Reviews
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‘Dream Horse’ Film Review: Toni Collette Inspirational Biopic Is Steady As She Goes
Adaptation of Sundance doc “Dark Horse” doesn’t change the game, but it’s a feel-good watch
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‘Two of Us’ Film Review: Older-Lesbian Love Story Doesn’t Hold Together
A widow can’t tell her children about her longtime relationship with another woman — for reasons the movie never make clear
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‘The Woman in the Window’ Film Review: Amy Adams Commits to Wannabe-Hitchcock Thriller
Director Joe Wright knows the words to “Rear Window” and “Vertigo,” but not the music
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‘Spiral’ Film Review: Chris Rock’s ‘Saw’ Revival Already Feels Dated
Tackling topical issues is nothing new for this gory franchise, and this film’s perspective on “good” cops plays very 2019
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‘Profile’ Film Review: Journalist Catfishes ISIS Fighter in Tense Online Thriller
Timur Bekmambetov’s portrait of a screen-to-screen relationship is timely, although it mostly scratches the surface
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‘Land’ Film Review: Robin Wright Relies on Nature for Her Subdued Directorial Debut
Sundance 2021: The landscape overpowers the screenplay in this tale of a woman learning to live in the wilderness
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‘La Llorona’ Film Review: Jayro Bustamante Examines Real-Life Historical Horror in Impressive Third Feature
The title may conjure up the supernatural, but this shrewd film contemplates the actual genocide perpetrated against Guatemala’s indigenous population
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‘The World to Come’ Film Review: 2 Lonely Women Find Romance in Bleak Frontier Drama
The bleakness of frontier life underscores the emotional anguish of a pair of unhappily married couples
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‘Judas and the Black Messiah’ Review: Daniel Kaluuya, LaKeith Stanfield Bring Fred Hampton’s Betrayal to Life
Shaka King’s tale of the Black Panthers and the FBI is shockingly radical, particularly for a major-studio movie
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‘You Go to My Head’ Film Review: Visually Sumptuous Import or Feature-Length Perfume Ad?
Writer-director Dimitri de Clercq doesn’t seem to have much to say, but his movie always looks great, at least
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‘Jockey’ Film Review: Clifton Collins Jr. Runs for the Roses in Powerful Drama
Sundance 2021: Collins’ Sundance Best Actor-winning performance brings the talented actor to a new level
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‘Glitch in the Matrix’ Film Review: Trippy Documentary Questions the Nature of Reality
Sundance 2021: Rodney Ascher (“Room 254”) explores people who think they’re living in a simulation
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‘There Is No I in Threesome’ Film Review: Engaged Couple Gets Experimental in Clever Documentary
Sundance 2021: Not everything is as it appears in this doc about two people exploring pre-marriage polyamory
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‘Palmer’ Film Review: Justin Timberlake Brings Heft to Predictable Tale of a Small-Town Nonconformist
Timberlake plays the father-surrogate of a gender-independent child in rural Louisiana, and he makes the most of the role
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‘Soul’ Film Review: Pixar Gets Existential in Dizzying Animated Film
Pete Docter’s movie is perhaps the most ambitious film ever attempted by Pixar, though its complexity sometimes gets the better of it
