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EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Kyle Smith Mr. Luhrmann has done us all a service by combing through the available footage, coming up with many clips the public hasn’t seen before, and delivering an Elvis who in the ’70s was not always at his best but was still a spangled dynamo.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
How to Make a Killing (2026) Kyle Smith [Glen Powell] could easily put his skills to use playing a duplicitous sociopath in a psychological drama, but as a comedy “Killing” is simply dead.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Midwinter Break (2026) Kyle Smith Though the story wells with tenderness, it isn’t executed with much verve. Ms. Findlay’s direction is patient to a fault.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Four Rational People (2025) Zachary Barnes The legacy of the Emerson String Quartet includes dozens of recordings, and it’s probably in those that the deepest lessons lie. For anyone curious to meet the musicians who made them, “Four Rational People” is a decent introduction.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
Sun Ra: Do the Impossible (2024) John Anderson Like Sun Ra’s music, the motion picture is deliberately fractured, the virtues to be found in the departures from the expected, the familiar, the comfortable.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
3/4
Erin Brockovich (2000) Joe Morgenstern This is a terrific movie, with a starring performance by Julia Roberts that's as funny, romantic and justifiably self-confident as any seen on the screen since Hollywood's golden age.
Posted Feb 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Crime 101 (2026) Kyle Smith That “Crime 101” seeks to position itself as a successor to “Heat” is laughable. A more accurate title would have been “Lukewarmth.”
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Zachary Barnes The movie is, among other things, very specifically and unabashedly Canadian, and made with evident love for its city. But I expect this is a comedy that can transcend borders.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Wuthering Heights (2026) Kyle Smith When you’ve got two actors as luminous as Ms. Robbie and Mr. Elordi, you don’t need them to say clever things, and they don’t.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Heaven (1987) Peter Tonguette The argument may not be as strong as the best apologetics, but it makes for an endlessly engaging, one-of-a-kind film.
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Chocolat (2000) Joe Morgenstern A truly astonishing exercise in retro-Gallic nostalgia. I kept gagging on this treacly fantasy as I haven't done since poor Ms. Caron played opposite Horst Buchholz in Joshua Logan's screen version of "Fanny."
Posted Feb 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) Joe Morgenstern This is a drama to savor, a spectacle to revel in, a romance to inhale, between gasps.
Posted Feb 11, 2026  Edit critic review
Pillion (2025) Zachary Barnes It could have been simply shocking, revving its engine in sexed-up style. Instead, as a vehicle for a pair of wonderful performances, “Pillion” purrs.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Calle Málaga (2025) Kyle Smith Ms. Touzani, whose previous films included 2019’s “Adam” and 2022’s “The Blue Caftan,” has made a film of simple, light appeal, relying heavily on her star’s late-blooming impishness.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Dracula (2025) Kyle Smith Mr. Jones is not a star and falls short of generating the level of creepy charisma Gary Oldman displayed in the 1992 film. Meant to be all-powerful and spellbinding, he comes across as merely eccentric.
Posted Feb 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Queen of Chess (2026) John Anderson Ms. Kennedy does such an outstanding job of creating suspense out of what is now 30-year-old history... I don’t play chess. It didn’t matter.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Miracle: The Boys of '80 (2026) John Anderson All this is recalled in highly entertaining fashion, the highlights on ice interspersed with the warm memories of the players, many of whom still harbor mixed feelings about Brooks.
Posted Jan 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The Invite (2026) Kyle Smith The script by Rashida Jones and Will McCormack (based on a 2020 Spanish film) is an increasingly high-stakes farce that turns surprisingly poignant in its more low-key third act.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
I Want Your Sex (2026) Kyle Smith Ms. Wilde is outrageously funny in the movie, whose sexually explicit nature was an eyebrow-raiser even for this famously unruly celebration of edgy work.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
A Poet (2025) Zachary Barnes A comedy that’s frequently smart in its consideration of art, class, commerce and curdled ambition. But if poetry is about saying a lot in a little, then by the end of its two-hour runtime A Poet comes off more like funny but flabby prose.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Mercy (2026) Kyle Smith The biggest mystery involved in “Mercy” is not who killed Mrs. Raven but why a star with Mr. Pratt’s everyman charisma keeps choosing such mediocre projects.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Arco (2025) Kyle Smith One of those old-fashioned feature cartoons that seems aimed at pleasing half-asleep old people rather than lively youngsters.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Beast of War (2025) John Anderson It’s terrifying -- perhaps more terrifying in how it compels the viewer to imagine being in the same situation than in how the subsequent shark attacks are actually staged; some viewers will likely be as disturbed by the claustrophobia as by the teeth.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
Sound of Falling (2025) Kyle Smith The film is, in a sense, a necrology that takes a bleak and unsentimental stance on human suffering. Its effects are woozily disorienting, as though we’re all just ghosts drifting through spaces occupied by much more lasting things such as houses.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Kyle Smith Quirky touches, dry wit and first-rate characterizations make “The Bone Temple” a rare treat and one of the finest zombie movies I’ve seen, not to mention a major improvement from last summer’s third entry in the series.
Posted Jan 17, 2026  Edit critic review
The Rip (2026) John Anderson A sturdily entertaining, hyper-kinetic avalanche of action propelled by equal parts bullets and f-bombs.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Young Mothers (2025) Kyle Smith Like many shallow effects-driven blockbusters, the supposedly deep “Young Mothers” has nothing to say. Does it have any reason to exist other than to serve up poverty porn?
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
OBEX (2025) Kyle Smith The strangely fascinating use of ancient technology -- dot-matrix printers, floppy disks, a mid-’80s computer that was then known as the Macintosh -- is a pleasure, though far from the only one in “OBEX.”
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Out of the Past (1947) Peter Cowie “Out of the Past,” despite its dense pattern of flashbacks, deception and betrayal, unfolds with a lucidity rare in film noir.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not (2025) John Anderson Mr. Chase still tries to be funny here, sometimes desperately, and isn’t. Which along with a career’s worth of ill will puts the sting in “I’m Chevy Chase and You’re Not.”
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Kyle Smith Certain to be rated the greatest 2.5-hour ping-pong movie ever, Marty Supreme takes a tired formula only to pull it apart and reassemble it with wicked intent, like a psychotic toddler experimenting on his sister’s hapless doll.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Zachary Barnes Delivered in a style that evokes its historical moment while also cutting across time to the present, it lands with the enthralling, incantatory force of urgent prayer.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Kyle Smith Those who dread being knocked over the head with a political message can rest easy; it’s an amusing caper, not a stern lecture.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Anaconda (2025) Kyle Smith Jack Black and Paul Rudd are nearly always enjoyable, even when working with less-than-scintillating material, and each has a boyish streak that’s exactly the right register for this exercise in silliness.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Choral (2025) Kyle Smith Despite dealing with an oratorio, “The Choral” is more of a medley, briefly touching on one theme after another, but never convincingly.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Cover-Up (2025) John Anderson “In case anybody cares,” he tells his directors at one point, “this is becoming less and less fun.” Speak for yourself.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
The Best You Can (2025) John Anderson The boomer afflictions that create the situations in “The Best You Can” -- physical, mental, financial, attitudinal -- are handled gently, though with enough weight to provide a foundation for the charm brought by Ms. Sedgwick and Mr. Bacon.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Song Sung Blue (2025) Kyle Smith The determination to find greatness in the ordinary gives “Song Sung Blue” a magical, unforced luminescence that much more immodest films usually lack.
Posted Dec 24, 2025  Edit critic review
David (2025) Kyle Smith David may be a towering figure of biblical lore, but this telling of a chapter of his story is not merely animated, it’s cartoonish.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Kyle Smith The digital delights of “Fire and Ash” are simply unsupported by any dramatic foundation; the script is so ludicrously weak that you might as well try to balance a rocket ship on top of a styrofoam cup.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Breakdown: 1975 (2025) John Anderson His premise is flawed, and not just in terms of release dates.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Housemaid (2025) Kyle Smith Diabolically entertaining. Based on the novel by the pseudonymous Freida McFadden, “The Housemaid” is a delightful hall of mirrors in which reality turns out to be subject to infinite modification.
Posted Dec 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Goodbye June (2025) Zachary Barnes That Goodbye June comes instead from a script by someone born this century may have something to do with the fact that it feels less like a wise and thoughtful drama than a mopey Christmas pageant.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Sarah Squirm: Live + In The Flesh (2025) John Anderson It may well be an act, but her humor can be interpreted as a Beckettian grin in the face of overwhelming 21st-century angst, even existential terror.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Kyle Smith “Ella McCay” is not quotable. It is not believable. It is not likable. It’s not even digestible. For an ordinary filmmaker, it would be merely a disaster. For James L. Brooks, it’s more like a tragedy.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Scarlet (2025) Kyle Smith Hosoda can hardly be blamed for failing to answer these questions, but he can be blamed for pointlessly bringing them up in the first place. The many self-interrogating interludes are intended to add depth but serve only to create a drag on the action.
Posted Dec 11, 2025  Edit critic review
Influencers (2025) John Anderson “Influencers” both dwells in and demolishes an online, text-happy, selfie-saturated world, one that thrives on misinformation and FOMO-mongering and drives CW more than a little crazy. Watching poseurs brought down is fun, though. So is Ms. Naud.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
The Baltimorons (2025) John Anderson The texture of the picture, as well as some camera moves straight out of the ’70s, makes this Jay Duplass-directed anti-rom-com into an instant retro-holiday chestnut, a double eggnog with a small-batch bourbon chaser.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Architecton (2024) John Anderson Great artists major in defiance and minor in delusion: You will want to see what I have to offer, and love it, even if it is unfamiliar, disquieting and as ravishingly uncommercial as “Architecton.”
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
Between Goodbyes (2024) John Anderson “Between Goodbyes” concerns the most important event that ever happened to the real people in this real story. And yet it is precisely a lack of hyperbole or hysteria -- a quieting control, one might say -- that makes it so moving.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
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