Reviews
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‘It’s Only Life After All’ Review: Indigo Girls Doc Leaves More Than One Question Unanswered
Sundance 2023: This portrait of the folk-rock duo would have benefited from the contemplative penetration of their best songs
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‘Beautiful Beings’ Review: Delinquent Drama Delves Too Often Into the Tried and True
Iceland’s Oscar entry becomes most effective when its tale of neglected youth dips into magical realism
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‘The Son’ Review: Hugh Jackman and Laura Dern Battle Pain and Guilt in Tough Look at Teen Depression
Director Florian Zeller once again explores mental illness in a bolder, less focused follow-up to “The Father”
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‘Nostalgia’ Review: Mario Martone’s Thin Story Bolstered by Star Pierfrancesco Favino
Italy’s Oscar entry is a nigh perfect candidate to wave il Tricolore, however
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‘Missing’ Review: Stand-Alone ‘Searching’ Sequel Delivers More Digital Hunt-and-Peck Thrills
The online world still proves fertile for excitement and intrigue in this fast-paced mystery built from digitized footage, video chats and browser windows
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‘When You Finish Saving the World’ Review: Jesse Eisenberg’s Indie Drama Wants You to Cringe
Eisenberg’s understated directorial debut stars Julianne Moore and Finn Wolfhard as a mother and son who just can’t communicate
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‘Only in Theaters’ Review: Documentary Celebrates the Family Behind LA’s Laemmle Arthouse Chain
Raphael Sbarge’s film plays more effectively as a portrait of exhibitor Greg Laemmle than as a valentine to the moviegoing experience
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‘That ’90s Show’ Review: Netflix Spinoff Eventually Finds Its Groove
Debra Jo Rupp’s Kitty is the shining star of this sometimes awkward sequel series
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‘That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime: The Movie’ Review: Adaptation of Anime TV Series Underwhelms
Some fans might enjoy the self-contained story, but the big-screen “Scarlet Bond” tale lacks many of the show’s pleasures
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‘In From the Side’ Review: Meandering Gay Rugby Romance Goes Into Overtime
Writer-director Matt Carter throws in lots of sex and scrums to divert from his underwritten central couple
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‘Night Court’ Review: NBC Sequel Series Deftly Updates the Zany Sitcom for 2023
John Larroquette’s Dan Fielding is a skirt-chasing Assistant D.A. no more
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‘The Seven Faces of Jane’ Review: Anthology Film Reveals Many Faces of Gillian Jacobs, to Little Avail
The Roman Coppola–produced project lacks the variation and surprise that the exquisite-corpse format so often offers
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‘Hunters’ Season 2 Review: A Campy, Clunky Hunt for Hitler Brings Prime Video Series to a Close
The Prime Video series lets its ensemble shine more in this second and final season, but the series finale leaves something to be desired
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‘No Bears’ Review: Jafar Panahi Continues to Create Powerful Art, Even When Officially Banned
The Iranian auteur crafts what might be his most powerful work yet in exile, one that addresses his own shortcomings as well as his country’s sanctions against him
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‘Saint Omer’ Review: White Supremacy in France Takes the Stand in Murder Trial
Documentarian Alice Diop makes a riveting fiction debut with this courtroom drama of a Senegalese woman on trial for infanticide
