movie reviews
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‘Huda’s Salon’ Film Review: Politics and Patriarchy Haunt Palestinian Woman in Tense Thriller
“Paradise Now” director Hany Abu-Assad returns with another tale of moral complexity in the Middle East
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‘Great Freedom’ Film Review: Decades-Spanning Drama Explores Injustice of German Anti-Gay Laws
Franz Rogowski (“Transit”) stars as a man who spends his life behind bars for loving men
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‘The Batman’ Film Review: Robert Pattinson Brings Complex Humanity to an Even Darker Knight
Director Matt Reeves takes some cues from “Seven” but forges a new trail in superhero cinema
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‘A Madea Homecoming’ Film Review: Tyler Perry’s Comic Creation Comes to Netflix in Perhaps His Best Film Yet
Liberated from the restraints of PG-13, Madea gets her tart-tongued, gun-toting, weed-enjoying mojo back
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‘Cyrano’ Film Review: Peter Dinklage Shines but the Songs Are Forgettable
Director Joe Wright’s adaptation of the Cyrano de Bergerac story is a bittersweet mixture of enjoyable highs and painful lows
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‘The Desperate Hour’ Film Review: Naomi Watts Races Against Time and Tedium in Dull Thriller
The audience is always many steps ahead of this tension-free slog about a mother out to save her imperiled son
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‘Creation Stories’ Film Review: A Muddled Look at Alan McGee’s Mythic Rise to Record Mogul-dom
The founder of the label behind Oasis and Jesus and Mary Chain deserves better than this trippy, messy biopic
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‘No Exit’ Film Review: Tense Kidnapping Drama Offers Thrills Alongside an Excess of Absurdity
Making the heroine an addict is a bold choice, but one that the movie doesn’t always handle wisely or compassionately
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‘Family Squares’ Film Review: All-Star Zoom Call Dramedy Suffers from Weak Connections
This movie for the pandemic moment would have benefited from trusting the drama (and the cast) and not dipping into wackiness
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‘I’ll Find You’ Film Review: Martha Coolidge Directs a Visually Lush WWII Romance
This old-school love story is way more interested in relationships than historical tragedy
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‘My Best Part’ Film Review: Nicholas Maury Directs and Stars in a Character Study Both Absurd and Melancholic
The “Call My Agent!” actor nails the specifics of his talented, damaged protagonist while daring to make audiences pay attention to the details
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‘jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy’ Act II Film Review: Doc Series Balances Familiarity With Thrilling Immediacy
“Purpose” moves to the part of Ye’s story we know, but it’s exciting to watch
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‘Texas Chainsaw Massacre’ Film Review: Latest Sequel Delivers the Gory Goods
This follow-up to the 1972 original isn’t in any way deep, but it’s got all the splatter any slasher fan could want
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‘Strawberry Mansion’ Film Review: Dreamscape Drama Plays By Its Own Rules
Co-directors Albert Birney and Kentucker Audley embrace experimentation and analog artistry in this visual feast
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‘Downfall: The Case Against Boeing’ Review: Damning Doc Paints a Portrait of Corporate Cowardice
This blistering examination of just one example of malfeasance leaves us wondering about all the other scandals yet to be revealed
