‘Fackham Hall’ Is a Proper Spoof That Relishes Being Improper
The jokes come at a furious, uneven clip in Jim O’Hanlon’s send-up of ‘Downton Abbey.’
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Atlanta Film Critics Circle Selects 'One Battle After Another' as 2025's Best Movie
Paul Thomas Anderson's latest film scored seven wins from the critics group.
‘Wake Up Dead Man’ Sleeps on Benoit Blanc
In trying to throw a tonal change-up into his ‘Knives Out’ series, writer-director Rian Johnson loses some of its core identity.
‘Zootopia 2’ Reminds Us What Disney Animation Looks Like When Handled with Care
While it’s not a perfect movie, the new sequel feels like a different species from the studio’s past three duds.
‘Hamnet’ Is an Emotional Powerhouse. Does It Do More Than Make Us Weep?
Once you finish drying your eyes, Chloé Zhao’s drama requires some unraveling.
This Bad Marketing Is Tremendous Content
What is the point of a press tour?
‘Jay Kelly’: When a Lifetime of Regrets Eclipses Stardom
Noah Baumbach’s bittersweet character study looks at how life always feels incomplete no matter how many roles you play.
‘Die My Love’ and the Motherhood Loneliness Epidemic
It takes a village and there is no more village.
‘Train Dreams’: The Transient Solitude of the Rugged Individual
Clint Bentley’s soulful, melancholy drama turns an American myth on its head.
‘Christy’ Turns the Story of a Groundbreaking Fighter into an Average Boxing Flick
David Michôd’s movie rests on too many clichés to find the unique aspects of Christy Martin’s story.
There Is No Xbox
Microsoft is nixing a successful brand and community to chase profits it will never acquire.
‘Bugonia’: Let’s All Have a Chuckle at Our Utter Powerlessness in the Face of Certain Doom
Director Yorgos Lanthimos remains a master of dark comedy, but his latest feature struggles under its shallow fatalism.
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‘Nouvelle Vague’ Is a Love Letter to Cinema. It’s Weird That It’s on Netflix.
Richard Linklater’s latest will send you hunting for New Wave movies that aren’t available on the biggest streamer.
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‘Hedda’: Nia DaCosta Threw a Lavish Party I Desperately Wanted to Leave
DaCosta’s update of ‘Hedda Gabler’ is an exhausting whirlwind of deception, lust, and status.
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‘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.
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‘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.
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‘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.’
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‘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.
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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.
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‘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.
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‘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.
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‘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.
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The Gorilla Channel
How the Trump Administration seeks to rewrite reality for an audience of one.
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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.