‘The Almond and the Seahorse’ Review: Rebel Wilson and Charlotte Gainsbourg in a Stubbornly...
The plasticity of memory is a familiar dramatic subject, the stuff of sci-fi tentpoles (Total Recall), indie thrillers (Memento) and genre hybrids (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind). On a more everyday level, that...
‘Avatar: The Way of Water’ Review: James Cameron’s Mega-Sequel Delivers on Action, Emotion and...
James Cameron knows his way around a sequel. With Aliens and Terminator 2: Judgment Day, he showed he could build on the strengths of franchise starters with brawny action, steadily ratcheted tension and jaw-dropping...
‘Last Film Show’ Review: India’s Oscar Submission Is a Vibrant Ode to Cinema
Samay, the 9-year-old spitfire at the center of Last Film Show, is a pintsize wheeler-dealer, a wily old soul and a bit of a mechanical genius. As in another recently arrived film, The Fabelmans,...
Critics’ Conversation: The Great Film Performances of 2022
JON FROSCH Here we go again! One thing I’ve come to appreciate about the epic slog known as Awards Season is the opportunity to champion — and occasionally straight-up bully people into watching —...
‘Darby and the Dead’ Review: Modern ‘Mean Girls’ Flickers With Potential
A high-schooler who can speak to the dead reluctantly helps the ghost of her nemesis find peace in the afterlife in this endearing Hulu film directed by Silas Howard.
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‘Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power’ Review: Sam Pollard and Geeta Gandbhir...
A suspicious pattern emerges when Election Day nears in the United States. Leaders of the competing political parties begin a begging campaign, urging Black voters to head to the polls and cast their ballots...
‘Emancipation’ Review: Will Smith Leads Antoine Fuqua’s Propulsive but Shallow Slave Drama
Lately, I’ve been examining my deep ambivalence toward slave movies — an attitude motivated by a suspicion of Hollywood’s insatiable appetite for tragic Black characters.
These films visualize, often gruesomely, the terror and violence...
‘Violent Night’ Review: David Harbour Plays a Sledgehammer-Wielding Santa in an Amusingly Twisted Christmas-Com
Have you ever torn open the wrapping on a promising Christmas gift, only to find once you’ve taken it out and assembled its pieces that it’s not really what you’d hoped for at all?...
‘Spoiler Alert’ Review: Jim Parsons Brings Heart and Conviction to Michael Showalter’s Rom-Com Tearjerker
In his best film, 2017’s The Big Sick, director Michael Showalter showed a deft hand balancing interracial rom-com conventions with an affecting dash of hospital drama to deliver a love story distinguished by humorous,...
‘RRR’ Review: S.S. Rajamouli’s Glorious Indian Action Spectacle
“Delirious” is the word to describe S.S. Rajamouli’s Indian action-adventure film that has become a worldwide phenomenon both in theaters and on Netflix since its summer release.
This Telugu-language big-budget spectacle starring Tollywood superstars...
