Reviews
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‘Soft & Quiet’ Review: Shocking Debut Feature Reveals the Hate Lurking Within Seemingly Ordinary People
What seems like a blandly cheerful get-together for white church ladies devolves into racist violence in Beth de Araújo’s stunning debut
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‘Dear Zoe’ Review: Sadie Sink Stars in Overwrought Teen Drama
Filmed before the actress’ breakout roles in “Stranger Things” and “The Whale,” this YA tale is strictly for fans of the 2005 source material
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‘Holy Spider’ Review: Iranian Serial-Killer Thriller Misses the Mark
Denmark’s Oscar entry feels torn between making a point about fundamentalist misogyny and indulging in lurid exploitation
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‘Utama’ Review: Bolivia’s Oscar Entry Examines the End of a Way of Life
Disappearing water supply may force an elderly couple to abandon their home and move to the city in this Sundance award-winner
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‘Causeway’ Review: A Subdued Jennifer Lawrence Shines in Intimate Drama
The actress joins Brian Tyree Henry for a gentle Lila Neugebauer film that moves with the languid rhythms of New Orleans
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‘You Resemble Me’ Review: Fractured Life of a Radicalized Frenchwoman Becomes a Kaleidoscopic Biopic
Dina Amer’s psychological portrait of “Europe’s first female suicide bomber” is uneven but memorable
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‘I’m Totally Fine’ Review: Indie Sci-Fi Comedy’s Actually a Stealth Tearjerker
Natalie Morales brilliantly portrays an alien inhabiting the body and memories of Jillian Bell’s recently-deceased best friend
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‘Blockbuster’ Review: Netflix’s Mediocre Sitcom Can’t Shake Its Manufactured Attempt at Feel-Good Comedy
Randall Park and Melissa Fumero star in the workplace sitcom about the last remaining Blockbuster
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‘Selena Gomez: My Mind & Me’ Review: Behind-the-Fame Doc Offers a Certain Level of Insight
AFI Fest 2022: Working with the director of “Truth or Dare,” Gomez purports to let it all hang out, although she’s still clearly in charge of what we do and don’t see
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‘Where the Mountain Meets the Sea’ Review: 2 Haitian American Men Seek Their Roots Through Music
Jeff Augustin’s new Off-Broadway play, with music by the Bergsons, sends mixed messages
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‘The Independent’ Review: Political Drama Plays More Like a Failed Pilot Than a Feature Film
It may give Brian Cox the chance to roar, but this Black Listed script features the kind of overripe dialogue better suited to guilty-pleasure TV
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‘A Man of No Importance’ Off Broadway Review: Jim Parsons Leads a Bloodless Musical Revival
Sheldon sings, sort of, in a modest revival of the Stephen Flaherty-Lynn Ahrens musical
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‘The White Lotus’ Season 2 Review: HBO Series Jets to Italy and Scores With Sprawling Storyline
Mike White returns to write and direct every episode of the new season, with Jennifer Coolidge as the only returning character
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‘Please Baby Please’ Review: Queer Musical Seems Subversive, but Only on the Surface
Andrea Riseborough gives her all to a character whose desires remain maddeningly vague
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‘Stars at Noon’ Review: Claire Denis Keeps Things Chilly in a Balmy Spy Thriller
Margaret Qualley and Joe Alwyn are gorgeous and privileged as they make their way through intrigue (and the COVID-19 pandemic)
