‘Hurry Up Tomorrow’ Review: The Shadow Cast by Blinding Lights
Movies, May 15
A filmic companion to the Weeknd’s latest album, this meta psychological thriller is all style and no substance.
‘Sister Midnight’ Review: The Feminine Mystique, but Make It Macabre
Movies, May 15
A housewife’s domestic distresses take a horrifying turn in this dark comedy set in the slums of Mumbai.
‘The Kiss’ Review: A Romance Without Love?
Movies, May 15
A young military man asks a woman to dance, but they’re in for a bumpy ride in this story adapted from a novel by Stefan Zweig.
‘Desert of Namibia’ Review: Ups and Downs
Movies, May 15
Yoko Yamanaka’s film is a brilliantly observed portrait of a young woman simmering with frustrations and coming to terms with her relationships and place in the world.
‘Deaf President Now!’ and the Biases of a Hearing World
Movies, May 15
The documentary recalls the 1988 protests that erupted at Gallaudet University when trustees rejected deaf candidates to lead it.
‘Love’ Review: Connection, Oslo Style
Movies, May 15
A poetic drama weaves together the lives of Norwegians as they pursue connection in their own ways.
‘Final Destinations: Bloodlines’ Review: Born to Die
Movies, May 15
The sixth installment in the horror franchise might be the most self-consciously silly of the bunch — and it’s all the better for it.
‘The Damned’ Review: Unfortunate Sons
Movies, May 15
In Roberto Minervini’s intimate and impressionistic drama, a group of Civil War scouts faces the harsh realities of the uncharted Montana territory.
‘Mission: Impossible — The Final Reckoning’ Review: Tom Cruise Defies All
Movies, May 14
For the eighth installment of this stunt-spectacular franchise, the star returns to fight off A.I. planetary domination, the bends, gravity and maybe mortality itself.
‘My Robot Sophia’: An Unsettling Look Into the Soul of a Machine
Movies, May 9
This film by Jon Kasbe and Crystal Moselle skirts gimmicks to examine a creator’s drive to build a humanoid device powered by artificial intelligence.
‘Nonnas’ Review: Oversauced
Movies, May 8
Vince Vaughn plays a restaurant owner who hires Italian grandmothers to cook for him in this corn-filled gabagool.
‘Summer of 69’ Review: A Crash Course in Carnal Knowledge
Weekend, May 8
Jillian Bell’s feature directorial debut centers on a nerdy teenager who hires a stripper for a sexual education, but the movie favors modesty over vulgarity.
‘Juliet & Romeo’ Review: Tragedy Executed as Farce
Weekend, May 8
This movie musical adaptation of Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers is no “& Juliet” — that is, it’s no fun.
‘Clown in a Cornfield’ Review: Stalkers
Weekend, May 8
In this underbaked slasher film, killer bozos terrorize teens in the American heartland.
‘Swamp Dogg Gets His Pool Painted’ Review: In the Deep End
Weekend, May 8
The movie offers full-on immersion, or perhaps submersion, in the singer-songwriter’s musical world.
‘Lilly’ Review: She Did It Her Way
Weekend, May 8
Patricia Clarkson plays the equal pay activist Lilly Ledbetter in this misty-eyed drama.
‘Friendship’ Review: Are Men OK?
Weekend, May 8
Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd star in the kind of comedy you watch from behind your hands.
‘Fight or Flight’ Review: Conned Air
Weekend, May 8
Josh Hartnett plays a rugged mercenary in an airborne action movie that struggles to stay on course.
‘Caught by the Tides’ Review: Jia Zhangke Sees Constant Flux
Weekend, May 8
The Chinese director shot two decades of footage for his new film, which captures his country in tumult and one woman living through it.
‘Pavements’: A Sly Ode to the Last Band You’d Give the Biopic Treatment
Culture, May 2
Part spoof and part serious, the film is about mythmaking as much as it is about music. The result is delightfully destabilizing.
‘Rust’ Review: It’s a Hard Watch
Weekend, May 1
During every scene of this western, I couldn’t stop thinking about the film’s cinematographer, Halyna Hutchins, who was killed on set in an entirely preventable tragedy.
‘Vulcanizadora’ Review: Guilt Trip
Weekend, May 1
Two midlife losers reckon with past mistakes on a despairing and oddly haunting trip into the woods and out of their heads.
‘Words of War’ Review: Portrait of a Fearless Reporter
Weekend, May 1
The Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya is the subject of a film that honors her bravery.
‘The Surfer’ Review: Catching a Wave, and Catching Hell
Weekend, May 1
Nicolas Cage plays the title role in this punishing beach drama, where an aggressive group of surfers advise him the spot is for “locals only.”
‘Lavender Men’ Review: Daring to Reimagine ‘America’s Daddy’
Weekend, May 1
A writer rethinks queer history through Abraham Lincoln’s political ambitions, but needs a few present-day edits.
‘A Desert’ Review: Motel Hell
Weekend, May 1
A washed-up photographer finds himself embroiled in an eerie mystery in Joshua Erkman’s strange, singular thriller.
‘Bonjour Tristesse’ Review: Goodbye Girlhood
Weekend, May 1
Durga Chew-Bose boldly reimagines a work once adapted by Otto Preminger in her beguiling first film set on the French Riviera.
‘Another Simple Favor’ Review: Big Hats and Big Intrigue
Weekend, May 1
The sequel to the deranged 2018 comedy finds Blake Lively and Anna Kendrick feuding in the Italian sun.
‘Electra’ Review: Not Exactly a Unicorn
Weekend, May 1
In Hala Matar’s stylish if somewhat vacant drama, flair trumps grief.
‘Thunderbolts*’ Review: Florence Pugh and Pals Kick Some Asterisk
Weekend, May 1
The actress is the main attraction in Marvel’s latest, about a group of ragtag super-types who join forces to (spoiler alert!) save the world.
‘Drop Dead City’: When New York Was on the Financial Brink
Culture, April 25
This surprisingly entertaining film examines the 1975 fiscal crisis that nearly led the city to bankruptcy. The movie’s conclusions remain relevant today.
‘Havoc’ Review: A Fighting Spirit
Weekend, April 24
Tom Hardy is a crooked cop looking to make amends in Gareth Evans’s action-packed film.
‘The Trouble With Jessica’ Review: Dinner Party or Crime Scene?
Weekend, April 24
This British black comedy, starring Indira Varma, centers on a group of wealthy middle-aged friends with fraught histories.
‘Until Dawn’ Review: They Keep Dying, You’ll Keep Shrugging
Weekend, April 24
Based on a video game, this movie is done in by mediocre monsters and muddled time loops.
‘Magic Farm’ Review: A Droll Delight
Weekend, April 24
Amalia Ulman’s playful second feature follows an American television crew that lands in rural Argentina.
‘Cheech and Chong’s Last Movie’ Review: Rolling Another One for the Road
Weekend, April 24
The comedy duo celebrates a partnership that they just can’t quit in this celebratory documentary.
‘On Swift Horses’ Review: Putting It All on the Line
Weekend, April 24
Daisy Edgar-Jones and Jacob Elordi lead a melancholic drama about love and longing in the 1950s.
‘Blue Sun Palace’ Review: A Whole World Inside
Weekend, April 24
A gorgeously intimate debut feature explores the lives of Chinese immigrants in a massage parlor in Queens.
‘April’ Review: A Doctor’s Dilemma
Weekend, April 24
In this, her second feature, the Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili takes on the risks faced by an obstetrician who performs kitchen-table abortions.
‘The Accountant 2’ Review: Ben Affleck’s Revenge of the Killer Nerd
Weekend, April 24
Affleck returns as a brilliant C.P.A. who moonlights as a mysterious, gun-toting fixer and gets help from his little bro, played by Jon Bernthal.
‘Pangolin: Kulu’s Journey’ Review: Emotional Rescue
Culture, April 21
In this heartfelt wildlife documentary, a volunteer conservationist and an endangered critter develop a parent-child connection.
Ani DiFranco Tried to Collaborate. Then the Pandemic Hit.
Culture, April 18
The film “1-800-ON-HER-OWN” follows the fiercely independent artist as she tries a career first: writing a song with another artist.
‘Cirque du Soleil: Without a Net’ Review: How the Magic Happens
Weekend, July 25
This documentary chronicles the reboot and reopening in Las Vegas of the acrobatic show “O,” which shutdown during the pandemic.
‘Fire Through Dry Grass’ Review: Unsafe Space
Weekend, September 28
This enlightening, troubling documentary chronicles life (and death) among residents in a long-term care facility during the heights of the pandemic.
‘Broadway Rising’ Review: Surviving the Pandemic
Weekend, December 27
Stakeholders including Patti LuPone and Lynn Nottage share their real-time reactions to New York theater’s shutdown and reopening in Amy Rice’s documentary.
‘Bad Axe’ Review: A Pandemic Family Portrait
Weekend, November 17
The filmmaker David Siev chronicles his family’s struggle to keep their Michigan restaurant afloat through the pandemic in this hermetic documentary.