Simon Abrams
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				‘Is This Thing On?’ Review: Bradley Cooper Finds His Limit in Divorce DramedyWill Arnett and Laura Dern play a newly divorced couple in the Cooper-directed film 
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				‘Stiller & Meara: Nothing Is Lost’ Review: Ben Stiller Unpacks His Parents’ Lives – and His Own – in Apple DocThe documentary finds parallels between the filmmaker’s parents’ success (and shortcomings) and Stiller’s own life 
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				‘Sugar Babies’ Review: Flirty TikTokers Documentary Is All FillerSundance 2025: Rachel Fleit’s film follows a twentysomething college grad who makes money by flirting with men online 
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				‘Sly Lives!’ Review: Questlove’s Family Stone Music Doc Is IlluminatingSundance 2025: The documentary paints a complicated portrait of Sly and the Family Stone founder Sly Stewart 
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				‘Daddio’ Review: Dakota Johnson and Sean Penn Meander Through a NYC Cab RideChristy Hall’s tone-deaf two-hander takes viewers from JFK airport to midtown Manhattan in a tour of blustery clichés 
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				Steven Spielberg Celebrates 50th Anniversary of His First Theatrical Release, ‘The Sugarland Express’ — Which Closed After 2 WeeksTribeca 2024: “People went to the movie expecting to see a Goldie Hawn picture, and they wound up with an ending like that,” the filmmaker says of its shocking conclusion 
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				‘Made in England: The Films of Powell and Pressburger’ Review: Martin Scorsese-Led Doc Gets PersonalTribeca 2024: The filmmaker narrates the story of two towering giants of cinema, Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger 
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				‘Tetris’ Review: Taron Egerton Drama Uses Retro Nostalgia to Re-Imagine the True Story of Classic GameSXSW: The “Rocketman” actor fails to elevate the film’s corny Cold War narrative 
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				‘She Came to Me’ Review: Anne Hathaway Shines in Well-Intentioned but Bland Relationship DramaBerlin 2023: Director Rebecca Miller’s latest is as frazzled and unfortunate as its nervous characters 
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				‘Pathaan’ Review: A Goofy Comeback for Shah Rukh KahnUnfortunately, not even Khan’s famous pout nor even his cheese grater-sharp abs can save this turkey. 
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				‘The Deepest Breath’ Review: Awe-Inspiring Underwater Footage Enhances Freediving DocumentarySundance 2023: Director Laura McGann plays fast and loose with her storytelling, but the results are worth it 
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				‘That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Movie’ Review: Adaptation of Anime TV Series UnderwhelmsSome fans might enjoy the self-contained story, but the big-screen “Scarlet Bond” tale lacks many of the show’s pleasures 
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				’22nd Annual Animation Show of Shows’ Review: Cartoon Compilation Offers a Fascinating Mixed BagLatest collection spotlights a new restoration of 1987’s Oscar-winning “The Man Who Planted Trees” 
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				‘Leonor Will Never Die’ Review: Uneven Magical-Realist Fantasy Follows a Dying Writer Into Her Own ScreenplayThis Spirit Award–nominated import from the Philippines suggests some bold and visionary ideas before sinking into clichés about the magic of the movies 
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				‘The Quintessential Quintuplets Movie’ Review: Film Version of Anime Series Ties Up Loose EndsThere’s not a lot here for non-fans, but those who’ve followed the story will finally find out which Nakano sister will marry their tutor 














