Pedro Almodóvar extends grace to those in his life in this beautiful autofiction.
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Dark Fate takes the franchise back to basics.
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Robert Eggers’ follow-up to The Witch is a hilarious, nightmarish marvel.
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Wes Craven’s The Hills Have Eyes has a grimy atmosphere, nasty deaths, and a simmering subtext of class rage
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The second Ewoks spin-off film, The Battle for Endor, learns from the mistakes of its predecessor while relying heavily on fantasy conventions and parallels to the Original Trilogy.
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James Gray’s Ad Astra is a stunning example of science-fiction worldbuilding, even if its philosophical view of the cosmos is surprisingly reductive.
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Christine finds John Carpenter working at the height of his formal powers, transforming a ridiculous concept into a thrilling film.
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A quietly critical documentary exploring the spectacle around Sudan, the last male Northern White Rhino who died in 2018.
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Earth is visually arresting, but also repetitive, which dulls its overall message.
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Todd Phillips and Joaquin Phoenix weaponize our familiarity with comic book narratives to paint a portrait of personal evil and social dysfunction.
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Return of the Jedi is both a technological marvel and one of cinema’s most powerful redemption narratives.
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The Safdie Brothers continue to mine chaos and momentum in the riveting Uncut Gems.
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Terrence Malick has crafted his most political and religious work yet.
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One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk is a rewarding film and a microcosm of Inuit-settler relations.
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Makoto Shinkai’s follow-up to Your Name is a similarly high-concept exercise in empathy.
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The Platform is both an allegory for class warfare and a seriously entertaining science-fiction horror film.
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Sound of Metal has one of the most astounding sound designs in recent memory.
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A gruesome, funny B-movie to end the summer movie season.
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A remarkable documentary that gets at the inherent tensions of a globalized economy.
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The Great Hack is an addictive primer on the Cambridge Analytica scandal, but it avoids delving into the muddier waters of its subject matter.
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