119 min | R | August 16, 2024 | 20th Century Studios
Fede Alvarez takes the Alien franchise back to basics. Young colonists trapped on a derelict space station with xenomorphs. The scares work. The fan service is excessive. The third act goes somewhere new.
84 min | NR | August 16, 2024 | Film Movement
Maciek Hamela drives a van through a war zone, pulling Ukrainian civilians out one carload at a time. The camera never leaves the back seat, and everyone who climbs in gets the same question. Where are you coming from, and where are you going.
130 min | PG-13 | August 9, 2024 | Sony Pictures
Blake Lively stars in the adaptation of the Colleen Hoover phenomenon. The domestic violence subject matter is handled with more care than expected. The romance around it is handled with less.
102 min | R | August 9, 2024 | Neon
A teenager moves to a German Alps resort and discovers something profoundly wrong. Hunter Schafer anchors the dread. Dan Stevens goes full maniac. Tilman Singer makes horror weird again.
102 min | PG-13 | August 9, 2024 | Lionsgate
Cate Blanchett, Jamie Lee Curtis, Jack Black, and Kevin Hart star in a video game adaptation that wastes every single one of them. Eli Roth directs. Nobody survives.
105 min | PG-13 | August 2, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures
M. Night Shyamalan makes a thriller about a serial killer trapped at a pop concert with his daughter. Josh Hartnett is genuinely great. The film around him is genuinely Shyamalan.
91 min | PG | August 2, 2024 | Sony/Columbia Pictures
A beloved children’s book gets the live-action treatment nobody wanted. Zachary Levi draws things with a purple crayon. The magic of the source material evaporates on contact.
128 min | R | July 26, 2024 | Marvel Studios/Disney
Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman team up for the MCU’s first R-rated film. It is a buddy comedy disguised as a superhero movie disguised as a eulogy for the Fox Marvel universe. The cameos are insane.
122 min | PG-13 | July 19, 2024 | Universal Pictures
The sequel to Twister that nobody expected delivers summer blockbuster thrills with genuine craft. Glen Powell is a movie star. Daisy Edgar-Jones grounds the spectacle. The tornadoes are terrifying.
101 min | R | July 12, 2024 | Neon
Osgood Perkins makes a serial killer film that feels like a nightmare you cannot wake from. Nicolas Cage disappears into prosthetics and madness. Maika Monroe anchors the dread.
132 min | PG-13 | July 12, 2024 | Sony Pictures
Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum make a romantic comedy about faking the moon landing. The premise is fun. The execution is uneven. The two leads carry it through the rough patches.
103 min | R | July 5, 2024 | A24
Ti West completes his horror trilogy with Maxine Minx in 1985 Hollywood. Mia Goth goes full movie star. The Night Stalker lurks. The ambition is bigger. The results are messier.
94 min | PG | July 3, 2024 | Universal/Illumination
Gru gets a baby. The Minions get superpowers. Illumination gets another billion dollars. The franchise runs on fumes and merchandise.
99 min | PG-13 | June 28, 2024 | Paramount Pictures
The Quiet Place franchise goes to New York City on the day the aliens arrive. Lupita Nyong’o plays a dying woman who just wants a slice of pizza. The best entry in the series.
104 min | NR | June 28, 2024 | Sideshow / Janus Films
Anne defends abused teenagers for a living. Then her husband’s seventeen-year-old son moves in and she starts an affair with him. Catherine Breillat returns to ask how a woman talks herself into the thing she spends her days condemning.
116 min | R | June 21, 2024 | Focus Features
Jeff Nichols makes a motorcycle club movie that is really about the death of American rebellion. Austin Butler broods. Tom Hardy mumbles. Jodie Comer steals the whole thing.
164 min | R | June 21, 2024 | Searchlight Pictures
Yorgos Lanthimos makes a three-part anthology about control, devotion, and obedience. Jesse Plemons and Emma Stone play different roles in each segment. It is long and strange and not for everyone.
152 min | NR | June 21, 2024 | Kino Lorber
A Syrian family flies to Belarus expecting an open door into Europe. Instead two governments trap them in a freezing forest and use them as ammunition. Agnieszka Holland shoots the whole thing in black and white and dares you to call it exaggeration.
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.
127 min | NR | June 14, 2024 | Film Movement
An eight-year-old assigned male at birth spends a summer at the family home in the Basque Country, certain she is a girl the adults insist she is not. The mother is breaking apart, the great-aunt tends her bees, and the kid just wants a name that fits. The film knows exactly how patient it can afford to be.
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.
87 min | NR | June 7, 2024 | Kino Lorber
A young couple in rural Senegal wants only to live alone together, away from family and obligation. The land has other plans. Love that demands the world bend to it does not end well.
102 min | NR | May 31, 2024 | Neon
A lonely dog in 1980s Manhattan orders a build-it-yourself robot to cure his isolation. They become inseparable. Then a day at the beach separates them, and the film never says a word about how much that costs.
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.
134 min | NR | May 24, 2024 | Cohen Media Group
In 1858 Bologna, papal police seize a six-year-old Jewish boy because a servant secretly baptized him as an infant. The Church says a baptized child belongs to the Church, and the Pope keeps him. Marco Bellocchio turns a single act of theft into a portrait of an institution that mistakes cruelty for love.
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.
106 min | NR | May 3, 2024 | Sideshow / Janus Films
A village in the woods runs on clean water and quiet routine. A Tokyo talent agency wants to build a glamping site upstream and bus in city tourists. The water always flows downhill, and so does everything else.
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.
146 min | NR | April 5, 2024 | Sideshow / Janus Films
Léa Seydoux lives and dies across three centuries, haunted by a catastrophe she can feel but never name. In a future ruled by AI, machines offer to scrub away her emotions so she can be useful. The cure is worse than the dread.
131 min | NR | March 29, 2024 | Neon
Arthur leads a gang of grave robbers across 1980s central Italy, dowsing for Etruscan tombs with a forked stick and a death wish. He is hunting for buried treasure. He is really hunting for a door to the dead.
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.
164 min | NR | March 22, 2024 | Mubi
A Bucharest production assistant grinds through an 18-hour workday, filming testimonials for a corporate safety video while the city chews her up. To survive the boredom, she posts vulgar TikToks as a misogynist alter ego. The end of the world looks a lot like overtime.
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.