Reviews
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‘The Climbers’ Film Review: Chinese Mountaineers Tackle Everest in Old-School Adventure
Part mainland propaganda, part male-bonding saga, this epic merits a look on the big screen
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‘The Golden Glove’ Film Review: Lurid Serial-Killer Docudrama Offers Little Insight
Fatih Akin’s disappointing follow-up to “In the Fade” luxuriates in grime and murder but has no deeper understanding of its real-life murderer
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‘The Death of Dick Long’ Film Review: Offbeat Tale of a Disastrous Guys’ Night Out Mixes Humor and Compassion
You’ll be reminded of “Fargo,” but there’s also a sneaky humanity in this story about the weight of terrible secrets
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‘Sister Aimee’ Film Review: Fictionalized Tale of the Evangelist’s Disappearance Gets Lost On Its Own Path
This look at Aimee Semple McPherson’s desert sojourn buries itself in layers of metatext and revisionism
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‘Abominable’ Film Review: Familiarity Doesn’t Stop the Fun in This Sweet Animated Tale
A young Chinese girl helps a yeti get back home in a lushly-colored cartoon that might keep even seen-it-all parents engaged
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‘Villains’ Film Review: Small-Time Crooks Meet Very Bad People in Charmingly Eccentric Horror Comedy
Bill Skarsgård and Maika Monroe face off with Jeffrey Donovan and Kyra Sedgwick in a terror tale that’s oddly delightful
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‘Rambo: Last Blood’ Film Trailer: Sylvester Stallone’s One-Man Army Returns for More Dumb, Brutal Revenge Killing
Age cannot wither the action star’s thirst to showcase his slaughter skills, but this insane gorefest remains utterly pointless
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‘Ad Astra’ Film Review: Brad Pitt Journeys to the Edge of Space and the Depths of His Character’s Soul
Pitt’s aloof astronaut sets out to find the father who paved his literal and emotional pathways
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‘Don’t Be Nice’ Film Review: Slam Poetry Doc Follows Artists Finding Their Own Voices
The members of the Bowery Slam Poetry Team articulate their anguish, invisibility and trauma onstage
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‘Downton Abbey’ Film Review: Adorable PBS Aristocrats Win the Class War, Again
Satisfyingly cozy fan service struggles to keep up with dozens of “Downton” characters
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‘Loro’ Film Review: Paolo Sorrentino Spins a Gloriously Messy Yarn About Berlusconi
The director of “The Great Beauty” and “Youth” returns with a film that fluctuates between brash and silly, profound and misguided
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‘End of the Century’ Film Review: Lush Gay Romance Explores Paths Not Taken
Lucio Castro’s debut feels like a gay spin on Richard Linklater’s “Before” trilogy, all distilled into a single film
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‘Neither Wolf Nor Dog’ Review: White Hero Once Again Kidnaps a Native American Narrative
Apart from moving performances from Richard Ray Whitman and the late Dan Bald Eagle, this is another example of how not to tell a story about indigenous peoples
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‘Another Day of Life’ Film Review: Animated True Story Vacillates Between Documentary and Artificiality
An intense and violent look at war in Angola is undone by the slick, “Grand Theft Auto”-style animation aesthetic
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‘Riot Girls’ Film Review: Teens Battle It Out in a World Without Adults
There’s a fun, punk energy to this post-apocalyptic tale, but a too-short running time undercuts the stakes and the fun
