Movies

★★★★☆

100 min | PG | June 14, 2024 | Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar

Riley hits puberty and new emotions move in. Anxiety takes over. Pixar remembers how to make adults cry in a children’s movie. The formula works because the feelings are real.

★★★★☆

94 min | R | June 14, 2024 | IFC Films

A slasher movie told from the killer’s perspective. The camera follows Johnny as he walks through the woods and murders people. It is ambient horror. It is also genuinely disturbing.

★★☆☆☆

102 min | PG-13 | June 7, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Ishana Night Shyamalan makes her directorial debut with a forest horror film starring Dakota Fanning. The Shyamalan twist gene is hereditary. So is the inconsistency.

★★★★☆

115 min | R | June 7, 2024 | Sony Pictures

Will Smith and Martin Lawrence return for a fourth Bad Boys. The formula has not changed. It still works. Nobody is more surprised than the franchise itself.

★★☆☆☆

101 min | PG | May 24, 2024 | Sony Pictures

Chris Pratt voices Garfield in a heist movie about a cat reuniting with his deadbeat dad. The lasagna-loving indoor cat deserves better. So does the audience.

★★★★☆

148 min | R | May 24, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures

George Miller tells the origin story nobody asked for and makes it feel essential. Anya Taylor-Joy becomes Furiosa. Chris Hemsworth goes full maniac as Dementus. The Wasteland expands.

★★★☆☆

104 min | PG | May 17, 2024 | Paramount Pictures

John Krasinski makes a family film about forgotten imaginary friends. The concept is Pixar-level. The execution is Hallmark-level. Ryan Reynolds cannot save it.

★★★★☆

145 min | PG-13 | May 10, 2024 | 20th Century Studios

The Apes franchise jumps forward generations and finds a new story worth telling. The motion capture is stunning. The world-building is patient. Caesar’s shadow looms over everything.

★★★★☆

126 min | PG-13 | May 3, 2024 | Universal Pictures

David Leitch makes a love letter to stunt performers with Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt. The chemistry is electric. The stunts are real. Hollywood makes a movie about why movies matter.

★★★★☆

131 min | R | April 26, 2024 | Amazon MGM Studios

Luca Guadagnino makes a tennis movie that is actually a three-way love story shot like an action thriller. Zendaya commands the screen. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross turn tennis into war.

★★★★☆

109 min | R | April 19, 2024 | Universal Pictures

Radio Silence makes a vampire movie disguised as a heist movie. A twelve-year-old ballerina murders a house full of criminals. The blood is everywhere and the fun is relentless.

★★★☆☆

115 min | PG-13 | April 12, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Godzilla and Kong team up to fight a bigger ape. The human characters exist to explain things. The monsters exist to destroy things. The film exists because the last one made money.

★★★★☆

109 min | R | April 12, 2024 | A24

Alex Garland makes a war film set in a fractured America and refuses to tell you whose side to take. Kirsten Dunst anchors it with the exhaustion of a woman who has seen too much.

★★★★☆

120 min | R | April 5, 2024 | 20th Century Studios

A prequel to The Omen that has no business being this good. Nell Tiger Free carries a horror film about institutional evil and forced motherhood with ferocious commitment.

★★★★☆

121 min | R | April 5, 2024 | Universal Pictures

Dev Patel writes, directs, produces, and stars in a revenge thriller set in India. The ambition is staggering. The action is brutal. The politics are real.

★★★★★

93 min | R | March 22, 2024 | IFC Films

A 1977 Halloween broadcast goes horribly wrong. David Dastmalchian delivers a career-defining performance. Found footage horror has never been this polished or this terrifying.

★★★★☆

89 min | R | March 22, 2024 | Neon

Sydney Sweeney produces and stars in a nunsploitation horror film set in an Italian convent. The final act is ferocious. This is not the Sydney Sweeney movie the industry expected.

★★★☆☆

115 min | PG-13 | March 22, 2024 | Sony/Columbia Pictures

The Ghostbusters franchise continues with too many characters, too much nostalgia, and not enough reason to exist. McKenna Grace deserves her own movie. This is not it.

★★★★☆

107 min | PG-13 | March 15, 2024 | Lionsgate

Mark Wahlberg does an adventure race through the Dominican Republic and adopts a stray dog. Based on a true story that is genuinely remarkable. The dog acts better than most of the humans.

★★★★☆

104 min | R | March 8, 2024 | A24

Rose Glass makes a steroid-fueled queer noir about love and violence in the desert Southwest. Kristen Stewart and Katy O’Brian generate heat that could melt asphalt.

★★★★☆

94 min | PG | March 8, 2024 | Universal/DreamWorks Animation

Po gets a fourth adventure that he probably does not need but mostly earns. Awkwafina brings energy. The animation is gorgeous. The franchise treads water with style.

★★☆☆☆

104 min | PG-13 | March 8, 2024 | Lionsgate

Blumhouse makes a horror movie about a haunted teddy bear. The bear is named Chauncey. The scares are named absent.

★★★★☆

145 min | PG-13 | March 8, 2024 | Angel Studios

Angel Studios tells the story of Mother Cabrini, the Italian nun who built hospitals and orphanages in 1890s New York through sheer force of will. Cristiana Dell’Anna is a revelation.

★★★★☆

166 min | PG-13 | March 1, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Denis Villeneuve finishes what he started. The second half of Frank Herbert’s novel is the dangerous half. Villeneuve handles it with intelligence and spectacle in equal measure.

★★★★☆

117 min | PG | February 23, 2024 | Lionsgate

Hilary Swank plays a recovering alcoholic hairdresser who mobilizes a community to save a dying child. Based on a true story. Earns its sentiment without drowning in it.

★★★★☆

84 min | R | February 23, 2024 | Focus Features

Ethan Coen goes solo with a lesbian road trip crime comedy set in 1999. It is slight and messy and more fun than it has any right to be.

★☆☆☆☆

116 min | PG-13 | February 14, 2024 | Sony Pictures

Sony scrapes the bottom of the Spider-Man IP barrel and finds Madame Web. Dakota Johnson looks like she wants to be anywhere else. So does the audience.

★★★☆☆

107 min | PG-13 | February 14, 2024 | Paramount Pictures

The authorized Bob Marley biopic hits every expected beat with craft and caution. Kingsley Ben-Adir commits fully. The film does not.

★★★☆☆

101 min | PG-13 | February 9, 2024 | Focus Features

Diablo Cody writes a teen horror comedy set in 1989. Zelda Williams directs. The vibes are immaculate. The script needed another pass.

★★☆☆☆

139 min | PG-13 | February 2, 2024 | Universal Pictures

Matthew Vaughn makes a spy movie about a spy novelist caught up in a real spy plot. Two hours and nineteen minutes of that. With a cat.

★★★★☆

91 min | PG-13 | January 26, 2024 | Oscilloscope Laboratories

Daisy Ridley disappears into a quiet office worker who fantasizes about death. A tiny, precise film about the terror of human connection.

★★☆☆☆

93 min | R | January 26, 2024 | Lionsgate

A student-teacher boundary thriller that thinks it is smarter than it is. Martin Freeman deserves better material.

★★★★☆

110 min | R | January 25, 2024 | Lionsgate

Russell Crowe flies a drone. Liam Hemsworth runs through a jungle. A straightforward military thriller that works because it commits to being exactly that.

★★★★☆

141 min | PG-13 | January 19, 2024 | Neon

Ava DuVernay adapts a nonfiction book about caste into a narrative film about grief, obsession, and the architecture of human cruelty. Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor anchors a film that should not work but does.

★★★☆☆

95 min | R | January 19, 2024 | Bleecker Street

War breaks out on Earth. Astronauts on the International Space Station get orders to take control by any means necessary. The premise is better than the movie.

★★★★☆

99 min | R | January 12, 2024 | Amazon MGM Studios

Jason Statham punches his way through a phishing scam revenge thriller. David Ayer keeps it lean and mean. This is exactly as stupid and satisfying as it sounds.

★★★★☆

112 min | PG-13 | January 12, 2024 | Paramount Pictures

The Broadway musical adaptation of the movie based on the book. Reneé Rapp owns it. The meta-layers are dizzying but the songs hold up.

★★☆☆☆

98 min | PG-13 | January 5, 2024 | Universal Pictures

Blumhouse turns a backyard pool into a horror villain. The pool is scarier than the movie.

★★★★☆

117 min | R | December 15, 2023 | Amazon MGM Studios

Cord Jefferson adapts Percival Everett’s novel into a razor-sharp satire about race, publishing, and the stories America wants to buy. Jeffrey Wright carries the whole thing on his back.