Reviews
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‘Wrinkles the Clown’ Film Review: There’s a Great Doc To Be Made About Creepy Clowns — This Isn’t It
Director Michael Beach Nichols plays fast and loose with this urban legend but never plays fair with the audience
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‘Semper Fi’ Film Review: Fascinating Characters Get Sacrificed to Flat Melodrama in Marines Saga
Jai Courtney and Nat Wolff give their all as troubled brothers, but the movie ignores them for less interesting pursuits
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‘Lucy in the Sky’ Film Review: Natalie Portman’s Astronaut Cut Loose by Script’s Lack of Mission, Control
Director Noah Hawley and his all-male screenwriting team can’t seem to tether a complicated female character
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‘Low Tide’ Film Review: Coming-of-Age Tale About Buried Treasure Digs Up Promising Talent
A first-time director and a young cast team up for a teen adventure that recalls the best of the 1980s
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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
