Cuts are sharper than expected in the clumsy Palestinian thriller Huda's SalonAlternating between two women's stories, the latest from Paradise Now's Hany Abu-Assad diminishes bothByMike D'AngeloPublishedMarch 1, 2022
Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg retrace familiar action-movie routes in UnchartedAdapted from the popular video game series, the whole thing plays like ersatz Indiana JonesByMike D'AngeloPublishedFebruary 15, 2022
Zoë Kravitz can’t escape big tech’s eyes and ears in Steven Soderbergh’s fun KimiAlexa, play an entertainingly dumb techno-thrillerByMike D'AngeloPublishedFebruary 9, 2022
Moonfall is a moonfailWhen the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that’s… not exciting enoughByMike D'AngeloPublishedFebruary 3, 2022
Finnish prizewinner Compartment No. 6 proves that rom-com formula works perfectly well with subtitlesThey’re opposites. They attract. Whaddaya need, a road map?ByMike D'AngeloPublishedJanuary 25, 2022
The best films of 2021: The ballotsHere's how 10 critics voted in our annual poll on the year in moviesByA.A. Dowd, Caroline Siede, Katie Rife, Noel Murray, Carlos Aguilar, Charles Bramesco, Mike D'Angelo, Jesse Hassenger, Leila Latif, and Vikram MurthiPublishedDecember 21, 2021
The best films of 2021West Side Story, The Green Knight, and Licorice Pizza are among our favorite movies of the yearByA.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Mike D'Angelo, Jesse Hassenger, Noel Murray, Leila Latif, Charles Bramesco, Vikram Murthi, Caroline Siede, and Carlos AguilarPublishedDecember 21, 2021
One of the most famous Christmas songs ever is actually a real downer“Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” one of the most frequently played holiday songs, is both somber and…ByMike D'AngeloPublishedDecember 20, 2021
Tilda Swinton hears a strange sound in the magnificently mysterious MemoriaApichatpong Weerasethakul's Cannes prizewinner transforms "exploding head syndrome" into an offbeat odysseyByMike D'AngeloPublishedDecember 20, 2021
The best movie scenes of 2021Some of the year's best movie moments came from No Time To Die, Shang-Chi, and Licorice PizzaByA.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Noel Murray, Charles Bramesco, Vikram Murthi, Jesse Hassenger, Mike D'Angelo, Caroline Siede, Leila Latif, Lawrence Garcia, and Carlos AguilarPublishedDecember 15, 2021
Peter Dinklage and his perfectly ordinary nose make for a solid CyranoWere his singing as strong as his acting, it might have been a great CyranoByMike D'AngeloPublishedDecember 14, 2021
Only those with a stomach for nonstop anxiety should watch White LieA college kid fakes a cancer diagnosis in this riveting, deliberately opaque character studyByMike D'AngeloPublishedDecember 14, 2021
The best movies of 2001Where do Memento, Lord Of The Rings, and Mulholland Drive fall on our retrospective countdown?ByA.A. Dowd, Katie Rife, Jesse Hassenger, Craig D. Lindsey, Leila Latif, Noel Murray, Mike D'Angelo, Charles Bramesco, Vikram Murthi, Roxana Hadadi, and Carlos AguilarPublishedDecember 2, 2021
Identifying as an animal takes on extra baggage in the thin, iffy parable WolfFor George MacKay and Lily-Rose Depp, being human ain’t all it’s cracked up to beByMike D'AngeloPublishedNovember 30, 2021
Sandra Bullock shows off her tediously stoic side in Netflix’s The UnforgivableAdapted from a three-part British miniseries, this thriller/melodrama seems to have lost a lot in translationByMike D'AngeloPublishedNovember 24, 2021
Joaquin Phoenix is unusually grounded in the family drama C’mon C’monHaving made films about his mother and father, Mike Mills turns his attention to the uncleByMike D'AngeloPublishedNovember 16, 2021
Mayor Pete can’t find the warmth beneath the wonk of the former presidential candidatePete Buttigieg isn’t a terribly exciting documentary subject… which is part of what makes the documentary about him…ByMike D'AngeloPublishedNovember 9, 2021
Tom Hanks makes the post-apocalypse cuddly in FinchIt's the end of the world as we know it, and you'll feel fineByMike D'AngeloPublishedNovember 3, 2021
Benedict Cumberbatch and Claire Foy do their best to electrify a drab biopicThe Electrical Life Of Louis Wain is about a famous artist, but his art is the least interesting part of the movieByMike D'AngeloPublishedOctober 19, 2021
There's nothing to get excited about in the Netflix slasher There's Someone Inside Your HouseThese teens make good company, but the horror movie in which they're trapped is strictly rote.ByMike D'AngeloPublishedOctober 5, 2021