Jun 15 2018
3
D+
Mob boss John Gotti—dubbed the “Teflon Don” after repeatedly being acquitted of crimes that he’d obviously…
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Jun 5 2018
2
B-
Frank Fisher (Nick Offerman), the widowed protagonist of Hearts Beat Loud, dotes on his teenage daughter. Also, he…
May 30 2018
1
C+
The line that once clearly separated documentaries from fictional narratives has eroded so much that certain films…
May 23 2018
1
B+
In movies, as in politics, it’s not necessarily advantageous to acknowledge that everyday problems are often…
May 22 2018
1
B
The autobiographical childhood reminiscence, while naturally appealing to fledgling filmmakers in search of material…
May 15 2018
5
Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable…
May 15 2018
1
C+
Sponsored content has begun creeping its way into movie theaters, via a new phenomenon in which organizations…
May 9 2018
2
C+
There are only two characters of any real significance in Beast, the debut feature from British filmmaker Michael…
May 8 2018
2
C
Americans of a certain age, for whom The Day After conjures terrifying images of nuclear apocalypse (thanks to a 1983…
May 8 2018
4
B-
Anton Chekhov’s The Seagull very nearly shares a birthday with cinema itself: The play had its world premiere on…
May 2 2018
3
C+
Ethics studies tend to start subjects off with some easy dilemmas before moving on to the really tough decisions.…
May 1 2018
1
C+
A World War I movie that never goes near the battlefield (apart from one shot of corpses at the outset), The…
Apr 24 2018
1
C
In theory, Mrs. Hyde serves as a kooky, gender-swapped French riff on Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Strange Case…
Apr 23 2018
3
Watch This offers movie recommendations inspired by new releases or premieres, or occasionally our own inscrutable…
Apr 17 2018
3
C+
Adapted from their hit stage show, which played the West End in 2010 and 2011, Jeremy Dyson and Andy Nyman’s Ghost…
Apr 16 2018
2
B+
Early in This Is Our Land, the latest effort from perpetually underrated French filmmaker Lucas Belvaux (The Trilogy,…
Apr 10 2018
1
B+
Technological innovation has actors justifiably worried that they might one day be replaced by digital avatars.…
Apr 3 2018
2
B
Now and then, a movie attempts something so unorthodox that certain theaters notify customers in advance that what…
Mar 27 2018
1
B
Having cast Mark Duplass in Humpday (2009) and Your Sister’s Sister (2011), director Lynn Shelton now turns to…
Mar 21 2018
3
C
Paul, Apostle Of Christ opens in A.D. 67, when the epistolary author was in his 60s and sporting a bushy white…