‘The Children Act’ Film Review: Emma Thompson Grapples With Conscience in Sluggish Legal Drama
Ian McEwan adapts his own novel about a conflicted judge, but for all the beating gavels, there’s no pulse here
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‘Lizzie’ Film Review: Chloë Sevigny Makes the Infamous Killer a Rebel With a Cause
Sevigny and Kristen Stewart are homicidal lovers in a haunting tale of love and slaughter
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Burt Reynolds Appreciation: A Classic Movie Star With a Modern Sense of Humor
He made comedy and drama look equally easy, and he created a new kind of sex symbol
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‘Non-Fiction’ Film Review: Olivier Assayas Comically Mourns the Death of Literature
Venice 2018: Juliette Binoche co-stars in this witty drama that does for print what “Summer Hours” did for art
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‘Support the Girls’ Film Review: Regina Hall Uplifts Observant Workplace Comedy
All the world’s a Hooters in this sharp look at sisterhood from writer-director Andrew Bujalski
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‘The Happytime Murders’ Film Review: Melissa McCarthy Valiantly Plays Along in One-Joke Comedy
Brian Henson’s puppets-gone-bad gimmick takes this labored detective spoof only so far before running out of stuffing
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‘The Meg’ Film Review: Jason Statham Swims With Really, Really Big Sharks
This monster-shark movie delivers a handful of decent PG-13 scares, but the characters are just chum
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‘Skate Kitchen’ Film Review: Female Skateboarders Find Freedom on 4 Wheels
The narrative debut from Crystal Moselle (“The Wolfpack”) shows talented girls supporting each other’s right to grind
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‘Christopher Robin’ Film Review: A.A. Milne’s Young Hero Has a Hundred-Acre Mid-Life Crisis
This semi-live-action “Winnie the Pooh” sequel is slow and charmless, fit for neither children nor adults
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‘Scotty and the Secret History of Hollywood’ Review: Sex Abounded in Hollywood’s Golden Age
TIFF 2017: The director of “Valentino: The Last Emperor” profiles the studio system’s legendary procurer
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‘Teen Titans GO! to the Movies’ Film Review: TV Adaptation Sticks It to Big-Screen Superheroes
A tireless barrage of gags and inside-comics references makes this Cartoon Network feature a silly treat
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‘Blindspotting’ Film Review: Ambitious Oakland Tale Suffers From Too Many Ideas
Carlos López Estrada’s feature directorial debut gets overwhelmed by abrupt shifts in tone and an excess of hot-button issues
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‘Hotel Transylvania 3’ Film Review: Adam Sandler’s Groovy Ghoulies Take a Wacky Vacation
This “Summer Vacation” reminds us that these cartoons are Sandler’s most satisfying franchise
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‘Skyscraper’ Film Review: Dwayne Johnson Checks All the Boxes in a Satisfying Summer Thriller
It’s The Rock vs. the building in an action epic where familiarity doesn’t drown out the fun
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‘Sorry to Bother You’ Film Review: Boots Riley’s Ambitious Debut Throws a Lot at the Wall
Lakeith Stanfield and Tessa Thompson star in this double-barreled satire about race and power
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‘Ant-Man and the Wasp’ Film Review: Paul Rudd’s Shrinking Hero Returns for Buzzier Sequel
After the bummer ending of “Infinity War,” here’s the MCU at its zippiest and silliest
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‘Hereditary’ Film Review: Family’s a Horror in Brilliant Indie Debut
Toni Collette gives an extraordinary performance in this moody, creepy psychological thriller
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‘Ocean’s 8’ Film Review: Sandra Bullock and Her Female Crew Idle Amiably in Heist Farce
It’s all amiably slick and charming and funny, but the movie never quite kicks into high
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‘Action Point’ Film Review: Johnny Knoxville Kicks Theme Parks in the Crotch
This nostalgic look at pre-lawsuit, 1970s recreational hazards plays like “Wet Hot American Jackass”
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All 10 ‘Star Wars’ Movies Ranked, From ‘A New Hope’ to ‘Solo’
“Solo” doesn’t tell us anything about Han or Lando we didn’t already know — but hey, look at that gleaming new Millennium Falcon!
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‘Solo: A Star Wars Story’ Film Review: So-So Prequel Says Nothing New About Beloved Characters
Alden Ehrenreich and Donald Glover have chemistry to burn, but it’s wasted here on fan service
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‘First Reformed’ Film Review: Paul Schrader and Ethan Hawke Channel Robert Bresson
Hawke’s tormented cleric is part Bresson’s anti-hero, part Travis Bickle
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‘Deadpool 2’ Film Review: Ryan Reynolds Gives His All to a Joke Told the Second Time
The laughs and the action are still there, but not the ante-upping that makes a comedy sequel rise above
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‘Tully’ Film Review: Charlize Theron Is a Real Mother in Bleakly Hilarious Parenthood Tale
Third collaboration between screenwriter Diablo Cody and director Jason Reitman strips the sentimentality from mommyhood
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‘Avengers: Infinity War’ Film Review: Suppose They Gave an Infinity War and Everybody Came?
Packed to the gills with character and incident, but like most Marvel movies, it’s all about what’s next
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‘Lean on Pete’ Review: Andrew Haigh’s Boy-and-His-Horse Tale Hits Hard
European director’s U.S. debut embraces both spacious skies and American miserabilism
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‘Tyler Perry’s Acrimony’ Film Review: Taraji P. Henson Is Furious, But Is She Right?
The writer-director plunges into Joan Crawford-style melodrama, complete with berserk finale
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‘Ready Player One’ Film Review: Spielberg’s Weaponized Nostalgia Is an Exercise in Overkill
Gen X cultural references pack every overcrowded frame, but the pop-spotting quickly ceases to be fun
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‘Midnight Sun’ Film Review: Tragic Teens Are Ill Met by Moonlight
Bella Thorne’s sun-averse waif withers in a bland, familiar tear-jerker
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‘Love, Simon’ Film Review: Cute Coming-Out Tale Gives Gay Teens Their John Hughes Moment
This adaptation of Becky Albertali’s YA novel plays it a little safe, but it’s a leap forward for big-studio filmmaking
