Latest Movie Reviews
‘Devo’ Review: New Wave Radicals Get the Smart, Freewheeling Appreciation They Deserve
Chris Smith offers a welcome corrective to the misconception that the band from industrial Ohio were one-hit wonders or that their eccentricities didn’t have philosophical foundations.
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‘Seeking Mavis Beacon’ Review: An Enlightening Debut Doc Dives Into the Past to Ponder the Digital Future
Two women investigate the real person behind an educational software from the '80s, raising urgent questions about our relationship to technology.
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‘Daughters’ Review: A Potent Documentary Nearly Undone by Its Anticlimactic Structure
Directors Angela Patton and Natalie Rae look at a program that reunites girls with their incarcerated fathers for an emotional daddy-daughter dance.
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‘Will & Harper’ Review: Will Ferrell and Harper Steele Charm Their Way Through an Endearing Road Trip Doc
After the former SNL writer came out as trans, she and the comedian traveled across America to process her transition and reaffirm their friendship.
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‘Suncoast’ Review: Laura Linney and Nico Parker in Contrived but Affecting Tearjerker About Grief and Compassion
Woody Harrelson also stars in Laura Chinn’s first feature as writer-director, inspired by her own family’s painful personal history.
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‘Rob Peace’ Review: Chiwetel Ejiofor Crafts a Conventional but Stirring True Story of Talent, Struggle and Tragedy
The actor helms and stars alongside Mary J. Blige, Jay Will and Camila Cabello in an adaptation of Jeff Hobbs' book about a gifted young man reconciling his past and his future.
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‘As We Speak’ Review: A Revealing Exposé on the Criminalization of Rap Lyrics
The debut documentary by editor J.M. Harper ('Jeen-yuhs: A Kanye Trilogy') focuses on the the U.S criminal justice system's reliance on hip-hop songs to provide evidence against defendants.
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‘In the Summers’ Review: A Quiet Debut Poetically Explores Forgiveness Between Parent and Child
Alessandra Lacorazza's first feature chronicles the relationship between a father and his two kids over four summers.
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‘A New Kind of Wilderness’ Review: A Small but Stirring Portrait of a Family in Transition
Silje Evensmo Jacobsen's doc spends time with a Norwegian family after the death of their blogging matriarch, when they leave their life of rural isolation but try to hold on to her ideals.
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‘The American Society of Magical Negroes’ Review: Justice Smith and David Alan Grier Star in a Satire Suffering From an Identity Crisis
The first feature from writer-director Kobi Libii revolves around a young artist recruited to be part of a group whose mission is to ease white people's discomfort.
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‘Look Into My Eyes’ Review: Lana Wilson’s Doc About New York City Psychics Doesn’t See Much
The 'Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields' filmmaker trains her eye on a group of New York City psychics and their sessions with clients.
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‘My Old Ass’ Review: Aubrey Plaza in a Sweet Shot of Nostalgia Mixing Romance, Comedy and a Sprinkling of Fantasy
Exciting discovery Maisy Stella stars in writer-director Megan Park’s second feature, a poignant coming-of-age tale in which an 18-year-old meets herself, two decades her senior.
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‘Luther: Never Too Much’ Review: Dawn Porter’s Ebullient Tribute to a Singular R&B Balladeer
The director's latest documentary, which counts Jamie Foxx and Colin Firth as producers, explores Luther Vandross' career and personal struggles.
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‘The Moogai’ Review: Indigenous Australian Trauma Feeds Supernatural Horror in Mixed-Bag Expansion of Potent Short
Writer-director Jon Bell’s debut feature uses a predatory monster as an allegory for the Stolen Generations, Aboriginal children taken from their parents in white assimilation programs.
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‘A Different Man’ Review: Sebastian Stan Drops the Mask in a Provocative Dark Comedy With a Heart
Renate Reinsve ('The Worst Person in the World') and Adam Pearson ('Under the Skin') co-star in writer-director Aaron Schimberg’s twisted New York-set fable.
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‘Union’ Review: A Smart, Compellingly Complicated Documentary About the Amazon Union Struggle
Stephen Maing and Brett Story follow Chris Smalls and the fledgling Amazon Labor Union in the quest to organize workers at Amazon warehouses in Staten Island.
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