movie reviews
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‘Everything Everywhere All at Once’ Film Review: Michelle Yeoh Anchors Wild, Heartfelt Action Comedy
SXSW 2022: Yeoh contains multitudes, and so does The Daniels’ surreal but sweet follow-up to “Swiss Army Man”
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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
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What’s New on DVD/Blu-ray in March: ‘West Side Story,’ ‘The Godfather Trilogy,’ Ukraine Teens, and More
Alonso Duralde spotlights the month’s best new physical-media releases — because streaming only covers so much
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‘Turning Red’ Film Review: Pixar Captures the Explosion of Adolescence as Adorably Beastly
A young girl’s puberty manifests itself as a giant red panda that makes a great metaphor for a tale about daughters and mothers
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‘Asking For It’ Film Review: Kiersey Clemons Leads a Fierce Ensemble in Timely #MeToo Action Drama
Eamon O’Rourke’s intense tale has the same cult-movie zeitgeist energy that turned “Promising Young Woman” into a sleeper hit
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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
