Mission: Impossible - Fallout by Keith Uhlich 2.0 In Fallout, Tom Cruise runs, jumps, falls, fist-fights, sky-dives, and clambers up rope and cliff in service of...what exactly?
Hot Summer Nights 1.0 by Henry Stewart Like the teenagers at its center, Hot Summer Nights tries too hard to look cooler than it ever could be.
Puzzle 2.0 by Josh Wise Kelly Macdonald is a master of understated vulnerability, but she can’t steer the film out of the doldrums.
Scarred Hearts 3.5 by Clayton Dillard Despite the film's bleak premise, writer-director Radu Jude finds dark humor within the certainty of death.
The Equalizer 2 2.0 by Niles Schwartz Antoine Fuqua's The Equalizer 2 is symptomatic of a confused time when people are collectively looking for invulnerable superheroes.
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
Wanda 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 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 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 by Henry Stewart Unfriended: Dark Web is preposterously conceived, but writer-director Stephen Susco so tightly, excitingly executes it that you hardly notice.
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.
