Reviews
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Our critics hash out Steven Spielberg’s remake of the 1961 classic.
Benedetta and Matrix are just the latest in a long line of pop culture stories about nuns. There’s a reason.
It’s one of 2021’s best films.
The 13 must-see movies, from West Side Story to The Novice to The Matrix.
There’s more to it than swoony love in his films — including this one.
A new revival from John Doyle lays bare the country’s dark fairground heart.
The Netflix film takes on the Western and makes something truly spectacular.
Lady Gaga blows a potential dud of a movie straight into the stratosphere.
Mike Mills’s latest film captures our past, our future, and our fleeting present.
The new Netflix film explores what healing really looks like.
Succession is telling stories about abuse even when it doesn’t seem like it is.
Taylor Swift has been teasing a 10-minute version of one of her old songs for years. It’s finally here.
The new drama is the rare show “about trauma” that’s actually kind of about trauma.
Kenneth Branagh renders his youthful memories in black and white.
In Rebecca Hall’s film, Nella Larsen’s story comes to life in black and white.
The pandemic shut down the Great White Way for 19 months. Now it’s waking back up.
This month has everything: Eternals, murder, tennis, and Princess Di.
The Souvenir: Part II continues its director’s memoir project.
The Roy siblings are deeply haunted by their upbringing. Succession keeps finding ways to show that.
Anderson’s latest film feasts on melancholy nostalgia for a world gone by — but the flavor is off.
Denis Villeneuve’s new big-screen adaptation underlines why generations have been fascinated by the story.
Don’t miss these under-the-radar gems.
Bergman Island is a delightful anagram of a movie, and one of the best films of the year.
Matt Damon and Ben Affleck’s new collaboration with Ridley Scott misses what’s important about the famous 14th-century rape case.
Daniel Craig was a 007 for the superhero era. What comes next?
Franzen’s latest novel is thrillingly furious and surprisingly tender.
Six was supposed to open on Broadway in March 2020. On Sunday, it finally did.
From Dune to duels, Wes Anderson to James Bond, October is a huge movie month.
Horror is a natural refuge for atheists and sinners. But Netflix’s Midnight Mass made me feel erased.
The new series, airing on Hulu, is trying to make the very 2002 premise of the comic it’s based on work in 2021.
The Tony-winning musical is widely beloved. Critics trashed the new movie. So what does that mean?
The strange grace of movies made in trying times.
The women selling leggings on Facebook were the real prey, as the new Amazon series LuLaRich shows.
Beautiful World, Where Are You is unlikely to be a crowd pleaser. But it’s gorgeous.
Kanye’s new album Donda spent the last 18 months in flux — just like Kanye himself.
From ballet to poker, televangelists to Tony winners, here are the movies worth streaming or seeing on the big screen.
The new movie-musical Annette caps off a summer of strange films.
Respect understands the genre’s problems, but falls into them anyway.
The Upper East Side gets bloody in Virginia Feito’s vicious, gorgeous thriller.
Free Guy is about a man stuck in a fake world. Hollywood loves that metaphor.