David Sims
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1091 Films Them That Follow Is a Lazy Portrait of Religious Fanaticism
The Appalachia-set drama wastes an excellent cast on a superficial story about a snake-obsessed church.
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NEON Wild Rose Is the Best Kind of Musical Melodrama
The actor Jessie Buckley gives an electrifying performance as a struggling Glasgow mom who dreams of being a Nashville star.
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Netflix The Adam Sandler Netflix Experiment Continues With Murder Mystery
The star’s latest movie is familiar, formulaic, and mildly amusing—making it a perfect fit for the streaming service.
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Focus Features The Dead Don’t Die Is Awfully Lifeless
Jim Jarmusch’s star-studded zombie movie is heavy on cynicism and low on entertainment.
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Disney / Pixar The Toy Story Trilogy Gets the Epilogue It Deserves
The latest addition to the Pixar series justifies its existence by using a new character to ask fascinating questions about the nature of consciousness.
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Sony / Columbia Men in Black: International Forgets What Made the Original So Great
The sequel buries its stars Chris Hemsworth and Tessa Thompson in a convoluted plot that adds up to 114 minutes of nothing in particular.
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WarnerMedia The Wild-West Era of Streaming TV Is Ending
Cord cutters will soon need several subscriptions to watch all their favorite movies and shows—and the cost could look like the dreaded cable bill.
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A24 The Last Black Man in San Francisco Is an Elegy for a City
Joe Talbot’s painterly drama tells the story of a man grappling with the loss of the home he grew up in.
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Fox The Last X-Men Movie Was Doomed to Fail
Dark Phoenix draws from epic source material, but the momentum drained out of this particular series long ago.
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Netflix / Pedro Saad Black Mirror: The Weird, Intriguing Intimacy of ‘Striking Vipers’
The Season 5 episode about a pair of gamers who fall in love considers how digital worlds can warp people’s self-image.
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Netflix Black Mirror: ‘Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too’ Is a Fascinating Jumble
The Netflix show’s fifth season shines brightest with a bizarre and intermittently compelling bit of pop-music melodrama.
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Stuart Hendry / Netflix ‘Smithereens’ Is the Only Flop of the New Black Mirror Season
The Netflix show’s latest run stumbles with a plodding tale about the indifference of social-media companies.
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HBO Deadwood: The Movie Is David Milch’s Finest Work
The feature-length coda to HBO’s acclaimed frontier show ties off the last season’s plot threads while telling a story that stands on its own.
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Paramount Rocketman Deserves to Be a Smash Hit
The new film about the life of Elton John thrives on the otherworldly qualities of pop that staid biopics often refuse to indulge.
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Joan Marcus When the U.S. Constitution Is the Source Material for Your One-Woman Play
Heidi Schreck’s Tony-nominated Broadway show is as “messy” and full of contradictions as the founding document itself.
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Annapurna Generation Z Gets Its Coming-of-Age Classic
Refreshingly free of stereotype, Olivia Wilde’s wonderful film Booksmart should easily join the teen-movie canon.
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Walt Disney Pictures It’s Impossible to Take the New Aladdin Seriously
Disney’s live-action remake of the 1992 animated classic is a special-effects-laden extravaganza that comes off as clumsy and half-hearted.
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Matt Sayles / Invision / AP Game of Thrones Is Over. Now What About the Books?
George R. R. Martin insists that the final entries in his fantasy series are still coming—even though HBO has finished telling his story first.
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HBO Did Viewers Win or Lose in Game of Thrones?
Three Atlantic writers discuss the HBO epic’s divisive series finale, which tries to break the wheel one last time.
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NBC The SNL Finale Was a Mishmash of Everything the Show Needs to Fix
The send-off to Season 44 might end up functioning as a send-off to a particularly toothless era for Saturday Night Live.
