Reviews
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‘Human Flow’ Review: Ai Weiwei Turns a Compassionate Eye to Refugee Crisis
This documentary challenges viewers to be aware and empathetic about this global phenomenon
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‘Long Strange Trip’ Review: Grateful Dead Doc Is a Rightfully Epic Jam
At four hours, Amir Bar-Lev’s loving tribute to the highs and lows of a legendary band should satisfy the faithful and intrigue the uninitiated
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‘Marshall’ Review: Chadwick Boseman Plays Young Thurgood Marshall in Punchy Thriller
Boseman brings another legendary African American to life in Reginald Hudlin’s zippy, focused courtroom drama
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‘The Foreigner’ Review: Jackie Chan Ill-Served by Choppy Drama
Chan disappears for a good chunk of the movie, leaving Pierce Brosnan’s clichéd Irishman to do the heavy lifting
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‘Tom of Finland’ Review: Legendary Gay Erotic Artist Gets Sanitized Biopic
Finland’s Oscar entry scrubs clean the talented illustrator behind those iconic sexy leathermen
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‘Happy Death Day’ Review: ‘Groundhog Day’ Meets ‘Friday the 13th’ in Repetitive Slasher Comedy
There’s a clever premise and charming cast, but this intentionally repetitive thriller doesn’t live up to its potential
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‘Faces Places’ Review: Agnès Varda Takes a Joyful Artist’s Journey Into Rural France
The acclaimed 89-year-old French filmmaker devotes her latest documentary to portraits of ordinary people
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‘The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson’ Review: Trans Icon Celebrated in New Doc
David France (“How to Survive a Plague”) recalls Johnson’s activism and investigates the suspicious circumstances of her death
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‘My Little Pony: The Movie’ Review: Friendship Is Magic, and So Is This Equestrian Adventure
Everything that makes the show so beloved by kids (and their parents) survives the jump to the big screen, bringing unbridled joy to all
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‘Barracuda’ Review: Alison Tolman Unravels in Powerful Sibling Drama
Tolman and Sophie Reid play polar-opposite sisters who meet as adults and throw each other’s lives into turmoil
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‘Brawl in Cell Block 99’ Review: Vince Vaughn’s a Prison Crasher in Brutal Vengeance Flick
“Bone Tomahawk” filmmaker S. Craig Zahler turns in another viscous blend of low-key character study and violent low-art pulp
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‘The Florida Project’ Review: Neorealist Indie Strikingly Captures the Other Orlando
Willem Dafoe and talented newcomers capture Disney-adjacent homelessness in the latest from director Sean Baker (“Tangerine”)
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‘Chavela’ Review: Powerful Doc Captures Singer Chavela Vargas, Mexican and LGBT Icon
From Vargas’ affair with Frida Kahlo to a late-in-life career boost from Pedro Almodóvar, this dazzling film chronicles an extraordinary life
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‘Flatliners’ Review: Unremarkable Remake Flashes Before Your Eyes
Joel Schumacher’s atmospheric cult classic about death-defying medical students, revived as blah horror
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‘Chasing Coral’ Review: Environmental Doc Exposes Oceanic Crisis
Jeff Orlowski (“Chasing Ice”) is more interested in advocacy than impartiality in this powerful look at our vanishing reefs
