedy
“S—house” director-star Cooper Raiff avoids sophomore slump in this follow-up to his SXSW winner
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‘Father of the Bride’ Film Review: Latino Specificity Makes This Remake Feel Like an Original
Andy Garcia and Gloria Estefan play the parents in this third version of the beloved comedy
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‘Spiderhead’ Film Review: Miles Teller Steals the Show in Another Negligible Netflix Original
Director Joseph Kosinski (“Top Gun: Maverick”) and a miscast Chris Hemsworth strip a potentially provocative premise of thrills or ideas
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‘Neptune Frost’ Film Review: Afrofuturist Sci-Fi Musical Sends a Loving Battle Cry to the Laboring Class
Saul Williams and Anisia Uzeyman collaborate on a potent, original and exhilarating response to colonialist exploitation
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‘Cane Fire’ Film Review: Searing Doc Examines Hawaii’s Exploitation by Developers, Corporations, and Hollywood
Anthony Banua-Simon takes aim at the image of the islands as a paradise for white people displacing the indigenous inhabitants (and workforce)
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‘Emergency’ Film Review: Three Men of Color Try to Do the Right Thing in Caustically Relevant Thriller
Systemic racism is the villain in this taut piece about a trio of Black and Latino students coming to a white woman’s aid even at the risk becoming victims themselves
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‘Father Stu’ Film Review: Mark Wahlberg’s Tough Guy Finds Redemption as a Catholic Priest
Wahlberg and Mel Gibson both seem to be chasing on-screen rehabilitation for off-screen misdeeds in an above-average faith-based melodrama
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‘Sonic the Hedgehog 2’ Film Review: Pleasant Sequel Speeds Along Smoothly
The screenplay reflects actual effort, and Jim Carrey gets to be unfettered in his performance, leading a surprisingly satisfying follow-up
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‘What?’ Film Review: Deaf Actor Fights the System in Well-Intentioned Showbiz Comedy
This satire of the struggles of deaf artists in the ableist entertainment industry pays homage to silent comedy but doesn’t entirely hit its marks
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‘Spin Me Round’ Film Review: Alison Brie’s Dream Vacation to Italy Might Be a Nightmare
Dark comedy sends an American on Euro trip that will either be a broadening experience or a dangerous one
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‘A Song for Cesar’ Film Review: Telling the History of a Labor Movement Through the Music It Inspired
Both sprawling and focused, this documentary tracks the many musicians and artists who supported Cesar Chavez’s fight for social justice
