David Sims
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Sundance / Focus Features What Critics Are Looking Forward to at Sundance 2020
The annual film festival will kick off a new year in independent cinema this week.
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GKIDS A Film About Teens Finding Love Amid Climate Apocalypse
Makoto Shinkai’s bold and charming Weathering With You is set in a world ending so gradually, people barely notice it anymore.
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Universal Dolittle Is One of the Worst Movies in Years
The new film starring Robert Downey Jr. as a doctor who talks to animals is transfixing at times, if only because it’s such a disaster.
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A24 / Everett Collection The Problem With the Oscars’ Idea of a ‘Good Movie’
Every year, plenty of excellent films are excluded from the awards-season conversation for reasons that have nothing to do with talent or artistry. This year is no different.
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Warner Bros. Breaking Down the 2020 Oscar Nominations
Todd Phillips’s Joker is the biggest contender in an Academy Awards race featuring a single actor of color and no female directors.
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Warner Bros. Just Mercy Is a Stark True Story of Good and Evil
The biopic draws power from its faithful retelling of a man’s wrongful conviction, but risks seeming more like a news summary than a narrative work.
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20th Century Fox Underwater Entertains but Doesn’t Have Much Depth
Kristen Stewart stars in a film that dares to ask the chilling question, “What if you were underwater and something really bad happened?”
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United Artists / Paramount / Focus Features / ... 25 Movies to Look Forward to in 2020
Mulan, Candyman, West Side Story, a new Christopher Nolan thriller, plus all the usual comic-book films
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Henry Nicholls / Reuters The Golden Globes Sends a Message With Its Snub of The Irishman
Netflix’s biggest awards-season contender went home empty-handed last night. What does this mean for the Oscars race ahead?
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Universal 1917 Is a Visual Feat and a Bad Movie
Sam Mendes’s war drama is designed to look like it was shot in two long takes. But this technical accomplishment is wasted on a soulless film.
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Jasin Boland / Warner Bros. Pictures / Everett ... The 10 Best Movie Scenes of the 2010s
A decade’s worth of stellar cinematic sequences, from The Social Network to Parasite
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Evan Agostini / Invision / AP A Serious Conversation With the Man Who Made Cats
“If I had a comment on my own trailer … I sometimes felt there was too much fur covering [the actors’] own faces.”
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Sony / Columbia Little Women Is a Sparklingly Clever New Take on a Classic
Greta Gerwig’s film remixes the timeline of the novel, illuminating the strengths of Louisa May Alcott’s beloved characters.
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Will Heath / NBC Eddie Murphy’s Triumphant Return to Saturday Night Live
After a 35-year absence, one of the show’s most venerated performers had a delightful homecoming as host.
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Universal Just Embrace the Madness of Cats
The movie is about cats. Don’t overthink it.
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Disney / Lucasfilm The Most Incoherent Star Wars Movie Ever Made
The Rise of Skywalker, the saga’s ninth entry, all but drowns in a sea of nostalgia and infinite plot points.
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Julieta Cervantes A New Way of Looking at To Kill a Mockingbird
The Broadway adaptation’s writer and star—Aaron Sorkin and Ed Harris, respectively—talk about updating and paying homage to Harper Lee’s American classic today.
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Fox Searchlight A World War II Biopic That Raises Pressing Modern Questions
Terrence Malick’s A Hidden Life tells the story of an Austrian farmer’s defiance in the face of a regime that contradicted his deepest beliefs.
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A24 You’ve Never Seen Adam Sandler Act This Well
As a diamond dealer in the new film Uncut Gems, the actor defies his image and gives his best performance yet.
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Warner Bros. A Man Saved Hundreds of Lives. Then He Was Vilified for It.
Clint Eastwood’s fixation on real-life acts of bravery continues with Richard Jewell, a film that mostly treats its protagonist with complexity.
