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zi
(2026)
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Sam Adams
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Drawing heavily on Agnès Varda’s Cléo From 5 to 7, with a little Chris Marker and Wong Kar-wai thrown in for good measure, it can feel sometimes like a vibe in search of a story, but the vibes are often exquisite.
Posted Feb 02, 2026
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Time and Water
(2026)
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Sam Adams
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The movie forces us to ponder what remains after we’ve left this earth, and what kind of planet we want to leave behind.
Posted Feb 02, 2026
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Run Amok
(2026)
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Sam Adams
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Its star makes sure we feel what the movie can’t find words to say.
Posted Feb 02, 2026
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One in a Million
(2026)
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Sam Adams
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Though Isra’a and Tarek’s relationship can be painful to witness, the movie’s complicated and unpredictable arc is a poignant reminder that life always has more in store.
Posted Feb 02, 2026
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Night Nurse
(2026)
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Sam Adams
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Night Nurse has some first-film wobbles that grow more severe as the plot progresses but in a genre with too few recent entries and even fewer good ones, it’s a glass of water in the desert.
Posted Feb 02, 2026
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The Musical
(2026)
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Sam Adams
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Alexander Heller’s screenplay is too broad for the comedy to cut as deep as it wants to, but Brill’s performance has acid in it as well as bile, a self-lacerating edge that’s just slightly more fascinating than it is repellent.
Posted Feb 02, 2026
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The Lake
(2026)
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Sam Adams
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What makes this more than a standard issue-driven documentary is Ellis’ subtle but insistent tracking of the role religious faith plays on both sides of the debate.
Posted Feb 02, 2026
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Josephine
(2026)
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Sam Adams
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The fact that de Araújo based the story on her own experience shouldn’t be what defines this accomplished and deeply thoughtful film, but it only increases the sense of awe that she so fully and fairly captures.
Posted Feb 02, 2026
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The Best Summer
(2026)
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Sam Adams
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Davis’ movie is chaotic and rough-hewn, and the performances and songs seem chosen almost at random, but it’s a precious time capsule, and a must for anyone who cares about the bands or the time.
Posted Feb 02, 2026
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Melania
(2026)
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Heather Schwedel
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It contains nothing: no ideas, no point of view, no tension beyond whether the tailors will be able to properly alter her inauguration turtleneck.
Posted Feb 02, 2026
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Send Help
(2026)
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Nadira Goffe
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Send Help, if you can stomach it, is a delight. It doesn’t take itself seriously at all, has a little something to keep everyone on their toes, and is led by two great performances.
Posted Feb 02, 2026
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Everybody To Kenmure Street
(2026)
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Sam Adams
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Framing the movie through the hourslong standoff between police and protesters, Bustos Sierra departs from that ticking-clock narrative to fill viewers in on the history behind the apparently out-of-nowhere show of support.
Posted Jan 29, 2026
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Buddy
(2026)
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Sam Adams
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The movie’s hilarious and unsettling disjunctions come from the way it introduces genuine menace into Buddy’s world without needing to rewrite its rules, because the menace was already bubbling just under the surface.
Posted Jan 27, 2026
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People We Meet on Vacation
(2026)
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Rebecca Onion
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Everything that annoyed me about Book Poppy gets so much worse in this movie.
Posted Jan 09, 2026
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A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
(2025)
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Nadira Goffe
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The music isn’t half bad, and the brothers do come off as charming.
Posted Dec 30, 2025
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Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery
(2025)
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Dana Stevens
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Wake Up Dead Man marks not just a return to form but an expansion of the series’ potential.
Posted Dec 12, 2025
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Jay Kelly
(2025)
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Dana Stevens
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Linus Sandgren’s lambent cinematography captures the sumptuous melancholy of Jay’s gilded-cage life, and Nicholas Britell’s lush symphonic score adds a sometimes ironic note of classic-Hollywood glamour.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair
(2006)
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Sam Adams
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It restores Thurman’s performance to a unified whole rather than presenting it in two disconnected halves, allowing us to see her career-defining work in one gloriously unbroken arc.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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Eternity
(2025)
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Heather Schwedel
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The resulting film is pretty darn cute.
Posted Dec 08, 2025
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The Stringer: The Man Who Took the Photo
(2025)
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Sam Adams
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The Stringer goes to great lengths to investigate the question of where Nick Ut was on that road, constructing a timeline of events and plucking his blurry silhouette out of the background of photos focused on other subjects.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Zootopia 2
(2025)
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Nadira Goffe
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Though Zootopia 2 is not quite as funny as the first, it’s still got a banger new song by Shakira and many rapid-fire gags.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Hamnet
(2025)
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Dana Stevens
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Zhao captures the book’s lyrical naturalism and attention to sensory detail in scenes involving the couple’s courtship and time spent playing with their young children.
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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ONE SHOT with Ed Sheeran
(2025)
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Imogen West-Knights
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Ultimately, it’s fine. It’s not so much the single-take gimmick that makes this special worth noting, but something else that it captures: the dehumanizing effect of fame,
Posted Dec 03, 2025
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Rebecca Onion
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Beautiful, moving, and thoughtful.
Posted Nov 24, 2025
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Wicked: For Good
(2025)
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Dana Stevens
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Any sense of disappointment that Wicked: For Good doesn’t quite live up to the first movie pops like a big pink bubble the moment Erivo and Grande unite one last time to sing the showstopping duet “For Good.”
Posted Nov 24, 2025
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Keeper
(2025)
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Nadira Goffe
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Keeper is a movie that starts with immense promise but squanders it minute by minute. Despite a great performance from Maslany, Keeper struggles to remain innovative and definitely doesn’t stick the landing.
Posted Nov 18, 2025
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Predator: Badlands
(2025)
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Rebecca Onion
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Every franchise needs to find a way to mix things up, and Trachtenberg has done it.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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Now You See Me: Now You Don't
(2025)
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Scaachi Koul
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Now You See Me: Now You Don’t is, more than any of the other installments, a feature-length exposition dump.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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The Running Man
(2025)
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Sam Adams
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It sparks to life only for brief periods.
Posted Nov 14, 2025
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Sentimental Value
(2025)
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Dana Stevens
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Though it’s only two hours and 13 minutes long, Sentimental Value packs a whole novel’s worth of emotional texture and telling visual detail into that run time.
Posted Nov 10, 2025
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Christy
(2025)
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Heather Schwedel
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Christy doesn’t spend enough time on Martin’s interior life. Instead, you’re left wondering whether to root for a character who often acts like a jerk, whose more human side we barely get to know.
Posted Nov 10, 2025
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Blue Moon
(2025)
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Dana Stevens
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Kaplow’s script neatly avoids both claustrophobia and staginess, dividing the story into three discrete acts.
Posted Nov 04, 2025
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Nouvelle Vague
(2025)
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Dana Stevens
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Nouvelle Vague darts forward at the effervescent pace of the cultural youth movement it chronicles.
Posted Nov 04, 2025
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The Perfect Neighbor
(2025)
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Sam Adams
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A chilling and provocative look at the limits of policing, particularly when the laws the police are called to enforce present more of a problem than a solution.
Posted Nov 04, 2025
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Hedda
(2025)
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Nadira Goffe
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The determination of DaCosta’s Løvborg to secure that professorship is provided fresh urgency, given her uphill battles as a woman entering a boys’ club.
Posted Nov 04, 2025
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Regretting You
(2025)
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Rebecca Onion
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Regretting You will aggravate anyone with a low tolerance for watching easily resolvable misunderstandings persist throughout a story, driving unnecessary conflict.
Posted Nov 03, 2025
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Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere
(2025)
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Carl Wilson
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It’s a film that feels as if it has many endings, and also many middles, several of them a bit boring.
Posted Oct 28, 2025
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Bugonia
(2025)
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Dana Stevens
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By straining in its closing moments toward philosophical grandeur, the film instead does a disservice to both its characters and its audience.
Posted Oct 28, 2025
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Frankenstein
(2025)
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Dana Stevens
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Del Toro has made a version of the story that’s indelible, but not definitive.
Posted Oct 17, 2025
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A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
(2025)
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Dana Stevens
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A House of Dynamite’s brisk 112-minute run time barrels toward what looks like an inevitably catastrophic conclusion, yet the film keeps surprising you right up to the end.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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After the Hunt
(2025)
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Nadira Goffe
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Despite its heavy-handedness—best exemplified by the literal ticking noises—you will leave wondering what it was trying to say.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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TRON: Ares
(2025)
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Sam Adams
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Ares has all the reflectiveness of an earnings call.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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The Woman in Cabin 10
(2025)
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Laura Miller
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Stone’s application of high-Hitchcockian gloss to this revamped tale of class paranoia works impressively well.
Posted Oct 14, 2025
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Dana Stevens
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The script gives Byrne too few moments to modulate the intensity of her performance, or to communicate who Linda is in any register other than blind panic as she careens from one crisis to the next.
Posted Oct 09, 2025
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The Smashing Machine
(2025)
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Dana Stevens
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Safdie’s camera and the film’s sympathies remain at arm’s length, obscuring what’s going on inside Mark’s gigantic cranium even more effectively than his dinner-plate-sized hands.
Posted Sep 29, 2025
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HIM
(2025)
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Alex Kirshner
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Sometimes the movie is such a mess that it also stabs itself, but even if it won’t be topping anyone’s list of the greatest football movies, it still makes some novel contributions to the canon.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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One Battle After Another
(2025)
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Dana Stevens
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It's a brainy meditation on our dystopian present that's also a whacked-out roller coaster ride.
Posted Sep 24, 2025
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Megadoc
(2025)
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Sam Adams
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Megadoc is fascinating in its own right.
Posted Sep 23, 2025
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The Voice of Hind Rajab
(2025)
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Sam Adams
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A filmmaker who has worked in both fiction and documentary—and been nominated for both international-film and documentary Oscars—Ben Hania periodically reminds the audience just how faithful the re-creation they’re watching is.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk
(2025)
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Sam Adams
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The difficulty of connection, the fact that Farsi has to grab every chance to talk even if it means propping a phone up on her laptop screen or squatting on the floor of a rented room, becomes a powerful through line.
Posted Sep 19, 2025
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