Movie Reviews

‘A Great Awakening’ Review: An Unlikely Founding Friend...

This film tracks the friendship of Benjamin Franklin and the Rev. George Whitefi...

‘The Drama’ Review: Her Secret Is His Crisis

Zendaya and Robert Pattinson play a couple upended when one confesses to coming ...

‘DJ Ahmet’ Review: Finding Hidden Music in the Forest

After a young shepherd in North Macedonia finds a dance party in the woods, his ...

‘The Stranger’ Review: An Unexamined Life

A man of indifference becomes a killer in this adaptation of a 1942 Albert Camus...

‘Living the Land’ Review: Rural China in Transition

This drama follows a boy of 10, left in the care of relatives when his parents a...

‘The Truth and Tragedy of Moriah Wilson’ Review: Behind...

A crime documentary on the murder of a professional athlete leans into exploitat...

‘Pizza Movie’ Review: Dude, Where’s My Pie?

After taking psychedelics, college roommates, Jack (Gaten Matarazzo) and Montgom...

‘Star Spangled to Death’: Ken Jacobs’s History of the U...

At the Museum of Modern Art through April 7, audiences can enter and exit a scre...

Slava Tsukerman, Who Directed the Cult Classic ‘Liquid ...

A Russian-born director, he created a film about New Wave models and killer alie...

‘The Super Mario Galaxy Movie’ Review: It’s-a Meh

The sequel to the mega-blockbuster can’t hold still long enough to let us enjoy ...

Three Great Documentaries to Stream

In this month’s picks, reflections on a comedian couple, a charged reality-TV se...

Mary Beth Hurt, Actress Acclaimed in ‘Interiors’ and ‘G...

She elevated supporting roles in films with insight and improvisational skill, a...

With Mario and Minecraft, Hollywood Courts Gamers

Super Mario Bros. and Minecraft became movie blockbusters, and Call of Duty and ...

How a Mistake Made ‘Project Hail Mary’s’ Rocky Into a B...

Rocky was brought to life through a combination of puppetry and visual effects. ...

Alexander Kluge, a Lodestar in New German Cinema Moveme...

A film director, movie theorist and author, he was widely regarded as one of his...

‘Yes’ Review: From Israel, an Uncomfortable Existential...

Nadav Lapid’s scathing tone and accelerated rhythms lead this movie about a marr...