The Equalizer 2 by Niles Schwartz 2.0 Antoine Fuqua's The Equalizer 2 is symptomatic of a confused time when people are collectively looking for invulnerable superheroes.
Wanda 4.0 by Chuck Bowen Writer-director-actor Barbara Loden's 1970 feature has a wonderful, hard-won sense of everyday rapture.
Mamma Mia! Here We Go Again 2.5 by Jake Cole The Mamma Mia! sequel's flaws are overridden by infectious moments that, to take a cue from ABBA, you couldn't escape if you wanted to.
Blindspotting 2.0 by Derek Smith Blindspotting takes aim at myriad targets and bluntly satirizing them in disparate styles that never mesh into a cohesive whole.
Unfriended: Dark Web 3.0 by Henry Stewart Unfriended: Dark Web is preposterously conceived, but writer-director Stephen Susco so tightly, excitingly executes it that you hardly notice.
Rob Reiner on Shock and Awe and the Pursuit of Truth by Elise Nakhnikian Reiner discusses the surprising new urgency that his new film took on after the 2016 election.Read More
Bo Burnham on Treating Eighth Grade Like a War Movie by Marshall Shaffer Burnham discusses how his film is an extension of his comedy work.Read More
The Third Murder by Chuck Bowen Aiming for Dickensian irony, Hirokazu Kore-eda fashions an intriguingly obsessive yet belabored riff on the murder mystery.
McQueen by Diego Semerene The documentary McQueen suggests that Alexander McQueen always designed as a matter of survival, if not reparation.
Far from the Tree by Diego Semerene The very act of having kids and demanding perfect conformity from them is never questioned by the film.
Damascus Cover by Derek Smith Daniel Zelik Berk's film trots out murky plot twists that leave crucial details needlessly shrouded in mystery.
Eighth Grade by Niles Schwartz Underlying many of Eighth Grade's scenes is a strain of eeriness, as if the Bo Burnham film were offering up a post-human spin on Pretty in Pink.
Skyscraper by Eric Henderson Skyscraper is little more than a faster-higher-stronger amalgamation of Die Hard and The Towering Inferno.
Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot by Steve Macfarlane Don’t Worry, He Won’t Get Far on Foot is unafraid of showing the gruesome details of alcoholism and denial to back up its bromides.
Hotel Transylvania 3 by Derek Smith By the end of the film, it’s clear that the most merciful act for the series may be a stake through the heart.
Shock and Awe by Derek Smith Rob Reiner’s film rests on broad, sweeping proclamations about the importance of factual reporting.
Milford Graves Full Mantis by Chuck Bowen Jake Meginsky’s documentary is insular, precious, and too pleased with its unwillingness to reach out to the unconverted.
