Reviews
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‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ Review: Joaquin Phoenix Is Daring, Pathetic in Todd Phillips’ Impressively Odd Sequel
Venice Film Festival: The ambitious musical sequel confronts and challenges Phillips’ own Oscar-winning film
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‘Rebel Ridge’ Review: Jeremy Saulnier’s Masterful Netflix Film Is a Sharp, Exhilarating Thrill Ride
Aaron Pierre, AnnaSophia Robb and Don Johnson co-star in an exhilarating Netflix movie that doesn’t ask you to turn your brain off
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‘Queer’ Review: Daniel Craig Boozes and Cruises in Luca Guadagnino’s Transportive Lust Story
Venice Film Festival: The James Bond actor perfects the art of longing in the “Call Me by Your Name” filmmaker’s William S. Burroughs adaptation
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‘The Room Next Door’ Review: Pedro Almodóvar Doesn’t Quite Find the Life in Contemplating Death
Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore join the Spanish filmmaker for a series of monologues on mortality
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‘English Teacher’ Review: Brian Jordan Alvarez’s FX Series Turns Hot-Button Politics Into Comedy Gold
The show effortlessly juggles big ideas, social commentary and character dynamics as one of the year’s best new comedies
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‘Wolfs’ Review: George Clooney and Brad Pitt. That’s It. That’s the Movie.
Venice Film Festival: The “Ocean’s Eleven” stars reunite for a caper with more star power than real power
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‘From Darkness to Light’ Review: Documentary Proves That Yes, Jerry Lewis’ Holocaust Movie Really Was Terrible
Venice Film Festival: Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler’s film breaks down the tortured journey of “The Day the Clown Cried”
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‘The Brutalist’ Review: Brady Corbet’s Epic Charts Sweeping Immigrant Story
Venice Film Festival: Adrien Brody anchors this three-and-a-half-hour treatise on American ambition
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‘The Piano Lesson’ Brings Another Powerful August Wilson Play to the Screen
Telluride Film Festival: Samuel L. Jackson anchors Malcolm Washington’s film, which confronts generational history and pain
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‘Martha’ Review: Don’t Expect Martha Stewart to Get All Emotional in Her New Documentary
Telluride Film Festival: R.J. Cutler gets around the walls erected by his subject in a doc about the iconic lifestyle maven
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‘The End’ Review: Are You Ready for a Post-Apocalyptic Musical? Tilda Swinton Is
Telluride Film Festival: Joshua Oppenheimer’s dystopian toe-tapper joins “Emilia Perez” and “Joker: Folie à Deux” as one of the weirdest triptychs in recent cinema
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‘The Order’ Review: A Paunchy Jude Law Dominates Neo-Nazi Drama
Venice Film Festival: Director Justin Kurzel’s most accomplished work to date offsets broody fatalism against natural splendor
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‘Nickel Boys’ Brings Searing Tale of Injustice to Telluride
Telluride Film Festival: RaMell Ross’ adaptation of the Colson Whitehead novel uses a unique cinematic sensibility to tell this gut-wrenching story
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‘The Friend’ Review: Naomi Watts, Bill Murray and a Big Dog Explore Love and Loss
Telluride Film Festival: The film from David Siegel and Scott McGehee is suffused with a sadness that it aims to carry lightly
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‘AfrAId’ Review: Chris Weitz’s Tech-Scare Thriller Says AI Is the Worst
An algorithm takes over John Cho and Katherine Watertson’s lives in a modest return to Blumhouse basics
