Reviews
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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
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‘Sick’ Review: Pandemic-Set Horror Movie Can’t Quite Hack It
The thriller, co-written by Kevin Williamson, will debut on Peacock
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‘A Man Called Otto’ Review: A Cranky Hanks Heads a Blah Humbug of a Movie
Marc Forster directs this American adaptation of “A Man Called Ove”
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What’s New on DVD/Blu-ray in January: ‘Bergman Island,’ ‘The Return of Tanya Tucker,’ Jackie Chan and More
Alonso Duralde highlights the month’s major physical-media releases — because on Netflix, nothing lasts forever
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‘Velma’ Review: HBO Max’s Edgy, Gratuitous Animated Series Goes Horribly Wrong
Mindy Kaling stars as the “Scooby-Doo” character in this extremely R-rated, off-putting prequel
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‘House Party’ Review: Comedy Reboot Offers Mostly Mediocrity With One Flash of Brilliance
Returning to the well of the 1990s hit franchise, the film features one sequence that provides a glimpse into the mad whirl it might have been
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‘Shin Ultraman’ Review: The ‘Shin Godzilla’ Team Revitalizes Another Japanese Pop-Culture Icon
There’s no winking retro to this new spin on the TV hero (who dates back to the 60s), just a cleverly updated 21st-century take on the material
