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In ‘Sorry, Baby,’ Eva Victor makes a disarming debut
The first thing to love about writer-director-star Eva Victor’s extraordinary debut “Sorry, Baby” is how she, as the young professor Agnes, tries, and fails, ... -
Ana de Armas is better at killing than ballet, in a John Wick spinoff
Watch a bunch of John Wick movies all in a row, and you can get pretty paranoid. You start to think everyone’s an assassin. ... -
Mr. Miyagi’s absence is felt in ‘Karate Kid: Legends’
Mr. Miyagi was known for waxing poetic. So the fact that “Karate Kid: Legends” has nothing to say is all the more disappointing. One ... -
The sweep of history courses through Jia Zhangke’s ‘Caught By the Tides’
Jia Zhangke’s “Caught by the Tides” is less than two hours long and yet contains nearly a quarter-century of time’s relentless march forward. Few ... -
‘The Accountant 2,’ with Ben Affleck, isn’t quite a write-off
Hordes of horror films line up for Halloween and a sleigh full of Christmas movies arrive annually in December, but there is slightly less ... -
‘Drop’ doesn’t phone it in
It’s oddly comforting that a movie can still dial M when it wants to. Smart phones have largely been a bit of a buzzkill ... -
Naomi Watts and a Great Dane mourn Bill Murray in ‘The Friend’
Having it all means different things to everyone, but a rent-controlled apartment in Manhattan is probably pretty close to a universal dream — even ... -
‘The Ballad of Wallis Island’ is the loveliest movie of the year (so far)
It’s never a bad time for a film like “The Ballad of Wallis Island,” but at the moment it feels like a much-needed balm. ... -
Even two De Niros aren’t enough to make ‘Alto Knights’ a successor to ‘Goodfellas’
You’re the actor!” shouts Anna Genovese at her estranged spouse, gangster Vito Genovese, in a courtroom where he’s implausibly claiming he lacks funds to ... -
‘Novocaine,’ with Jack Quaid, is a shot of bloody action-comedy
Nathan Caine may not be able to feel pain, as the tagline for the new action-comedy “Novocaine” reads, but the same does not apply ... -
A gripping deep-sea rescue mission in ‘Last Breath’ with Woody Harrelson, Simu Liu
A routine deep-sea diving mission in the North Sea goes terribly wrong when a young diver is stranded some 300 feet below the surface ... -
Bloody and witty, ‘Companion’ explores what humanity means in an AI-powered world
“Iris, wake up!” Early in “Companion,” lovely Iris and her nerdy-nice boyfriend Josh are driving to a secluded lake house for a stay with ... -
‘No Other Land’ is a shocking look at Palestinian life under occupation
The irony shouldn’t be lost on anyone that “No Other Land,” a documentary about the systemic demolition of Palestinian homes in the West Bank, ... -
Steven Soderbergh’s eerie haunted house drama ‘Presence’ packs a punch
The camera is the ghost in Steven Soderbergh’s chillingly effective, experiential haunted house drama “Presence.” The filmmaker traps the audience in a beautiful suburban ... -
‘Wolf Man’ is a toothless reboot that’ll make you bark at the moon
Blake Lovell thinks taking his wife and young daughter to rural Oregon to pack up his dead father’s belongings is a good idea. It’s ... -
Robbie Williams has always lived to entertain. In ‘Better Man,’ he’s still doing it
I came out of the womb with jazz hands,” pop star Robbie Williams recounts in “Better Man,” his new biopic. “Which was very painful ... -
With ‘The Room Next Door’, Almodóvar makes a lively movie about death
Films that are straightforwardly about death are rare, but movies that are about both death and sex are rarer, still. In Pedro Almodóvar’s “The ... -
A wordless Latvian cat parable about climate change is the year’s best animated movie
Of all the post-apocalyptic landscapes we’ve been treated to over the years, none is as beautiful nor peaceful as that of “Flow.” In Gints ... -
‘Gladiator II,’ with Denzel Washington, goes back into the arena
Rome teeters on the brink in Ridley Scott’s “Gladiator II.” Its fall is said to be imminent. The dream it once symbolized is dead. ... -
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. ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
‘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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
‘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, ... -
‘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, ... -
‘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 ... -
‘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 ... -
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 ... -
‘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 ...
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