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Merie Weismiller Wallace / Sony / The Atlantic Charlie’s Angels Soars With Elizabeth Banks
With its first female writer-director at the helm, the 43-year-old franchise gets a nuanced update that was long overdue.
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Disney Frozen II Is an Enchanted Quest for Sequel Money
Disney’s attempt to revisit the kingdom of Arendelle does little more than embellish a story that already felt complete.
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Netflix The Haunting Senegalese Love Story That Stunned Cannes
The Grand Prix–winning Atlantics, set to stream on Netflix later this month, deftly melds fantasy and romance in a complex portrait of migration.
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Everett Collection Why Singin’ in the Rain Is an Almost Perfect Musical
The 1952 film exemplifies the key elements of a beloved Hollywood genre.
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Atsushi Nishijima The Government Report That Got Turned Into a Hollywood Movie
How Scott Z. Burns tackled his feature directorial debut, a gripping film about the inquiry into the CIA’s “enhanced interrogation” program
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AP Photo / Laurent Cipriani Martin Scorsese’s Warning
The director caught backlash for criticizing the reign of Marvel films—but he’s not wrong about the threat they pose to the future of movies.
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Netflix / Everett Collection Unraveling the Oscars’ Foreign-Language-Film Debate
The newly rebranded Best International Film award calls attention to how unfair the Academy’s rules are for filmmakers outside the U.S. and Europe.
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Netflix Marriage Story Shows the Painful Asymmetry of a Breakup
In Noah Baumbach’s heartfelt divorce film, a couple’s conflicts stem from their inability to understand each other.
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Warner Bros. Doctor Sleep: A Horror Sequel That Tries to Do the Impossible
Mike Flanagan’s follow-up to The Shining strives to pay homage to Stanley Kubrick’s classic and remain faithful to Stephen King’s original novel.
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Universal Another Charming British Holiday Movie
Last Christmas is filled with the kind of sincerity—mixed with just the right amount of cynicism—that’s been missing from movie screens.
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PictureLux / The Hollywood Archive / Moviestore Collection ... The Call Me by Your Name Dream Continues
The follow-up to a beloved novel of gay romance continues André Aciman’s exploration of desire that tests convention: “It’s not a subject that has ever interested me, ethics,” the author says.
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Netflix Martin Scorsese’s Epic Funeral for the Gangster Genre
The Irishman ruminates on the stories and characters that have helped define the director’s career.
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Warner Bros. Motherless Brooklyn Is a Passion Project Without Heart
Edward Norton’s adaptation of the 1999 novel feels like a glassy diorama of a gumshoe thriller.
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Robyn Beck / Getty John Witherspoon, Black Hollywood’s Wisecracking ‘Pops’
The late actor, who died at the age of 77, was best known for his singular ability to convey fatherly frustration with comedic flair.
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Focus Features Why Harriet Is Really a ‘Freedom Movie’
Kasi Lemmons on the mythos of Harriet Tubman and why the director’s new film is like “12 Years a Slave meets Django Unchained meets Wonder Woman”
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Mario Anzuoni / Reuters The Oscars Finally Find Their Rightful Winners
Last night, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences honored four artists whose cinematic achievements had been overlooked for decades.
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Sony Pictures Classics Frankie Is a Moody Meditation on Mortality
Ira Sachs’s portrait of an actress and her family is beautiful in the moment, but too gentle to leave a lasting impression.
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Paramount The Most Exciting Part of Terminator: Dark Fate Isn’t the Action
The latest reboot of the sci-fi series brings back Linda Hamilton as Sarah Connor—a character the audience can care about.
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Neon Parasite and the Curse of Closeness
Bong Joon-ho’s film depicts a class system in which the most profound harms result from the relationships of interdependence between rich and poor.
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A24 A Man Moves Into a Lighthouse. Strangeness Ensues.
Robert Eggers’s new film, starring Robert Pattinson and Willem Dafoe, is an enthralling exploration of the mania of isolation.
