Reviews
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‘Tru’ Off Broadway Review: Jesse Tyler Ferguson Works Hard to Make Truman Capote a Real Bore
Was the author of “In Cold Blood” really so tiresome and witless?
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‘They Will Kill You’ Review: Zazie Beetz Slays in a Devilish, Kill-the-Rich Horror Genre Mash-Up
SXSW: Director Kirill Sokolov delivers raucous thrills in a tale of sisters who fight their way out of Hell
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‘The Comeback’ Season 3 Review: Lisa Kudrow Outdoes Herself in Valerie Cherish’s AI-Tinged Swan Song
The actress and Michael Patrick King craft an outstanding commentary of today’s Hollywood dilemmas while deepening its central character
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‘Ulster American’ Off Broadway Review: Matthew Broderick Scores as Oscar-Winning Nitwit
David Ireland’s new play finds comedy in the Troubles
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‘The Fox’ Review: This Grim Australian Fairy Tale Lets Jai Courtney Be Wonderfully Weird
SXSW 2026: The “Dangerous Animals” star is in top form again in a dark, eccentric comedy about marriage and talking animals
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‘Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice’ Review: Time Travel Gangster Film Is Stuck in a Lifeless Loop
SXSW: BenDavid Grabinski directs Vince Vaughn and James Marsden in an action comedy that never quite knows what to do with its gonzo premise
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‘Over Your Dead Body’ Review: Jason Segel and Samara Weaving Go to War in Off-the-Rails Action Comedy
SXSW: Director Jorma Taccone’s blood-spattered tale of marital strife is a riot
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‘Brian’ Review: Underdog Coming-of-Age Story Is a Hilarious, Tender Home Run
SXSW: Ben Wang shines in director Will Ropp and writer Mike Scollins’ first feature, which joins “Booksmart” and “Eighth Grade” in the pantheon of funny/heartwarming teen dramedies
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‘Pretty Lethal’ Review: Elegance Is Deadly in This Propulsive Ballerina Action Thriller
SXSW: Its narrative and characters leave something to be desired, but Vicky Jewson cements herself as an action director to watch
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‘Ready or Not 2: Here I Come’ Review: Even Samara Weaving’s Primal Rage Can’t Make This Game Interesting
SXSW: Radio Silence’s Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett deliver more of the bloody same in a stilted sequel
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‘Family Movie’ Review: Blood Is Thicker Than Corn Syrup in Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick’s Charming Horror-Comedy
SXSW: The couple direct and star alongside their real-life children in the story of a family making a low-budget horror movie
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‘Slanted’ Review: Amy Wang’s Teen Sci-Fi Transformation Thriller Struggles With Its Allegory
Shirley Chen and Mckenna Grace play the same character — a Chinese immigrant who becomes white — in a film that unevenly explores the real-world analogues behind its premise
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‘We Are the Shaggs’ Review: The Band Is Awful, but the Movie Isn’t
SXSW: Or maybe the band isn’t awful, says this Ken Kwapis documentary that makes a case for what he calls “the most head-scratching music ever committed to vinyl”
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‘The Gates’ Review: Mason Gooding and James Van Der Beek Star in a Thriller Without Thrills
In his final feature film performance, the late Van Der Beek plays a racist religious leader trying to silence a trio of Black friends who witness a murder
