movie reviews
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‘The Estate’ Review: Money Makes Everything Worse in This All-Star Black Comedy
Tale of voracious would-be heirs lacks the courage to commit to its own nastiness
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‘Soft & Quiet’ Review: Shocking Debut Feature Reveals the Hate Lurking Within Seemingly Ordinary People
What seems like a blandly cheerful get-together for white church ladies devolves into racist violence in Beth de Araújo’s stunning debut
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‘Dear Zoe’ Review: Sadie Sink Stars in Overwrought Teen Drama
Filmed before the actress’ breakout roles in “Stranger Things” and “The Whale,” this YA tale is strictly for fans of the 2005 source material
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‘Holy Spider’ Review: Iranian Serial-Killer Thriller Misses the Mark
Denmark’s Oscar entry feels torn between making a point about fundamentalist misogyny and indulging in lurid exploitation
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‘Utama’ Review: Bolivia’s Oscar Entry Examines the End of a Way of Life
Disappearing water supply may force an elderly couple to abandon their home and move to the city in this Sundance award-winner
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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
