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Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) Richard Brody The result, featuring a copious voice-over by Talankin, is an exemplary work of cinematic modernism, a reflexive film that turns its genesis into its subject and its moral essence.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
Natchez (2025) Richard Brody The documentary puts personalities to ideas; it teems with notable characters, spanning a range from righteous to indifferent to ignoble, who excel at speaking their minds and expressing their emotions when a camera is pointed at them.
Posted Jan 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Voice of Hind Rajab (2025) Justin Chang The result feels like a cavalier stunt-- an audio-documentary shrine erected on a wobbly visual-narrative foundation... “The Voice of Hind Rajab” ultimately overpowers the voice of Hind Rajab.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
A Private Life (2025) Richard Brody Foster gives a taut performance despite the unstrung absurdities of the plot. The story is anchored in Paris’s Jewish community, but the context remains anecdotal and unexplored.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple (2026) Justin Chang What makes your own skin crawl isn’t just the hideousness of the violence but the unblinking matter-of-factness with which DaCosta films it. She serves it straight up, without gusto -- and does not leave you hungry for more.
Posted Jan 20, 2026  Edit critic review
All That's Left of You (2025) Justin Chang Salim and Hanan are tasked with some agonizingly significant decisions on their son’s behalf, and “All That’s Left of You” probes those decisions with understated gravity and nuance.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
The Chronology of Water (2025) Richard Brody The movie’s remarkable approach to memory presents it as the opposite of free association—call it compulsory association, the suppression of freedom by the power of ingrained and imposed patterns.
Posted Jan 14, 2026  Edit critic review
Gaslight (1944) Pauline Kael This pseudo-Victorian thriller is more enjoyable than one might expect. Bergman is, intermittently, genuinely moving.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Dead Man's Wire (2025) Richard Brody The movie’s tight focus on the sixty-three hours of Tony’s furious spree sacrifices any chance of a fuller view of his personality, his thoughts, his imaginings. Its treatment of the media-world subplot is both too little and too much.
Posted Jan 13, 2026  Edit critic review
The Testament of Ann Lee (2025) Justin Chang I confess that I was held so spellbound by Fastvold’s musical flights of fancy-- and by the attendant sweep and muscularity of her filmmaking -- that I felt let down by the more prosaic moments, when everyone doesn’t erupt into song and dance.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Magellan (2025) Justin Chang Magellan isn’t an action movie; it’s a consequence movie. But Diaz, within all this meticulous subtraction, adds dramatic heft and political meaning. In draining any visceral excitement from violence, he subtly decolonizes the camera’s gaze.
Posted Jan 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Out of the Past (1947) Pauline Kael A thin but well-shot suspense melodrama.
Posted Jan 07, 2026  Edit critic review
Young Mothers (2025) Richard Brody If the film’s interplay of stories tilts toward the schematic, it also encourages us to look past the straightforward trappings of realism and discern a deeper structure of rhyme and rhythm.
Posted Jan 02, 2026  Edit critic review
No Other Choice (2025) Justin Chang Lee throws himself into all of it with a sad-sack slapstick energy that never undercuts -- and, remarkably, even enhances -- the psychological acuity of his acting.
Posted Dec 23, 2025  Edit critic review
Death Race 2000 (1975) Pauline Kael The picture zips along, and there's a flip craziness about it -- it's an ideal drive-in movie.
Posted Dec 22, 2025  Edit critic review
Marty Supreme (2025) Richard Brody It’s one of the very few movies that dramatize -- hyperbolically, comedically, even mockingly, yet optimistically -- the boldness unto folly of a young fanatic turning ambition into reality..
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Father Mother Sister Brother (2025) Richard Brody It’s principally a textual experiment that suggests, even quasi-scientifically, the underlying universality of families amid their aesthetic differences.
Posted Dec 20, 2025  Edit critic review
Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) Justin Chang Presumably, Cameron has a long-term destination in mind, but here, falling back on the habitual flatness of his characterizations and the self-admiring wretchedness of his dialogue, he almost seems to be stalling for time.
Posted Dec 17, 2025  Edit critic review
Is This Thing On? (2025) Justin Chang A modestly scaled but enormously affecting new picture directed by Bradley Cooper.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Ella McCay (2025) Richard Brody Despite the heartwarming story that’s revealed, this is an anti-romantic comedy of failed males and the trouble they cause. Brooks gazes hopefully at a new generation of self-unsure men whose acceptance of weakness is their strength.
Posted Dec 13, 2025  Edit critic review
Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) Justin Chang Johnson is saved, so to speak, by his refusal of condescension; he’s fastidiously committed to taking seriously the things that many others don’t, whether they be mysteries as a genre or mysteries of faith.
Posted Dec 12, 2025  Edit critic review
True Lies (1994) Anthony Lane The tale begins and ends in a flurry of joke violence; Cameron has decided to spoof what he used to take seriously, and the result, though bright and deafening, feels oddly slack—he loosens the screws, and our interest drops away.
Posted Dec 10, 2025  Edit critic review
Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk (2025) Richard Brody Farsi hasn’t made a rhetorical film of persuasion -- anyone who needs a name and a face to be moved by reports of killings is beyond persuading -- but a personal memorial for a friend and a public archive of that friend’s work.
Posted Dec 09, 2025  Edit critic review
Suburban Fury (2024) Richard Brody The context is filled out with a tangy gathering of archival clips; the effect is a refraction of history through a uniquely warped prism, to nonetheless revelatory effect.
Posted Dec 02, 2025  Edit critic review
The Secret Agent (2025) Richard Brody [Writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho] crafts a tight story with startling freedom, leaping between characters in order to conjure their fateful interconnections, while giving them all, persecuted and persecutors alike, an identity and a voice.
Posted Nov 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Benita (2025) Richard Brody Berliner honors a fascinating artist who, with grim irony, becomes better known than ever through his memorial tribute.
Posted Nov 25, 2025  Edit critic review
Wicked: For Good (2025) Justin Chang Onstage, all this narrative retconning has a breezy behind-the-scenes cleverness, as if the story were being slyly fleshed out in the margins. Onscreen, and on full display, it’s close to an abomination.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Hamnet (2025) Justin Chang The movie whispers poetic sublimities in your ear one minute and tosses its prestige ambitions in your face the next. The whiplash is disorienting, but, somewhat paradoxically, the characters’ romantic upheaval provides its own center of gravity.
Posted Nov 24, 2025  Edit critic review
Zodiac Killer Project (2025) Richard Brody With its cagey pursuit of impossible dreams, Shackleton’s hypothetical method, both copious and withholding, is a leap ahead in first-person cinema.
Posted Nov 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Jay Kelly (2025) Justin Chang Baumbach’s sensibility cuts both ways. You can knock him for going soft or praise him for finding the sharp edges in soft material. The argument is settled in his favor by Sandler.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Peter Hujar's Day (2025) Richard Brody Sachs presents his characters’ intellect and emotion, their artistic energy, as inseparable from physicality: he avoids the cliché of talking heads and realizes the idea of talking bodies.
Posted Nov 07, 2025  Edit critic review
Die My Love (2025) Richard Brody What’s lacking throughout, with this suppression of practicalities in favor of shocks and thrills, is imagination. Ramsay drowns her story in the extraordinary and can’t be bothered with what’s dramatic in the ordinary elements of her characters’ lives.
Posted Nov 04, 2025  Edit critic review
Fire of Wind (2024) Richard Brody What makes “Fire of Wind” superior to the kind of topicality that passes for political filmmaking in the art-house mainstream is its metapolitical essence.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Frankenstein (2025) Justin Chang Just as Victor’s Harlander-funded experiment goes logistically awry, so del Toro’s Netflix-backed dream project feels, for all its beauties and intricacies, like a technologically compromised creature.
Posted Oct 30, 2025  Edit critic review
Bugonia (2025) Justin Chang “Bugonia” is an altogether more intoxicating specimen. Lanthimos's gaze, so exactingly attuned to human ugliness, has seldom given us lovelier things to look at.
Posted Oct 26, 2025  Edit critic review
Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) Richard Brody No one expects a bio-pixposé of the Boss, but this movie is so respectful and dignified as to seem like puff.
Posted Oct 26, 2025  Edit critic review
The Perfect Neighbor (2025) Jessica Winter I haven’t felt such visceral and intensely gendered loathing for a documentary termagant since “Dear Zachary.”
Posted Oct 18, 2025  Edit critic review
Hedda (2025) Richard Brody Thompson’s compressed fury provides a fiery core for DaCosta’s cinematic vision. The director wrenches apart Ibsen’s terse and precise mechanism and makes room for a proliferation of arresting moments.
Posted Oct 18, 2025  Edit critic review
The Mastermind (2025) Richard Brody It offers the pleasures of being caught off guard both by major twists and by minor details whose startling originality merits discussion but that viewers should be allowed to discover unprepared.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE (2025) Justin Chang When the experience was over, my cuticles were entirely intact, and, throughout, the only alarm I could muster was for Bigelow -- a creeping fear that she had gone to battle with mediocre material and lost.
Posted Oct 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Nouvelle Vague (2025) Richard Brody “Nouvelle Vague” isn’t a portrait of Godard by Linklater but a feature-length thank-you note, from Richard to Jean-Luc, for freeing him to make films his own way.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
Blue Moon (2025) Richard Brody Blue Moon revels in a fine mind and a great soul, and Hawke’s embodiment of both is exalted and startling. His makeup renders him unrecognizable and is eerily compelling, while his vocal self-transformation is nothing short of miraculous.
Posted Oct 12, 2025  Edit critic review
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025) Justin Chang From scene to scene, “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” can feel so formally aggressive, verging on assaultive, that it takes a moment to appreciate that it’s also a movie of strategic elisions and structured absences.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Richard Brody Anderson elicits memorable inflections of dialogue, intent glances, brazen thrashes of energy and outbursts of fury from his charismatic cast, making “One Battle After Another” a feast of inspired and dedicated acting.
Posted Oct 09, 2025  Edit critic review
After the Hunt (2025) Justin Chang “After the Hunt” will be derided as little more than an intellectual parlor trick, a flimsy house of cards. I wouldn’t disagree, but few directors build more luxurious houses than Guadagnino does, whatever the materials.
Posted Oct 03, 2025  Edit critic review
The Smashing Machine (2025) Richard Brody Safdie takes a story of passion and fury, of rage and torment, and reduces it to the arm’s-length mode of the interesting.
Posted Oct 01, 2025  Edit critic review
One Battle After Another (2025) Justin Chang One Battle After Another, as great an American movie as I’ve seen this year, doesn’t simply meet the moment; with extraordinary tenderness, fury, and imagination, it forges a moment all its own, and insists that better ones could still lie ahead.
Posted Sep 26, 2025  Edit critic review
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey (2025) Richard Brody The refinement of Kogonada’s direction is never in question, but, paradoxically, it may make things worse. A less deft or more vulgar filmmaker might have endowed the formulaic emotions with an element of camp.
Posted Sep 19, 2025  Edit critic review
Megadoc (2025) Richard Brody “Megadoc” shows that what’s truly utopian about “Megalopolis” is its mode of production; Figgis’s perceptive view of the shoot brings to the fore the artistic ideas that Coppola’s way of working embodies.
Posted Sep 15, 2025  Edit critic review
Eddington (2025) Richard Brody Aster is so intent on using ripped-from-the-headlines events that he fails to make proper use of them, and ends up cynically debasing them all.
Posted Sep 10, 2025  Edit critic review
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