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Holland
(2025)
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Jordan Hoffman
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The thing that bugged me the most about Holland—which isn’t terrible, merely blah—is just how easy and safe the whole thing feels.
Posted Mar 31, 2025
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The Woman in the Yard
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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Even at a brisk 85 minutes, it’s a bigger slog than a day spent mowing the grass.
Posted Mar 28, 2025
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Death of a Unicorn
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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Unlike its unique and fantastical title creature, it’s a commonplace monster mash which serves up only frenzied commotion and tired social commentary.
Posted Mar 27, 2025
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A Working Man
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A macho fantasy about a dad acting out his daughter-saving fantasy by rescuing a surrogate child, with Statham talking tough and acting tougher in typically forthright fashion.
Posted Mar 26, 2025
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The Friend
(2024)
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Nick Schager
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A compassionate portrait of mourning and the bonds that keep us united.
Posted Mar 26, 2025
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Ash
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A hypnotic star child of out-there wonder and internal corruption and chaos.
Posted Mar 24, 2025
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Disney's Snow White
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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No Magic Mirror is needed to identify it as the lamest Mouse House re-do of them all.
Posted Mar 19, 2025
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The Alto Knights
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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An ignominious tour-de-force for the esteemed headliner, who gets to indulge in just about every caricatured mannerism and colloquialism in the stale La Cosa Nostra cookbook.
Posted Mar 19, 2025
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Misericordia
(2024)
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Nick Schager
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A superb thriller that employs common genre devices for a canny and caustic rumination on right and wrong, love and lust, virtue and vice.
Posted Mar 18, 2025
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The Actor
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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Burdened by a hazy and mannered style that drains it of urgency and feeling, it’s a self-conscious curio that’s less dreamy than dreary.
Posted Mar 13, 2025
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Novocaine
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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In trying to have it both ways, it succeeds in neither, in the process stranding its charming leading man in a saga that needed to be either goofier or more gruesome.
Posted Mar 13, 2025
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The Parenting
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A dismal misfire that strains to meld Meet the Parents-style comedy with The Exorcist-grade horror.
Posted Mar 12, 2025
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The Electric State
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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"The Electric State" is just about as derivative as a modern blockbuster can be, and worse is that it skates along from one cacophonous and jokey set piece to another as if on rails.
Posted Mar 11, 2025
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Chaos: The Manson Murders
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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For all its avenues of inquiry, however, it never quite gels into more than a collection of tantalizing but unfounded theories.
Posted Mar 07, 2025
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Black Bag
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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When it comes to sleek, stylish genre movies, Soderbergh remains a maestro at the top of his game.
Posted Mar 06, 2025
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Eephus
(2024)
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Nick Schager
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Modest and moving, it’s a new sports-movie classic, as sneakily effective as the pitch which gives it its title.
Posted Mar 06, 2025
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In the Lost Lands
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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For sheer unadulterated geekiness, it’s got few contemporary equals.
Posted Mar 05, 2025
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Mickey 17
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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No matter a committed performance (two, actually) from Robert Pattinson, it’s an original that plays like a rehash—and an underwhelmingly unfunny one at that.
Posted Mar 05, 2025
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The Rule of Jenny Pen
(2024)
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Nick Schager
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True cinema is John Lithgow terrorizing Geoffrey Rush in a nursing home with his creepy hand puppet.
Posted Mar 04, 2025
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Last Breath
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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What ultimately lingers more, however, is its portrait of the grit, determination, and sacrifice exhibited by these individuals—a stirring reminder that there’s nothing more noble than having your fellow man’s back.
Posted Feb 28, 2025
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The Monkey
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A unique saga of fathers, sons, and brothers, of fate, vengeance, and survival, and of a wind-up simian toy that just might be the Grim Reaper.
Posted Feb 20, 2025
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Kontinental '25
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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At once incisive and ambiguous, it’s proof that Jude is operating on a completely different level than most of his contemporaries.
Posted Feb 19, 2025
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The Gorge
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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With leads Anya Taylor-Joy and Miles Teller generating considerable sparks, and violent set pieces that up the supernatural ante one out-there revelation at a time, the director’s latest proves a bonkers B-movie on a big-studio budget.
Posted Feb 13, 2025
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Captain America: Brave New World
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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[Ford’s] presence—along with a winning turn from Anthony Mackie as the patriotic title character—makes this adventure a sturdy return to franchise form.
Posted Feb 12, 2025
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Paddington in Peru
(2024)
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Nick Schager
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With wit, wonder, warmth, and a few wink-wink nods to the Indiana Jones movies, it’s further evidence of this franchise’s cute and cuddly preeminence.
Posted Feb 12, 2025
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Parthenope
(2024)
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Nick Schager
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As sumptuous and vapid as a commercial for Dior or Chanel’s latest fragrance.
Posted Feb 07, 2025
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Love Hurts
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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The main takeaway from this dreary dud, however, is that winning an Academy Award is no guarantee of continued big-screen success.
Posted Feb 06, 2025
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Armand
(2024)
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Nick Schager
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Reinsve reconfirms that she’s one of international cinema’s most electric presences, and her formidable performance is the axis around which this taut drama revolves.
Posted Feb 06, 2025
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Heart Eyes
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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[A] bland stab at genre hybridization, whose sole accomplishment is falling flat at everything it tries.
Posted Feb 05, 2025
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April
(2024)
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Nick Schager
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An alternately (and sometimes simultaneously) harrowing and hallucinatory story of an OB-GYN who discovers that her every attempt at nurturing life leads only to more death.
Posted Feb 02, 2025
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Sorry, Baby
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A breakout (produced by Barry Jenkins) that heralds Victor as an idiosyncratic and exciting new American artist.
Posted Jan 30, 2025
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Didn't Die
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A somewhat slight homage with a strong voice and gentle twist rather than a wholly original work of terror.
Posted Jan 30, 2025
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You're Cordially Invited
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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Courtesy of charming and goofy performances by Will Ferrell and Reese Witherspoon as strangers who find themselves at war over their loved ones’ weddings, it’s amusing enough to do just fine on a screen of any size.
Posted Jan 30, 2025
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Train Dreams
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A poignant and poetic drama about the things that vanish and those that remain, and the finest offering at this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Posted Jan 30, 2025
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2000 Meters to Andriivka
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A harrowing first-person view of a ceaseless nightmare, defined by both blistering immediacy and crushing sadness.
Posted Jan 29, 2025
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Middletown
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A genuinely uplifting portrait of activism under fire.
Posted Jan 28, 2025
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Zodiac Killer Project
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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The result is even better than his initial design: a sharp, hilarious, self-aware, and acutely insightful work of both celebration and critique.
Posted Jan 28, 2025
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The Thing with Feathers
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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An excruciatingly literal affair, not to mention a repetitive one, spinning in circles to dizzying, and ever-diminishing, ends.
Posted Jan 27, 2025
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Rebuilding
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A lyrical tale of combatting misfortune via community.
Posted Jan 27, 2025
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Together
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A giddy grotesquerie that has midnight-movie crowd-pleaser written all over it.
Posted Jan 27, 2025
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Predators
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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Initially teasing a condemnation, only to come away with something less certain and more fascinating, it straddles various lines, and perspectives, with impressive confidence.
Posted Jan 26, 2025
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Folktales
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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With formal polish and deep compassion, it proves to be the most heartwarming film of this year’s Sundance Film Festival.
Posted Jan 26, 2025
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Ricky
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A captivating character study about a young man trying to carve out a grown-up life despite having spent half of his years on Earth behind bars.
Posted Jan 26, 2025
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Mr. Nobody Against Putin
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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An endearing, infuriating, and despairing non-fiction portrait of a country’s final descent into oppressive authoritarianism, all of it shot covertly by one brave teacher, it’s a striking work of rebel cinema.
Posted Jan 26, 2025
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Rabbit Trap
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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Nothing—including a game performance by Dev Patel—can prevent it from tumbling down a bottomless hole from which it can’t escape.
Posted Jan 25, 2025
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If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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Devolves into such a morass of shrill chaos and affected symbolism that it’s difficult to feel anything other than exasperation with its central maternal crisis.
Posted Jan 25, 2025
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Bubble & Squeak
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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No amount of narrative wackiness and star power can make [cabbages] or this Sundance Film Festival offering funny.
Posted Jan 25, 2025
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The Things You Kill
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A quiet and formally rigorous portrait of a paternalistic society, the crimes it breeds, and the fury, shame, regret, and self-loathing that follows.
Posted Jan 25, 2025
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Omaha
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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A model of tone, concision, and emotional and psychological insight, led by a staggering performance from John Magara and an equally moving one from pint-sized co-star Molly Belle Wright.
Posted Jan 25, 2025
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André is an Idiot
(2025)
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Nick Schager
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This winning non-fiction portrait proves equally adept at eliciting laughs and tears.
Posted Jan 24, 2025
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