Reviews
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‘Love and Fury’ Film Review: Doc on Native American Artists Overstretches and Underexplains
Two performers here could have served as the subject of a fascinating film, but director Sterlin Harjo casts too wide a net and ends up with little to show for it
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Have a Very Physical Media Christmas, with New and Classic Holiday Favorites on DVD, Blu-ray, and 3-D Advent Calendars
Alonso Duralde highlights new releases, from holiday horror to Hallmark cozy
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‘tick, tick…Boom!’ Film Review: Lin-Manuel Miranda Pays Homage to the Creative Process in Impressive Directorial Debut
AFI 2021: Andrew Garfield’s sincere, try-hard acting style is a perfect fit for the late Jonathan Larson, the author and protagonist of this musical
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‘Passing’ Film Review: Rebecca Hall Explores Race in Stunning Directorial Debut
Tessa Thompson and Ruth Negga play characters who can pass for white, and the drama digs into the roots of their masquerade
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‘Labyrinth of Cinema’ Film Review: Nobuhiko Obayashi’s Head-Spinning History Lesson
The late filmmaker’s final work is an extravagant message of peace to a world forever at war
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All 10 Wes Anderson Features Ranked, Worst to Best (Photos)
With “The French Dispatch” hitting theaters, here’s a look at his oeuvre to date
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‘The First Wave’ Film Review: Harrowing, Intimate Documentary Revisits the Beginning of the Pandemic
Hamptons International Film Festival 2021: Matthew Heineman unflinchingly captures the horror of the moment and the steadfast labors of health-care professionals at one New York hospital
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‘Lamb’ Film Review: Chilling Icelandic Folk Horror Is a Hybrid in More Ways Than One
First-time helmer Valdimar Jóhannsson guides Noomi Rapace through a child-rearing scenario of wonder and weirdness
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‘Wife of a Spy’ Film Review: Gripping Japanese Thriller Explores Married Couple Embroiled in Espionage
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s first period film is a tense, well-acted and clever spy drama with contemporary resonance regarding Japan’s imperial past
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‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ Film Review: Teen-Drag Stage Musical Maintains Dazzle as a Movie
A star is born with Max Harwood’s absolutely fabulous yet thoroughly heartfelt turn as the unapologetic Jamie
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‘Cry Macho’ Film Review: Clint Eastwood’s Latest Neo-Western Offers Less Grit, More Sentiment
The 91-year-old star-director eases his way into the uneven but heartfelt Mexico-set story of a grizzled ex-rodeo star and a troubled boy
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‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye’ Film Review: Jessica Chastain Applies Heart and Soul to Televangelist Biopic
Toronto 2021: Sympathetic (and not unfunny) look at Bakker scandals is also a rollicking tale of religious hypocrisy
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‘Language Lessons’ Film Review: Mark Duplass and Natalie Morales Zoom Into a Platonic Love Story
The actors and co-writers use online communication as a metaphor for imperfect human connections
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‘Malignant’ Film Review: James Wan Breaks All the Horror Rules, With Gusto
The “Conjuring” director sucks viewers into his mad monster vortex of sketchy ideas and viscera
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‘The Card Counter’ Film Review: Oscar Isaac’s Gambler Is Haunted by His Torturous Past
Paul Schrader once again plumbs the themes that typify his screen output, but he finds new grace notes along the way
