Reviews
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‘Little Richard: I Am Everything’ Review: Documentary Celebrates Troubled Rock Icon
Sundance Film Festival 2023: Lisa Cortés’ film loves its subject without denying his messy contradictions
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‘L’Immensità’ Review: Penelope Cruz Raises a Trans Son Amid 1970s Italy in Exquisite Drama
Sundance 2023: Trans filmmaker Emanuele Crialese playfully and poignantly tells his story without dipping into dogma
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‘Kim’s Video’ Review: Pursuit of a Legendary VHS Archive Becomes a True-Life Comic Mystery
Sundance 2023: David Redmon and Ashley Sabin’s documentary celebrates physical media while bumping up against shady characters and foreign bureaucracy
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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
