David Sims
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Disney How The Mandalorian Can Work for Disney+
The Star Wars series, now two episodes in, is a good example of how the streaming service can mine smaller, solid stories out of massive franchises.
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20th Century Fox Ford v Ferrari: A Rollicking Tale of Fast Cars and Capitalism
James Mangold’s new film lays bare the greed and egotism behind a fabled auto-racing triumph.
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Disney Frozen II Is an Enchanted Quest for Sequel Money
Disney’s attempt to revisit the kingdom of Arendelle does little more than embellish a story that already felt complete.
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Francois Duhamel / Lucasfilm Ltd. The Mandalorian Is a Flashy but Flimsy Star Wars Story
Disney is making its streaming debut with an expensive-looking TV show based on a beloved property. But the series is off to a slow start.
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AP Photo / Laurent Cipriani Martin Scorsese’s Warning
The director caught backlash for criticizing the reign of Marvel films—but he’s not wrong about the threat they pose to the future of movies.
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Netflix Marriage Story Shows the Painful Asymmetry of a Breakup
In Noah Baumbach’s heartfelt divorce film, a couple’s conflicts stem from their inability to understand each other.
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Warner Bros. Doctor Sleep: A Horror Sequel That Tries to Do the Impossible
Mike Flanagan’s follow-up to The Shining strives to pay homage to Stanley Kubrick’s classic and remain faithful to Stephen King’s original novel.
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Universal Another Charming British Holiday Movie
Last Christmas is filled with the kind of sincerity—mixed with just the right amount of cynicism—that’s been missing from movie screens.
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Zach Dilgard / HBO The Slow Death of the Binge Release
As streaming services such as HBO Max tilt back toward older conventions, the all-at-once strategy pioneered by Netflix may find itself out of fashion.
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Netflix Martin Scorsese’s Epic Funeral for the Gangster Genre
The Irishman ruminates on the stories and characters that have helped define the director’s career.
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Warner Bros. Motherless Brooklyn Is a Passion Project Without Heart
Edward Norton’s adaptation of the 1999 novel feels like a glassy diorama of a gumshoe thriller.
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Focus Features Why Harriet Is Really a ‘Freedom Movie’
Kasi Lemmons on the mythos of Harriet Tubman and why the director’s new film is like “12 Years a Slave meets Django Unchained meets Wonder Woman”
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Oscars Finally Find Their Rightful Winners
Last night, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored four artists whose cinematic achievements had been overlooked for decades.
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Sony Pictures Classics Frankie Is a Moody Meditation on Mortality
Ira Sachs’s portrait of an actress and her family is beautiful in the moment, but too gentle to leave a lasting impression.
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Paramount The Most Exciting Part of Terminator: Dark Fate Isn’t the Action
The latest reboot of the sci-fi series brings back Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor—a character the audience can care about.
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Mark Hill / HBO The Brave New World of HBO’s Watchmen
Damon Lindelof’s new show advances the clock on Alan Moore’s original series but retains the comic’s skepticism of heroes in masks.
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A24 A Man Moves Into a Lighthouse. Strangeness Ensues.
Robert Eggers’s new film, starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, is an enthralling exploration of the mania of isolation.
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Fox Searchlight Jojo Rabbit Is a Fraught Tonal Experiment
Taika Waititi tries to balance zany comedy and grim realism in his new coming-of-age film set in Nazi Germany. He doesn’t quite succeed.
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Disney Disney Delivers a Truly Bizarre Sleeping Beauty Sequel
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil probably shouldn’t exist, but it is at least transfixing and stars a genuinely charismatic Angelina Jolie.
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Graham Walzer / Redux How Bong Joon-ho Invented the Weird World of Parasite
“It all came to me, and I wrote like it was a hurricane.”
