movie reviews
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‘About Fate’ Film Review: Emma Roberts’ Latest Is About as Basic as Rom-Coms Get
The worst of the Hallmark Channel meets the worst of frantic ’90s romantic farces
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‘Loving Highsmith’ Film Review: Intimate Portrait of Author Patricia Highsmith Spotlights Relationships
Director Eva Vitija examines the life and loves of the creator behind Ripley, “Carol” and “Strangers on a Train”
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‘Private Desert’ Film Review: Pen Pal Turns Stalker in Morally Questionable Brazilian Import
The filmmakers ultimately reveal themselves to be as recklessly naïve as their protagonists
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‘Hold Me Tight’ Film Review: Vicky Krieps Is Gripping as a Mother Who Abandons Her Family
Writer-director Mathieu Amalric finds mystery and humanity in an unreliable narrator whose motives aren’t immediately obvious to the viewer
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‘Blonde’ Film Review: Ana de Armas Recreates Marilyn and Norma Jeane, in Black and White and Technicolor
Venice Film Festival 2022: Director Andrew Dominik pivots between the nightmare of fame and hooray-for-Hollywood grandeur with surrealist flair
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‘Clerks III’ Film Review: Kevin Smith Tackles Aging and Mortality, But Also Weed Jokes, in Nimble Threequel
The graying slackers deal with old age and death, and Smith allows those elements not to be funny while still indulging in goofy whimsy elsewhere
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‘Pinocchio’ Film Review: Robert Zemeckis’ Misguided Remake Is Creepy in the Worst Ways
Tom Hanks stars in yet another wrongheaded “live action” version of classic Disney animation
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‘Barbarian’ Film Review: Stunning Horror Debut Stays One Step Ahead of the Audience
Writer-director Zach Cregger (“The Whitest Kids U’Know”) brilliantly baits and switches over the course of an exquisitely crafted scary story
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‘Love Life’ Film Review: Soulful Japanese Drama Finds Solitude and Solace in Connections
Venice Film Festival 2022: The latest from Kôji Fukada (“A Girl Missing”) finds emotional power and interactivity in cramped and often silent spaces
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‘When the Waves Are Gone’ Film Review: Lav Diaz Creates Another Haunting Portrait, at His Own Pace
Venice 2022: The Filipino director, known for his lengthy running times, crafts a tale of two policemen at odds with stronger visuals than dialogue
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‘The Ghost of Richard Harris’ Review: Larger-Than-Life Actor Remembered Ruefully and Gratefully
Venice Film Festival 2022: The children and co-stars of the legendary movie star, musician and drunkard all have stories to tell about the screen icon
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‘Theater of Thought’ Film Review: Werner Herzog Offers a Baffling Guided Tour of the Brain
Telluride Film Festival 2022: The prolific director makes the exploration as wide-ranging, philosophical and off-the-wall as possible
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‘Merkel’ Film Review: Former German Leader Noticeably Absent From Her Own Documentary
Telluride Film Festival 2022: This sketchy portrait of the ex-Chancellor feels bereft of insight or detail on a fascinating political life
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‘Monica’ Film Review: Trace Lysette and Patricia Clarkson Find Aching Truth in Hushed Family Drama
Venice Film Festival 2022: Writer-director Andrea Pallaoro frames Lysette in scenarios where she seems isolated and trapped, like Monica Vitti in vintage Michelangelo Antonioni
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‘Icarus: The Aftermath’ Film Review: Sequel to Oscar-Winning Documentary Finds Emotion in Sporting Scandal
Telluride Film Festival 2022: Bryan Fogel’s film is more assured and more moving than his 2017 expose of Russia’s doping program