Reviews
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‘Slack Bay’ Review: Merchant Ivory Meets Monty Python in Period Farce
Juliette Binoche leads a cast having a great time — and that enjoyment is infectious in Bruno Dumont’s latest
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‘Sleight’ Review: Promising First Feature Combines Street Magic, Crime and Sci-Fi
Jacob Latimore is a winning young hero playing a street magician in over his head with criminals in director and co-writer JD Dillard’s confident genre hybrid
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‘Let It Fall’ Review: John Ridley’s Powerful Documentary Examines the 1992 LA Riots
A combination of enlightening, well-edited interviews and convulsive archival footage weaves a sad, shameful tale of incendiary racial tensions, from fuse to fire
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‘Jeremiah Tower: The Last Magnificent’ Review: Gourmet Doc Serves Delicious Dish
Despite losing its way in the final courses, this film examines the unsung hero who helped invent the celebrity chef
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‘Free Fire’ Review: Ben Wheatley Sends Losers, Guns and Money
The British writer-director gives us lots of stars (including Brie Larson and Armie Hammer) shooting lots of bullets, to little effect
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‘Unforgettable’ Review: Katherine Heigl and Rosario Dawson Fight a Trashy War on Motherhood
Freed from likability, Heigl tears it up as an obsessive ex with mayhem on her mind
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‘Norman’ Review: Richard Gere Schemes His Way Through One of His Greatest Roles
In the new comedy from the director of “Footnote,” Gere wheeler-dealers his way around Manhattan, even when no one’s listening
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‘Little Boxes’ Review: Melanie Lynskey Race Satire Tries for Depth
There’s a lot of potential in a comedy about an interracial couple (played by Lynskey and Nelsan Ellis) in the ‘burbs, but the insight is skin-deep
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‘My Entire High School Sinking Into the Sea’ Review: Satirical Teenage Adventure, ‘Poseidon’-Style
The kids are not all right in this clever, collage-like animated feature from graphic novelist Dash Shaw
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‘Tommy’s Honour’ Review: Golf Saga Explores Father-Son Links
Jason Connery (son of James Bond great, Sean Connery) makes the shot with this period piece about the birth of pro golf
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‘A Quiet Passion’ Review: Cynthia Nixon Overcomes 19th Century Prose
Terence Davies’s biopic on Emily Dickinson offers visual rapture, while the dialogue tends to trip up the talented ensemble cast
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‘The Fate of the Furious’ Review: Vin Diesel and the Rest Go Through the Motions, At Full Speed
Charlize Theron and Helen Mirren sign on for the popular series, which just gets more convoluted and implausible with each new entry
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New Syria-Set Docs ‘Cries From Syria,’ ‘City of Ghosts’ Showcase Heroes and Victims
Sundance 2017 Reviews: Two Syria-set documentaries from Oscar-nominated directors show different sides of an international tragedy
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‘Colossal’ Review: Anne Hathaway Conquers the Monster Within
One woman’s addictions manifest as a giant kaiju in this strange (and strangely funny) film from Spanish director Nacho Vigalondo
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‘Gifted’ Review: Chris Evans Plays a Devoted Father Figure in No-Frills Drama
A tug of war over a young math genius makes for competent, if unexceptional, storytelling — but young Mckenna Grace steals the show
