The film's verité approach risks humanizing Abu Osama, but we eventually gain a complex understanding of the banality of his evil.

Fede Álvarez's The Girl in the Spider's Web suffers from a compulsion to be capital-C cool.

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is a silly, mood-shifting shaggy-dog anthology that feels at once structurally ambitious and almost perfunctory.

The film quickly reveals that the only angle it's interested in is the one that most sympathizes Gary Hart.

Outlaw King rattles along at a bracing pace, but the assured bloodshed of the climax casts a weary shadow over the film's middle section.