Reviews
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‘The Dutchman’ Review: Amiri Baraka’s Controversial Play Gets Lost in Film Nightmare
André Holland and Kate Mara star in an ambitious update of the award-winning classic — but the meta-horror twist is a misfire
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‘Stranger Things’ Finale Blues: Netflix Megahit Got Too Big for Its Own Good | Commentary
With its long-awaited conclusion, the Duffer brothers series fell foul to familiar issues with TV endings
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‘Stranger Things 5’ Finale Review: Duffer Brothers Achieve the Impossible With Epic Ending
Most of the successes and failures that will be associated with how the Netflix series played out speak to the larger point of what makes it an absorbing cultural phenomenon
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‘We Bury the Dead’ Review: A Zombie Film That’s Most Alive in Its Quietest Moments
Zak Hilditch’s movie thrives on matters of grief and closure rather than typical undead thrills
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‘The Copenhagen Test’ Review: Simu Liu Is a Charming Spy With a Hacked Brain in Peacock Thriller Series
Melissa Barrera, Brian d’Arcy James help make this complicated drama into a satisfying binge
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‘The Plague’ Review: If Kubrick and Cronenberg Made an After School Special
Joel Edgerton co-stars in Charlie Polinger’s hypnotically hellish debut feature about children engaging in psychological torture
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‘Anaconda’ Review: Paul Rudd and Jack Black Put the ‘Meh’ in Meta-Comedy
Filmmakers rebooting the 1997 monster movie “Anaconda” are attacked by real giant snakes, which sounds more fun than it is
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‘Song Sung Blue’ Review: Hugh Jackman and Kate Hudson Make Somewhat Beautiful Noise
Neil Diamond cover band Lightning & Thunder gets their own Hollywood biopic, which plays familiar tunes, but plays them well
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‘Taylor Swift: The End of an Era’ Review: Docuseries Puts Singer’s Humanity at the Heart of Monumental Tour
The singer-songwriter known for poetic lyrics and undeniable stage presence takes viewers behind the scenes of the tour that broke practically every record
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‘Marty Supreme’ Review: Timothée Chalamet Hits Hard in Half a Great Film
Josh Safdie’s sports drama has energy, but to find a coherent point and a satisfying finale, you’ll have to watch Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine”
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‘Hamnet’ Review: Chloé Zhao Conjures One of the Best Films of This or Any Year
This adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s novel is earthy, soaring, profound and life-affirming
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‘The Family Plan 2’ Review: Mark Wahlberg’s Apple TV Family Action-Comedy Is Barely a Movie
Jason Bourne? More like Jason Bored
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‘The Seat of Our Pants’ Off Broadway Review: Radical Revision of ‘Skin of Our Teeth’ Is the Year’s Best New Musical
Ethan Lipton is that rare triple threat (book writer, lyricist and composer) who really delivers
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‘The Queen of Versailles’ Broadway Review: Kristin Chenoweth and Stephen Schwartz Reunite for a MAGA Musical Nightmare
Florida’s billionaire class gets the musical it deserves with socialite Jackie Siegel
