Reviews
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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
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‘Tenet’ Film Review: Christopher Nolan Whips Up a Head-Scratching, Time-Traveling James Bond Homage
There is enjoyably puzzling fun to be had along the way, but “Tenet” may have you pleading for an aspirin and a long lie-down
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‘The Burnt Orange Heresy’ Film Review: Mick Jagger Returns to the Screen in Twisty Art-World Thriller
Claes Bang, Elizabeth Debicki and Donald Sutherland dazzle in a tale of artists, critics and collectors with nefarious intent
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‘The Painted Bird’ Film Review: Jerzy Kosiński Adaptation Is Gruesome, Poetic Epic of Inhumanity
Anchored by breathtaking visuals and a powerful child performance, Václav Marhoul’s three-hour film is a worthy endurance saga
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‘First Cow’ Film Review: Kelly Reichardt Crafts Another Quiet Masterwork About the Pacific Northwest
Two outsiders seek to improve their lives with some stolen milk in this heartfelt look at frontiers past
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‘Bully. Coward. Victim. The Story of Roy Cohn’ Film Review: 2019’s Second Cohn Documentary Flails in Too Many Directions
Director Ivy Meeropol, granddaughter of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, tries to cram in an excess of information, allowing her subject to elude her
