Reviews
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‘Tyrel’ Film Review: Jason Mitchell Elevates So-So Social Satire
Writer-director Sebastián Silva tiptoes to the edge of inflammatory ideas about race but then shrinks back rather than diving in
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‘The Possession of Hannah Grace’ Film Review: Shay Mitchell Is Bored in a Morgue in Dull Thriller
There’s a morgue and a restless corpse, and that’s kinda it for this scare-free horror movie
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‘People’s Republic of Desire’ Film Review: Doc Takes a Chilling Look at China’s Live-Streaming Culture
Instant stars and instant has-beens are made in the virtual world, in a terrifying glimpse at what might be the future of human interaction
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‘Elliot the Littlest Reindeer’ Film Review: Horse Dreams of Christmas Glory in Muddled Cartoon
You’ll find yourself going down a spiral of the film’s skewed internal logic as a distraction from the lack of plot
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‘Write When You Get Work’ Film Review: Finn Wittrock’s Romantic Caper Crumbles
Writer-director Stacy Cochran tries melding the rom-com with a heist flick, but neither the writing nor the acting sells either genre
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‘Shoplifters’ Cannes Review: Is the Seventh Time a Charm for Hirokazu Kore-eda?
Cannes 2018: Frequent Cannes participant returns to the Croisette with the richest film of his career
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‘Creed II’ Film Review: Michael B Jordan and Sylvester Stallone Return for Serviceable Sequel
There’s no more surprise to a franchise in its eighth round, but even without Ryan Coogler, the “Creed” model still has some fight in it
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‘Robin Hood’ Film Review: Robs Clichés From Richer Films, Inflects Them on Poor Moviegoers
Sexist, terribly written and laden with gimmicky cinematography, this new take shouldn’t steal you away from earlier, better versions
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‘Under the Wire’ Film Review: Hard-Hitting Doc Examines the Woman Behind ‘A Private War’
Rosamund Pike plays Marie Colvin in the dramatic version, but here the real Colvin tells her own story, backed up by colleagues and friends
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‘Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald’ Film Review: J.K. Rowling Conjures More Magic and Messiness
Sequel is exciting and enchanting, but also frustratingly convoluted
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‘Shoah: Four Sisters’ Film Review: Claude Lanzmann’s Final Holocaust Documentary Features Improbable Survivors
A quartet of Jewish women from different backgrounds explain what it took to evade or to live through Nazi death camps
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‘At Eternity’s Gate’ Film Review: Willem Dafoe Brushes With Brilliance in Van Gogh Biopic
Dafoe gives a towering performance in Julian Schnabel’s sensitive but unconventional film
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‘Instant Family’ Film Review: Rose Byrne and Mark Wahlberg Weather the Rocky Adoption Process
Amid the silly jokes and slapstick, this film affectionately explores the pains and triumphs of foster parenting
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‘Searching for Ingmar Bergman’ Film Review: Margarethe von Trotta Explores Her Love of Swedish Auteur’s Work
Gently probing what fascinates her about movies she calls her “constant companions,” von Trotta has made a love letter to loving cinema
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‘Overlord’ Film Review: Great Video Game Movie That’s Not Based on a Video Game
The World War II zombie thriller is half “Wolfenstein,” half “Two-Fisted Tales,” all satisfying
