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Lorne (2026) Owen Gleiberman If you’re a “Saturday Night Live” fan, you’re not going to want to miss “Lorne,” since it’s a puckishly delightful and revealing movie.
Posted Apr 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Variations on a Theme (2026) Guy Lodge The film belongs to Farmer, Jacobs’ own grandmother, who gives Hettie an unfussy sturdiness of mien and spirit to counter the growing, sighing frailty of her person, and a steady, narrow stare that occasionally seems to see through time..
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Lee Cronin's The Mummy (2026) Guy Lodge Brashly violent, clattery and pleasingly untied to any direct predecessor, the result is more generic than its braggy auteur claims might promise, but there’s a lot here for gorehounds to feast on.
Posted Apr 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Balls Up (2026) Guy Lodge A mostly pretty innocuous affair, it’s neither good nor bad to any memorable degree, not as riotous as it could have been but not devoid of low-hanging laughs either. It is, in other words, a down-the-middle streaming comedy.
Posted Apr 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Thrash (2026) Owen Gleiberman This is a Netflix and Chomp movie, just 80 minutes long (if you don’t count the closing credits), and the compact run time does more than keep “Thrash” from wearing out its welcome.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Outcome (2026) Guy Lodge It’s hard to imagine this mumbling, shambling man holding multiplex masses in his thrall. As such, he’s a poignant void, but a void nonetheless, and even at a slim 84 minutes, Hill’s doleful film can’t keep us interested in his plight.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Mile End Kicks (2025) Owen Gleiberman Mile End Kicks wants to mirror the haphazard freedom of a young woman out on her own... To that end, the writer-director, Chandler Levack, establishes an agreeably slapdash attitude of hedonistic adventure.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Hunting Matthew Nichols (2024) Dennis Harvey A competently crafted if unmemorable thriller perhaps most impressive for its off-screen enterprise.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Marc by Sofia (2025) Owen Gleiberman I went into the movie eager to see how [Coppola] might dress up the by-now traditional template of a fashion documentary. "Marc by Sofia,” however, turns out to be a surprisingly standard, not-all-that-enthralling entry in the genre.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Mother Mary (2026) Owen Gleiberman This is the David Lowery-est David Lowery movie ever made. Which is to say that by the end of it, you may be scratching your head to the point of wanting your money back.
Posted Apr 14, 2026  Edit critic review
How to Cheat in the Leaving Certificate (1997) Emanuel Levy The director overcomes the limitations of an extremely small budget with considerable technical panache that helps evoke a fanciful mood but doesn’t slight the tale’s more serious points.
Posted Apr 13, 2026  Edit critic review
You, Me & Tuscany (2026) Guy Lodge At nearly every turn, this duly sun-soaked but canned-feeling exercise serves to illustrate just how hard it is to pull off an airy bauble like “Under the Tuscan Sun” or “While You Were Sleeping.”
Posted Apr 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Money From Home (1953) Variety Staff George Marshall directs the Hal Wallis production at a pace that alternates between fast laughs and slow giggles, but the material in the Hal Kanter and James Allardice script is too thin.
Posted Apr 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mouthpiece (1932) Alfred Rushford Greason Flaws and all, it makes an absorbing bit of entertainment, filled with tension and movement. Production is expert and acting throughout uniformly excellent, particularly William's vigorous performance, just sufficiently exaggerated.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Faces of Death (2026) Owen Gleiberman A halfway clever retro slasher movie that, as directed and co-written by Daniel Goldhaber, actually has something on its mind.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Exit 8 (2025) Jessica Kiang While it doesn’t pretend to some grand philosophy, the movie’s sparseness does give it some mileage as an allegory for how changing things up is the only way to break a cycle of destructive, circular thinking.
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
My Brother's Killer (2026) Dennis Harvey "My Brother’s Killer” succeeds on the core level of providing an absorbing real-life mystery whose long-in-coming resolution adds new layers of strangeness and sorrow.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Patsy (1928) Variety Staff Barry Conners’ stage play has been converted with liberal licenses into a dandy laugh picture. Marion Davies does some really great comedy work.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Pal Joey (1957) Variety Staff Pal Joey is a strong, funny entertainment.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie (2026) Owen Gleiberman Not a single one of these characters, including Mario and Luigi, occupies the center of “The Super Mario Galaxy Movie.” And that’s because the movie has no center.
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
The Drama (2026) Owen Gleiberman You’ve got to say this much for Kristoffer Borgli: In “The Drama” he’s an original, like the bastard stepchild of Dogme 95 and “Wedding Crashers.”
Posted Mar 31, 2026  Edit critic review
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) Owen Gleiberman A scary, dizzying and essential documentary. If you have any interest in artificial intelligence (which is to say: the future), you should go out and see it right now.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Mike & Nick & Nick & Alice (2026) Stephen Saito Quite a good time.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Campeón Gabacho (2026) Carlos Aguilar To see this marginalized and dismissed underdog win, even if nothing could be further from surprising, resonates with piercing timeliness, if not with subtlety.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
K-Pops! (2024) Tomris Laffly "K-Pops!" lovingly spreads some uncynical fun and happiness to the world, and proudly wears its specific perspective on its sleeve.
Posted Mar 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Their Town (2026) Tomris Laffly With a charming New England backdrop, this occasionally strained yet disarming drama nods to Richard Linklater’s 'Before' trilogy.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Chili Finger (2026) Tomris Laffly A fun and riotous ride in the spirit of the Coen Brothers. Like a hearty bowl of (hopefully finger-free) chili would, it hits the spot.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Manhood (2026) Tomris Laffly Following an entrepreneur of safe penile enhancements and two of his patients, Lombroso finds humanity, humor, and empathy in the fragility of the male self-esteem.
Posted Mar 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Peril at Pincer Point (2026) Guy Lodge Either a satire or a celebration of independent filmmaking at its most impractically intrepid, this microbudget curio wears a hotchpotch of influences on its stained, frayed sleeve, but still maintains its own perverse, peculiar voice.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Tow (2025) Owen Gleiberman “Tow” is a minor indie that doesn’t always make the right moves, but Byrne seizes her character and turns the question of whether you like her or not into the film’s dramatic motor.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
The Second Civil War (1997) Ray Richmond Instead of the second coming of “Dr. Strangelove” or “Network,” we get something resembling a collaboration between Michael Moore and Timothy McVeigh. And it’s too bad, because there is a lot to like about “Second Civil War."
Posted Mar 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Mr. Burton (2025) Guy Lodge It’s a little disappointing that “Mr. Burton” remains so coy around Philip’s inner life and yearnings, though Jones’s graceful, precise performance in nuanced in its unspoken implications.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Family Movie (2026) Stephen Saito While little is taken seriously by the filmmakers, Dan Beers’ script does just enough dramatic legwork to get at the heart of the family’s issues.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
They Will Kill You (2026) Siddhant Adlakha Rapidly-diminishing returns, with derivative formal flourishes that largely recall other, better films. It is, by the time its credits roll, completely exhausting.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Forbidden Fruits (2026) Owen Gleiberman That, in fact, is what makes the film original — its perception that for these girls, progressive anger is now inseparable from fashion.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Basic (2026) Courtney Howard Cute but never cloying, the romantic comedy’s good-natured humor and heart connect in a smart, refreshingly unfussy manner.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Power Ballad (2026) Owen Gleiberman What makes “Power Ballad” a terrific film is how much we believe this story. Rudd makes Rick a fully felt presence, a gifted musician with a dad-rock swagger.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Saviors (2026) Siddhant Adlakha Hamedani’s comedic stylings ensure the film retains some semblance of momentum, even when it runs in circles.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Over Your Dead Body (2026) Owen Gleiberman “Over Your Dead Body” may on some level be a hyper-violent video game, but it’s like a video game as staged by Hitchcock.
Posted Mar 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Sender (2026) Courtney Howard Boldly off-kilter, brilliant and bizarre, its dark humor and taut psychological horror are laced together in a delightfully heady blend.
Posted Mar 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Pizza Movie (2026) Guy Lodge “Pizza Movie” is disposable, practically by design, but it may have happened upon a comic duo worth reteaming.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Kill Me (2026) Stephen Saito Externalizing the steps of deeply internal emotional progress Jimmy and Margot make with one another’s help can occasionally seem like a separate pursuit from satisfying genre expectations when it really does appear there’s a killer on the loose.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Drag (2026) Dennis Harvey It’s a narrow, somewhat one-note, crisis-driven premise that might’ve worked just as well as a short. To the filmmakers’ credit, though, tension and edgy humor are sustained for nearly 90 minutes of caustic entertainment.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Crash Land (2026) Carlos Aguilar “Crash Land” moves through familiar avenues structurally, yet its winsome nitwits become its greatest virtue.
Posted Mar 14, 2026  Edit critic review
The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers: Our Brother, Hillel (2026) Owen Gleiberman “The Rise of the Red Hot Chili Peppers” is totally worth seeing, but the film feels like an indirect act of contrition, which may be why it turns into an overdone lament.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
I Love Boosters (2026) Owen Gleiberman The movie, a tall tale of clothes encounters, doesn’t always work. Yet there’s something disarming about how Riley’s sense of play holds this street-smart meta-rebellion fantasy together. He loves boosters, and everything else he shows you.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Reminders of Him (2026) Owen Gleiberman “Reminders of Him” is notably restrained -- a good thing more than not, even if the film does get a bit languid at times. It tells its story without making us feel used.
Posted Mar 11, 2026  Edit critic review
The Education of Jane Cumming (2026) Guy Lodge The result is easily the most satisfying screen outing yet for this story material: a classically well-made and affectingly performed period drama.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Flies (2026) Guy Lodge If “Flies” is familiar in many senses, it’s too warmly and honestly felt to feel formulaic, and while its young lead Bastian Escobar is winsome as can be, the film is colored by a deeper melancholy that staves off cutesiness.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Soumsoum, The Night of the Stars (2026) Murtada Elfadl Only intermittently entertaining. It has moments of beauty and even poetry, but too many others of tedium.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
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