‘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

Helen Mirren tells a story of evil and hope during WWII in ‘White Bird’

It’s never a bad time for stories celebrating acts of kindness, but the current news cycle makes it ever so more appreciated. In the new film

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

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

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

Planet of the Apes finds a new hero and will blow your mind

Fans of the “Planet of the Apes” franchise may still be mourning the 2017 death of Caesar, the first smart chimp and the charismatic ape leader.

In ‘The Idea of You,’ a boy band is center stage but Hathaway steals the show

In the warmly charming rom-com “The Idea of You,” Anne Hathaway plays a 40-year-old divorcee and Silver Lake art gallery owner who, after taking her teenage daughter

Joanna Arnow’s film announces an exciting new voice

In writer-director-star Joanna Arnow’s “The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed,” Ann (Arnow), a 30-something New Yorker, lies naked in bed with an older

In Alex Garland’s potent ‘Civil War,’ journalists are America’s last hope

The United States is crumbling in Alex Garland’s sharp new film “ Civil War, “ a bellowing and haunting big screen experience. The country has been

In ‘Girls State,’ Missouri teens start a mock government

What would an all-female government look like in the U.S.? Or even a majority female government? It’s something that remains a fantasy. But for the ambitious high

Alice Rohrwacher’s tombaroli tale is pure magic

When we talk about “movie magic,” the first thing that comes to mind is often something like the bikes achieving liftoff in “E.T.” But it applies no

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