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Mortal Kombat II (2026) Glenn Kenny The spectacle — its eardrum-shattering, eye-popping pyrotechnics, with the violence framed against all manner of phantasmagoric computer-generated backdrops — is its own reward.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Billie Eilish - Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour (Live in 3D) (2026) Brandon Yu The result is something that, on a purely technical viewing experience, does feel like if not a reinvented, then a totally reinvigorated affair.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Silent Friend (2025) Beatrice Loayza It’s a film of sprawling ideas that float around like pollen, with some particles creating marvelous blooms.
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sheep Detectives (2026) Alissa Wilkinson Not only is “The Sheep Detectives” delightful, but it’s funny and emotionally complex and, dare I say, unusually deferential toward the noble sheep, frequently cast as brain-dead losers in cinema’s barnyards
Posted May 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Our Land (2025) Alissa Wilkinson Stories that Chuschagasta men and women tell Martel... bear witness to other Indigenous people who, like Chocobar, suffered or died defending their ancestral land, but without cameras there to watch, and only the community left to tell their stories.
Posted May 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Swapped (2026) Natalia Winkelman Pelage and plumage noticeably lack the tactile quality of a Pixar extravaganza, but the animation gets a pass for the movie’s purposes—namely, to impart a message that communities should trust each other.
Posted May 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Hokum (2026) Jeannette Catsoulis Reveling in misdirection and a teasing duality “Hokum” profits from Colm Hogan’s insinuating camera as it noses through gloomy corridors and a terrifying dumbwaiter shaft, hinting at what lurks on the other side of the frame.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Animal Farm (2025) Alissa Wilkinson There’s a reasonably OK movie somewhere inside Animal Farm, but it’s drowning in ideological confusion, which wouldn’t be such a big deal except that this is Animal Farm.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime the Movie: Tears of the Azure Sea (2026) Nicolas Rapold A diverting dip in the anime sea.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Pianos (2025) Ben Kenigsberg Lately Desplechin has been in a bit of a rut with critics, and this modest drama, less sprawling than much of his work, feels like an effort to reconnect with the madness of his early films. That’s a compliment.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Deep Water (2026) Glenn Kenny This picture is not as ridiculous as a “Sharknado” movie — Harlin is out to make a genuine nail-biter, and he largely succeeds, maintaining interest even as the two-hour mark approaches.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The Devil Wears Prada 2 (2026) Manohla Dargis [Frankel] wisely gives his four main performers plenty of room to show off their comic timing; they’re clearly enjoying themselves, which heightens the pleasure of watching talented actors getting their collective groove on.
Posted Apr 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Departures (2025) Chris Azzopardi “Departures” is still tender and winsome, with graphic-novel-style animation lightening the load, but is ultimately punishing in tone. It lives by a truth that might ring familiar for gay men particularly: Humor that cuts deep is a form of survival.
Posted Apr 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Bernstein's Wall (2021) Alissa Wilkinson While his celebrity has largely faded, “Bernstein’s Wall” makes the case that his charge to artists to lead the way in culture is timeless, and more vital than ever.
Posted Apr 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Apex (2026) Brandon Yu That dynamic between Egerton and Theron — of a psycho versus an action star — is enough to animate the first half of the film, even if one wishes Kormakur had a couple more flourishes up his sleeve.
Posted Apr 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Women (2025) Natalia Winkelman Ultimately, “Two Women” is less a message movie than a featherweight comedy, gesturing at big ideas about sexual politics before settling in as an amusingly mischievous diversion.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Seasons, Two Strangers (2025) Ben Kenigsberg His film gently balances tidiness and looseness, connection and alienation and artifice and the natural world.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Over Your Dead Body (2026) Beatrice Loayza Intentionally juvenile humor can have a way of breaking down even the stoniest viewer with the right levels of sincerity and self-awareness, but the film is too slick and giddy about its own crudity to nurture these elements.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
I Swear (2025) Manohla Dargis ...an aggressively bland, cliché-ridden biopic.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Omaha (2025) Alissa Wilkinson There’s great material packed into “Omaha.” Sometimes redrawing the road map can get you to your destination.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Desert Warrior (2025) Glenn Kenny Rather than extend the epic sweep of this picture into the cosmic ineffable, he just wants the viewer bouncing along and rooting for its female hero. And the film succeeds admirably in this respect.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Fuze (2025) Jeannette Catsoulis Fuze hurtles along entertainingly and with no small amount of tension.
Posted Apr 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Michael (2026) Alissa Wilkinson This Michael is flat, barely human.
Posted Apr 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Trilogy of Terror II (1996) John Martin Dan Curtis waited 21 years for a second "Terror" movie, and it is worth the wait.
Posted Apr 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Everyone Is Lying to You for Money (2025) Alissa Wilkinson The cryptocurrency story, [McKenzie] argues, is powerful because however we feel about it, we agree on its premise: Our current economic system is broken, and somebody’s got to fix it.
Posted Apr 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Normal (2025) Jeannette Catsoulis Normal navigates its cartoonish excesses with expected competence.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Balls Up (2026) Calum Marsh There are slapstick foibles, sight gags about rubbers, and many, many vulgar jokes — some good for a laugh, though I doubt the film's Oscar prospects.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Amrum (2025) Beatrice Loayza To Akin’s credit, the film isn’t tastelessly sentimental (see “Jojo Rabbit”), and it depicts Nanning’s awakening with the kind of subtlety and restraint that suggests his moral education will continue evolving after the end of the movie.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Blue Heron (2025) Alissa Wilkinson Beddoes’s performance as the troubled teen may be the best in the film.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Erupcja (2025) Brandon Yu Although Charli and Góra can’t quite translate enough layers between them to make this film really bruise, this is a pleasantly slight work that doesn’t overstay its welcome.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo) (2025) Natalia Winkelman Alfonso Vargas’s style is entrancing enough to keep us confidently in Rico’s corner.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Mother Mary (2026) Manohla Dargis The downer here is that Lowery doesn’t seem to know what to do with his stars, performers who are never better than when they’re just doing what they do best — you know, acting.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Nicolas Rapold Too bad about the one-liners that make fun sequences feel generic, the weaker family dynamics compared to “Evil Dead Rise,” and the film’s climax, a hash of close camera setups.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Steal This Story, Please! (2025) Alissa Wilkinson Makes a strong case that a plurality of independent outlets and more journalists, not fewer, are vital to a healthy democracy — and that without a revitalization of the independent press, we may lose the ability to discern the truth altogether.
Posted Apr 10, 2026  Edit critic review
You, Me & Tuscany (2026) Beatrice Loayza Arguably, throwing us into wild fantasies are what rom-coms are for, and letting a Black woman do the honors of being swept away by her European reveries makes for an intriguing update to the genre.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Hamlet (2025) Nicolas Rapold Their “Hamlet” surges with its own energies — palpably a matter of life and death.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Exit 8 (2025) Manohla Dargis “Exit 8” is a pip and as fun to watch as it is to mull over.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Bunnylovr (2025) Jeannette Catsoulis [Rebecca]'s just a lonely woman mapping the vast territory between digital and real-life connection in a movie that’s content to watch her with kindness and without judgment.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Faces of Death (2026) Alissa Wilkinson It reveals how seismically and rapidly the relationship of what we see to what we believe has changed.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Fiume o morte! (2025) Ben Kenigsberg The re-enactment approach may not be as novel as it once was, but it’s still a heady, creative way to excavate layers of buried history in a location that has more than its share.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Newborn (2026) Lisa Kennedy Parker the director, however, is gifted with crews and capable actors and that shows, too. The members of his ensemble — especially Oyelowo — find ways to keep us guessing, and caring, to the end.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Outcome (2026) Brandon Yu It’s streaming filler in which its big names, including the composer Jon Brion, are trapped.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Travel Companion (2025) Natalia Winkelman Specificity does not extend to Simon and Bruce’s bond, which consists of parallel play or the odd story about getting too stoned. If that’s the extent of these dudes’ platonic partnership, then don’t expect much sympathy over their rift.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
The Christophers (2025) Alissa Wilkinson I have rarely enjoyed watching two actors’ rapport the way I loved watching McKellen and Coel; it could have gone on forever and not been long enough.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
James and the Giant Peach (1996) Peter M. Nichols Though the story has a macabre flavor that could frighten small children, the beauty of Henry Selick's film is its daringly offbeat animation.
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
On Moonlight Bay (1951) A.H. Weiler Although it strives to develop a genuine nostalgic mood, all that On Moonlight Bay seems to create, sadly enough, is the feeling that this film format is old hat.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mouthpiece (1932) Mordaunt Hall As a crafty and imaginative lawyer whose clients are crooks, Warren William gives a fine and forceful portrayal in The Mouthpiece.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Jimmy & The Demons (2025) Alissa Wilkinson The Cathedral embodies everything that’s lovely about his work — its impishness, its openheartedness and its darkness, too — and “Jimmy & the Demons” captures all of that with a spirit that matches its subject.
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
The Blue Trail (2025) Manohla Dargis As it drifts from one place to another, one encounter to another, one sketchy idea to another, so may your attention.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson (2026) Ben Kenigsberg If there’s anything illuminating or edifying about watching these painful recollections, “Truth and Tragedy” misses it.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
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