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Natchez (2025) Alissa Wilkinson The wish the mayor voices slowly cracks apart; we witness progressively more uncomfortable encounters that show how even agreed-upon histories clash with one another.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Melania (2026) Manohla Dargis By the end of “Melania,” a glossy, curiously impersonal, outwardly apolitical portrait of Melania Trump, you are no closer to knowing its famous subject than you were at the start, even after many changes of time, place, clothes and towering high heels.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Moment (2026) Manohla Dargis Whoever the character Charli is, the onscreen woman has real comic timing and an expressive, attention-grabbing face.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Shelter (2026) Glenn Kenny As a vehicle for Statham’s bone-breaking escapades, it’ll do.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Worldbreaker (2025) Ben Kenigsberg January movies don’t come duller.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
A Poet (2025) Alissa Wilkinson [The] moral of this story is the one that Oscar learns: To be an artist isn’t about living the life of an artist, or saying things that sound like the things an artist might say. It means sitting down, as boring as it can be, and actually making the art.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Paying for It (2024) Chris Azzopardi Paying for It keeps its narrative tight, perhaps overly simple.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The Love That Remains (2025) Alissa Wilkinson The landscape in which this family makes its domestic life is wild and lovely, and Palmason signals the changing of the seasons by showing us all of its beauty
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Islands (2025) Lisa Kennedy There’s a refreshing willfulness here to leave some quandaries lingering, and like the rough beauty of the volcanic island the movie is set on, “Islands” beckons and rebukes and beckons some more.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Send Help (2026) Jeannette Catsoulis From its cheeky score by the director’s frequent collaborator Danny Elfman, to its darkly humorous tone and playfully yucky special effects, the movie is Raimi at his most gleeful and twisted.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The Wrecking Crew (2026) Calum Marsh From its vintage title card to its retro jukebox soundtrack, “The Wrecking Crew” is an unapologetic throwback, indebted to the buddy cop films of the 1980s and ’90s, like “48 Hrs.” and “Tango & Cash.”
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Disneyland Handcrafted (2026) Sheri Linden Disneyland Handcrafted is instead an immersive bit of time travel, spun out of 16-millimeter footage from the months leading up to the park's opening day.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Mercy (2026) Manohla Dargis In the end, all that remains is a guy who, much like the hapless audience member, is unhappily stuck in a chair watching a lot of onscreen nonsense.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
In Cold Light (2025) Jeannette Catsoulis Patrick Whistler's script is muddy, the baddies ill-defined, and the talents of Kotsur and Monroe, ill-served.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
H Is for Hawk (2025) Alissa Wilkinson What does work about “H Is for Hawk” (aside from Mabel, whose presence is enough to recommend the film) is its refusal to make grief facile or tidy, or to proclaim that healing must look the same for everyone.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) Natalia Winkelman Talankin is the hero of “Mr. Nobody,” an effective look of one man’s resistance against President Vladimir V. Putin’s patriotic curriculum policy.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
A New Love in Tokyo (1994) Ben Kenigsberg While honesty dictates that this movie, directed by Banmei Takahashi, be classified first and foremost as erotica, it is erotica that finds room for real sweetness and intellectual pretensions along with its kink.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Return to Silent Hill (2026) Beatrice Loayza “Return to Silent Hill” aims for a similar uncanniness — sometimes the actors look like digital doubles — but the result is less phantom realm, more jumbled assembly of cutscenes.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Clika (2026) Brandon Yu What [Clika] glaringly sheds in its performances and direction is some of the sturdiness of a more traditional Hollywood production. But that also matters less in a movie like this, one clearly made, with love and belief, by and for the people it centers.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (2026) Glenn Kenny Her resilience and frankly astonishing good humor come through as well. That her life since her ordeal has returned to normal — she’s now married, with children of her own — adds another dimension to her miracle.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Seeds (2025) Alissa Wilkinson The impersonal problems of financing and statistics become personal, and the history of discrimination feels much closer, more concrete. And if we’re looking closely, we can see, in the younger generations of farmers, the seeds of the future.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Rip (2026) Brandon Yu These are all the ingredients for a gritty cop drama about a spiderweb of paranoia, but it plays out as a work that started with a seemingly clever climax in mind, then jury-rigged itself backward to fill in the rest.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Queen Kelly (1929) Nicolas Rapold A wild stew of the sacred and profane follows (aided by a game supporting cast).
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
A Useful Ghost (2025) Jeannette Catsoulis A bawdy metaphor for democracy under threat, “A Useful Ghost” has a delightful, frisky energy that coexists peacefully with the beautiful melancholy of its central love affair as March comes to terms with his wife’s new job.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Sound of Falling (2025) Natalia Winkelman Here is a movie whose atavistic excursion through time transfixes, even as its psychology remains as fuzzy as a photograph smeared by motion.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Shuffle (2025) Glenn Kenny Shuffle, a shocking and confounding new documentary directed by Benjamin Flaherty, lays out in painstaking detail the collusion between moneymaking rehab treatment centers, double-dealing insurance entities and predatory social-media “scouts”...
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
A Private Life (2025) Manohla Dargis The intrigue is far-fetched and surprising — this is one movie you can’t write in your head — and delivered with increasing winks and charm.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Deepfaking Sam Altman (2025) Ben Kenigsberg Give Bhala Lough credit: His film simultaneously illustrates the deficiencies of generative A.I. and the dangers of investing in it emotionally, while remaining annoying and self-amused in a distinctly human way.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Night Patrol (2025) Beatrice Loayza The lumbersome conspiracy-building in the front half, paired with flashy visuals and some performances fitting for a crude stoner comedy, make this a bleary experience overall.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Alissa Wilkinson DaCosta’s talents as a director are a terrific, confident match for this material.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
A Place in the Sun (1951) NYT Staff ..."A Place in the Sun" is a distinguished work, a tribute, above all, to its producer-director and an effort now placed among the ranks of the finest films to have come from Hollywood in several years.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Brandon Yu It’s a B-movie with a budget, but surrendering yourself to its cheap thrills with the right crowd can make wincing its own kind of fun.
Posted Jan 10, 2026  Edit critic review
People We Meet on Vacation (2026) Jeannette Catsoulis Occasionally cute and almost instantly forgettable, “People,” tidily directed by Brett Haley, offers less-than-witty dialogue and flyby turns by Alan Ruck and a typically excessive Molly Shannon as Poppy’s parents.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Robert Daniels Though this sequel’s brisk plot hits familiar postapocalyptic beats, Waugh strikes them with immense force.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
All That's Left of You (2025) Lisa Kennedy In depicting scenes of dispossession and fraught encounters with soldiers, the filmmaker offers a saga of trauma that has antecedents in dramas set during previous mass conflicts like Apartheid as well as in the Jim Crow South.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Young Mothers (2025) Alissa Wilkinson That slower pace allows a tenderness to develop, and the tension between the girls’ youth and newfound maternal instincts to emerge.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
OBEX (2025) Beatrice Loayza There’s something smarter between the lines about the way technology warps our (self-) perception, but maybe that’s giving too much credit to a film so giddy about its warping.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
My Neighbor Adolf (2022) Glenn Kenny One could call this a squandered opportunity, but then one would also have to ask, “To do what, exactly?
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Holding Liat (2025) Nicolas Rapold By concluding with Liat’s own reflections on the region, Kramer quietly but forcefully recognizes that the conflict cannot continue as it has.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Ben Kenigsberg When “Dead Man’s Wire” ends with footage of the real Kiritsis and Hall, it is hard not to conclude that a much crazier, livelier film could have been made.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
BLKNWS: Terms & Conditions (2025) Manohla Dargis In “BLKNWS,” Joseph doesn’t merely tell one neatly packaged story, he opens up a world of stories, some still waiting to be told.
Posted Jan 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mother and the Bear (2024) Brandon Yu The film, directed by Johnny Ma, bears a bit of charm, but a lot more bland earnestness. It treads ultimately familiar ground around immigrant dissonances between parent and child and the struggle to express love and acceptance.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Dutchman (2025) Lisa Kennedy As with the play (and its 1967 film adaptation), the sexual politics here are messy. What isn’t is the filmmakers’ bold dive into the archives of the nascent Black Arts Movement for a throughline.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
We Bury the Dead (2024) Natalia Winkelman We Bury the Dead is most haunting when it gestures at a world dazed with trauma and explores a path to personal closure through collective efforts.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Manohla Dargis No Other Choice is a brutal story for brutal times, one steeped in corrosive humor and delivered with Park’s customary flair.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Alissa Wilkinson Watching it with your whole being, it becomes real to you too.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
The Choral (2025) Glenn Kenny A moving account of music as a way of coping with war, as well as keeping it at bay.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Anaconda (2025) Beatrice Loayza For all its talk about departing from the original, the film gets sucked in by the gravitational pull of I.P. And however crafty it is about integrating its cameos and Easter eggs, a hard truth remains: Its namesake snake is kind of a dud.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Goodbye June (2025) Natalia Winkelman Brimming with good nature, even in its more flat-footed sequences, “Goodbye June” wants us to know that none of these traits or familial currents are immutable — especially not in the face of a dying parent with a sharp tongue.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Ben Kenigsberg It’s a wondrous interlude, and Jarmusch at his best.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
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