115 min | PG | July 16, 2021 | Warner Bros. Pictures
LeBron James gets trapped inside the Warner Bros. server-verse and has to coach the Looney Tunes to victory to free his kidnapped son. The villain is a rogue algorithm. The real product is the catalog.
119 min | R | July 16, 2021 | Focus Features
Anthony Bourdain spends twenty years turning hunger into television. After he is gone, the people who loved him sit down to explain a man who never stopped running. Roadrunner does not catch him.
92 min | R | July 16, 2021 | Neon
Rob Feld lives alone in the Oregon woods with a truffle pig and a buried past, until thieves take the animal and he walks back into Portland to find it. You brace for a revenge thriller. What arrives is a reckoning about the lives we settle for.
114 min | R | July 14, 2021 | Netflix
Sam is a hired killer who breaks the rules of her syndicate to protect an eight-year-old girl. She teams up with her estranged mother and a library full of veteran assassins to survive the fallout. The cast is loaded and the colors pop, but the gun never finds anything to say.
134 min | PG-13 | July 9, 2021 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Natasha Romanoff goes on the run and finally faces the program that made her. Old wounds reopen and a fake family reunites for one job. The Avengers already told you how her story ends, which is the whole problem.
138 min | PG-13 | July 2, 2021 | Amazon Studios
A future war against aliens is losing, so the military drafts civilians from the present and sends them forward in time to fight. A schoolteacher gets conscripted into a battle his future self is already part of. The hook is sharp, and the movie spends two hours dulling it.
103 min | R | July 2, 2021 | Universal Pictures
The annual night of legal murder ends at dawn. This year a movement decides it should never end and turns its guns on immigrants, the poor, and anyone they call un-American. The masks come off and the satire goes with them.
107 min | PG | July 2, 2021 | Universal Pictures
Tim and Ted Templeton are grown up and estranged when a magic formula turns them back into a kid and a baby for one more mission. A new Boss Baby in the family needs saving from a tech-guru villain. The premise exists so the first movie can happen again, louder.
117 min | PG-13 | July 2, 2021 | Searchlight Pictures
In 1969, Harlem throws a summer music festival for the ages and a producer captures all of it on tape. The footage vanishes into a basement for fifty years while Woodstock takes the credit for the season. Questlove digs it out and hands the summer back to the people who lived it.
115 min | R | July 1, 2021 | Warner Bros. Pictures
Detroit, 1954. A career criminal takes a simple babysitting job that turns into a heist, and the heist turns into a death sentence. Everybody is double-crossing everybody, and the real thieves never get their hands dirty.
86 min | R | June 30, 2021 | A24
A Detroit waitress meets a stranger over a diner counter and agrees to a weekend of dancing in Tampa. The money is real. The trip is something else entirely.
96 min | R | June 25, 2021 | IFC Films
Finn Wheeler is the new forest ranger in a tiny town that hates itself over a pipeline deal. A snowstorm traps everyone in the local inn, and something with claws starts picking them off. The werewolf is the least of their problems.
99 min | NR | June 25, 2021 | Strand Releasing
A boy works the streets of Tehran to keep his family alive. A criminal sends him to a charity school for poor kids, not to learn but to dig for buried treasure beneath it. The treasure is the lie. The kids are the gold no one wants to count.
82 min | R | June 25, 2021 | Amazon Studios
Mary J. Blige revisits her 1994 breakthrough album twenty-five years later and walks fans through the depression and addiction buried in the songs. The candor is real. The film around it is a press kit.
111 min | R | June 25, 2021 | Sony Pictures Classics
Iván falls for Gerardo in Puebla, then leaves him to chase a kitchen and a life in New York. Heidi Ewing tells their true story across decades and one hard border. The romance burns hot, but the crossing is what makes it ache.
93 min | R | June 25, 2021 | A24
Lucy wants a baby, so she puts her body in the hands of a charming celebrity doctor and a husband who always takes his side. The pregnancy goes wrong, and every man in the room insists she is imagining it. The dread is real. The film just never decides what it is about.
143 min | PG-13 | June 25, 2021 | Universal Pictures
Dom Toretto’s long-lost brother surfaces with a plan to weaponize a global hack, and the crew has to stop him while reckoning with the family they buried. A car gets launched into space. The franchise has stopped pretending physics applies.
140 min | R | June 18, 2021 | Focus Features
Ron and Russell Mael make pop records for fifty years and stay famous mostly among other musicians. Edgar Wright corners every fan he can find and dares you to keep up with the catalog. It is a love letter written by someone who memorized the whole thing.
101 min | NR | June 18, 2021 | Music Box Films
A teenage boy in 1985 Normandy falls hard for the older boy who saves his life in a capsizing. The two spend one perfect summer together. The opening scene tells you it ends at a grave.
90 min | PG-13 | June 18, 2021 | Roadside Attractions
Rita Moreno wins the Oscar, the Emmy, the Grammy, and the Tony, then spends decades watching Hollywood reduce her to an accent and a flower in her hair. This documentary lets her tell it her way. The woman is more interesting than the format that contains her.
95 min | PG | June 18, 2021 | Pixar
A sea monster boy sneaks onto land off the Italian Riviera and discovers he passes for human the second he dries off. He teams up with another runaway fish-out-of-water to chase a Vespa, gelato, and a whole summer of belonging. It is Pixar in a minor key, and it knows it.
109 min | PG-13 | June 18, 2021 | Netflix
An advertising guy loses his wife the day after their daughter is born and has to raise the girl alone. Kevin Hart drops the manic act and plays it straight. The grief is real. The screenplay is greeting-card.
117 min | R | June 16, 2021 | Lionsgate
Michael Bryce gets pulled out of forced retirement to babysit a hitman and his even louder wife across Europe. A vain billionaire wants to torch the continent’s power grid, and Interpol thinks these three are the answer. The plot is just an excuse to point cameras at people screaming.
99 min | PG | June 11, 2021 | Netflix
A Shanghai delivery kid finds a magic teapot and the deflated dragon inside owes him three wishes. He wants the rich girl he loved before money pulled her away. It is Aladdin with chopsticks, and it never once pretends otherwise.
97 min | R | June 11, 2021 | Hidden Empire Film Group
Carl Black moves his family into a gated suburb and learns the new neighbor is a vampire. Mike Epps panics. Katt Williams bares his fangs and does all the work the script refuses to do.
93 min | PG | June 11, 2021 | Columbia Pictures
Peter Rabbit runs off to the big city and falls in with a gang of streetwise animals. Back home, a slick publisher wants to turn Bea’s gentle stories into a global brand. The movie about selling out is itself the merchandise.
91 min | R | June 11, 2021 | IFC Films
Ruth is a teenager in a dying Ohio town who tears copper and steel out of abandoned buildings to keep the lights on. A college acceptance dangles a way out, if she can survive long enough to take it. Holler knows that doing everything right is no match for a town built to keep you down.
118 min | PG-13 | June 11, 2021 | Sony Pictures Classics
A washed-out football coach arrives at a Fort Worth orphanage during the Depression and builds a team out of boys who have nothing. They have no shoes, no playbook, and twelve players total. The true story is stirring. The movie wrings it dry.
143 min | PG-13 | June 10, 2021 | Warner Bros. Pictures
Usnavi runs a corner bodega in Washington Heights and saves every dollar to reopen his late father’s beach bar in the Dominican Republic. Jon M. Chu turns Lin-Manuel Miranda’s stage musical into a sun-baked block party about home and the people who build one. The dancing is better than the plot.
89 min | NR | June 4, 2021 | IFC Films
A Berlin historian falls for an industrial diver. Her name is Undine, the water nymph cursed to kill the man who leaves her. Christian Petzold drops that myth into a modern city and dares you to figure out the rules.
112 min | R | June 4, 2021 | Warner Bros. Pictures
A young man stands trial for murder and pleads not guilty by reason of demonic possession. Ed and Lorraine Warren leave the haunted house behind and chase a curse into a courtroom. The premise promises something new and then runs back to the same old tricks.
88 min | PG | June 4, 2021 | Universal Pictures
Lucky Prescott leaves the city for a dusty frontier town and bonds with a wild mustang named Spirit. There is a defiant girl, a stubborn horse, and a runaway train. The horse has more personality than the screenplay.
97 min | R | June 4, 2021 | Lionsgate
Fred Fitzell has a corporate job, a dying mother, and a memory he cannot place. A high school drug called Mercury lets him slip sideways through time, and a vanished girl named Cindy keeps pulling him back. The trip is more interesting than the destination.
109 min | NR | June 4, 2021 | Super LTD
Theo Anthony aims his camera at the people who aim cameras for a living. Body-cam vendors, surveillance contractors, and police all promise that more footage means more truth. Anthony spends the whole film proving that the lens hides as much as it shows.
88 min | R | May 30, 2021 | Netflix
Bo Burnham locks himself in one room and builds an entire musical comedy special alone during lockdown. He writes the jokes, plays the parts, and films his own slow unraveling in the same frame. The funniest movie about a breakdown you will ever watch.
134 min | PG-13 | May 28, 2021 | Walt Disney Pictures
Cruella is the origin story of the woman who eventually wants to skin puppies for a coat. Disney hands her a tragic backstory, a punk makeover, and Emma Thompson to spar with. The clothes have more personality than the plot.
97 min | PG-13 | May 28, 2021 | Paramount Pictures
The world has gone silent and the creatures that hunt by sound are everywhere. A widow drags her children across a dead landscape toward the faint hope of other survivors. Staying alive means never making a noise, and this sequel knows exactly how to weaponize that.
116 min | NR | May 21, 2021 | Magnet Releasing
A man loses his wife in a train crash. Then a paranoid statistician shows up and tells him it was no accident. Markus is a trained killer with nothing left to lose, and a gang of bikers is about to find out what that costs.
88 min | R | May 21, 2021 | Neon
A wedding for Mexico City’s elite collapses as a violent uprising of the poor pours through the gates. The bride leaves the party to help a former servant and walks straight into the machinery of a coup. The revolution and the crackdown turn out to want the same thing from her.
113 min | PG | May 21, 2021 | Bleecker Street
A Welsh barmaid talks her hollowed-out mining village into pooling spare cash to breed a racehorse. The horse runs. The formula runs harder.
100 min | R | May 14, 2021 | Warner Bros. Pictures
A smokejumper haunted by the people she failed gets stranded in a Montana fire tower with a boy two assassins want dead. The forest is burning toward all of them. The setup runs hotter than the movie.
151 min | NR | May 14, 2021 | Kino Lorber
Mohammad Rasoulof made this anthology in secret while banned from filmmaking in Iran. Four stories ask what the state asks of ordinary men. The answer is that the executioner goes home and waters his plants.
100 min | R | May 14, 2021 | Netflix
An agoraphobic woman drinks too much wine, watches her neighbors through the glass, and swears she sees a murder across the street. Nobody believes her. Neither will you.
84 min | R | May 14, 2021 | Neon
A husband moves out, agrees to an open separation, and watches his wife start seeing another man. He spends his days being a good father and his nights deciding whether he can live with it. The gun shows up in the first scene.
93 min | R | May 14, 2021 | Lionsgate
A killer starts murdering cops and leaving puzzle-box clues for the one detective everyone in the precinct already hates. Chris Rock plays it straight inside a franchise built on viscera. The premise has teeth. The movie pulls the punch.
119 min | PG | May 14, 2021 | Roadside Attractions
An American violinist heads to Ireland for a study-abroad semester and falls for a movie star shooting a fantasy franchise in her village. He is famous and shallow. She teaches him to be real. You have seen this exact movie before, and it had fewer leprechauns.
119 min | R | May 7, 2021 | United Artists Releasing
An armored truck guard named H joins a cash-transport crew in Los Angeles. He is precise, cold, and far more dangerous than the job requires. The men he works beside have no idea what he is hunting.
95 min | R | May 7, 2021 | IFC Films
A washed-out drifter with a hatred of phones becomes the internet’s favorite anti-influencer. The fame eats him alive. Mainstream wants to warn you about a culture it does not actually understand.
117 min | PG-13 | May 7, 2021 | Stage 6 Films
A dying comedy writer with early dementia befriends a singer who shows up to collect on a dead man’s auction prize. They have nothing in common except a willingness to keep showing up. The friendship is real. The movie around it is not.
104 min | R | May 7, 2021 | Lionsgate
An FBI agent posts up in a dying Kentucky coal town and leans on a local woman to make his first big case. She gives him everything and expects a way out. He gives her a federal paycheck and a problem he needs to make disappear.