movie reviews
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‘Causeway’ Review: A Subdued Jennifer Lawrence Shines in Intimate Drama
The actress joins Brian Tyree Henry for a gentle Lila Neugebauer film that moves with the languid rhythms of New Orleans
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‘You Resemble Me’ Review: Fractured Life of a Radicalized Frenchwoman Becomes a Kaleidoscopic Biopic
Dina Amer’s psychological portrait of “Europe’s first female suicide bomber” is uneven but memorable
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‘I’m Totally Fine’ Review: Indie Sci-Fi Comedy’s Actually a Stealth Tearjerker
Natalie Morales brilliantly portrays an alien inhabiting the body and memories of Jillian Bell’s recently-deceased best friend
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‘Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me’ Review: Behind-the-Fame Doc Offers a Certain Level of Insight
AFI Fest 2022: Working with the director of “Truth or Dare,” Gomez purports to let it all hang out, although she’s still clearly in charge of what we do and don’t see
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‘The Independent’ Review: Political Drama Plays More Like a Failed Pilot Than a Feature Film
It may give Brian Cox the chance to roar, but this Black Listed script features the kind of overripe dialogue better suited to guilty-pleasure TV
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‘Please Baby Please’ Review: Queer Musical Seems Subversive, but Only on the Surface
Andrea Riseborough gives her all to a character whose desires remain maddeningly vague
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‘Stars at Noon’ Review: Claire Denis Keeps Things Chilly in a Balmy Spy Thriller
Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn are gorgeous and privileged as they make their way through intrigue (and the COVID-19 pandemic)
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‘Wendell & Wild’ Review: Jordan Peele x Henry Selick Collaboration Suffers from Jumbled Tones
Selick (“Coraline”) would seem to be a perfect pair for Peele, but the (creepy, gorgeous) pieces of their joint effort don’t fit together
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‘TAR’ Review: Cate Blanchett Is at Her Peak in Razor-Sharp Character Study
Todd Field’s drama engages playfully and provocatively with hot-button topics as Blanchett delivers yet another fiery performance
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‘All Quiet on the Western Front’ Review: A Beautiful, Horrifying New Take on Classic Anti-War Story
Edward Berger’s film is the first German-language adaptation of a novel once banned and burned in that country
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‘The Good Nurse’ Review: Jessica Chastain Catches a Killer in Tense Medical Mystery
Eddie Redmayne balances this two-hander as a serial killer in scrubs
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‘Voodoo Macbeth’ Review: Backstage Tale of Early Orson Welles Triumph Speaks to Modern Inclusivity
Modern creators looking to diversify casts and crews could take a page from the legendary 1936 stage production celebrated in this biopic
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‘The Return of Tanya Tucker’ Review: Country Firebrand Makes a Comeback in Touching Documentary
Kathryn Horan’s film is the respectful chronicle of a renaissance engineered by Brandi Carlile
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‘Descendant’ Review: Powerful Doc Examines Generations of Oppression and Survival
Margaret Brown connects Africans kidnapped for the slave trade to their descendants, battling environmental racism, in a moving history
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‘Argentina, 1985’ Review: Advocates and Activists Fight to Reveal the Nation’s Painful Past
Santiago Mitre doesn’t rewrite the historical drama, but his courtroom procedural on the Trial of the Juntas is an effective crowd-pleaser
