100 min | R | May 6, 2022 | IFC Films
France, 1963. Anne is a brilliant literature student who discovers she is pregnant, and abortion is a crime that can land her and anyone who helps her in prison. The film does not flinch, and it does not ask you to either.
126 min | PG-13 | May 6, 2022 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Stephen Strange falls through the multiverse chasing a girl who can punch holes between worlds. Sam Raimi takes the controls of a Marvel machine and bolts a haunted house onto it. The seams show.
142 min | NR | April 29, 2022 | Utopia
An old man writes about cinema while his wife’s mind comes apart in the next room. Gaspar Noé splits the screen in two and never lets the halves touch again. It is the gentlest film he has ever made and the one most likely to wreck you.
114 min | R | April 29, 2022 | Open Road Films
An aging assassin takes a contract in El Paso, then refuses to kill a child and becomes the target himself. The catch is that early Alzheimer’s is erasing his memory faster than he can cover his tracks. Great hook, ordinary movie.
107 min | R | April 22, 2022 | Lionsgate
Nicolas Cage plays a washed-up actor named Nick Cage who takes a million dollars to attend a superfan’s birthday party. The superfan turns out to be an arms dealer, and the CIA wants Cage to spy on him. The gimmick is the whole meal, and Cage knows exactly how to serve it.
137 min | R | April 22, 2022 | Focus Features
A prince watches his father murdered and his mother taken. He spends years turning himself into a weapon, then walks into the volcano-lit dark to collect the blood debt. Revenge has rarely looked this filthy or felt this inevitable.
100 min | PG | April 22, 2022 | Universal Pictures
Mr. Wolf and his crew of animal criminals are the world’s best thieves and the world’s most feared villains. Caught at last, they fake going straight to dodge prison. The con is that one of them might actually mean it.
72 min | PG | April 22, 2022 | Neon
An eight-year-old loses her grandmother and helps clear out the family’s old house in the woods. There she meets a girl her own age who turns out to be her mother as a child. Céline Sciamma builds an entire ghost story out of tenderness and tells it without raising her voice.
94 min | NR | April 22, 2022 | Kino Lorber
An Iranian family piles into a borrowed car and drives across the countryside toward a destination they refuse to name out loud. The youngest son treats it as an adventure. The parents know they are taking their older boy to the border and may never see him again.
106 min | R | April 15, 2022 | IFC Films
Three twentysomethings in a high-rise corner of Paris circle each other through hookups, dead-end jobs, and webcam screens. Jacques Audiard films it in cool black and white and lets the wanting do the work. It watches its lovers more than it ever touches them.
142 min | PG-13 | April 15, 2022 | Warner Bros. Pictures
Dumbledore cannot fight Grindelwald directly. A blood pact made in their youth binds his hands, so he sends Newt Scamander and a small team to stop Grindelwald from seizing power through an election. Three films in, the saga still cannot explain why any of this matters.
124 min | R | April 13, 2022 | Columbia Pictures
A foul-mouthed boxer survives a near-fatal crash and decides to become a Catholic priest. Mark Wahlberg punches and prays his way through a real-life conversion story. The faith is sincere. The movie around it is not.
98 min | R | April 11, 2022 | Warner Bros. Pictures
Someone in the Russian government poisons opposition leader Alexei Navalny with a nerve agent and he survives. Then he helps track down the men who did it, phone call by phone call. The hunters become the hunted, and Navalny holds the receiver.
122 min | PG | April 8, 2022 | Paramount Pictures
Sonic settles into small-town life until Dr. Robotnik crashes back to Earth with a new sidekick named Knuckles and a plan to grab a power source that could level the planet. The action is bigger and the jokes land more often. The movie just forgot to leave anything on the cutting room floor.
136 min | R | April 8, 2022 | Universal Pictures
A paramedic and a wounded cop. A bank robbery gone wrong. Two desperate brothers hijack an ambulance and drag the LAPD across Los Angeles at ninety miles an hour. The chase never stops, and neither does Michael Bay.
103 min | R | April 1, 2022 | Paramount Pictures
A Special Forces sergeant gets discharged without a pension and takes a private contract he should refuse. The money is good. The job goes wrong in the first twenty minutes, and the movie spends the rest of its time looking for the thriller it forgot to build.
105 min | PG-13 | April 1, 2022 | Columbia Pictures
A brilliant scientist with a fatal blood disease cures himself by splicing in bat DNA. The cure turns him into a vampire with a thirst he cannot control. The film has even less control than he does.
112 min | PG-13 | March 25, 2022 | Paramount Pictures
A reclusive romance novelist gets kidnapped by an eccentric billionaire who wants her to find a real lost treasure. Her dim cover-model muscle mounts a rescue. The map leads exactly where you think it does.
187 min | NR | March 25, 2022 | Variance Films
Two real revolutionaries who never met become sworn brothers in British-ruled India, each hiding a war from the other. S. S. Rajamouli stages their friendship at the scale of myth and the volume of a riot. It is the most sincere blockbuster in years, and it does not apologize for a single frame of it.
97 min | R | March 25, 2022 | Bleecker Street
A nurse climbs Mount Washington alone and finds a stranger half-frozen and barely alive on the descent. She abandons her own hike to drag him down through a whiteout. The mountain is the easy part.
140 min | R | March 25, 2022 | A24
Evelyn Wang runs a failing laundromat and gets audited by the IRS. Then she learns she is the only version of herself who can save the multiverse. The Daniels turn a tax audit into a story about whether a mother can love her daughter back.
106 min | R | March 18, 2022 | A24
A film crew rents a remote Texas farmhouse in 1979 to shoot a porno without the elderly owners catching on. The old woman catches on. She wants what the young people have, and she will take it.
83 min | PG-13 | March 18, 2022 | Sony Pictures Releasing
Sandra Oh raises bees on an off-grid farm and homeschools her daughter to escape the mother who abused her. Then her mother’s ashes show up in a suitcase on the doorstep. Generational trauma deserves a better horror movie than this one.
105 min | R | March 18, 2022 | Focus Features
A master tailor runs his shop on a Chicago street, taking measurements and minding his own business. The mob uses his back room as a drop, and one night a wounded gangster and a hidden recording pull him into a war he wants no part of. The needle is sharper than the gun.
100 min | PG | March 11, 2022 | Walt Disney Pictures
A thirteen-year-old in 2002 Toronto worships her mother, aces her tests, and keeps her cool. Then she wakes up as a giant red panda every time her emotions spike. Puberty has never had a better metaphor.
177 min | PG-13 | March 4, 2022 | Warner Bros. Pictures
Bruce Wayne is two years into the job and still angry. A killer called the Riddler starts executing Gotham’s elite and leaving puzzles addressed to the Batman. It is a rain-soaked detective noir that takes the cape seriously and never once apologizes for it.
116 min | NR | March 4, 2022 | MUBI
Hans Hoffmann keeps going to prison for the same crime. He sleeps with men, and West Germany keeps a law on the books that makes that a sentence. Sebastian Meise builds a love story out of the exact mechanism the state uses to crush it.
96 min | PG | March 4, 2022 | A24
In a near future where families keep AI siblings, a malfunctioning android named Yang shuts down for good. A father tries to repair him and instead finds a hidden archive of memories. The machine, it turns out, was paying closer attention than the humans were.
106 min | R | February 25, 2022 | Open Road Films
The Foo Fighters move into a haunted mansion to record their tenth album. Something in the house wants the record finished, and it does not care who has to die. Dave Grohl plays a possessed version of himself, which is funnier as a pitch than as a movie.
122 min | PG-13 | February 25, 2022 | United Artists Releasing
A man with the soul of a poet and a body the world mocks loves a woman he cannot bring himself to claim. So he writes another man’s love letters and watches her fall for his words wearing someone else’s face. The oldest cruelty in romance is loving in secret and calling it nobility.
116 min | PG-13 | February 18, 2022 | Columbia Pictures
A bartender with light fingers gets pulled into a hunt for gold that Magellan’s crew hid five hundred years ago. Tom Holland climbs, Mark Wahlberg squints, and the clues unlock right on schedule. It assembles every part of the treasure-hunt genre and forgets to bury anything worth finding.
101 min | PG-13 | February 18, 2022 | United Artists Releasing
An Army Ranger drives a dead comrade’s dog down the Pacific coast to a funeral. Neither man nor animal is fit for polite society. The road is the only place that makes sense for either of them.
72 min | NR | February 11, 2022 | Film Movement
A seven-year-old girl starts elementary school and discovers her older brother is being bullied. She tries to help him. She learns that the schoolyard punishes loyalty as fast as it punishes weakness.
112 min | PG-13 | February 11, 2022 | Universal Pictures
A global pop star gets jilted on stage in front of millions and marries a random man holding a sign in the crowd. He is a divorced math teacher who came along to chaperone his kid. The fantasy works until you ask it a single question.
127 min | PG-13 | February 11, 2022 | 20th Century Studios
Hercule Poirot takes a honeymoon cruise down the Nile, and a body turns up before dessert. Kenneth Branagh surrounds his detective with a glamorous cast and a digital Egypt that never feels like a real place. The mystery gets solved. The movie does not.
104 min | PG-13 | February 11, 2022 | Open Road Films
Liam Neeson plays a government fixer who cleans up the FBI’s messes and starts to suspect his own agency is the mess. A reporter, a whistleblower, and a deep-state conspiracy stand between him and retirement. The plot has all the parts and none of the pulse.
128 min | R | February 4, 2022 | Neon
Julie is almost thirty and still does not know what she wants to be, who she wants to love, or whether either question has an answer. Joachim Trier follows her through four years of starting over. The film is about the people we abandon to keep becoming someone else.
131 min | PG-13 | February 4, 2022 | Lionsgate
The moon falls out of orbit and starts dropping toward Earth. A disgraced astronaut, a fired NASA boss, and a conspiracy blogger are the only people who can stop it. Roland Emmerich destroys the planet again and forgets to bring the fun this time.
88 min | NR | February 4, 2022 | MUBI
In a walled compound on the outskirts of N’Djamena, a devout single mother named Amina learns her fifteen-year-old daughter is pregnant and wants it ended. Abortion is illegal in Chad and condemned by their faith. Lingui is the word for the bonds that hold people together, and the film asks what those bonds are worth when every institution turns its back.
96 min | R | February 4, 2022 | Paramount Pictures
Johnny Knoxville and the crew are middle-aged now, and they have come back to break each other’s bodies one more time. The stunts are louder and the men are older. Turns out friendship is just the willingness to take a bull to the chest for the bit.
94 min | NR | January 28, 2022 | Samuel Goldwyn Films
A wealthy Panama City gallery owner is buried in grief for her dead son. A wounded boy from the slum below her tower shows up at her door, and she lets him in. What starts as charity becomes something neither of them can afford to lose.
93 min | R | January 28, 2022 | IFC Films
Adrien Brody plays a garbage man hauling around a violent past he cannot bury. A teenage girl next door pulls him back into the world he tried to leave behind. The atmosphere does all the work the script forgets to do.
106 min | R | January 26, 2022 | Sony Pictures Classics
A Finnish woman boards a train across the Russian Arctic to see ancient rock carvings. Her assigned bunkmate is a drunk Russian miner who insults her within minutes. The journey is the destination, and the carvings turn out to be the least interesting thing she finds.
134 min | PG-13 | January 21, 2022 | Universal Pictures
Redeeming Love drops a Christian retelling of the Book of Hosea into the California Gold Rush. A farmer buys a prostitute out of a brothel, decides God wants him to marry her, and refuses to take no for an answer. The movie calls this grace.
109 min | PG-13 | January 21, 2022 | Samuel Goldwyn Films
A burned-out young teacher who dreams of singing in Australia gets posted to the most remote school in the world, a glacial village in the Bhutanese highlands. He arrives wanting to quit. The mountain has other plans.
92 min | R | January 14, 2022 | Lionsgate
A recently separated tech millionaire meets a beautiful younger woman and lets her into his life. Then she lets her friends in too. The trap is obvious from the first frame, and the movie never finds a reason to surprise you.
114 min | R | January 14, 2022 | Paramount Pictures
Twenty-five years after the Woodsboro murders, a new Ghostface picks up the knife and starts gutting teenagers who share the wrong last names. The killer is a film buff. So is the movie.
92 min | PG | January 14, 2022 | Amazon Studios
A magic crystal turns Dracula human and turns Johnny into a monster, and the whole family scrambles for a cure before the change becomes permanent. The fourth Hotel Transylvania bets everything on a body-swap gimmick. Everyone transforms except the formula.
122 min | PG-13 | January 7, 2022 | Universal Pictures
The 355 sends a CIA agent to assemble a team of international spies and recover a weapon that can crash the world. Five of the best actresses alive sign on. The movie forgot to give them a movie.
127 min | PG-13 | January 7, 2022 | Amazon Studios
Rahim is in prison for a debt he cannot pay. On a short leave he finds a bag of gold coins and decides to do the honest thing and return it. Then the honest thing becomes the most dangerous thing he has ever done.