‘The Sound of Silence’ Film Review: Peter Sarsgaard and Rashida Jones Excel in Soulful Tale of Sound and Connection
The clashing notes of New York’s rattle and hum stir an audiophile to explain human behavior in this touching drama
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‘The Painted Bird’ Film Review: Jerzy Kosiński Adaptation Is Gruesome, Poetic Epic of Inhumanity
Venice 2019: Anchored by breathtaking visuals and a powerful child performance, Václav Marhoul’s three-hour film is a worthy endurance saga
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‘Hope Gap’ Film Review: Divorce Drama Showcases Annette Bening and Little Else
Toronto Film Festival 2019: Writer-director William Nicholson’s look at the aftermath of a decades-long British marriage gives Bening plenty to act but not much to chew on
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‘Official Secrets’ Film Review: Kiera Knightley Stars In Middling Iraq War Whistleblower Drama
One woman’s courage in disclosing governmental corruption doesn’t always equate to explosive drama
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‘The Fanatic’ Film Review: John Travolta Gives Stalker Dementia a Bad Name In Trash-Heap Thriller
Travolta and director Fred Durst turn fan lunacy into a freak show of bad acting and bad-faith cautionary showbiz horror
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‘The Kitchen’ Film Review: Melissa McCarthy, Tiffany Haddish, Elisabeth Moss Lead a Mafia Misfire
You want this tale of female gangsters to be a gun-toting original, but it’s a discordant mix of clichés, incoherence and ill-used stars
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‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’ Film Review: Kevin Costner Voices Philosophical Dog In Standard-Issue Weeper
An auto racer’s shaggy best friend narrates all the feels in this unremarkably sentimental adaptation of the best-selling novel
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‘The Great Hack’ Film Review: Alarming Documentary on Voter Targeting Revisits Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Scandal
The makers of “The Square” lay bare the psychographic side of Facebook, and how user data can be turned into weapons against democracy
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‘The Raft’ Film Review: Compelling Doc Recounts Seagoing Social Experiment With Unexpected Results
Participants in an imaginative anthropologist’s perilous 1973 test of isolation and endurance recount their turbulent experiences
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‘Plus One’ Film Review: Maya Erskine Shines in Wedding-Season Rom-Com
Single college pals brave a flurry of weddings as each other’s guests in this charming set-up, but it’s rising star Erskine you’ll be toasting
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‘The Fall of the American Empire’ Film Review: Denys Arcand’s Money-Laundering Caper Isn’t Always Good, Clean Fun
The Oscar-winner’s comedy-thriller about inequality is its own unequal mixture of genre elements and social commentary
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‘Brightburn’ Film Review: The Kid’s Not All Right, Nor Is James Gunn’s Superhero Horror Lark
An origin-of-evil story cribbed from a famed superhero’s mythos amounts to little more than a collection of uninspired horror tropes
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‘John Wick 3’ Film Review: Keanu Reeves’ Assassin Returns for Mostly Enjoyable Threequel
The strain is starting to show in this franchise, but there’s still a kick to much of its action choreography and body-count brashness
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‘My Son’ Film Review: Efficient French Thriller Sends Divorced Father to Find Missing Kid
Guillaume Canet’s portrayal energizes this familiar but tight entry in the vigilante-dad genre
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‘Ask Dr Ruth’ Film Review: America’s Favorite Sex Therapist Gets a Cheerful, Enlightening Doc Portrait
Built around the natural star power of the colorfully accented sexpert, Ryan White’s film is a personality-driven charmer
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‘After’ Film Review: Harry Styles Fan-Fic Adaptation Goes in One Direction — South
Shallow, masochistic college romance between a good girl and a bad boy suffers from just about everything
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‘Peterloo’ Film Review: Mike Leigh’s 19th Century Epic Recounts a Notorious Massacre
The British government’s 1819 killing of peacefully assembled reformers is, in Leigh’s dedicated telling, a tragedy about speech snuffed out
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‘Screwball’ Film Review: Billy Corben’s Baseball Doping Doc Is Disreputable Fun
This raucously fun account uses child actors to re-enact a scandal that exposed a HRH-dosing clinician with baseball-star clients
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‘Hotel Mumbai’ Film Review: Nervy Account of Terrorist Attack Keeps Exploitation in Check
A hostage situation at India’s famed Taj Mahal Palace is depicted with humanity and horror
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‘The Mustang’ Film Review: Matthias Schoenaerts Tames a Horse and Saves Himself in Prison Drama
Schoenaerts mesmerizes as a hardened prisoner learning empathy in this affecting drama
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‘Ash Is Purest White’ Film Review: Jia Zhangke Unveils Another Thoughtful Epic About China’s Transformation
As a crime romance dissolves over time, Jia and star Zhao Tao create another mesmerizing portrait of ever-changing China
