Reviews
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‘En Brazos de un Asesino’ Review: Telenovela Hunk William Levy Turns Off the Charm in Awkward Thriller
MatÃas Moltrasio makes his debut as a feature director and editor but seems to have little grasp on his material
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‘The Aeronauts’ Film Review: Felicity Jones and Eddie Redmayne’s Balloon Adventure Weighed Down by Creaky Characterizations
The big-screen spectacle (which will be diminished on streaming) needs some bolstering in the writing
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‘A Million Little Pieces’ Film Review: James Frey’s Fabricated Rehab Memoir Follows a Familiar Big-Screen Path
Collaborators Sam Taylor-Johnson and Aaron Taylor-Johnson try for something fresh, but they’re haunted by all the similar movies came before
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‘Tremors’ Film Review: Guatemalan Drama Explores an Evangelical Dad’s Attempt to Come Out
Writer-director Jayro Bustamante’s sophomore feature is a blistering attack on homophobia and hypocrisy among the wealthy and religious
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‘Mickey and the Bear’ Film Review: Debut Feature Spotlights a Young Woman’s Difficult, But Not Hopeless, Coming-of-Age
Searing performances from Camila Morrone and James Badge Dale give heft to a challenging story
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‘Queen & Slim’ Film Review: Lovers on the Lam Saga Reflects a Racially Divided America
AFI 2019: Melina Matsoukas’ directorial debut throbs with cultural specificity as it portrays two unlikely folk heroes
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‘Citizen K’ Film Review: Alex Gibney Profiles Putin’s Nemesis, an Oligarch-Turned-Activist
Mikhail Khodorkovsky gets something of an image rehabilitation, just so the movie can be clear that Putin is the villain here
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‘Hala’ Film Review: Pakistani-American Teenager Comes of Age, Torn Between 2 Cultures
Geraldine Viswanathan (“Blockers”) gives a brilliant performance as a girl whose parents represent modernity vs. tradition
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‘When Lambs Become Lions’ Film Review: Elephant Poaching Gets Even-Handed Treatment in Provocative Documentary
While the film doesn’t excuse poachers, it does illustrate how poverty drives them to break the law and kill wild animals
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‘Shooting the Mafia’ Film Review: Documentary on Legendary Photographer Leaves Many Questions Unanswered
The images shot by Letizia Battaglia remain striking and brutal, but this film frequently shies away from necessary details
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’21 Bridges’ Film Review: Chadwick Boseman Locks Down Manhattan in Half-Baked Thriller
Bland and unfulfilling storytelling undoes what could have been an effective single-night police drama
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‘The Good Liar’ Film Review: Helen Mirren and Ian McKellen Wasted in Disappointing Crime Drama
Even with these actors and director Bill Condon, this tale of con-artistry is torpid when it should be thrilling
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‘Frozen II’: Critics Mostly Enchanted By Disney’s ‘Deeply Strange’ Sequel
While not as good as the 2013 original, reviews admire the film’s music and heart
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‘Scandalous’ Film Review: National Enquirer Doc Couldn’t Be More Timely, Damning
“The Untold Story of the National Enquirer” also details how tabloid-ism infected the American media
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‘Recorder: The Marion Stokes Project’ Film Review: Compelling Portrait of a Nation Through the Lens of an Unknown Citizen
One woman’s obsessive archiving of the news cycle — from 1977 to 2012 — reveals as much about the woman as it does the news
