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Tyler Perry's Joe's College Road Trip (2026) Glenn Kenny While expansively anarchic to a fault, the movie’s anger, and its pride, is convincing.
Posted Feb 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Wuthering Heights (2026) Manohla Dargis [Fennell] tosses out ideas about women, men, sex, freedom and dominance, even while eliding the question of Heathcliff’s race, and trying to transmit the power of Brontë’s writing visually.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Scarlet (2025) Maya Phillips “Scarlet” curiously manages to be both too close to “Hamlet,” and not close enough, leaving this vengeance story in its own no man’s land.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
My Father's Shadow (2025) Alissa Wilkinson It’s that sharp contrast of beauty with an undercurrent of pain that makes “My Father’s Shadow” so bittersweet, and it’s why it cuts to the quick.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
GOAT (2026) Brandon Yu It’s a story with few surprises and mostly rudimentary emotional concepts, but is enlivened by artwork with colorful texture and a dynamic animation style.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
By Design (2025) Natalia Winkelman Kramer has constructed an ironically detached artifact that invites questions about ownership and image and then bats them away, making it a frustrating experience with an intriguing veneer.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Cold Storage (2026) Manohla Dargis A B-movie throwback with plentiful winks, it has few thrills, but it has a touch of science, a plausible-enough threat, suitably disgusting splatter, appealing actors and a fleet running time.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die (2025) Alissa Wilkinson The weird gets piled on top of more weird, and there are twists and revelations and — well, I don’t really think it’s a satisfying ending, but you might, and it certainly lands with a bang.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Jeannette Catsoulis Viewed charitably, “Nirvanna” is both a mockumentary and a pensive scan of the road not taken, its pell-mell energy tempered by pathos.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Crime 101 (2026) Ben Kenigsberg Like lovingly warmed leftovers, it has its satisfactions: a charismatic cast, evocative Los Angeles location work, the sort of granular details on diamond couriering and insurance valuation that might give impressionable viewers ideas.
Posted Feb 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Stranger on the Third Floor (1940) J. Hoberman "Stranger on the Third Floor” is a fantastic tale given authority by its sets, special effects and production design.
Posted Feb 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Queen of Chess (2026) Alissa Wilkinson It’s a good story, well told, and Polgar makes for an interesting subject.
Posted Feb 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Strangers: Chapter 3 (2026) Erik Piepenburg As sketched, thinly, by the returning writers Alan R. Cohen and Alan Freedland, Maya is a shapeless, cookie-cutter final girl -- apropos for this hapless finale, girl.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Sirāt (2025) Manohla Dargis It’s near-unbearable, and as powerful as it is narratively useful.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Pillion (2025) Jeannette Catsoulis Walking a line as delicate as shattered silk, “Pillion” deftly navigates between salacious and sweet, raunchy and romantic.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The President's Cake (2025) Ben Kenigsberg The President’s Cake is only superficially a story of youthful resilience. The deprivations and darkness of the dictatorship, which immiserates the Iraqi people even as it demands performative displays of happiness, lurk around every corner.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Kokuho (2025) Brandon Yu Yet, even as it periodically languishes, the film comes back around, with some moving flourishes, to stamp its idea: To witness these vicissitudes over a lifetime, is to see the beauty, bloodshed and loneliness of true artistic greatness.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Jimpa (2025) Natalia Winkelman If only the film didn't ask the audience to invest in so very many subplots; the clutter ends up sucking the air out of all of them.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Calle Málaga (2025) Lisa Kennedy When Clara arrived, María Ángeles might well have been living her best life. She becomes a woman intent on living an even better one.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
The Muppet Show (2026) James Poniewozik “The Muppet Show,” it turns out, doesn’t need to be retooled for a new era, because the Muppets exist outside of time. These are, in fact, your grandparents’ Muppets, and your parents’. And yet they’re exactly the Muppets you need right now.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Dracula (2025) Chris Azzopardi Sucked dry of its nonsensical charm, “Dracula” leaves the romance feeling as long and labored as eternal love itself.
Posted Feb 05, 2026  Edit critic review
Starman (2025) Glenn Kenny Lee’s gospel of the possible is ultimately a winning one.
Posted Feb 04, 2026  Edit critic review
Days of Heaven (1978) Janet Maslin From the foreboding that accompanies the workers' arrival to one of the most Biblical-looking calamities ever captured on film, Days of Heaven is as haunting as its vision of a crystal glass dropped into moonlit water. It lives up to its title.
Posted Feb 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Natchez (2025) Alissa Wilkinson The wish the mayor voices slowly cracks apart; we witness progressively more uncomfortable encounters that show how even agreed-upon histories clash with one another.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Melania (2026) Manohla Dargis By the end of “Melania,” a glossy, curiously impersonal, outwardly apolitical portrait of Melania Trump, you are no closer to knowing its famous subject than you were at the start, even after many changes of time, place, clothes and towering high heels.
Posted Feb 02, 2026  Edit critic review
The Moment (2026) Manohla Dargis Whoever the character Charli is, the onscreen woman has real comic timing and an expressive, attention-grabbing face.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Shelter (2026) Glenn Kenny As a vehicle for Statham’s bone-breaking escapades, it’ll do.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Worldbreaker (2025) Ben Kenigsberg January movies don’t come duller.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
A Poet (2025) Alissa Wilkinson [The] moral of this story is the one that Oscar learns: To be an artist isn’t about living the life of an artist, or saying things that sound like the things an artist might say. It means sitting down, as boring as it can be, and actually making the art.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Paying for It (2024) Chris Azzopardi Paying for It keeps its narrative tight, perhaps overly simple.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The Love That Remains (2025) Alissa Wilkinson The landscape in which this family makes its domestic life is wild and lovely, and Palmason signals the changing of the seasons by showing us all of its beauty
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Islands (2025) Lisa Kennedy There’s a refreshing willfulness here to leave some quandaries lingering, and like the rough beauty of the volcanic island the movie is set on, “Islands” beckons and rebukes and beckons some more.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
Send Help (2026) Jeannette Catsoulis From its cheeky score by the director’s frequent collaborator Danny Elfman, to its darkly humorous tone and playfully yucky special effects, the movie is Raimi at his most gleeful and twisted.
Posted Jan 29, 2026  Edit critic review
The Wrecking Crew (2026) Calum Marsh From its vintage title card to its retro jukebox soundtrack, “The Wrecking Crew” is an unapologetic throwback, indebted to the buddy cop films of the 1980s and ’90s, like “48 Hrs.” and “Tango & Cash.”
Posted Jan 28, 2026  Edit critic review
Disneyland Handcrafted (2026) Sheri Linden Disneyland Handcrafted is instead an immersive bit of time travel, spun out of 16-millimeter footage from the months leading up to the park's opening day.
Posted Jan 27, 2026  Edit critic review
Mercy (2026) Manohla Dargis In the end, all that remains is a guy who, much like the hapless audience member, is unhappily stuck in a chair watching a lot of onscreen nonsense.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
In Cold Light (2025) Jeannette Catsoulis Patrick Whistler's script is muddy, the baddies ill-defined, and the talents of Kotsur and Monroe, ill-served.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
H Is for Hawk (2025) Alissa Wilkinson What does work about “H Is for Hawk” (aside from Mabel, whose presence is enough to recommend the film) is its refusal to make grief facile or tidy, or to proclaim that healing must look the same for everyone.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Mr. Nobody Against Putin (2025) Natalia Winkelman Talankin is the hero of “Mr. Nobody,” an effective look of one man’s resistance against President Vladimir V. Putin’s patriotic curriculum policy.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
A New Love in Tokyo (1994) Ben Kenigsberg While honesty dictates that this movie, directed by Banmei Takahashi, be classified first and foremost as erotica, it is erotica that finds room for real sweetness and intellectual pretensions along with its kink.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Return to Silent Hill (2026) Beatrice Loayza “Return to Silent Hill” aims for a similar uncanniness — sometimes the actors look like digital doubles — but the result is less phantom realm, more jumbled assembly of cutscenes.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Clika (2026) Brandon Yu What [Clika] glaringly sheds in its performances and direction is some of the sturdiness of a more traditional Hollywood production. But that also matters less in a movie like this, one clearly made, with love and belief, by and for the people it centers.
Posted Jan 22, 2026  Edit critic review
Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (2026) Glenn Kenny Her resilience and frankly astonishing good humor come through as well. That her life since her ordeal has returned to normal — she’s now married, with children of her own — adds another dimension to her miracle.
Posted Jan 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Seeds (2025) Alissa Wilkinson The impersonal problems of financing and statistics become personal, and the history of discrimination feels much closer, more concrete. And if we’re looking closely, we can see, in the younger generations of farmers, the seeds of the future.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
The Rip (2026) Brandon Yu These are all the ingredients for a gritty cop drama about a spiderweb of paranoia, but it plays out as a work that started with a seemingly clever climax in mind, then jury-rigged itself backward to fill in the rest.
Posted Jan 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Queen Kelly (1929) Nicolas Rapold A wild stew of the sacred and profane follows (aided by a game supporting cast).
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
A Useful Ghost (2025) Jeannette Catsoulis A bawdy metaphor for democracy under threat, “A Useful Ghost” has a delightful, frisky energy that coexists peacefully with the beautiful melancholy of its central love affair as March comes to terms with his wife’s new job.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Sound of Falling (2025) Natalia Winkelman Here is a movie whose atavistic excursion through time transfixes, even as its psychology remains as fuzzy as a photograph smeared by motion.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
Shuffle (2025) Glenn Kenny Shuffle, a shocking and confounding new documentary directed by Benjamin Flaherty, lays out in painstaking detail the collusion between moneymaking rehab treatment centers, double-dealing insurance entities and predatory social-media “scouts”...
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
A Private Life (2025) Manohla Dargis The intrigue is far-fetched and surprising — this is one movie you can’t write in your head — and delivered with increasing winks and charm.
Posted Jan 15, 2026  Edit critic review
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