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Kevin Winter / Getty When Meanness Was Celebrated
For decades, the media have chronicled a Hollywood mega-producer’s reputation as a bully—and even praised him for it.
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HBO MAX The Awesome Emptiness of Godzilla vs. Kong
The monster film is all action, no meaning. What a relief.
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HBO Max Zack Snyder’s Justice League Indulges the Fans and No One Else
Superfans campaigned for a do-over of a 2017 film. They got a four-hour runtime—and only a slightly better movie.
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Seacia Pavao / Netflix The Many Cruelties of I Care A Lot
The Netflix neo-noir isn’t just about a merciless scammer; it’s about the broken bureaucracies that enable her abuse.
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Searchlight Pictures Nomadland Is a Gorgeous Journey Through the Wreckage of American Promise
Chloé Zhao’s Oscar contender about one woman’s itinerant life speaks volumes about this country’s myths of self-sufficiency.
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David Bornfriend / A24 The Double Meaning of the American Dream
Lee Isaac Chung’s Minari is filled with symbols of abundance that are also residues of prosaic commercialism.
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Phillip Faraone / Getty / The Atlantic Chloé Zhao Is About to Be Huge
With the intimate, Oscar-tipped Nomadland streaming tomorrow and the Marvel epic Eternals set for the fall, this might be the filmmaker’s big year.
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Warner Bros. The Unsettling Message of Judas and the Black Messiah
The new crime thriller about a magnetic leader of the Black Panther Party is a sharp criticism of the FBI’s surveillance of social movements past and present.
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Dave Allocca / DMI / The LIFE Picture … Why Were We So Cruel to Britney Spears?
The more vulnerable she became, the greater the public’s interest was in watching her disintegrate.
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Melissa Lukenbaugh / Courtesy of A24 Minari Will Draw You in With Its Beautiful Little Details
Lee Isaac Chung’s warm family drama is about the bittersweet journey to find independence in a land of plenty.
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Glen Wilson / Warner Bros. / Everett Collection Judas and the Black Messiah Is an American Tragedy
Shaka King’s crime thriller about a Black Panthers leader and the man who betrayed him is set in the 1960s but resonates today.
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DOMINIC MILLER / NETFLIX Malcolm & Marie Isn’t Art. It’s a Meltdown.
The Netflix film has talented stars and gorgeous cinematography. Unfortunately, it’s like watching two sentient think pieces scream at each other.
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Sundance Institute The 6 Best Indie Movies to Watch Out for This Year
Here are the most exciting works to come out of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival.
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Tibrina Hobson / Getty / Warner Bros. Inc. … ‘I Expected a Bidding War. We Did Not Get That.’
The director Shaka King thought that his star-studded new film, Judas and the Black Messiah, would be an easy sell for studios. He was surprised.
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A24 A Brilliant Horror Film That Twists Faith Into Fear
A24’s Saint Maud is a confident directorial debut that will keep viewers guessing until the last minute.
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Warner Bros. Welcome Back, Denzel
In The Little Things, the actor returns to the kind of role that helped make him a movie star.
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Dasril Roszandi / NurPhoto / Getty Hollywood’s Patience Is Frustrating—But Necessary
The latest round of big-movie delays is good news for the industry and viewers alike.
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IFC Films When the FBI Spied on MLK
The bureau’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr. reflects a paranoia about Black activism that’s foundational to American politics.
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Everett Collection The Early-Pandemic Heist Thriller That No One Asked For
Locked Down has the air of a homework assignment completed the morning it was due.
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David Strick / Redux The Emotional Miseducation of Tiger Woods
A new HBO documentary zeroes in on the immense psychological toll it took for the legendary golfer to go from prodigy to phenom.
