Reviews
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‘Blood Brothers: Malcolm X & Muhammad Ali’ Film Review: Civil Rights Doc Examines the Personal and the Political
This blisteringly honest account provides background for the friendship between these two icons and a context for their roles in the ongoing struggles for Black freedom
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‘The Capote Tapes’ Film Review: Truman Capote’s Friends and Frenemies Speak for Themselves in New Doc
George Plimpton’s recordings for his bio of Capote made it into print, but the film shows that hearing people speak packs more punch than reading them being quoted
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‘Small Engine Repair’ Film Review: Bromantic Hangout Tale Works Better as Comedy Than Drama
Playwright-director-costar John Pollono brings his work to the big screen, and it’s most effective when he and Jon Bernthal and Shea Whigham get to bust each other’s chops
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‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Film Review: Like the Band, the Movie Is Potent and Excessive
Venice Film Festival 2021: Bernard MacMahon’s documentary includes rare interviews with the surviving members of the band
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‘The Lost Daughter’ Film Review: Maggie Gyllenhaal Captures the Secret Life of Mothers
Venice 2021: Her debut as a writer-director (adapting Elena Ferrante’s novel) is a masterpiece of mood and subtlety
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‘Worth’ Movie Review: Michael Keaton’s 9/11 Drama Walks an Uneasy Tightrope Between Sentimentality and Cynicism
The film feels torn between being a triumph of the human spirit and a triumph of corporations who convinced survivor families not to sue them into oblivion
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‘Bernstein’s Wall’ Film Review: Leonard Bernstein Doc Manages to Be Both Revelatory and Enigmatic
Telluride 2021: Douglas Tirola tells us plenty we didn’t know but still leaves some questions naggingly unanswered
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‘Who You Think I Am’ Film Review: Juliette Binoche Signs On and Seduces in Sexy Thriller
A catfishing scenario provides a mostly enticing display of the French star’s sharp allure
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‘Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings’ Film Review: Marvel’s Martial-Arts Saga Nails the Characters and the Kicks
Tony Leung delivers what might be the superhero genre’s best performance yet in a film that blends dazzling fight choreography and dramatic depth
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‘Karen’ Film Review: Ridiculous Thriller Tackles Racism With the Depth of a Meme
The oddly cast Taryn Manning can’t find a character within the stereotype
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‘Mogul Mowgli’ Film Review: Riz Ahmed Raps Through Canned, Contrived Character Study
Disease metaphors and flat characterization overwhelm this kitchen-sink drama
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‘Cinderella’ Film Review: Musical Remake Traffics in One-Note Girl-Boss Feminism
Camila Cabello stars as a Cinderella who’s less traumatized, but also less interesting, than previous iterations of the character
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‘No Man of God’ Film Review: Ted Bundy Death-Row Drama Has Quiet Power
Luke Kirby memorably channels the notorious killer opposite Elijah Wood’s FBI agent
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‘On Broadway’ Film Review: Documentary Offers Neon Lights But Not Much Else
This star-filled celebration plays more like an informercial than a movie
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‘Candyman’ Film Review: Nia DaCosta Deconstructs and Re-Creates a Horror Classic
DaCosta and co-writers Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld update and rethink the material in provocative ways
