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20th Century Fox Steve McQueen’s Widows Is the Smartest Blockbuster of the Year
The Oscar-winning 12 Years a Slave director has made an intelligent, crowd-pleasing heist film with a powerhouse ensemble led by Viola Davis.
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Netflix The Ballad of Buster Scruggs Doesn’t Quite Add Up
Though its “chapters” are individually compelling, the Coen brothers’ Western anthology film is an ungainly whole.
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Courtesy of Neon The Unsettled Place of the Gay Teen in Film History
Prior to the recent boom in movies about queer kids, their struggles played out in boundary-pushing indie films and entertaining sidekick roles.
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WELL GO USA How Burning Captures the Toll of Extreme Inequality in South Korea
Lee Chang-dong’s new film paints a deft and intimate portrait of a young generation beset by economic desperation.
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AP / Bettmann / Getty / Kathy Hutchins ... Karina Longworth Makes Old Hollywood New
The writer and critic has found a cult following with her podcast, You Must Remember This, unpacking the myths to show age-old stories and stars in a new light.
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Fred Lancelot / Reuters What the November 13 Attacks Taught Paris
For years, deadly terrorist strikes in France were widely treated as isolated incidents. That changed forever in 2015.
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Warner Bros. J.K. Rowling Enters George Lucas Mode With the New Fantastic Beasts Movie
The Harry Potter author is pouring a wealth of ideas about her wizarding world into a mold that doesn’t have the space for it.
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Everett Collection Child’s Play and the Very Human Horror of Creepy Dolls
The 1988 film introduced an iconic villain in Chucky—just one of many living toys that have haunted cinema for decades.
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Netflix Outlaw King Picks Up Where Braveheart Left Off
David Mackenzie’s new Netflix film about Scotland’s independence fight trades the romance of battlefield glory for the grimy truth of medieval warfare.
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Columbia Pictures The Front Runner Fails to Tell a Grand Story of American Politics
Hugh Jackman stars as Senator Gary Hart of Colorado in Jason Reitman’s entertaining but glancing biopic.
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Sony Lisbeth Salander, Superhero
The film adaptation of The Girl in the Spider’s Web could double as a James Bond movie—which is an odd match for its heroine.
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Netflix Netflix Finally Changed Its Biggest Rule
The company will release three upcoming movies in cinemas before they debut online—a major reversal as the studio seeks Oscar glory.
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Focus Features Boy Erased Is a Cold, Brittle Conversion-Therapy Tale
Joel Edgerton’s new film adapts a coming-of-age memoir and stars Lucas Hedges, Nicole Kidman, and Russell Crowe.
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Netflix An Unfinished Orson Welles Film Finally Gets a Debut
More than 40 years after the director ended photography on it, The Other Side of the Wind is seeing the light of day.
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Fox Bohemian Rhapsody Is a Personality-Free Queen Biopic
Rami Malek stars as Freddie Mercury in a film that falls into every cliché of the “great musician” genre.
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Sunset Boulevard / Corbis / Getty The Demise of FilmStruck Is Part of a Bigger Pattern
The art-movie streaming service will be shutting down in November—the latest cut from WarnerMedia following its acquisition by AT&T.
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Well Go USA Burning Is a Patient, Spellbinding Mystery Thriller
Lee Chang-dong has adapted a Haruki Murakami short story into an utterly captivating epic about men who simmer with anxiety, resentment, and creative desire.
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Lionsgate When Trump Makes Your Largely Forgotten Movie Urgent Again
Doug Liman was already reediting Fair Game—his 2010 political drama about the Scooter Libby leak—before the president’s pardon of the former Bush White House official this year.
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Amazon Suspiria Is a Bewitching, Bloody, and Admirably Daring Remake
In adapting Dario Argento’s 1977 classic, Luca Guadagnino has created something entirely different and undeniably challenging.
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Andrew Eccles / Universal Pictures Horror Cinema Has a Gatekeeping Problem
The mega-producer Jason Blum’s comments about female directors being uninterested in the genre point to a bigger issue facing Hollywood.
