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DOLLAR-STROE DIVAS Close and Adams play the family J.D. Vance left behind in Howard's adaptation of his memoir.

'Hillbilly Elegy' Says More About Hollywood Than It Does About Hillbillies

By Margot Harrison | Dec 2, 2020

ANTISOCIAL Orlowski's documentary explores how connecting online can end up tearing people apart.

Social Media Show Their Dark Side in Documentary 'The Social Dilemma'

By Margot Harrison | Nov 25, 2020

SICK FIC Arquette and King give acclaimed performances as a mother-daughter duo that conned the public — and each other.

Home Is Where the Con Is in True-Crime Drama 'The Act'

By Margot Harrison | Nov 18, 2020

HOME FRONT Mosaku (left) and Dirisu play a refugee couple facing a supernatural threat in Weekes' thoughtful scare film.

Refugees Tangle With Ghosts in Their New Home in the Chilling 'His House'

By Margot Harrison | Nov 11, 2020

'The Oath' Does Its Best to Wring Laughs From a Political Nightmare

By Margot Harrison | Nov 4, 2020

DADDY DEAREST Baron Cohen and Bakalova bring new meaning to the notion of taking your daughter to work in the comedy sequel.

'Borat Subsequent Moviefilm' Offers Laughs, But No Bombshells

By Margot Harrison | Oct 28, 2020

LONG DAY's JOURNEY A reporter's job is never done in Diaz's documentary about an indefatigable voice for government accountability in the Philippines.

Documentary About Journalists in the Philippines Warns That Democracy Dies by 'A Thousand Cuts'

By Margot Harrison | Oct 21, 2020

SNOWED IN Keough finds no refuge from the demons of her past in Fiala and Franz's arty fright film.

'The Lodge' Offers Bone-Chilling Psychological Horror for Halloween

By Margot Harrison | Oct 14, 2020

LUCK OF THE DRAW Rekindling a romance proves challenging for a man trying to rebuild his life in Melrod's Vermont-made film.

Vermont Filmmaker Josh Melrod Makes an Impressive Debut With 'Major Arcana'

By Margot Harrison | Oct 7, 2020

Highway to hell Holland learns the hazards of thumbing it in Campos' violent period drama.

'The Devil All the Time' Is a Blood-Soaked Epic

By Margot Harrison | Sep 30, 2020

DAYS OF BLUNDER Sheil and Audley play a couple making a clumsy getaway in Seimetz's absorbing Florida noir.

Stream Amy Seimetz's Absorbing First Feature, 'Sun Don't Shine'

By Margot Harrison | Sep 23, 2020

Need for speed Washington is cool in a James Bond-esque role, but the breakneck pace of Nolan's latest proves its undoing.

Movie Review: 'Tenet'

By Margot Harrison | Sep 16, 2020

Let it Snow It's cold outside and cold inside for Buckley as the narrator of Kaufman's latest mind-bending drama.

Movie Review: 'I'm Thinking of Ending Things'

By Margot Harrison | Sep 9, 2020

TERMS OF ENDEARMENT: A high schooler and an older slacker share a funny, touching friendship in Orley’s smart coming-of-age comedy.

Pete Davidson Guides a Teen Through a Hilarious Take on 'Big Time Adolescence'

by Rick Kisonak | Mar 25, 2020

WILD HORSES: Schoenaerts plays a convict who fi nds hope in an unlikely place in Clermont-Tonnerre’s directorial debut.

Isolation Becomes Connection in Moving Prison Drama 'The Mustang' 2

by Margot Harrison | Mar 25, 2020

ARMS AND THE MA’AM Gilpin creates the most intriguing action figure to emerge from an American thriller in ages.

'The Hunt' Offers On-Target Satire for a Partisan Time

by Rick Kisonak | Mar 18, 2020

PHONE HOME Brie plays a lonely young woman who progresses from adrift to unhinged in Baena’s uneven dark comedy.

Alison Brie Plays a Grown-Up 'Horse Girl' in a Discombobulating Indie Drama

by Margot Harrison | Mar 18, 2020

BASKET CASE Affleck’s performance as a hard-drinking
high school coach didn’t help his stalled career rebound.

Ben Affleck Hasn't Found 'The Way Back' to Hollywood Glory With His Latest

by Rick Kisonak | Mar 11, 2020

STAREDOWN Taylor-Joy plays an influencer with a ruthless appetite for perfection in the new adaptation of Austen’s novel.

'Emma.' Is an Austen Adaptation Full of Delicious Comic Punctuation

by Margot Harrison | Mar 11, 2020

KNIFE FRIGHT No one who sees Whannell’s update is likely to look at kitchen blades in quite the same way ever again

The Invisible Man

by Rick Kisonak | Mar 4, 2020

HIS GIRL FRIDAY Garner plays a young woman torn between her career and her conscience in Green’s sober #MeToo drama.

'The Assistant' Offers a Dark Glimpse Into a Toxic Work Culture

by Margot Harrison | Mar 4, 2020

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT Wexler’s debt collection comedy comes up short in every conceivable respect.

Debt-Collection Comedy 'Buffaloed' Owes Its Audience the Price of a Ticket

by Rick Kisonak | Feb 26, 2020

SLOW BURN In 18th-century France, an artist and her aristocratic
subject fall in love in Sciamma’s ravishing feminist romance.

Few Period Pieces Burn as Hot as Director Céline Sciamma's 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire'

by Margot Harrison | Feb 26, 2020

SNOW JOB Ferrell is a husband trying to gaslight wife
Louis-Dreyfus in this remake of a 2014 Swedish hit.

Things Go 'Downhill' for a Vacationing Couple in a Darkly Comic Reinterpretation of a Swedish Hit

by Rick Kisonak | Feb 19, 2020

PICTURE PERFECT Stanfield and Rae make a glamorous
pair in Meghie’s multigenerational romance.

'The Photograph' Offers Old-School Romance Without Hollywood Hyperbole

by Margot Harrison | Feb 19, 2020

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