Angelina Jolie is graceful and sharp as opera star Maria Callas in ‘Maria’

Angelina Jolie glides through the final days of Maria Callas’ short life in Pablo Larraín’s “Maria,” a dramatic, evocative elegy to the famed soprano. It’s an

Netflix’s ‘Joy’ is a loud cheer for fertility, for never giving up — and science

Toward the end of Netflix’s “Joy,” the muffled cry of a newborn baby prompts a man and woman in a hospital to embrace out of pure bliss.

A luminous slice of Mumbai life in ‘All We Imagine as Light’

The rhythms of bustling, working-class Mumbai are brought to vivid life in “All We Imagine as Light.” The stunning narrative debut of filmmaker Payal Kapadia explores

‘Heretic’ is a fascinating mix of high discourse, gore and a shifty Hugh Grant

“Heretic” opens with an unusual table setter: Two young missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints are discussing condoms and why some are

An unmoving camera and de-aging technology make ‘Here’ with Tom Hanks painful to watch

Robert Zemeckis’ latest movie is insanely ambitious, starting with the dinosaurs and ending in present day with the Roomba. But it’s fixed on just one spot.

Drive In It’s all politics at the Vatican in ‘Conclave’

In Edward Berger’s “Conclave,” the selection of the pope is no holy affair. Instead, it’s a petty, political campaign carried out in secrecy, where gossip flows,

Is the killer bachelor one or two? Anna Kendrick’s chilling ‘Woman of the Hour’

In Anna Kendrick’s “Woman of the Hour,” a chilling, based-on-a-true-story drama about when a 1970s serial killer appeared on an episode of “The Dating Game,” one

How did Trump become Trump? ‘The Apprentice’ has a theory

Decades before he hosted “The Apprentice,” Donald Trump was … an apprentice. His mentor: Roy Cohn, the ruthless attorney who was a prominent New York

Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’ is a wild fever dream of excess and idealism

If anything is clear about “Megalopolis,” it’s that Francis Ford Coppola has a lot on his mind. The legendary filmmaker spent decades on this Roman-style

Clooney and Pitt carry the fixer caper ‘Wolfs’

The overriding tension in “Wolfs,” starring George Clooney and Brad Pitt as rival fixers brought in to clean up the same crime, isn’t so much the

‘The Critic,’ Ian McKellen’s theater critic takes his job very seriously

The arts rarely have anything good to say about critics. That they’re not generally the hero of many stories is, at the very least, understandable. More

‘The Crow’ reimagined is stylish and operatic, but cannot outfly 1994 original

One of the first things you see in the reimagined “The Crow” is the sight of a fallen white horse in a muddy field, bleeding badly after

‘Cuckoo’ is a stylish nightmare, with a wonderfully sinister Dan Stevens

Let’s get one thing out of the way first: I did not entirely understand everything that happens in “Cuckoo,” a new indie horror in theaters

‘Jackpot!’ has a winning star in Awkwafina but never pays off

Finally, a movie for everyone who read Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery” and wished it had been a comedy. Paul Feig’s “Jackpot!” is a farcical twist

A third-act friendship comedy in ‘The Fabulous Four’

Scheduling a movie’s release date is an imperfect science and occasionally an art. Just look at the masterpiece that was “Barbenheimer.” While most are open

‘The Bikeriders,’ the birth of a subculture on two wheels

Still images have been a source of wonder and mythology in the films of Jeff Nichols. “Mud,” Nichols’ Twain-soaked Mississippi fable, seemed derived from the

‘Tuesday,’ with Julia Louis-Dreyfus, is strange, emotional and fiercely original

Death has taken many forms in cinema. It’s been portrayed by actors like Bengt Ekerot, Ian McKellen, John Cleese, and even Brad Pitt. In “Tuesday,” filmmaker

Dakota Johnson brings her winning authenticity to sweet friendship comedy ‘Am I OK?’

We start — why not? — with a veggie burger. Lucy (Dakota Johnson) and Jane (Sonoya Mizuno), besties in their 30s, have been so close for

This is her, now, in space: J.Lo heads to a new galaxy for AI love story in ‘Atlas’

Let’s all be clear, if we weren’t already, that when it comes to Jennifer Lopez, it’s about the love story. Always the love story. J.Lo the

The ‘Mad Max’ saga treads water with frustrating ‘Furiosa’

At the beginning of “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga,” we are introduced to a kick-ass woman who rides a horse, then a motorbike, nails a few bad

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