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‘Black and Blue’ Film Review: Naomie Harris Plays a Conflicted Cop in By-the-Numbers Drama
Urbanworld Film Festival 2019: There’s a provocative tale to be told about the balance of being both black and a police officer, but this movie doesn’t feel like telling it
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‘#Female Pleasure’ Film Review: Globe-Spanning Documentary Celebrates Women Reclaiming Sexuality
Five brave activists from around the world share their stories and their ongoing fight to smash patriarchal attitudes
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‘Tell Me Who I Am’ Film Review: Amnesiac Revisits Trauma With His Twin in Powerful Documentary
The lies and truths of one family’s past are uncovered in a devastating work of non-fiction
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‘Mister America’ Film Review: An Idiot Runs for Office, But That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore
Tim Heidecker plays an unqualified criminal on the campaign trail, but this wobbly satire tells us nothing we don’t already know
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‘Lucy in the Sky’ Film Review: Natalie Portman’s Astronaut Cut Loose by Script’s Lack of Mission, Control
Director Noah Hawley and his all-male screenwriting team can’t seem to tether a complicated female character
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‘Sister Aimee’ Film Review: Fictionalized Tale of the Evangelist’s Disappearance Gets Lost On Its Own Path
This look at Aimee Semple McPherson’s desert sojourn buries itself in layers of metatext and revisionism
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‘Ad Astra’ Film Review: Brad Pitt Journeys to the Edge of Space and the Depths of His Character’s Soul
Pitt’s aloof astronaut sets out to find the father who paved his literal and emotional pathways
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‘Don’t Be Nice’ Film Review: Slam Poetry Doc Follows Artists Finding Their Own Voices
The members of the Bowery Slam Poetry Team articulate their anguish, invisibility and trauma onstage
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‘What You Gonna Do When the World’s on Fire?’ Film Review: Race Documentary Wallows in Tragedy But Offers No Solutions
Roberto Minervini’s portrait of black Southerners feels their pain but does nothing to move the conversation forward
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‘This Changes Everything’ Film Review: Hollywood Women Discuss Upping Their Ranks, on Both Sides of the Camera
Well-meaning documentary tackles show-biz gender disparity, and while it might not cover all the bases, it’s a good start
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‘Brian Banks’ Film Review: Forgettable Film Squanders Powerful True Story
The potential urgency in this saga of an athlete falsely accused of rape is undercut by the shortchanging of its female characters
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‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Film Review: Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham Go Way Over the Top, With Fast Furiousness
This breathless “Fast & Furious Presents” installment never takes itself seriously, but it’s invested in being a blockbuster with heart
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‘Armstrong’ Film Review: Documentary Celebrates the Astronaut as Reluctant Hero
Following in the lunar footsteps of “First Man” and “Apollo 11,” David Fairhead’s portrait of Neil Armstrong captures a humble man thrust into greatness
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‘Midsommar’ Film Review: Ari Aster’s ‘Hereditary’ Follow-Up Feels Muddled and Underwritten
A fine ensemble, led by Florence Pugh, gets stuck playing the kind of horror characters you want to slap for their stupidity
