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Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story (2026) Bilge Ebiri Watching Paralyzed by Hope, we start to understand why other comedians, including Apatow himself, would be so fascinated and electrified by Bamford’s work. She lives on the front lines of a war others only occasionally allow themselves to fight.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
The Oldest Person in the World (2026) Bilge Ebiri For a movie so filled with death, The Oldest Person in the World is surprisingly, almost confrontationally life-affirming. That sounds cheap, but Green comes by the sentiment honestly.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Filipiñana (2026) Bilge Ebiri Through heightened control of imagery and mood, attention to composition and texture and sound, Manuel turns this simple, languid setting into something far more sinister without ever betraying the beauty of what's onscreen.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
One in a Million (2026) Bilge Ebiri The unique achievement of One in a Million lies in the way it allows us to know this young woman while it preserves the mystery of a human soul.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
The Moment (2026) Bilge Ebiri The point of a behind-the-scenes rock doc is that we’re getting something that feels like a true portrait of the artist. The Moment thinks it can have the best of both worlds, but it gives us neither.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Josephine (2026) Bilge Ebiri Josephine might not tell a particularly original story, but it tells it in a way that makes us see the world anew.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Union County (2026) Bilge Ebiri That it features a great performance from one of today’s most interesting actors[ Will Poulter] makes it that much more memorable.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
The Gallerist (2026) Bilge Ebiri I found myself charmed and fully invested in it. The film’s poppy vibrancy, its mood of absurdist anguish, its sheer velocity won me over.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Knife: The Attempted Murder of Salman Rushdie (2026) Bilge Ebiri Knife is a simple documentary on its surface — and, as Gibney noted at the premiere, he came onboard after Griffiths had already shot much of the footage — but that simplicity is one of its virtues.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
North (1994) David Denby Rob Reiner's disastrously unfunny North features TV-sketch gags devoted to a TV-sketch idea.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Invite (2026) Bilge Ebiri The Invite goes to some odd places, but with each new turn in these relationships, the picture loses steam, perhaps because they’ve never come across as real people and these emotional twists don’t feel fully earned.
Posted Jan 26, 2026  Edit critic review
I Want Your Sex (2026) Bilge Ebiri The director and his cast are clearly having so much fun, and that fun carries through to the audience. Who ultimately cares if they don’t quite stick the landing?
Posted Jan 24, 2026  Edit critic review
The American President (1995) David Denby They seem to be trying for soulful Capraesque fable. The trouble is, you can't do Capra by calculation. Either you have something like his warmth and charm or you don't, and Sorkin and Reiner are too knowing.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Bite the Bullet (1975) Judith Crist Brooks' use of the camera is simply stunning in its depiction of the grandeur of the West.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
All You Need Is Kill (2025) Maya Phillips Beyond alien plant-life, beyond a never-ending battle for humanity, lies the resilience of these characters, who are forced to face death continuously today, yet still strive to live for tomorrow.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Bilge Ebiri The beauty of DaCosta’s film is that these particular ideas are worked in subtly, even though The Bone Temple itself is not what one might call subtle.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Stand by Me (1986) David Denby Stand by Me, from first shot to last, the work of a genuine film artist.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Primate (2025) Bilge Ebiri Primate lacks in terms of narrative complication, it makes up for with cinematic smarts, as director Roberts ably uses form to build suspense, conveying plot points via images instead of dialogue and refreshingly avoiding the usual jump-scare clichés.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Greenland 2: Migration (2026) Bilge Ebiri Greenland 2 rarely coheres as a successful disaster picture — especially when compared to the wonderful original — but we do wind up caring for these characters, which feels like some sort of small victory.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
A Few Good Men (1992) David Denby I enjoy courtroom drama, and so I relished this movie, which offers military men in court, but I'm baffled by the talk of A Few Good Men as a classic.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
The Sure Thing (1985) David Denby Reiner has a gift. Along with Ron Howard, he could be that rare thing -- a comedy director with a naturally romantic temperament.
Posted Jan 08, 2026  Edit critic review
When Harry Met Sally... (1989) David Denby In this society, someone with a strong idea of how people should behave is a rarity, but, like all rule makers, Ephron arouses a spirit of revolt.
Posted Jan 06, 2026  Edit critic review
3.5/4
Marty Supreme (2025) Max Weiss Chalamet is fantastic in this role. It may very well be his best work yet, in a career filled with excellent performances.
Posted Dec 29, 2025  Edit critic review
Anaconda (2025) Alison Willmore Anaconda is too grown-up to work for the Jumanji set but not grown-up enough to actually explore these disappointments and deferred dreams.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Bilge Ebiri Marty Supreme is enormously entertaining on a basic cinematic level.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Hook (1991) David Denby Spielberg appears to have lost his sense of timing. Hook has physical movement without physical excitement. At times I thought I was stuck in Disneyland's Jungle Cruise, complete with rubber apes and wraparound vines.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Kumail Nanjiani: Night Thoughts (2025) Kathryn VanArendonk By the time it gets there, Night Thoughts has earned that sincerity and Nanjiani has successfully reminded everyone why he’s on the stage at all: Oh right. He was a comedian first.
Posted Dec 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Roxana Hadadi The franchise has always centered Blanc as the champion of the underserved, but in leaning away from his shenanigans and slapstick and making space for someone like Father Jud to illustrate the film’s worldview... shows how much it has on its mind.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Bilge Ebiri Fire and Ash is in some ways the messiest of the three Avatar movies, but it’s also the richest, the one in which we most lose ourselves, the one that makes us wonder about these characters and constantly peer into those rapturous backgrounds.
Posted Dec 16, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Alison Willmore Ella McCay feels like outsider art — like it was made without any familiarity with the conventions of narrative structure or character beats.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
True Lies (1994) David Denby Cameron is a man who puts the metal on the screen.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
The Abyss (1989) David Denby One of the most doggedly humorless adventure films in years and the narrative is a water-soaked mess.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
3/4
Jay Kelly (2025) Max Weiss There’s excellent here work from Clooney, who gives arguably his best performance ever in this a meta dissection of his own career and of the strange paradox of having a life that belongs to everyone but yourself.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair (2006) Bilge Ebiri Before our very eyes, Kill Bill: The Whole Bloody Affair becomes a modern-day Odyssey.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) David Denby Terminator 2 is among the most exciting spectacles ever made.
Posted Dec 08, 2025  Edit critic review
Five Nights at Freddy's 2 (2025) Bilge Ebiri The trauma theme, much discussed by the characters, doesn’t really get any kind of aesthetic workout. Even the film’s central idea of a child communing with giant, surreal automatons, is ultimately a nonstarter. It’s just a thing that happens.
Posted Dec 05, 2025  Edit critic review
A Christmas Carol (1984) John Leonard As Scrooge, Scott is wonderful.
Posted Dec 04, 2025  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Alison Willmore If The Secret Agent is as complex and rewarding as a taste from a dusty bottle of wine, it’s also part of an ongoing consideration in this year’s releases about what it means to be part of a resistance.
Posted Dec 01, 2025  Edit critic review
Eternity (2025) Bilge Ebiri Most significantly, Olsen adds compelling layers of tenderness to Joan’s ongoing uncertainty: She genuinely doesn’t know which man to go with, and we believe it.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Zootopia 2 (2025) Alison Willmore Zootopia 2 sets up parallels that strain even more at the seams.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Rental Family (2025) Bilge Ebiri Rental Family might be a modestly likable, often uneven movie about a fictional American actor in Japan, but it’s also a thoroughly fascinating movie about a very real actor in the midst of one of the strangest careers I’ve witnessed.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
4/4
Sentimental Value (2025) Max Weiss Trier, who has two young daughters himself, directs the whole affair with beauty and pathos and wit. His deeply humane film is an object lesson: You don’t need to be monomaniacal to make great art.
Posted Nov 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Bilge Ebiri It brings the Wicked cycle to a surprisingly satisfying conclusion, at least for now.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Wiz (1978) New York Mag/Vulture Staff Tony Walton's huge sets serve mainly as static backdrops, and director Sidney Lumet can't seem to find a place to put the camera.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Running Man (2025) Alison Willmore The Running Man is just close enough to our reality for what it’s missing to feel hopelessly distracting, and what it’s missing, more than anything, are the online forces shaping our reality.
Posted Nov 14, 2025  Edit critic review
Predator: Badlands (2025) Bilge Ebiri Predator: Badlands is a charming surprise.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Ballad of a Small Player (2025) Alison Willmore As a portrait of addiction or depression, Ballad of a Small Player is flat.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Regretting You (2025) Bilge Ebiri It’s hard to tell just how much of the humor in this film is intentional. Perhaps the idea is to show how awkward things can happen in the midst of unspeakable sadness, but here it all feels so choreographed, so telegraphed, that abject lunacy ensues.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Bilge Ebiri At its best, the film gives us a sincere look at the creative process and reveals it to be a sad, scary, at times uncontrollable and destructive thing. Just for that alone, it’s worth seeing.
Posted Oct 27, 2025  Edit critic review
Dracula (1979) David Denby This howling dog of a movie is often incoherent... the movie is cheesy on a grand scale.
Posted Oct 23, 2025  Edit critic review
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