Reviews
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‘Native Son’ Film Review: Updated Take Shows Richard Wright’s Classic Remains All Too Relevant
Ashton Sanders stars in Suzan-Lori Parks and first-time director Rashid Johnson’s blistering examination of racism in America
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‘High Life’ Film Review: Robert Pattinson Drifts Into the Void
Acclaimed French director Claire Denis’ first English-language film is a sorrowful trip to the end of life, the universe and everything
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‘The Haunting of Sharon Tate’ Film Review: Sleazy Thriller Exploits Manson Murders
Tate and her four fellow victims deserve better than this witless grotesque, which ghoulishly throws in documentary footage alongside re-enactments
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‘The Best of Enemies’ Film Review: Taraji P Henson Gets Shortchanged in Another Feel-Good Racism Saga
Sam Rockwell’s Klansman, who befriends Henson’s activist, is afforded most of the character depth in first-timer Robin Bissell’s script
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‘Peterloo’ Film Review: Mike Leigh’s 19th Century Epic Recounts a Notorious Massacre
The British government’s 1819 killing of peacefully assembled reformers is, in Leigh’s dedicated telling, a tragedy about speech snuffed out
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‘Amazing Grace’ Film Review: Aretha Franklin Lives on in Resplendent Gospel Concert Film
Shot in 1972 by Sydney Pollack but shelved for technical and legal reasons, this long-lost doc captures the Queen of Soul at the height of her powers
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‘The Public’ Film Review: Emilio Estevez’s Homeless Drama Is Sincerely Clunky
The writer-director-star has lots to say on a number of subjects, but this well-meaning film becomes melodramatic and ridiculous
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‘The Wind’ Film Review: Striking Feminist Horror-Western Undercuts Its Own Power
Emma Tammi makes an impressive directorial debut, but the movie’s messaging is ill-served by a non-chronological narrative
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‘The Projectionist’ Film Review: Celluloid Romanticism Drives Dominican Road Trip Movie
Miami 2019: Director José María Cabral returns with his most accomplished feature to date, and it’s more than just a love letter to 35mm
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‘The Beach Bum’ Film Review: Matthew McConaughey Burns Out in Harmony Korine’s Aimlessly Downbeat Comedy
Party Cinema has never seemed more grimy or less fun
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‘The Chaperone’ Film Review: Jazz Era Coming-of-Age Story Could Use More Flap
Haley Lu Richardson steals the show in this period piece adapted by “Downton Abbey” creator Julian Fellowes
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‘Diane’ Film Review: Mary Kay Place Is Spellbinding as a Woman Whose Life Has Slipped Away
Critic and curator Kent Jones makes a powerful directorial debut that doesn’t rely on quoting other filmmakers
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‘Slut In a Good Way’ Film Review: Teen Girls Come of Age in Sexually Frank Comedy
A young woman defends her right to play the field as much as her male counterparts in Sophie Lorain’s slight but amiable comedy
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‘Screwball’ Film Review: Billy Corben’s Baseball Doping Doc Is Disreputable Fun
This raucously fun account uses child actors to re-enact a scandal that exposed a HRH-dosing clinician with baseball-star clients
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‘Working Woman’ Film Review: Israeli Sexual-Harassment Drama Delivers Powerful Sting of Truth
Michal Aviad’s intense film explores #MeToo power dynamics between a working wife and a powerful real-estate mogul
