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May 10, 2026
‘The Python Hunt’ Review: An Entertainingly Garish Documentary Account of a State-Sanctioned Culling Spree
“It’s hours of boredom interrupted by a few minutes of pretty intense adrenalin,” says one jaded participant in the Florida Python Challenge, an annual government-organized effort to curb the state...
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May 7, 2026
‘Remarkably Bright Creatures’ Review: Sally Field and Lewis Pullman Help Each Other Heal in a Melodrama of Distinctly Average Intelligence
Are people still firing up “My Octopus Teacher” on Netflix? The viral success of that documentary felt like a peak-pandemic phenomenon, when some of us were sufficiently starved for connection with...
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May 4, 2026
Miranda Priestly Ignited Meryl Streep’s Populist Era, ‘Devil Wears Prada 2’ Shows She’s Still a Crowd-Pleaser
Earlier this week, in one of her umpteen promotional interviews for “The Devil Wears Prada 2,” Meryl Streep deviated from the tried-and-true PR playbook to actually say something interesting. Asked...
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May 3, 2026
‘The Travel Companion’ Review: A Bromance Goes Adrift in a Gently Wry Indie Amble
So frequently does New York-based independent filmmaker Simon (Tristan Turner) repeat the shaggy one-line pitch for the documentary he’s working on — it’s “a nostalgia-piece travelogue about past, ...
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May 1, 2026
‘That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea’ Review: A Franchise Bonus Primarily for Fans
Those unfamiliar with the popular anime franchise “That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime” may be disappointed to learn that goopy substances are pretty much absent from the series’ second standal...
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April 23, 2026
‘Apex’ Review: Man Is the Predator in a Rip-Roaring Outdoor Duel Between Charlize Theron and Taron Egerton
Intrepid outdoorswoman Sasha (Charlize Theron) has all the physical tools required to weather the Australian Outback, but if she’d spent a little more time indoors — at the movies, specifically — s...
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April 17, 2026
‘Wasteman’ Review: David Jonsson and Tom Blyth Add Character to a Brawny but Familiar Prison Drama
British actor David Jonsson is only five films into his career, but you’d already know his gaze anywhere: Even in a film as spry and bright as the 2023 romcom “Rye Lane,” those crinkly, softly droo...
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April 15, 2026
‘Balls Up’ Review: Ugly Americans Face the Wrath of Brazil in a Disposable Comic Jaunt for Mark Wahlberg and Paul Walter Hauser
Say what you will about Peter Farrelly, but he’s one filmmaker who hasn’t let an Oscar go to his head. In the years since his contentious Best Picture win for “Green Book,” Farrelly has shown only ...
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April 13, 2026
‘The Great Experiment’ Review: A Fascinating Archival Chronicle of America Enduring Trump’s First Term
Beginning with mass protests on one end of the political spectrum and ending with riots on the other, the four years of Donald Trump’s first presidential term added up to a substantial chapter of U...
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April 9, 2026
‘You, Me & Tuscany’ Review: Plenty of Sun but No Real Heat in a Romcom Outing for Halle Bailey and Regé-Jean Page
Few would stretch as far as calling “Under the Tuscan Sun” a classic, and yet that easy-breezy Diane Lane vehicle from 2003 has an enduring cultural presence of sorts: It still pops up with some re...
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March 24, 2026
‘Bucks Harbor’ Review: A Wistful, Humane Portrait of Hardy Souls, Young and Old, in Coastal Maine
The coast is craggy and rugged in “Bucks Harbor,” and so are many of the faces — lined and hard-lived and visibly storied, in a way that plainly speaks to the original photographer in director Pete...
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March 15, 2026
‘Phenomena’ Review: An Iridescent Ode to Ordinary Wonders
Josef Gatti tells us little that we don’t already know in “Phenomena,” and that’s pretty much the point. In his first feature-length documentary, the Australian takes a seductive, hyper-sensory app...
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March 14, 2026
‘Pizza Movie’ Review: Gaten Matarazzo Goes from Stranger to Sillier Things in a Goofy Bad-Trip Comedy
If your first thought on encountering a film called “Pizza Movie” is that it’s kind of a dumb title, don’t worry: Brian McElhaney and Nick Kocher’s antic, frantic comedy is way ahead of you. Late i...
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March 5, 2026
‘Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man’ Review: Barry Keoghan Joins Cillian Murphy for More Rousing Brutes-in-Suits Action
About midway through “Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man,” venerable gentleman thug Tommy Shelby enters a pub and faces off against some young, dumb tough with the temerity not to know who he is. She...
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February 22, 2026
‘The Garden We Dreamed’ Review: Powerful Mexican Migrant Drama Finds Moments of Serenity Amid Adversity
“The Garden We Dreamed” opens on a complex symphony of natural sound: layer upon layer of birdsong, insect chatter and weather-rustled foliage, all the more intensified for playing out over a virtu...
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February 22, 2026
‘A Child of My Own’ Review: Stylized Drama and Documentary Scrap Over the Truth In an Unhappy Maternity Tale
Following an awkward transition into narrative filmmaking with 2024’s fact-inspired but melodrama-leaning “In Her Place,” “A Child of My Own” sees Chilean director Maite Alberdi returning to docume...
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February 22, 2026
‘Forest High’ Review: Three Women Escape the Noise in a Beguiling Mountain Retreat of a Movie
There are no luxuries and only the most essential comforts on offer at the remote Alpine refuge where “Forest High” is set: Hot water runs just a couple of hours a day, the soup served for dinner i...
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February 21, 2026
Wim Wenders Speaks Out at Berlin Film Festival Awards Ceremony: ‘Cinema Is More Resistant to Oblivion Than the Internet’
Before commencing the presentation of the Competition prizes, Berlin Film Festival jury president Wim Wenders began proceedings with a prepared statement, responding to the controversy that has bli...
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February 21, 2026
Berlin Film Festival Awards: Sandra Hüller Wins Best Lead Performance for ‘Rose’ (Updating Live)
Karim Aïnouz’s “Rosebush Pruning,” Ilker Çatak’s “Yellow Letters” and Lance Hammer’s “Queen at Sea” are among the films hoping for gold as the 76th Berlin Film Festival wraps with tonight’s awards ...
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February 20, 2026
‘The Education of Jane Cumming’ Review: A Compelling Dramatization of the True Story Behind ‘The Children’s Hour’
Lillian Hellman’s landmark 1934 play “The Children’s Hour” has twice been adapted for the big screen, both times by director William Wyler, and neither film really did right by it. The Hays Code co...
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February 20, 2026
‘The Ballad of Judas Priest’ Review: Delightful Metal Doc Is a Rock-Solid Directorial Debut for Rage Against the Machine Guitarist Tom Morello
Some documentaries are searing exposés of the unpalatable truth and some are unashamed celebrations of a beloved subject — and if you think “The Ballad of Judas Priest,” from co-directors and Pries...
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February 18, 2026
‘Flies’ Review: Family Crisis Disrupts a Woman’s Solitude in Fernando Eimbcke’s Lovely, Lingering Charmer
It’s a reliable arthouse rule of thumb that putting any scrappily appealing kid in the path of any sour, set-in-their-ways adult character will eventually yield a thaw — and, if the filmmakers get ...
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February 16, 2026
‘Nina Roza’ Review: An Eerily Doubled, Intricately Mirrored and Deeply Moving Reflection on Immigrant Identity
The immigrant experience is most often discussed, and most easily understood, as one of an entire person’s movement and relocation: a journey from A to B and perhaps further letters, with concomita...
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February 16, 2026
‘The Blood Countess’ Review: A Hilarious Isabelle Huppert Fully Puts the Vamp Into Vampire
Whether saturating entire frames or dribbling down a rare contrasting design element, there’s red everywhere you look in “The Blood Countess,” as you might well expect. Little of it, however, is th...
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February 16, 2026
‘At the Sea’ Review: Amy Adams’ Commitment Can’t Save a Recovery Drama as Immediately Forgettable as Its Title
Drop the definite article and you have a more apt title for “At the Sea,” a drab and laborious recovery drama with a mystifying amount of major-league talent behind it. The second English-language ...
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February 16, 2026
‘We Are All Strangers’ Review: Anthony Chen Completes a Singaporean Trilogy With a Protracted but Poignant Family Melodrama
Two weddings, held in relatively quick succession, encapsulate the social, economic and generational tensions driving “We Are All Strangers.” The first, between two bright-eyed only-just-adults, is...
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February 15, 2026
‘Rose’ Review: Sandra Hüller Amazes, Again, in Markus Schleinzer’s Immaculately Controlled Tale of Gender Privilege
While jumping through the hoops of her first U.S. awards season two years ago for “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest,” it must have amused Sandra Hüller to be labeled a “breakthrough per...
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February 15, 2026
‘Salvation’ Review: The Roots of Violence Are Explored in Emin Alper’s Tense, Atmosphere Study of a Massacre
How do you justify the unjustifiable? How do you get to the point where you feel morally in the right while you slaughter unarmed men, women and children? These are the questions director Emin Alpe...
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February 14, 2026
‘Nightborn’ Review: Rupert Grint and Seidi Haarla Headline an Effective Blend of Finnish Mythology and Cronenbergian Horror
Motherhood can be… a lot, as both Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” and Lynne Ramsay’s “Die My Love” reminded us last year. Now, here comes a riposte in the horror genre: Hanna Bergholm...
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February 14, 2026
‘Rosebush Pruning’ Review: Callum Turner Broods on the Fringes of a Toxic Family in Karim Aïnouz’s Sleek, Silly but Seductive Provocation
When the time came for Karim Aïnouz to direct his first English-language feature a few years ago, few would have bet on it being “Firebrand.” A historical drama based on the life of Henry VIII surv...
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