Reviews
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‘What We Do in the Shadows’ Season 4 Review: Dysfunctional Family Vampire Comedy Remains Charming as Ever
The new season of the FX series travels to Europe, but doesn’t miss a beat
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‘Between the Lines’ Off Broadway Review: The Brothers Grimm Would Approve
Mortals and sprites fight for the soul of a new musical; the humans lose, fortunately
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‘The Black Phone’ Film Review: Stephen King–Flavored Retro Horror Delivers Solid Chills
Scott Derrickson’s adaptation of a Joe Hill story leaves a lot on the table, character-wise, but it’s an effectively nostalgic scary tale
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‘Elvis’ Film Review: Baz Luhrmann Gleefully Distorts Legend’s Life in Extravagant Biopic
The Australian director’s film is part spirited homage to a titanic force in American music
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‘Civil’ Film Review: Portrait of Civil Rights Attorney Ben Crump Leaves Us Wanting More
Tribeca County 2022: Documentary spotlights Crump’s essential work but lacks further context into the larger legal and cultural issues at hand
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‘The Lost Girls’ Film Review: Post–’Peter Pan’ Tale of Wendy’s Daughters Remains Dully Earthbound
Ambitious film tries to mix myth, the fear of adulthood, and mother-daughter relationships, but it can’t even get the VFX right
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‘Lightyear’ Film Review: The Pleasures of Pixar’s Spin-Off Are Far Too Finite
As an adventure-comedy for kids, this movie is perfectly OK — but “perfectly OK” falls far short of what the studio (and the “Toy Story” movies) can do
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‘The YouTube Effect’ Film Review: Alex Winter Traces the History of the Ubiquitous Website
Tribeca Film Festival 2022: Beauty and horror, algorithms and monetization, free expression and conspiracy theories — they’re all just a click away
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‘I’m Charlie Walker’ Film Review: Black Trucker’s Wild Life Story Gets Slipshod Biopic Treatment
Despite a magnetic turn by Mike Colter as the titular cleanup boss for a famous 1971 San Francisco oil spill, this amateurish indie fails to ignite
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‘Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko’ Film Review: Low-Key Coming-of-Age Anime Gets the Details Right
The tale of a young girl learning to love herself (and her seaside town) might not seem fresh, but the character specifics pop in this beautiful feature
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‘The Boys’ Season 3 Review: Homelander Gets Even More Villainous as Prime Video Series Pushes Its Limits
The new season of the Prime Video series is more graphically outlandish than ever before
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‘Wedding Band’ Off Broadway Review: The Theater Discovers Alice Childress, Again
The playwright’s follow-up to ‘Trouble in Mind’ receives a stellar revival
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What’s New on DVD/Blu-ray in May: ‘Turning Red,’ ‘X,’ ‘Mississippi Masala’ and More
Alonso Duralde spotlights the month’s best new physical-media releases — because streaming isn’t forever
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‘The Minutes’ Broadway Review. Tracy Letts Delivers a Civics Lesson in 90 Minutes
The playwright also stars in this dark comedy about a really bad mayor
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‘Apollo 10 1/2’ Film Review: Richard Linklater’s Nostalgic Reverie Is Less ‘First Man,’ More ‘Crooklyn’
The “Boyhood” director looks back at his “Space Age Childhood” when everything seemed new, shiny and possible
