107 min | R | April 7, 2023 | A24
Lizzy has a gallery show in days, a broken water heater, and a landlord too busy with her own art to fix it. Kelly Reichardt and Michelle Williams reunite for a portrait of making art in the cracks of an uncooperative life. No breakthrough arrives, and you just keep showing up.
96 min | PG-13 | April 7, 2023 | IFC Films
Carl Nargle is the most famous public-access painter in Vermont, a Bob Ross clone in a perm and a leisure suit who has coasted on soft tones and softer ego for decades. Then the station hires a younger, better painter and his kingdom of one starts to crack. The premise wants to be a comedy. It forgot to be funny.
127 min | NR | April 7, 2023 | Oscilloscope Laboratories
Haider takes a job as a backup dancer at a Lahore erotic theater and falls for the trans woman who runs the show. His wife waits at home inside a family that has already decided what he should be. The lie costs everyone.
93 min | PG | April 5, 2023 | Universal Pictures
Two Brooklyn plumbers fall down a warp pipe and land in the Mushroom Kingdom. Mario sets out to rescue his brother and stop Bowser from conquering every realm. The movie is a theme park ride that never pretends to be anything else.
112 min | R | April 5, 2023 | Amazon Studios
A shoe company in last place bets everything on a rookie everyone else passed on. Sonny Vaccaro drives to the Jordan house with a pitch and no fallback plan. The deal made history. The movie just wants you to enjoy watching grown men negotiate.
134 min | PG-13 | March 31, 2023 | Paramount Pictures
A washed-up bard and his barbarian partner break out of prison to rob the man who betrayed them and stole one of their daughters. They assemble the worst adventuring party in the realm. The dice land better than they have any right to.
116 min | R | March 31, 2023 | Focus Features
Inez kidnaps her own son from foster care and builds a life with him in a Harlem that is being sold out from under them both. A.V. Rockwell turns a decade of gentrification into a family secret waiting to detonate. Teyana Taylor announces herself as a movie star.
88 min | NR | March 24, 2023 | Sideshow / Janus Films
Two African kids in Belgium pose as siblings to survive. He has papers. She does not, and the system has no use for a girl who cannot prove who she is. The bond is real even when the paperwork lies.
96 min | NR | March 24, 2023 | MUBI
An eight-year-old girl with a superhuman nose bottles the scents of everyone she loves. One jar smells like her mother. When she opens it, she falls into the past her family spent a decade trying to forget.
170 min | R | March 24, 2023 | Lionsgate
John Wick wants out. The High Table wants him dead. To win his freedom he has to fight his way across four cities and one impossibly long staircase, and the whole world is happy to take the contract.
128 min | R | March 24, 2023 | MGM
Florence Pugh causes a car crash, loses everything, and falls into opioid addiction. Morgan Freeman plays the grieving grandfather she cannot avoid. The two of them are worth watching, even when Zach Braff reaches for the Kleenex.
130 min | PG-13 | March 17, 2023 | Warner Bros. Pictures
Billy Batson and his foster siblings share one superpower and a lot of teenage anxiety. The Daughters of Atlas arrive to take the magic back and wreck the city doing it. The kids are charming. The movie around them is a mess.
85 min | R | March 17, 2023 | Roadside Attractions
Claire flies to a funeral and tells the widower she plans to kill him. The reason is fifty years old and entirely justified. The movie around that promise never decides how serious it wants to be.
157 min | NR | March 17, 2023 | Niu Vision Media
A Jin envoy turns up dead inside a sealed garrison, and the secret letter he carried has vanished. A disposable foot soldier and a rigid young commander get two hours to find both before dawn. Zhang Yimou turns a murder hunt into a referendum on what a nation chooses to remember.
123 min | R | March 10, 2023 | Paramount Pictures
Sam and Tara Carpenter flee Woodsboro for New York City, but Ghostface follows them into the subway and the bodega. A new killer wears the mask and a familiar pile of rules gets dragged into the five boroughs. The city is bigger. The body count is higher. The formula is the formula.
124 min | PG-13 | March 10, 2023 | Focus Features
A washed-up coach drives drunk into a cop car and a judge hands him a sentence. Ninety days coaching a team of players with intellectual disabilities. He needs them more than they need him, and the movie already knows it.
92 min | PG-13 | March 10, 2023 | Columbia Pictures
Sixty-five million years ago, a pilot crash-lands on an unknown planet that turns out to be prehistoric Earth. Adam Driver fights dinosaurs with a laser rifle and a terrified kid in tow. The pitch is the whole movie, and the movie knows it.
114 min | R | March 3, 2023 | Lionsgate
A disgraced private operative gets pulled back in to stop a stolen weapon from hitting the black market. He needs a movie star to charm an arms dealer who collects celebrities. The plan is more fun than the execution.
116 min | PG-13 | March 3, 2023 | MGM
Adonis Creed retires undefeated and runs the business of boxing from a mansion. Then Damian Anderson walks out of prison with eighteen years of buried grudge and asks for a shot. The fight was never going to stay in the ring.
95 min | NR | February 24, 2023 | Super LTD
A nine-year-old girl from a crowded, neglectful home spends a summer with distant relatives on a farm in rural Ireland. For the first time, someone pays attention to her. The smallest kindnesses turn out to be the loudest thing in the room.
120 min | PG-13 | February 24, 2023 | Lionsgate
Southern California, 1968. A burnt-out Calvary Chapel pastor opens his doors to barefoot hippies, a charismatic street preacher baptizes them by the hundreds in the Pacific, and a lost teenager finds Jesus instead of acid. The story is a genuine American earthquake. The movie treats it like a greeting card.
83 min | NR | February 24, 2023 | IFC Films
Dev gets out of a recovery meeting and decides the cure for his life is stopping his ex-girlfriend from committing murder. He tears across a locked-down New York to save her from a plan she may not even have. The cause is a fantasy, but the panic is real.
95 min | R | February 24, 2023 | Universal Pictures
A black bear in a Georgia forest eats a duffel bag of cocaine and decides the woods belong to it. Elizabeth Banks turns one tabloid headline into a creature feature with a high body count. The title is the whole pitch, and the movie never pretends otherwise.
87 min | NR | February 21, 2023 | Giant Pictures
A documentary crew embeds in a shelter near Ukraine’s eastern front, where children wait out the legal limbo between a broken home and whatever comes next. The camera does not flinch and does not perform. It just watches kids be kids in a place built to hold the wreckage adults leave behind.
119 min | R | February 17, 2023 | Sony Pictures Classics
A French woman lands in Seoul on a whim and decides to find the birth parents who gave her up. Everyone wants the reunion to mean something. She refuses to give them the satisfaction.
166 min | NR | February 17, 2023 | Grasshopper Film
A French high commissioner drifts through Tahiti in a white linen suit, smiling at everyone and trusting no one. Rumors spread that France is about to resume nuclear testing in the Pacific. He keeps talking, keeps charming, keeps learning nothing.
125 min | PG-13 | February 17, 2023 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures
Scott Lang and his family get sucked into the Quantum Realm, a subatomic world ruled by a conqueror who has been waiting for a way out. The franchise that once shrank a hero down to fight on a Thomas the Tank Engine track now blows itself up to universe-ending size. Bigger is not better.
122 min | NR | February 10, 2023 | Strand Releasing
A Moroccan tailor builds caftans by hand in a trade that is dying around him. His wife knows his secret. The film is about all three of the people in a marriage that only has room for two.
112 min | R | February 10, 2023 | Warner Bros. Pictures
Mike Lane is broke and bartending in Miami when a wealthy divorcee hires him to put on a show in London. He says yes. The franchise that started in a Tampa strip club ends as a stage musical about a woman’s midlife reinvention, which is a strange place to land.
91 min | R | February 10, 2023 | IFC Films
A woman travels to a remote convent on the Scottish coast to learn how her priest brother died. The nuns insist it was suicide. The film insists on a dozen explanations and commits to none.
100 min | R | February 3, 2023 | Universal Pictures
Two dads and their daughter are vacationing at a remote cabin when four strangers knock and demand a human sacrifice to stop the end of the world. Dave Bautista, of all people, plays the gentle giant holding the axe. The premise is a vise, and Shyamalan knows exactly how to turn it.
143 min | NR | February 3, 2023 | Janus Films
A Danish priest treks across Iceland to build a church and photograph a people he does not respect. The land has other plans. Hlynur Pálmason turns a colonial errand into a slow war between a man’s faith and the ground under his feet.
88 min | NR | February 3, 2023 | Music Box Films
Julie Roy cleans hotel rooms in Paris and raises two kids alone in a town an hour outside the city. A transit strike turns her commute into a daily emergency she cannot afford to lose. Getting to work becomes the whole thriller.
98 min | PG-13 | February 3, 2023 | Paramount Pictures
Four screen legends fly to Houston to watch Tom Brady win a Super Bowl. They lie, they take edibles, they enter a hot wing eating contest. The movie loves them more than it trusts them.
101 min | R | January 27, 2023 | Prime Video
A destination wedding in the Philippines goes sideways when pirates storm the resort and take the guests hostage. The bride and groom, mid-breakup, have to save everyone while sorting out whether they still want to get married. The premise promises chaos and delivers a shrug.
112 min | R | January 27, 2023 | Sony Pictures Classics
A widowed Paris translator raises her daughter alone while her father vanishes into a degenerative disease. Then an old friend reappears and her body remembers what it wants. Grief and desire arrive in the same season, and Mia Hansen-Løve refuses to rank them.
88 min | NR | January 27, 2023 | IFC Films
Three couples ride out the early lockdown trapped in their own neuroses and their own expensive homes. Cecilia Miniucchi wants a satire about the privileged coming apart in isolation. The isolation is the only thing that lands.
104 min | PG-13 | January 27, 2023 | A24
Two thirteen-year-old boys are inseparable until the world starts asking what they are to each other. Léo pulls away to prove he is normal. The film is about what that costs.
121 min | NR | January 27, 2023 | Samuel Goldwyn Films
A fisherman’s son wins a scholarship to Cairo’s most sacred university. When the Grand Imam dies, state security recruits him to spy on the men fighting to replace him. He came to study God and ends up working for the people who own Him.
174 min | NR | January 22, 2023 | Well Go USA
Earth’s scientists strap thousands of fusion engines to the planet to push it out of the solar system before the dying sun swallows it. This is the prequel, so it shows the men who built the engines and the men who wanted to upload humanity into the cloud instead. The future ends in a fistfight over which apocalypse to choose.
88 min | R | January 20, 2023 | A24
A teenage folk singer broadcasts to his online fans while his mother runs a shelter for domestic violence survivors. Neither one can hear anyone but themselves. Jesse Eisenberg made a comedy about narcissism and forgot to make anyone likable, which turns out to be the point.
123 min | PG-13 | January 20, 2023 | Sony Pictures Classics
A successful lawyer takes in his depressed teenage son and decides that love and good intentions will be enough to save him. Florian Zeller stages a mental illness as a debate between two well-dressed adults. The result lectures where it means to devastate.
111 min | PG-13 | January 20, 2023 | Screen Gems
June Allen’s mother flies to Colombia for a vacation and vanishes. June has never left her bedroom, but she has a laptop, a dead woman’s passwords, and a willingness to break into every account she can reach. Turns out the kid raised on screens is the only one who knows how to find someone who lives on them.
89 min | NR | January 20, 2023 | Vertigo Releasing
A British Pakistani widow opens her dead husband’s phone and finds a woman in Calais. She crosses the Channel to confront the secret. What she does next is not what grief is supposed to look like.
123 min | PG-13 | January 13, 2023 | Super LTD
Alice Diop moves from documentary to fiction with a courtroom drama about a Senegalese woman on trial for the death of her infant daughter. A novelist sits in the gallery to watch, and the trial becomes hers too. The film asks what a mother is and refuses to hand you an answer.
107 min | R | January 13, 2023 | Lionsgate
A commercial pilot crash-lands a damaged jet on a remote island controlled by armed separatists. The only man who can help him is a murder suspect he was transporting in handcuffs. Sometimes you take the gun you can get.
100 min | R | January 13, 2023 | Warner Bros. Pictures
Two broke friends throw a giant party in a celebrity’s mansion to get rich quick. The original is a scrappy cult classic with two leads and nothing to lose. This remake swaps the scrappiness for a parade of cameos and a soundtrack loud enough to drown out the jokes.
102 min | PG-13 | January 6, 2023 | Universal Pictures
Gemma builds the perfect AI companion for her grieving niece. M3GAN learns to protect the child by any means available. The doll does her job too well.
120 min | NR | January 6, 2023 | MUBI
A Catalan family has farmed the same peaches for generations. This year the landowner sells out to a solar company and the orchard comes down. Carla Simón films the last harvest like a wake.
126 min | PG-13 | December 30, 2022 | Columbia Pictures
Otto Anderson is a widower who has decided he is done living. A new family moves in across the street and keeps interrupting his suicide. Tom Hanks plays the most likable misanthrope alive, which is the whole problem.