Reviews
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‘After the Hunt’ Review: Julia Roberts and Ayo Edebiri Face Off in Hot-Button Campus Drama
Venice Film Festival: Luca Guadagnino uses a formidable array of actors to explore woke culture in a twisty, stylish way
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‘Cover-Up’ Review: Seymour Hersh Documentary Makes the Journalist Both the Subject and the Source
Venice Film Festival: From My Lai and Abu Ghraib to Watergate and Nixon, filmmakers Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus praise and challenge the surly investigator
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‘Preparation for the Next Life’ Review: Sebiye Behtiyar Captivates in Bing Liu’s Quietly Enormous Immigrant Love Story
Her breakout performance anchors Liu’s first narrative feature following his 2018 documentary “Minding the Gap”
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‘The Toxic Avenger’ Review: Peter Dinklage Crushes It While Crushing Heads
Macon Blair’s stylishly scuzzy reboot of the cult-classic, ultraviolent superhero should never have been shelved
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‘Jay Kelly’ Review: George Clooney Is Damn Good at Playing a Pampered Movie Star
Venice Film Festival: And Noah Baumbach is back to nailing that tricky balance with a film that moves like a comedy but has a lot on its mind
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‘Bugonia’ Review: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons Sure Love Going Crazy for Yorgos Lanthimos
Venice Film Festival: The Greek director tackles conspiracy theories in another wacky extravaganza, even if it isn’t quite as satisfying as “Poor Things” or “The Lobster”
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‘Megadoc’ Review: Warts-and-All Doc Reveals How Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ Became a Mega-flop-olis
Venice Film Festival: The behind-the-scenes film about Francis Ford Coppola’s $120 million dream project celebrates artistic risk, without pretending it paid off
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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
