Reviews
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‘Clipped’ Review: FX Drafts a Messy but Entertaining Drama About the LA Clippers’ Racism Scandal
Based on the ESPN podcast about former LA Clippers owner Donald Sterling and his audio scandal, the show is both corny and illuminating
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‘The Horror’ Review: A Screenwriter With Personal Ties to Israel Revisits the Oct. 7 Hamas Attacks
Writer and director Dan Gordon balances news-based narration with an undeniably subjective tone in the TBN documentary
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‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Series Finale Marked a Flawed but Ambitious End to a Successful Franchise Reboot | Commentary
The CBS All Access-turned-Paramount+ original’s bold conclusion is sure to spark conversation amongst the fandom
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‘Summer Camp’ Review: Diane Keaton and Kathy Bates Revisit the Glory Days in Low-Stakes Comedy
Alfre Woodard, Eugene Levy and Dennis Haysbert costar in this breezy “reducing of age” film
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‘Young Woman and the Sea’ Review: Daisy Ridley Breaks Swimming Barriers in Biopic That Channels Greatness
This is an old-fashioned, first-rate Disney crowdpleaser from director Joachim Rønning
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‘Grand Tour’ Review: Miguel Gomes’ Sprawling Travelogue Traverses Space and Time
Cannes 2024: The Portuguese auteur fascinates and frustrates in this meandering and melancholic film
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‘Limonov: The Ballad’ Review: Ben Whishaw Shines in a Jukebox Musical of Urban Squalor
Cannes 2024: Kirill Serebrennikov’s film is about a Russian poet and rabble rouser, but it spends much of its time in New York City at its grimiest low
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‘The Most Precious of Cargoes’ Review: Michel Hazanavicius’ Animated Holocaust Drama Struggles With Restraint
Cannes 2024: This flawed yet fascinating film is best when it’s poetically delicate
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‘The Seed of the Sacred Fig’ Review: Profoundly Brave Film Captures the Struggle of Iran’s People
Cannes 2024: Blazing with sober force and white-hot rage, it leaves little room for subtlety in unsubtle times
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‘Atlas’ Review: Jennifer Lopez Stars in Artificial, Unintelligent Sci-Fi Thriller
Brad Peyton’s middling mech suit-‘em-up for Netflix costars Sterling K. Brown and Simu Liu
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‘All We Imagine as Light’ Review: An Intimate Peek Into the Grind of Big-City Mumbai Life
Cannes 2024: The film marks the first from an Indian filmmaker to compete for the Palme d’Or in three decades
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‘Beating Hearts’ Review: Gilles Lellouche’s Melodramatic Romance Epic Loses the Magic
Cannes 2024: Adèle Exarchopoulos stars in a film that starts strong before going off a cliff
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‘Santosh’ Review: Shahana Goswami Commands the Screen in Story About Indian Policing
Cannes 2024: Sandhya Suri’s feature debut subverts the standard police procedural
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‘Motel Destino’ Review: Karim Aïnouz’s Erotically Charged Thriller Has Plenty of Visual Spark But Fizzles Out
Cannes 2024: Though its colors often pop off the screen, its direction, writing and performances remain disappointingly flat
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‘Armand’ Review: Renate Reinsve Is Riveting in Fearsome Chamber Drama
Cannes 2024: Though she won Best Actress at the festival for her performance in 2021’s ‘The Worst Person in the World,’ Reinsve’s latest is her best work to date
