Reviews
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‘Matchbox: The Movie’ Review: Apple’s Original Action Comedy Goes Vroom Vroom, Pow, Insert Joke
John Cena, Jessica Biel and a surprisingly invested ensemble cast transform this toy commercial into a genial time-waster
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‘Below’ Review: Josh Hartnett’s Monster Drama Is a Flawed but Entertaining Netflix Binge-Watch
Family drama fans will have plenty to love, even if the plot gets overly complicated
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‘The Social Reckoning’ Review: Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Social Network’ Sequel Isn’t Worth Sharing
Mikey Madison, Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong star in a generic journalistic potboiler that underlines Sorkin’s biggest storytelling flaws
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‘Artificial’ Review: Yura Borisov and Andrew Garfield Fight and Flirt Over the Fate of Our Technological Future
NYFF 2026: Director Luca Guadagnino’s latest is a sensual, terrifying audit of our present and future apocalypse
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‘Slam Frank’ Off Broadway Review: How Do You Parody the Holocaust’s Most Beloved Young Heroine?
The new musical about a girl named Anita Frank may be the most audacious show of the year, if not the century
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‘Lanterns’ Finale Review: HBO’s Epic DC Drama Ends on a Quiet but Promising Note
Hal Jordan and John Stewart’s saga kept things a little too grounded
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‘A Statement’ Review: Tom McCarthy’s Climate Change Dramedy Is a Period Piece That Slyly Meets Our Moment
New York Film Festival 2026: Paul Giamatti and John Turturro star in an entirely engaging film made from bureaucrats’ transcripts
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‘Behemoth!’ Review: Director Tony Gilroy Forces Us to Face the Music In His Strikingly Original Love Letter to Movie Scores
NYFF 2026: Pedro Pascal soulfully anchors a story about making peace with life’s discordant harmonies
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‘Cameron Winter at Carnegie Hall’ Review: Geese Frontman Takes Us to Church in Spellbinding Musical Odyssey
NYFF 2026: Paul Thomas Anderson makes the intimate feel sprawling in the director’s latest concert film
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‘NCIS: New York’ Review: LL Cool J and Scott Caan Level Up in Latest Spinoff
What could have skated by as the most CBS procedural ever proves to be a bit more, thanks to solid lead performances and the jewel of a setting that is NYC
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‘Carrie’ Review: Mike Flanagan Brilliantly Turns Stephen King’s Nightmare Into a Horrific Teen TV Series
Summer H. Howell and Samantha Sloyan lead an impressive retelling that spotlights the horrors kids face in school today
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‘East of Eden’ Review: Florence Pugh Astounds as Steinbeck’s Wickedest Villain in Vast Netflix Retelling
Zoe Kazan’s ambitious limited series benefits from its star and actor Hoon Lee amid a sea of weepy men
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‘Beware Boiúna’ Review: A Really, Really Scary Movie About a Really, Really Big Snake
Jessica Rothe and Kiana Madeira try to survive a killer Amazon god
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‘Verity’ Review: Anne Hathaway Flirts With Camp in Silly, Sexy and Overstuffed Adaptation
Hathaway is a reclusive author, Josh Hartnett is her himbo hubby and Dakota Johnson is the sultry “other woman” in Colleen Hoover’s twisty story
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‘Degenerates’ Off Broadway Review: Virgin Misogynists Get the Play They Deserve
Else Went’s new play exposes the real problem with men who can’t get laid














