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Bleecker Street The Art of Self-Defense Explores the Absurd Horrors of Masculinity
The satirical karate movie starring Jesse Eisenberg posits that these days, men do not have to dig deeply to find their inner brutes.
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Universal Pictures / YouTube I Watched the Cats Trailer, and I Have Some Questions
Four legs good, two legs completely bonkers
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Courtesy of 'De Lo Mio' Can a Film Be a Love Letter to a Country?
New movies from the writer-directors Lulu Wang and Diana Peralta explore complex questions about national belonging and communal responsibility.
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Everett Collection Steel Magnolias Is a Beloved Weepy With a Dark Side
Released 30 years ago, the star-studded melodrama has an uncomfortable message about people who choose to have children despite the medical risks.
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A24 / Taylor Jewel l /Invision / AP ... When a Lie Becomes Your Breakout Film
With The Farewell, the writer-director Lulu Wang has made a bittersweet drama about her family’s choice to deceive one of their own.
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Mark Hill / 20th Century Fox If You Give a Cop an Uber
Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista are a lovable odd couple in Stuber, an old-school buddy comedy made for 2019.
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Disney Disney’s New Lion King Remake Is Predictably Weird
Jon Favreau’s CGI-heavy version of 1994’s animated classic uses a stellar cast—including Beyoncé, Donald Glover, and Seth Rogen—to uneven effect.
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Jonathan Prime / Universal Pictures Why Yesterday Made Me Cry
A writer contemplates how a film that imagines a 78-year-old John Lennon could actually be moving.
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A24 Awkwafina Gives a Stellar Breakout Performance in The Farewell
The comedian and rapper shines in Lulu Wang’s new film about a young woman who has to hide a painful truth from her dying grandmother.
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Disney / Marvel Spider-Man: Far From Home Satirizes the Way Marvel Movies Are Made
A final twist reveals the film’s true villain—and offers a layered critique of the systems that bring superheroes to the screen.
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A24 / Everett Collection / Jamie McCarthy / ... What Kind of Movie Ari Aster Wanted Midsommar to Be
“It’s folk horror, but it’s being given to you with the trajectory of a high-school comedy.”
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A24 Midsommar Is a Fascinating Departure From the Brutality of Hereditary
Ari Aster’s follow-up to his wrenching debut renders the mundane gloom of a breakup as a Technicolor thriller.
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Andrea Weiss Creating the First Visual History of Queer Life Before Stonewall
Making a landmark documentary about LGBTQ Americans before 1969 meant digging through countless archives to find traces of a forgotten subculture.
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Associated Press Why Rita Moreno Almost Quit Show Business
“They didn’t know what to do with a Latina girl.”
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Universal Pictures If the Beatles Had Been One Man
In the fantastical Yesterday, the only person in the world who remembers the Fab Four takes the band’s music as his own. How the film reimagines an iconic oeuvre through a single voice.
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Sony Jake Gyllenhaal Is the Real Star of Spider-Man: Far From Home
The latest entry in Marvel’s Spidey franchise has a welcome bizarre streak, thanks to a perfectly cast new caped crusader.
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Universal Yesterday Is Frustrating and Forgettable
Danny Boyle’s speculative film about a world without the Beatles has flashes of charm, but suffers from a forced, uneven script.
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Timothy Greenfield-Sanders / Magnolia Pictures A Documentary That Shows Another Side of Toni Morrison
A new film captures the larger-than-life author in exceedingly human terms.
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Eric Charbonneau / Invision for Netflix / AP ... Netflix Is a Business, Not a Movement
While the streaming service has taken over cinema, it’s important not to overstate the company’s virtues or downplay its vulnerabilities.
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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.
