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May 17, 2026
‘Sheep in the Box’ Review: Kore-eda’s Sweet but Limp Sci-Fi Fable About a 7-Year-Old AI Humanoid
or all the fantasy simplicity of the premise, there’s no structure to it, and though the humanoid Kakeru increases in agency and brains as the movie goes on, it still never figures out who he is.
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May 16, 2026
‘Paper Tiger’ Review: Miles Teller and Adam Driver Get Ensnared by the Russian Mob in a James Gray Film With More Atmosphere Than Plausibility
You can feel James Gray wanting to will something like a Lumet version of Greek tragedy into the tale of these brothers, and of Irwin’s blind loyalty to Gary’s huckster-psycho moves. But even the s...
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May 16, 2026
‘The Beloved’ Review: Javier Bardem Is Powerful as a Filmmaker Directing His Estranged Daughter in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s Making-of-a-Movie Drama
"The Beloved," unlike "Sentimental Value," really is one of those movies about the making of a movie, like "Day for Night" or "The Stunt Man." It’s a meaty and enjoyable entry in the genre, one tha...
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May 16, 2026
‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach’ Review: John Travolta’s Slim and Winning Boyhood Reverie of Air Travel in the Lost-Paradise Age of TWA
"Propeller One-Way Night Coach" is sometimes funny in a light way, but it's mostly sincere. Travolta wants to share how much he loved being on this plane: the wide-eyed wonder of it all — and, unde...
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May 15, 2026
‘John Lennon: The Last Interview’ Review: Steven Soderbergh’s Documentary Captures John Lennon at His Happiest…and Most Messianic
John, in "The Last Interview," comes off as just about the happiest he has ever been. But he’s so high on the life he’s leading that he’s also at his most messianic. And a little of that goes a lon...
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May 14, 2026
‘Fatherland’ Review: Thomas Mann and His Daughter Travel Across Germany in 1949 in Pawel Pawlikowski’s Meticulous Time Machine of a Drama
The matter-of-fact seduction of Pawlikowski’s filmmaking lies in how he stages everything with a coolly objective authenticity. In "Fatherland," he lends this historical moment a time-machine quali...
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May 14, 2026
‘Parallel Tales’ Review: Isabelle Huppert Is a French Novelist Spying on the Apartment Across the Street in Asghar Farhadi’s Weirdly Muddled Voyeuristic Head Game
It’s all about people spying on each other, which can be a good idea for a movie. And no one is saying that Farhadi has to stick to his familiar mode of neorealist drama. But "Parallel Tales," it’s...
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May 12, 2026
‘The Electric Kiss’ Review: Cannes Opens With a Thud — a ‘Light’ French Period Romance About an Artist and a Fake Psychic, but the Movie Is Inert
Salvadori has conceived "The Electric Kiss" as a film about fake magic, yet there’s no spirit of real magic underlying the fakery that’s supposed to be playful but is actually leaden.
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May 7, 2026
‘Billie Eilish — Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour Live in 3D’ Review: James Cameron Co-Directs a Titanic Concert Film
"Hit Me Hard and Soft" is a concert film that doesn’t look and feel like other concert films. It’s a genuine experience, because of a combination of the show itself and the way Cameron has filmed it.
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May 6, 2026
‘Mortal Kombat II’ Review: Dependable Action, Sludgy Story in an Old-School Mediocre Video-Game Bash
For a while, we’re cheered at the prospect that Karl Urban might lighten the film’s load with his meta ironic balsa-wood Don Johnson presence. And he does — a bit. But "Mortal Kombat II," a sequel ...
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May 3, 2026
‘The Devil Wears Prada 2’ Is Built Around a Radical Hook: That Moviegoers Care About the Future of Magazines. But Maybe They Do
In the juiciest speech in “The Devil Wears Prada,” Miranda Priestly, the frosty-haired, frosty-souled Runway magazine editrix played by Meryl Streep (in a performance that should have won her the O...
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May 1, 2026
‘Swapped’ Review: Michael B. Jordon and Juno Temple Voice a Minor but Ravishing Animated Body-Swap Comedy for Tykes
On the story level, "Swapped" is quite basic, but there’s a surprise enchantment to it — it’s like a woodland fairy tale for seven-year-olds, yet on that score it’s visually ravishing and quite tou...
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April 29, 2026
‘Power to the People: John & Yoko Live in NYC’ Review: Sizzling Concert Film of John Lennon’s Rockin’ 1972 Madison Square Garden Shows
In his Army jacket and lollipop-blue round sunglasses, with shaggy long sideburns, Lennon gives off a fascinating air of self-involved indifference, which is expressed in the fact that he’s chewing...
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April 26, 2026
‘Michael’ May Be ‘Family-Friendly,’ but It’s a Movie That Taps Into Michael Jackson’s Most Powerful Creative Fuel — His Anger
The media has done a good job of talking about what’s not in “Michael.” I refer, of course, to the accusations of child sexual abuse that dogged Michael Jackson from 1993 until the day he died (and...
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April 25, 2026
‘Deep Water’ Review: Renny Harlin’s Double-Dip Disaster Movie — Plane Crash + Shark Thriller — Has His Signature Schlock Touch
"Deep Water," which is very much a neo-'70s disaster film. should have been called "Airplane Crash into a Sea of Jaws." As it stands, the word in the film’s generic title that echoes that earlier H...
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April 21, 2026
‘Michael’ Review: The Thrill Is Not Gone, as a Surprisingly Effective Middle-of-the-Road Biopic Conducts Michael Jackson’s Electricity
if you zero in on what’s routine about "Michael" or what the movie leaves out, you may miss the compelling urgency of what it gets in: Michael Jackson’s journey to become himself by freeing himself...
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April 20, 2026
‘Everyone Is Lying to You for Money’ Review: Ben McKenzie’s Knife-Sharp Documentary Takedown of Cryptocurrency
In "Everyone Is Lying to You for Money," McKenzie cuts through reams of misinformation and conducts unshowy but confrontational interviews with finance players who are famous and powerful. (He also...
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April 16, 2026
‘Lorne’ Review: Just When You Thought You Were Done Looking Back at ‘SNL,’ Morgan Neville’s Puckishly Playful Lorne Michaels Doc Completes the Picture
"Lorne" lures us in with the mischievous playfulness of its tone. The premise of the movie is that Lorne Michaels is one of those rare showbiz figures known, almost mythologically, by just one name...
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April 14, 2026
‘Mother Mary’ Review: Anne Hathaway Plays a Gaga Pop Star, and Michaela Coel Is Her Designer, in David Lowery’s Thuddingly Pretentious Fantasia
"Mother Mary," as it takes the leap into Gothic metaphysical fantasy, becomes almost completely incoherent, and stays that way. It’s like an exorcist movie where the devil is a piece of bolt fabric.
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April 12, 2026
‘Mile End Kicks’ Review: Barbie Ferreira Is a Young Music Critic in an Indie-Rock Comedy Where Reality Bites
I like youth comedies that dither in a lifelike way (one of the greatest is "The Perks of Being a Wallflower"), but the trouble with "Mile End Kicks" is that the movie tends to be lackadaisical and...
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April 11, 2026
‘Thrash’ Review: It’s Netflix and Chomp, as Phoebe Dynevor Stars in a Familiar but Gruesomely Competent Shark Thriller
Everything in the movie, from the chomping shark attacks that churn up the splashing water with Hawaiian Punch foam to the way that a humungous great white meets her fate at the end, takes an obvio...
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April 9, 2026
How ‘The Drama’ Could Redefine A24
Like a lot of people today who care passionately about movies, I love A24. I don’t love every movie they make or release. But I love, and certainly like, enough of them, and I recognize — and salut...
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April 6, 2026
‘Faces of Death’ Review: A ’70s-Style B-Horror Movie Taps into the Growing Appetite for Horror That’s ‘Real’
The idea that a sicko like Arthur isn’t just a serial killer — he’s part of the new anything-goes attention economy! — is a provocative but facile idea. Yet that’s part of what gives "Faces of Deat...
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March 31, 2026
‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Review: Frenetic and Disappointing Sequel is a Threadbare Adventure That’s All Video-Game Easter Eggs
In “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie,” we meet Yoshi, a cuddly green dinosaur in pink boots who looks like a plastic bath toy and will eat just about anything (he’s voiced in a babyish coo by Donald Gl...
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March 31, 2026
‘The Drama’ Review: Robert Pattinson and Zendaya in a Half-Funny, Half-Baked Squirm Comedy of Extreme Marital Jitters
In "The Drama," a squirm comedy that’s supposed to hinge on the ultimate case of marital jitters, Robert Pattinson gives one of the twitchiest performances in the history of twitchy performances.
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March 31, 2026
‘Dog Day Afternoon’ Broadway Review: Jon Bernthal Takes the Al Pacino Role in a Canny Piece of Stagecraft That Can’t Rival the Movie’s Haunting Power
As a piece of stagecraft, "Dog Day Afternoon," directed by Mauk Kaufman, does a canny job of translating the film’s action, keeping the flow taut and exciting. But it also does something that’s ver...
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March 29, 2026
‘The Last Critic’ Review: A Captivating Portrait of Robert Christgau, the Brilliant Mad Professor of Rock Critics, and How He Made the Grade
In "The Last Critic," we meet Christgau as an elder stateman of rock-crit (he’s now 83), a downtown stalwart knocking around the streets of the East Village. He’s a bit more bent than he was, with ...
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March 26, 2026
‘The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist’ Review: A Scary, Dizzying and Essential Deep Dive into the AI Revolution
"The AI Doc" has been structured as a ride into the future — a kaleidoscopic multimedia meditation on what AI is (the film explains it from the ground up), how intelligent it really is (100 times m...
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March 21, 2026
‘Marc by Sofia’ Review: Sofia Coppola’s Documentary About Her Fashion BFF Marc Jacobs Captures but Never Unzips Its Subject
It presents a lot of tasty clips of Jacobs through the decades, going back to his 1980s days at the Parsons School of Design, but the heart of the movie is its chronicle of the 12 weeks in which he...
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March 20, 2026
‘Tow’ Review: Rose Byrne Plays Another Charismatic Pill — a Seattle Homeless Woman Fighting to Get Her Car Back
"Tow" is a minor indie comedy that doesn’t always make the right moves, but Byrne seizes her character and turns the question of whether you like her or not into the film’s dramatic motor.
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