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Silent Friend (2025) Bilge Ebiri It’s an unforgettable film.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Mortal Kombat II (2026) Alison Willmore Mortal Kombat II is just McQuoid turning a big dial that says “fan service” while looking back at test audiences for their reaction.
Posted May 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Our Land (2025) Alison Willmore That unnatural quality of drone footage, its ability to pull up off the ground and pivot as if you’re fiddling with Google Earth, is something Martel turns into an asset throughout the film.
Posted May 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Last Summer (1969) Bilge Ebiri A hard movie to shake... This is also why a restoration is so welcome now: It can finally be appreciated for its aesthetic merits as well as for its narrative ones.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) Bilge Ebiri This remains a great part for Hathaway, who can hint at all sorts of neuroses beneath a character’s surface pep.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Over Your Dead Body (2026) Bilge Ebiri Once the mayhem starts, Over Your Dead Body is not clever or artful enough to really wow us — and it really wants to wow us.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Apex (2026) Alison Willmore Apex never quite knits together Ben’s mommy issues with Sasha’s more complicated ones, but it’s a satisfying showcase for Theron’s continued capacity as one of our most reliable action stars.
Posted Apr 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Fuze (2025) Bilge Ebiri While Fuze demonstrates much of Mackenzie’s technical abilities and his clear skill with actors, it does ultimately feel a bit vaporous. It’s a minor effort from a major director.
Posted Apr 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Michael (2026) Alison Willmore What Jaafar does amounts to an elaborate impression instead of an interpretation, re-creating the voice and the famous choreography and otherwise staring blankly into the middle distance when called upon to transmit emotions.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Top Gun (1986) David Denby Cut off from emotion and meaning, this kind of work has a hollow, nervous weightlessness to it - decadence without the courage of true decadence.
Posted Apr 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Blue Heron (2025) Alison Willmore Blue Heron becomes something truly masterful.
Posted Apr 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Alison Willmore ...maybe The Mummy just isn’t very inspired.
Posted Apr 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Normal (2025) Bilge Ebiri Maybe the meaninglessness is the point. I was never bored by Normal, but I’d also be lying if I said I was ever excited by it.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Mother Mary (2026) Alison Willmore It’s when they’re meant to seem like real people that Mother Mary stumbles. ... And even then, Lowery is too compelling a stylist and has too earnest a heart for what he’s made to be easily shrugged off.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Faces of Death (2026) Alison Willmore A clever, nastily contemporary riff on what the original represents.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) David Denby Nothing redeems Robocop 2, a deadly and surprisingly cheap-looking mess.
Posted Apr 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Jerry Maguire (1996) David Denby It's a terrifically alert movie, hip to the way people feel about one another from moment to moment, and therefore it's completely absorbing when not much is happening dramatically.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
James and the Giant Peach (1996) David Denby James flags slightly when it lands in New York, but this is still a charming entertainment with a freer and bolder visual style than anything Disney has done in years.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
You, Me & Tuscany (2026) Bilge Ebiri The Tuscan landscape looks lovely, and the film demonstrates a generosity toward its characters that, let’s face it, feels like a balm when the real world can be so stupid and rough.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
The Christophers (2025) Alison Willmore For all the undercurrents about fame, commodification, and reputation that flow through The Christophers, at its core is a more plaintive lament about what it feels like to love something that doesn’t love you back.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Exit 8 (2025) Alison Willmore Exit 8 is a thriller about how the idea of being a parent can become so abstract that it feels immense and terrifying, but that it’s not actually that daunting to decide to be there for another person, whatever that might mean.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Victor/Victoria (1982) David Denby It's tolerant, even affectionate, towards gays, but it doesn't have anything like the wit or style needed for a film about the homosexual cabarets of Paris. For all its attentiveness to gay themes, the movie is just too straight.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Stranger (2025) Bilge Ebiri The Stranger, it turns out, is a story for our times, which makes this lovely new version doubly welcome.
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Bilge Ebiri All The Super Mario Galaxy Movie has, unfortunately, is the messianic fervor with which it throws everything at us.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) Bilge Ebiri It feels destined for cult status.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears (1976) John Simon Ritchie has directed the kids most persuasively, even when the script gives them deeds and dialogue that are not really credible.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Prosecutors (2025) Bilge Ebiri Loznitsa turns that sentiment into a stylistic philosophy in Two Prosecutors, creating a world where both physical and spiritual imprisonment are woven into the very fabric of the picture.
Posted Mar 25, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sun Never Sets (2026) Jada Yuan None of it works, though, without Fanning’s performance making you believe that both of these guys would put up with Wendy’s indecisiveness while claiming she’s in love with both of them.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Miroirs No. 3 (2025) Alison Willmore The key to its unsettling pleasures is the way it acknowledges that what is happening is disturbing only if one of its characters says it is.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Palestine '36 (2025) Bilge Ebiri At a time when our movies feel as though they’re getting smaller and more meaningless, it’s refreshing to see works of such sweep and ambition, whatever their flaws may be.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Second Civil War (1997) John Leonard While The Second Civil War seeks to mimic the cognitive dissonance of a fragmenting political culture, it's too much like brain surgery by lobbing grenades at a tumor.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Project Hail Mary (2026) Bilge Ebiri At heart, this is a kids’ film in the guise of a 156-minute sci-fi adventure. It doesn’t want to awe us so much as it wants to awwww us. For better and worse, it succeeds.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
The Howling (1981) David Denby The Howling doesn't sustain the good, trashy erotic bravura of its best scenes -- it becomes just another fur-brained horror film.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Reminders of Him (2026) Roxana Hadadi A movie that’s adequately constructed, narrowly imagined, and immediately forgettable. Maybe it worked on the page. Onscreen, it’s vapor.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
undertone (2025) Alison Willmore Undertone is creepy enough without needing to knit its haunting into its main character’s background so clunkily; ironically, its most effective moments are ones of stylistic indifference.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) Bilge Ebiri Shot in black and white and filled with images of collapse, Below the Clouds is nevertheless a strangely hopeful work.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) David Denby See RoboCop if you want a few jolts and some wonderful gags about machines longing to be men, but don't be surprised if you have a depressed, ashy taste in your mouth afterward.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
THE BRIDE! (2026) Alison Willmore It feels like something that didn’t have a consistent vision to begin with and that flounders not just to convey larger ideas, but what’s even going on from sequence to sequence.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Hoppers (2026) Bilge Ebiri A fun, modest little movie with enough zip and charm to keep kids engaged, and as such, one doesn’t want to criticize it too much. But the memory of what Pixar once was... may still make us wonder where all that energy and originality and artistry went.
Posted Mar 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Sense and Sensibility (1995) David Denby Thompson and Lee get the relationship between the two suffering sisters right, the play of strength and weakness, candor and concealment -- sense and sensibility merging in each sister, until both Marianne and Elinor become complete human beings.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Postman (1994) David Denby The English director Michael Radford, working in Italian, keeps the tone light and charming and on the whole rather chaste. In a noisy season, it's easy to be lulled by such enchanting episodes as Mario's poetry-rich courtship of a sultry island beauty.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
The Ballad of Judas Priest (2026) Bilge Ebiri While The Ballad of Judas Priest may not always feel complete, by centering the music, it excites our curiosity long after the credits roll.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
The Only Living Pickpocket in New York (2026) Bilge Ebiri The film Segan has made is very much its own thing. It’s a twilight fable of a city that’s changing, whose spirit remains distinct and grand and full of mystery, much like the remarkable actor at its center.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Queen at Sea (2026) Bilge Ebiri Queen at Sea winds up being a movie about all of life’s mad uncertainties.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
At the Sea (2026) Bilge Ebiri The whole film is series of fragments, and not particularly good ones.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Rose (2026) Bilge Ebiri Watching Hüller, already a master of submerged heartbreak in so many previous parts, we might begin to suspect that we’re witnessing her greatest role yet.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Rosebush Pruning (2026) Bilge Ebiri Rosebush Pruning tries to be about something while pretending not to be about anything at all; it’s somehow both too stupid and too cool for the room.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Mouse (2026) Bilge Ebiri For all the inherent sadness of its subject matter, Mouse is never depressing, thanks to the delicacy of O’Sullivan and Thompson’s filmmaking.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
3.6/4
Wuthering Heights (2026) Max Weiss The resulting film is a bit silly, very sexy, visually decadent, and, yes, wonderful.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Pretty in Pink (1986) David Denby Molly Ringwald makes every minute count emotionally.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
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