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IFC Films / Everett A Horror Movie Where Wealth Is the Demon
The Nest is a brilliantly cast thriller and one of the year’s best films.
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Netflix Hillbilly Elegy Is One of the Worst Movies of the Year
The new Netflix film is a think-piece trap—shiny on the outside, hollow on the inside.
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New Line Cinema / Everett Collection 20 Movie Families to Spend Your Holidays With
Excellent cinema for every mood, whether you’re feeling homesick, ruminative, or perfectly content
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Brian Douglas / Universal Pictures The Most Purely Enjoyable Horror Movie Made in Years
Freaky is a slasher film crossed with a body-swap comedy—and the result is brilliance.
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Gisele Schmidt / Netflix Why a Movie About 1930s Hollywood Resonates Today
David Fincher’s new Netflix film, Mank, is about the tortured making of Citizen Kane. But it has plenty to say about the entertainment industry—and America—of 2020.
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Jonathan Wenk / Columbia Pictures / Everett Collection 25 Feel-Good Films You’ll Want to Watch Again—and Again
Anxious? Here are some of the best and most rewatch-friendly movies to soothe your mind.
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Amazon Studios The New Borat Movie Is Less a Satire Than an Exposé
The bumbling provocateur who stormed the United States in 2006 has now become an unlikely voice of reason.
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Apple TV+ Let Sofia Coppola’s New Film Transport You
On the Rocks, starring Rashida Jones and Bill Murray, is a dose of much-needed escapism.
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Neon The COVID-19 Documentary All Americans Need to See
Totally Under Control delivers a damning—and essential—report card on the White House’s mismanagement of the pandemic.
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Warner Brothers / Everett Collection 25 of the Best Horror Films You Can Watch, Ranked by Scariness
This list should have something for everyone, no matter your fear-tolerance level.
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Amazon Studios A Radically Different Way to Look at Incarceration
Time, a breathtaking documentary by Garrett Bradley, follows a young couple’s journey to keep their family together during a 20-year prison stay.
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NICO TAVERNISE / NETFLIX Aaron Sorkin’s New Film Is the Right Story for This Moment
Netflix’s The Trial of the Chicago 7 is a departure for the writer and director, who often indulges in misty-eyed idealism for American institutions.
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Netflix Watching the Outrage Over Cuties as a Survivor of Pedophilia
Detractors of the Netflix film have painted it as sordid and exploitative. They couldn’t be more wrong.
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A Breezy Netflix Comedy About Not Knowing What to Do With Your Life
The 40-Year-Old Version is a sparkling, witty film about creative frustration that deserves a big audience.
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HBO ‘I’m Aware of Everything That I Need to Do to Remove This Evil’
Luis Miranda, the father of Lin-Manuel, on the best way to amass political power in the lead-up to the presidential election
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Nicola Dove / MGM Theaters Needed James Bond to Rescue Them. Now What?
The latest delay of No Time to Die until 2021 is causing cinemas to panic, and even close their doors.
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Courtesy of Netflix Netflix’s Dick Johnson Is Dead Is a Bizarre Cinematic Experiment
The new documentary is an audacious and bittersweet attempt to confront mortality.
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Neon A New Dystopian Thriller That Will Twist Your Stomach and Your Brain
Brandon Cronenberg’s Possessor is a grisly film that asks perturbing questions about the world we already live in.
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Getty / The Atlantic ‘Every Family Is Kind of Cultlike’
Miranda July discusses her new movie, Kajillionaire, a quirky ode to the relationships that can shape us—and alienate us from the rest of the world.
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TIFF 76 Days Is Unwatchable Yet Utterly Compelling
The first major documentary about the coronavirus pandemic is a brutal look at the earliest days of the outbreak in Wuhan, China.
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