Reviews
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‘The Ghost of Peter Sellers’ Film Review: A Troubled, Barely-Seen Comedy and Its Erratic Star
Venice 2018: Peter Medak I”The Ruling Class”) seems to have made this doc to let himself off the hook for past failure
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‘Peppermint’ Film Review: Jennifer Garner Vengeance Saga Lacks Snap
“Taken” director Pierre Morel returns with another gloriously dumb (and vaguely racist) parental revenge tale
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‘The Nun’ Film Review: Scary Sister Conjures Few Frights
This fifth entry in the “Conjure-verse” strays from the reality that grounded earlier chapters, but at least it’s never dull
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‘Hal’ Film Review: Engaging Documentary Celebrates 70s Maverick Director Hal Ashby
Amy Scott’s celebration of New Hollywood’s willful hippie auteur will have you primed to revisit his classics like “Shampoo” and “Harold and Maude”
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‘Ya Veremos’ Film Review: Mawkish Family Melodrama Has an Eye for Formula
A boy who’s about to have eye surgery tries to reunite his estranged parents in this sudsy Mexican tear-jerker
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‘Let the Corpses Tan’ Film Review: High Art Meets High Octane in Sumptuous Euro-Sleaze Shootout
Art is violence and violence is art in this beautiful, blood-spattered third feature from Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani
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‘Pick of the Litter’ Film Review: 5 Adorable Puppies Embark on an Incredible Journey
Sweet documentary about service dogs in training gets by on canine cuteness
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‘Kin’ Film Review: Genre Mashup About an Alien Weapon Shoots Itself in the Foot
This debut feature from Jonathan and Josh Baker wants to launch a franchise, but it can’t even juggle sci-fi with family drama
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‘A-X-L’ Film Review: Robot-Dog Tale Is a Bucket of Bolts and Borrowed Ideas
It’s a family movie where the dog is too scary for kids and the plot is too ridiculous for adults
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‘Searching’ Film Review: John Cho Searches the Web for Missing Daughter
Director/co-writer Annesh Chaganty’s debut feature cannily explores online identity in an IRL thriller
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‘Papillon’ Film Review: Prison Escape Remake Can’t Bust Its Own Chains
This notorious breakout story, previously filmed with Steve McQueen in 1973, struggles to find meaning or entertainment in its confining squalor
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‘Crime + Punishment’ Film Review: Powerful Doc Shows Cops Suing NYPD for Targeting Minorities
Premiering theatrically and on Hulu, Stephen Maing’s film examines policemen being punished for not arresting enough black and Hispanic people
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‘Hot to Trot’ Film Review: Same-Sex Ballroom Dancing Doc Has Two Left Feet
There’s too much talk and not enough tango in this portrait of competitive LGBT dancers
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‘Operation Finale’ Film Review: Strong Ensemble Infuses Passion Into Conventional Retelling of Adolf Eichmann’s Capture
Ben Kingsley and Oscar Isaac play cat-and-mouse as, respectively, Adolf Eichmann and the Mossad agent who captured him for trial
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‘We the Animals’ Film Review: Haunting Childhood Tale Earns Comparisons to Terrence Malick
Jeremiah Zagar’s adaptation of Justin Torres’ book captures a heartfelt coming of age
