Reviews
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‘Task’ Review: Mark Ruffalo Delivers One of His Best Performances in HBO Crime Drama
There’s plenty to celebrate in Brad Ingelsby’s follow-up to “Mare of Easttown,” even if the story trips over familiar genre tropes
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‘Ghost Elephants’ Review: Who but Werner Herzog Could Lead Us on This Mystical Search for Giant Pachyderms?
Venice Film Festival: As usual, Herzog finds the poetry in nature and looks beyond the facts to the myths and legends that make them worthy of his attention
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‘Caught Stealing’ Review: Darren Aronofsky Does a Tonal About-Face With Austin Butler Comedic Thriller
Is this really the same filmmaker behind “Black Swan,” “Mother!” and “The Whale”?
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‘La grazia’ Review: Paolo Sorrentino Presents the President, Italian Style
Venice Film Festival: The director of “The Great Beauty” envisions an even greater beauty — power, for once, driving a man sane
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‘Mother’ Review: Noomi Rapace Plays Mother Teresa in Odd, Bold Drama
Venice Film Festival: “Mother” quite deliberately takes a small slice of a large life and treats it in ways that are both contemplative and assaultive
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‘The Roses’ Review: Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman Get Thorny in Deftly Funny Remake
Cumberbatch and Colman get married, get angry, and get revenge in Jay Roach’s take on ‘The War of the Roses’
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‘Relay’ Review: Riz Ahmed vs. Evil Corporations, Just the Way We Like It
“Hell or High Water” director David Mackenzie returns with a painstakingly crafted — and truly modern — paranoid thriller
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‘The Thursday Murder Club’ Review: Disappointing Netflix Mystery Is Too Posh to Be Quaint
Chris Columbus’ movie wants to evoke cozy British whodunits but has only polish in place of a personality
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‘Eenie Meanie’ Review: Samara Weaving Guns It in Hulu’s Above Average Elmore Leonard Riff
Writer-director Shawn Simmons’ debut feature has snappy dialogue, a cool car chase and a great cast — but it ain’t “Out of Sight”
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‘The Map That Leads to You’ Review: Ship This Amazon Romance Back Home
Lasse Hallström’s latest tearjerker is an attractive sightseeing tour of various red flags
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‘America’s Team: The Gambler and His Cowboys’ Review: Jerry Jones Nostalgia Overpowers Netflix’s Hollow Docuseries
Dallas Cowboys fans should have plenty to love in the eight-episode saga, but everyone else is left with what feels like a NFL PR play
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‘Jeff Ross: Take a Banana for the Ride’ Broadway Review: The Roastmaster General Packs Little Sizzle
The insult comic’s one-man show may be the most sickness and death-focused show ever put on a stage – and frankly, it’s a bore
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‘East of Wall’ Review: Kate Beecroft’s Sundance Sensation Isn’t Horsing Around
Real-life ranchers Tabatha and Porshia Zimiga play themselves, spectacularly, in Kate Beecroft’s first feature
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‘Peacemaker’ Season 2 Review: John Cena’s Antihero Finds Promising Depth in the DC Multiverse
Almost every character in the HBO Max action comedy gets more poignant in the new batch of episodes, without losing the familiar gags and gore
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Making Sense of That Bad ‘And Just Like That’ Ending and an Eroded ‘Sex and the City’ Legacy | Commentary
HBO Max’s spinoff series almost made up for countless mishaps with its delightful final moments
