‘Ballad of a Small Player’ Overplays a Weak Hand

The bluster and bombast of Edward Berger’s direction can’t overcome a cliché-ridden, silly script.

‘Anniversary’: A Knockout Cast Can’t Salvage Jan Kosama’s Poorly Drawn Autocracy

The dramatic thriller features a collection of amazing performances, but they’re undercut by a bland setting.

‘Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere’ Has Too Much Love for The Boss to Respect Him

The film never takes a single chance as it celebrates the creative risks and emotional vulnerability Bruce Springsteen showed on ‘Nebraska.’

‘Orwell: 2+2=5’: That’s Totalitarianism, Alright

Raoul Peck’s documentary uses Orwell’s writings to explain totalitarianism but does little to expand or unpack the famous author’s observations.

Guillermo del Toro’s ‘Frankenstein’ Shambles Like a Shadow of His Better Creations

The scariest aspect of his adaptation is that one of our best directors may have run out of things to say.

‘Good Fortune’: We’re Going to Need a Miracle to Solve This Affordability Crisis

Aziz Ansari’s light comedy may come to familiar conclusions, but sometimes it’s enough to just feel seen.

‘It Was Just an Accident’: Jafar Panahi’s Brilliant Revenge Story Explores the Prisons We Create

The Iranian director, a victim of his country’s detention policies, wrestles with the impossibility of catharsis.

‘The Perfect Neighbor’: How America Makes a Recipe for Misery

Geeta Gandbhir’s heartbreaking, maddening documentary shows the suffering created by “Stand Your Ground” laws.

The Gorilla Channel

How the Trump Administration seeks to rewrite reality for an audience of one.

Why Did Disney Blow Hundreds of Millions of Dollars on ‘TRON: Ares’?

A theory on why the studio backed a project that was almost destined to fail.

‘A House of Dynamite’ Is Too Self-Serious to Embrace Its Underlying Absurdity

Extreme competence will not save us.

‘Roofman’: A Soft-Focus Look at the Collapse of the American Dream

Derek Cianfrance’s latest runs into the limits of likability.