Reviews
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‘Vision Portraits’ Film Review: Visually Impaired Filmmaker Explores Artists Working Without Sight
Director Rodney Evans (“Brother to Brother”) examines how writers, dancers and even photographers create through their blindness
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‘Dora and the Lost City of Gold’ Film Review: Old-School Family Adventure Strikes It Rich
Isabela Moner deftly updates the animated heroine in a film that, after a shaky start, hits the right notes of fun and cultural specificity
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‘Brian Banks’ Film Review: Forgettable Film Squanders Powerful True Story
The potential urgency in this saga of an athlete falsely accused of rape is undercut by the shortchanging of its female characters
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‘The Art of Racing in the Rain’ Film Review: Kevin Costner Voices Philosophical Dog In Standard-Issue Weeper
An auto racer’s shaggy best friend narrates all the feels in this unremarkably sentimental adaptation of the best-selling novel
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‘The Ground Beneath My Feet’ Film Review: Valerie Pachner Makes Great Strides as a Working Woman on the Verge
Writer-director Marie Kreutzer blisteringly examines a workplace that demands women push all emotion aside, no matter the cost
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‘Love, Antosha’ Film Review: Anton Yelchin’s Brief, Voracious Life Celebrated in Poignant Doc
The “Star Trek” actor had a hunger for work, life and experience, and left behind a legacy both on-screen and off
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‘The Nightingale’ Film Review: ‘Babadook’ Director Packs a Wallop in Bleak Revenge Tale
Jennifer Kent’s intense rape drama doesn’t contain the usual cathartic violence or exploitative titillation
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‘Tel Aviv on Fire’ Film Review: Israel and Palestine Clash on the Set of a TV Soap Opera
Viewing the conflict through a show-biz lens makes for effective comedy, but a late pivot to drama diminishes the impact
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‘La Flor’ Film Review: Argentine Epic Merits Its 14-Hour Running Time
Writer-director Mariano Llinás mixes spy thriller, musical and meta-fiction for a one-of-a-kind moviegoing experience
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‘Hobbs & Shaw’ Film Review: Dwayne Johnson and Jason Statham Go Way Over the Top, With Fast Furiousness
This breathless “Fast & Furious Presents” installment never takes itself seriously, but it’s invested in being a blockbuster with heart
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‘The Mountain’ Film Review: Jeff Goldblum Plays an Authoritative Lobotomist in 1950s-Set Drama
Writer-director Rick Alverson’s portrait of toxic conformity occasionally feels guilty of what it seeks to expose
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‘The Great Hack’ Film Review: Alarming Documentary on Voter Targeting Revisits Facebook-Cambridge Analytica Scandal
The makers of “The Square” lay bare the psychographic side of Facebook, and how user data can be turned into weapons against democracy
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‘Ray & Liz’ Film Review: Richard Billingham Documents the Slow Disintegration of a Dysfunctional Family
The photographer’s powerful and melancholy debut feature lives inside the pain of an alcoholic household
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‘The Lion King’ Film Review: Impressive Technical Mastery Drains the Life From the Original
Jon Favreau’s remake looks incredibly literal, but the digital animal performers lack the facial expressions and body movement to tell the story
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‘A Faithful Man’ Film Review: Louis Garrel Conducts a Very French Romantic Roundelay
Sexual obsession and possible homicide play a role in this diverting import, co-written by Jean-Claude Carrière and co-starring Lily-Rose Depp
