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Director RaMell Ross’s bold reimagining of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is both lyrical and urgent. This is a movie worth...
August Wilson's 1987 play is opened up in ways that that work—and some that don't—in this beautifully acted film adaptation.
Since he first popped and fopped into our moviegoing lives in the late ’80s, Hugh Grant has been charming, cloying, hilariously funny and sometimes...
The Jewish tradition of placing stones on the grave markers of the deceased as a form of respect and remembrance becomes a central animating force in ...
Ralph Fiennes is mesmerizing as a cardinal leading the process of choosing a new pope—which plays out like an Agatha Christie locked-room mystery.
Florence Pugh and Andrew Garfield's performances deliver real emotional intimacy, but this weepy romantic drama just never coheres.
The nostalgia is so thick in Saturday Night, Jason Reitman’s furiously busy paean to the nascent days of SNL, so unrelenting and potent, that...
Clapboards slam and crack like thunder. The weathervane creaks like a listing warship. When the wind, heavy with unceasing dust, whooshes, rumbles and...
When we first meet Aubrey, she’s five years old; the purple beads in her braids glow in the light from her fish tank as she brags about her math...
There are such a bounty of moments of breathtaking specificity and quiet poignancy in Dìdi —writer-director Sean Wang’s Sundance Audience...
Seventy-one is as good a time as any for your first tattoo. Or so figures the soft-spoken and deliberate Kristófer, a widower visiting London from...
There’s a moment a little less than halfway through Beverly Hills Cop: Axel F , a franchise arising this Fourth of July weekend after a 30-year...
The often bewildering and somewhat underwhelming first installment of Kevin Costner's Western epic is long on characters but short on story.
A car crash, self amputation, a sex cult—Yorgos Lanthimos' new film is so singular and divisive, it’s likely not to just turn viewers against each...
Director Pamela Adlon has done the nearly impossible: crafted a film that mines comic gold from people being loving to one another while acting...
Congratulations. Regardless of how intelligent you may be, you are far smarter than The Fall Guy thinks you are. The latest jacked up, action...
A kitchen-sink directorial debut from actor Dev Patel, Monkey Man is a knife-through-the-throat revenge thriller, a diatribe against...
In the eight years since the release of the last Kung Fu Panda movie, the world has faced the (first) Trump administration, a global pandemic, an...
No one thinks it’s a good idea for teenage cousins Seydou and Moussa to embark on the treacherous journey from their native Senegal to Europe....
There are two films running more or less concurrently in American Fiction , a singular directorial debut from Cord Jefferson, former journalist...
Godzilla remains one of cinema's greatest metaphors, and in its opening weekend 'Godzilla Minus One' set a U.S. box-office record for a foreign...