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Supergirl

Sat, 27 Jun 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

108 min | PG-13 | June 26, 2026 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Kara Zor-El watched Krypton die slowly while her baby cousin escaped clean. Now she crosses the galaxy on a revenge quest with a grieving girl and a stolen ship. The cape is the same. The wound underneath is older.

Disclosure Day

Fri, 12 Jun 2026 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

145 min | PG-13 | June 12, 2026 | Universal Pictures

Spielberg returns to the aliens that made him, and Emily Blunt is his best partner in years. The yarn engages. The philosophy is shoehorned in and thinner than his reputation promises.

The Breadwinner

Fri, 29 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

100 min | PG | May 29, 2026 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Nate Bargatze turns his deadpan everyman act into a stay-at-home-dad comedy. It reaches hard for something to say about family, and reaches too far.

The Mandalorian and Grogu

Fri, 22 May 2026 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

132 min | PG-13 | May 22, 2026 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The TV series goes big without breaking new ground. Strong performances and a great score, dragged down by a crowd of throwaway characters.

You, Me & Tuscany

Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

105 min | PG-13 | April 10, 2026 | Universal Pictures

A handsome rom-com that coasts on its location and its leads. Charming until you ask it to do anything else.

The Super Mario Galaxy Movie

Wed, 01 Apr 2026 15:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

98 min | PG | April 1, 2026 | Universal Pictures

A perfect video game movie. Setup in five minutes, characters in ten, and a straight shot to the flag pole.

Reminders of Him

Fri, 13 Mar 2026 15:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

114 min | PG-13 | March 13, 2026 | Universal Pictures

Colleen Hoover’s best adaptation is still just a Colleen Hoover adaptation.

Scream 7

Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

114 min | R | February 27, 2026 | Paramount Pictures

Kevin Williamson returns to the director’s chair and proves the franchise still has a pulse. Not exactly fun, but it hits all the right notes.

How to Make a Killing

Sun, 22 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

105 min | R | February 20, 2026 | A24

A family thriller that doesn’t moralize about its villains. Smarter than it looks.

Shelter

Tue, 10 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

107 min | R | January 30, 2026 | Black Bear Pictures

Statham does what Statham does best. Kills people beautifully in beautiful places. The kid nearly steals the whole thing.

Send Help

Thu, 05 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

113 min | R | January 30, 2026 | 20th Century Studios

Raimi’s survival horror has committed performances and inventive gore, but the plotting is a mess. Rachel McAdams and Dylan O’Brien carry the film despite narrative confusion.

Anaconda

Mon, 02 Feb 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

100 min | PG-13 | December 25, 2025 | Directed by Tom Gormican

TLDR: Jack Black and Paul Rudd remake their favorite childhood movie in the rainforest and stumble into genuine heart. The slapstick lands, the sentiment earns it, and the whole thing works way better than it should.

Mercy

Mon, 26 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

100 min | PG-13 | January 19, 2026 | Amazon MGM Studios

Minority Report meets Judge Dredd meets GenZ phone addiction. Interesting premise undermined by a telegraphed twist and too many cop movie tropes.

Dead Man's Wire

Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

105 min | R | December 12, 2025 | Rowk Presents

Hip and fast-moving melodrama that doesn’t take itself too seriously. Lots of nice visual touches, and a really strong performance from Colman Domingo as the DJ. Glows up the based-on-true-life characters as Dread Pirate Cary Elwes and It-clown Bill Skarsgard. Not exactly airy but still light enough to not take too seriously.

Marty Supreme

Sun, 28 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

150 min | R | December 19, 2025 | A24

Timothee Chalamet commits fully to a ping pong obsessive, but the pacing and tonal whiplash keep this from greatness. Strong supporting turns from Kevin O’Leary, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Odessa A’zion can’t quite save the slapstick detours.

The Running Man

Tue, 09 Dec 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

133 min | R | November 14, 2025 | Paramount Pictures

Edgar Wright’s Stephen King adaptation has style to spare but asks too much of your suspension of disbelief.

Sentimental Value

Fri, 14 Nov 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

133 min | R | November 7, 2025 | Neon

Tender family drama with strong performances that never finds the gear it keeps reaching for. Cannes loved it. I liked it fine.

TRON: Ares

Sun, 12 Oct 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

121 min | PG-13 | October 10, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Joachim Rønning sends a program from the Grid into the real world. Jared Leto plays AI made flesh. The visuals are stunning. The story is hollow.

One Battle After Another

Wed, 01 Oct 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

162 min | R | September 26, 2025 | Warner Bros.

PTA’s Pynchon adaptation is a tonal mess wrapped in prestige packaging. Great performances buried inside a film that can’t decide if it’s a comedy or an epic.

The Conjuring: Last Rites

Sun, 07 Sep 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

112 min | R | September 5, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Michael Chaves closes the Warrens’ story with one final case. Vera Farmiga and Patrick Wilson anchor a film that delivers familiar scares without finding new territory.

F1

Tue, 12 Aug 2025 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

156 min | PG-13 | June 27, 2025 | Apple Studios

A Brad Pitt racing movie had no business being this watchable. The supporting cast elevates what could have been a vanity project into something with actual depth.

Weapons

Sun, 10 Aug 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

129 min | R | August 8, 2025 | New Regency Pictures

Zach Cregger follows Barbarian with an ambitious mystery horror about seventeen children who vanish simultaneously. The structure is bold. The payoff is muddled.

Jurassic World Rebirth

Sat, 05 Jul 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

134 min | PG-13 | July 2, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Gareth Edwards reboots Jurassic World with a new cast and familiar formula. Scarlett Johansson hunts dinosaurs. The film delivers competent spectacle without surprise or vision.

Karate Kid: Legends

Sun, 01 Jun 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

135 min | PG-13 | May 30, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

Jackie Chan and Ralph Macchio team up to train a new kid. Ben Wang is the breakout. The film delivers exactly what nostalgia promises and nothing more.

Until Dawn

Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

103 min | R | April 25, 2025 | Sony Pictures Releasing

David F. Sandberg adapts the horror video game with an original story set in the same universe. The practical effects work. The time loop premise wears thin.

A Minecraft Movie

Sun, 06 Apr 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

101 min | PG-13 | April 4, 2025 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Jared Hess adapts Minecraft into a family adventure that understands its audience better than its critics. Jack Black and Jason Momoa sell the absurdity completely.

A Working Man

Sun, 30 Mar 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

116 min | R | March 28, 2025 | Amazon MGM Studios

Jason Statham plays a construction worker with a lethal past forced back into action. David Ayer directs. The formula is familiar but the execution is solid.

Novocaine

Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

110 min | R | March 14, 2025 | Paramount Pictures

Jack Quaid plays a bank employee who can’t feel pain and has to rescue his kidnapped coworker. The premise is better than the execution but Quaid sells it completely.

The Unbreakable Boy

Sun, 23 Feb 2025 18:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

109 min | PG | February 21, 2025 | Pure Flix

Jon Gunn adapts a true story about a boy with brittle-bone disease and autism who transforms his family. Zachary Levi tries. The film is earnest to a fault.

Captain America: Brave New World

Mon, 17 Feb 2025 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

118 min | PG-13 | February 14, 2025 | Walt Disney Pictures

Anthony Mackie officially takes up the shield and the MCU delivers its most middling entry yet. Competent, forgettable, and overstuffed with setup for movies nobody asked for.

Wolf Man

Sun, 19 Jan 2025 21:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

102 min | R | January 17, 2025 | Universal Pictures

Leigh Whannell swings for the fences again with Universal’s monster IP and lands somewhere between ambitious and frustrating. The Invisible Man was lightning. This is the bottle.

Mufasa: The Lion King

Fri, 27 Dec 2024 18:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

118 min | PG | December 20, 2024 | Walt Disney Pictures

Barry Jenkins trades poetry for paycheck. The Lion King gets a backstory nobody asked for, rendered in photoreal animation that still can’t make fake animals emote.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim

Fri, 13 Dec 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

134 min | PG-13 | December 13, 2024 | Warner Bros. Pictures

An animated Lord of the Rings film tells the origin of Helm’s Deep two hundred years before Frodo. The battle sequences are impressive. The characters are not.

Megalopolis

Fri, 27 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

138 min | R | September 27, 2024 | Lionsgate

Francis Ford Coppola spends forty years and $120 million of his own money to make his dream project. The result is a glorious, incoherent mess that only a genius could make this badly.

Never Let Go

Fri, 20 Sep 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

101 min | R | September 20, 2024 | Lionsgate

Halle Berry lives in a cabin with her twin sons, tethered by ropes to keep an unseen evil at bay. The atmosphere is suffocating. The answers are not worth the wait.

It Ends with Us

Fri, 09 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

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.

Trap

Fri, 02 Aug 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

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.

Despicable Me 4

Wed, 03 Jul 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

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.

Last Summer

Fri, 28 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

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.

Banel & Adama

Fri, 07 Jun 2024 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

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.

Kidnapped: The Abduction of Edgardo Mortara

Fri, 24 May 2024 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

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.

IF

Fri, 17 May 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

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.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire

Fri, 12 Apr 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

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.

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire

Fri, 22 Mar 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

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.

Bob Marley: One Love

Wed, 14 Feb 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

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.

Lisa Frankenstein

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

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.

The Monk and the Gun

Fri, 09 Feb 2024 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

107 min | NR | February 9, 2024 | Roadside Attractions

Bhutan holds a mock election to teach its people how democracy works. A village lama sends a young monk to fetch two guns by the full moon, while an American scours the country for a rare antique rifle. Everyone wants the gun. Nobody agrees on what it is for.

The Promised Land

Fri, 02 Feb 2024 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

127 min | NR | February 2, 2024 | Magnolia Pictures

Mads Mikkelsen plays a penniless soldier who marches onto a worthless Danish heath and swears he will grow a kingdom out of it. A local nobleman would rather see him dead than proven right. Ambition is cheaper than the men it costs.

The Mother of All Lies

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

96 min | NR | January 22, 2024 | None confirmed (festival/limited)

A filmmaker grows up with no pictures of her own childhood, just one photo of a girl who is not her. So she rebuilds her Casablanca neighborhood in clay and drags her family into the diorama to confront what they refuse to remember. The missing photograph turns out to hide a buried massacre.

I.S.S.

Fri, 19 Jan 2024 22:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

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.

Apolonia, Apolonia

Fri, 12 Jan 2024 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

116 min | NR | January 12, 2024 | Grasshopper Film

A painter spends thirteen years letting one filmmaker watch her chase a life in art. The money arrives with strings, the friendships fray, and the camera keeps rolling. It is a portrait of ambition that counts every receipt.

Ferrari

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

131 min | R | December 25, 2023 | Neon

Enzo Ferrari builds the fastest cars in the world and buries the men who drive them. Michael Mann catches him in 1957 with his company failing, his marriage armed, and his drivers dying on open roads. The machines are gorgeous and the bodies pile up, and Enzo keeps both columns in the same ledger.

The Color Purple

Mon, 25 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

141 min | PG-13 | December 25, 2023 | Warner Bros. Pictures

Blitz Bazawule turns Alice Walker’s novel into a full-blown movie musical, all gospel choirs and dream-sequence spectacle. Celie spends decades surviving men who treat her as property. The songs are the loophole that lets her speak.

Society of the Snow

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

143 min | R | December 22, 2023 | Netflix

A chartered plane carrying a Uruguayan rugby team slams into the Andes in 1972. The survivors spend more than two months deciding what they will do to live. Bayona films the part everyone whispers about and refuses to look away.

The Iron Claw

Fri, 22 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

132 min | R | December 22, 2023 | A24

A Texas promoter raises his sons to win the wrestling title he never could. The Von Erich brothers break their bodies chasing his approval and call their bad luck a curse. The curse has a name, and it is their father.

Chicken Run: Dawn of the Nugget

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

101 min | PG | December 15, 2023 | Netflix

Ginger and the chickens won their freedom. Now her daughter wanders into a shiny new factory that turns hens into nuggets, and the great escape becomes a great break-in. The prison movie runs in reverse, and the clay still has fingerprints in it.

Wonka

Fri, 15 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

117 min | PG | December 15, 2023 | Warner Bros. Pictures

A young Willy Wonka shows up in a city where a chocolate cartel owns the police, the church, and the price of every bar. He has a head full of inventions and twelve coins to his name. The con is rigged, so he decides to out-magic it.

Concrete Utopia

Fri, 08 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

130 min | NR | December 8, 2023 | 815 Pictures

An earthquake flattens Seoul and leaves one apartment building standing. The survivors inside turn it into a fortress, then a kingdom, then something uglier. The disaster is over by the second act. The real catastrophe is the people.

Waitress: The Musical

Thu, 07 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

144 min | NR | December 7, 2023 | Bleecker Street

A pregnant waitress in a dead-end town pours everything she cannot say into the pies she bakes. Sara Bareilles wrote the songs and now plays the woman who sings them. The camera just points at Broadway and lets her cook.

Eileen

Fri, 01 Dec 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

98 min | R | December 1, 2023 | Neon

Eileen Dunlop works a dead-end job at a boys’ prison and goes home to her drunk father. A glamorous new psychologist walks in and rewires her whole life. Then the movie shows you what was underneath all that longing.

American Symphony

Fri, 24 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

104 min | PG-13 | November 24, 2023 | Netflix

Jon Batiste sets out to compose and premiere an original symphony at Carnegie Hall. The same week, his wife learns her cancer has come back. Matthew Heineman points the camera at both and refuses to blink.

Maestro

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

129 min | R | November 22, 2023 | Netflix

Bradley Cooper directs himself as Leonard Bernstein and spends two and a half hours chasing the great American conductor. The film cares less about the music than the marriage. It is a portrait of a genius told by the woman who had to live with him.

Napoleon

Wed, 22 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

158 min | R | November 22, 2023 | Columbia Pictures

Ridley Scott hands Joaquin Phoenix the most consequential man in modern European history and dares him to play the whole thing as a sulky, jealous shut-in. The battles are enormous. The man at the center is a void, and that is the point until it stops being interesting.

Saltburn

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

131 min | R | November 17, 2023 | Amazon MGM Studios

Oliver Quick is a scholarship student at Oxford who attaches himself to the rich and beautiful Felix Catton. Felix brings him home for the summer to Saltburn, the family’s enormous estate. Oliver wants this life, and he will do anything to take it.

Thanksgiving

Fri, 17 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

106 min | R | November 17, 2023 | TriStar Pictures

A Black Friday sale at a Plymouth superstore turns into a deadly stampede. One year later a killer in a pilgrim mask starts carving up the townspeople who caused it. Eli Roth finally turns a fake trailer he made years ago into the real thing.

Dream Scenario

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

102 min | R | November 10, 2023 | A24

Paul Matthews is a tenured biology professor so unremarkable that nobody remembers him. Then strangers across the world start seeing him in their dreams, doing nothing, just standing there. Fame finds the one man least equipped to survive it.

Journey to Bethlehem

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

98 min | PG | November 10, 2023 | Affirm Films

A teenage Mary and an awkward Joseph sing and dance their way toward the manger while Antonio Banderas vamps as a power-ballad King Herod. Adam Anders turns the Nativity into a full pop musical aimed at the family minivan. It is sincere, sugary, and exactly as silly as that sounds.

Stamped from the Beginning

Fri, 10 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

92 min | R | November 10, 2023 | Netflix

Ibram X. Kendi’s history of racist ideas gets adapted into a documentary with one inverted claim. Racist policy comes first and the ideas arrive later to justify it. The film stops asking what is wrong with Black people and starts asking who profited from the question.

Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

102 min | NR | November 3, 2023 | HBO Documentary Films

Nikki Giovanni has spent six decades writing poems that imagine Black freedom somewhere off this planet. Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson build a documentary around her belief that the only real escape is to leave Earth behind. They treat a poet’s mind as a spacecraft and never ask her to land.

Rumble Through the Dark

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

116 min | R | November 3, 2023 | Lionsgate

A bare-knuckle fighter works the Mississippi Delta for money he owes before he ever earns it. His memory is failing, his foster mother is dying, and Big Momma Sweet wants her cut. Aaron Eckhart bleeds for a film that knows his body is the only thing it can spend.

Rustin

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

108 min | PG-13 | November 3, 2023 | Netflix

Bayard Rustin organizes the 1963 March on Washington in eight weeks while the movement’s own leaders try to bury him for being gay. He builds the largest protest in American history from a cramped Harlem office. The movie knows the man is more interesting than the monument.

What Happens Later

Fri, 03 Nov 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

104 min | R | November 3, 2023 | Bleecker Street

A snowstorm strands two former lovers in a deserted airport overnight, decades after they split. They have one long night to relitigate everything. The chemistry is real. The reason for the movie is not.

Under the Boardwalk

Fri, 27 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

87 min | PG | October 27, 2023 | Paramount Pictures

Two young crabs from feuding clans fall for each other in the wet sand under a Jersey Shore boardwalk. David Soren turns Romeo and Juliet into a musical with claws and a head full of songs. The shape is older than the tide, and the movie never once fights it.

Nyad

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

120 min | PG-13 | October 20, 2023 | Netflix

Diana Nyad decides at sixty that she will swim from Cuba to Florida, more than a hundred miles of open ocean no one has crossed without a cage. She has tried before and failed. The film bets everything on two actresses, and it wins.

The Persian Version

Fri, 20 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

108 min | R | October 20, 2023 | Sony Pictures Classics

Leila is a queer Iranian-American filmmaker who would rather do anything than become her mother. Maryam Keshavarz mines her own family for a generation-spanning comedy that crosses an ocean and forty years to prove the two women are the same person. It is overstuffed, and it earns the mess.

The Mission

Fri, 13 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

103 min | PG-13 | October 13, 2023 | National Geographic Documentary Films

A young American missionary decides God wants him to convert the most isolated tribe on Earth. The Sentinelese have killed every outsider who lands on their beach. He paddles in anyway.

Desperation Road

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

112 min | R | October 6, 2023 | Lionsgate

A man walks out of Mississippi’s Parchman prison after eleven years and finds the family of the man he killed waiting for him. A woman walks a back road with a child and a gun and a body to bury. Two ruined people collide, and the only question is who pays the debt.

Dicks: The Musical

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

86 min | R | October 6, 2023 | A24

Two arrogant salesmen discover they are identical twins separated at birth. They decide to Parent Trap their estranged parents back into love. The film treats good taste as the one thing worth blowing up.

When Evil Lurks

Fri, 06 Oct 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

99 min | NR | October 6, 2023 | IFC Films

A demon gestates inside a man’s body in rural Argentina, and there are rules for destroying it before it gets loose. Pedro breaks every one of them. What follows is a contagion that spreads through panic and refuses to grant anyone mercy.

Saw X

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

118 min | R | September 29, 2023 | Lionsgate

John Kramer is dying of cancer and flies to Mexico for an experimental cure that turns out to be a scam. The con artists picked the wrong terminal patient. Jigsaw does not file complaints.

The Creator

Fri, 29 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

134 min | PG-13 | September 29, 2023 | 20th Century Studios

A nuke wipes out Los Angeles and America declares total war on artificial intelligence. An ex-soldier gets sent to destroy the ultimate AI weapon and finds a child. The future has never looked this good or thought this small.

A Haunting in Venice

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

103 min | PG-13 | September 15, 2023 | 20th Century Studios

Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot retires to a crumbling Venetian palazzo and gets dragged to a Halloween seance. A girl drowned in the canal years ago, and the dead are supposedly talking. The detective who believes in nothing finally meets something he cannot explain, or so the house wants him to think.

Dumb Money

Fri, 15 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

105 min | R | September 15, 2023 | Columbia Pictures

A guy in a headband and cat t-shirt bets his savings on a dying mall stock and posts the receipts online. Millions of strangers follow him in. The hedge funds shorting GameStop never see the small money coming.

Amerikatsi

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

115 min | NR | September 8, 2023 | Variance Films

An Armenian-American survives the genocide, builds a quiet life in America, then answers Soviet propaganda and returns to a homeland that throws him in prison. From his cell window he watches a guard’s family live the ordinary life denied to him. Home turns out to be something you can only see through bars.

El Conde

Fri, 08 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

111 min | R | September 8, 2023 | Netflix

Augusto Pinochet never died. He is a two-hundred-fifty-year-old vampire hiding in the Chilean wilderness, sick of life and ready to stop drinking blood. Then his children show up to fight over the money he stole.

The Equalizer 3

Fri, 01 Sep 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

109 min | R | September 1, 2023 | Columbia Pictures

Robert McCall settles on the Amalfi Coast and finds something he never had. Then the Camorra come for the town. Retirement does not suit a man who counts in seconds.

Bottoms

Fri, 25 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

91 min | R | August 25, 2023 | Orion Pictures

Two unpopular queer best friends start a self-defense club at their football-obsessed high school. The real goal is hooking up with cheerleaders. The fists fly, the blood spills, and nobody learns a single lesson worth keeping.

Blue Beetle

Fri, 18 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

128 min | PG-13 | August 18, 2023 | Warner Bros. Pictures

A college graduate comes home to a family that is losing its house and finds an alien scarab that turns him into a superhero he never asked to be. The powers are standard issue. The family is the whole movie.

Jules

Fri, 11 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

87 min | PG-13 | August 11, 2023 | Bleecker Street

A lonely Pennsylvania widower discovers a crashed flying saucer in his backyard and a small gray alien hiding in the bushes. He does not call the authorities. He offers it apple slices and a place to stay.

Dreamin' Wild

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

110 min | PG | August 4, 2023 | Roadside Attractions

Two teenage brothers record an album on their family farm in 1979. Nobody buys it. Thirty years later a collector pulls it from obscurity, and Donnie Emerson has to face what the dream already cost.

Shortcomings

Fri, 04 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

92 min | R | August 4, 2023 | Sony Pictures Classics

Ben Tagawa runs a failing arthouse cinema in Berkeley and picks apart everyone in his life. His girlfriend leaves for New York and he takes it as permission to chase the white women he swears he never wanted. The movie knows he is the problem long before he does.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem

Wed, 02 Aug 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

100 min | PG | August 2, 2023 | Paramount Pictures

Four teenage turtles live in the sewer and want one thing. They want to go to high school and get treated like normal kids. The mutant origin story finally remembers that the turtles are supposed to be teenagers.

Bobi Wine: The People's President

Fri, 28 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

113 min | PG-13 | July 28, 2023 | National Geographic Documentary Films

A Ugandan pop star decides to run for president against a man who has held power since 1986. Moses Bwayo and Christopher Sharp follow him from the concert stage to the prison cell to the hospital bed. The regime answers his songs with bullets.

The Deepest Breath

Wed, 19 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

108 min | PG | July 19, 2023 | Netflix

A young Italian freediver chases the deepest dives ever recorded on a single breath. An Irish safety diver waits at the bottom to bring her back. The ocean keeps the receipts.

Theater Camp

Fri, 14 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

93 min | PG-13 | July 14, 2023 | Searchlight Pictures

A scrappy theater camp loses its founder to a strobe-light coma and inherits her clueless crypto-bro son. The teachers keep the lights on through sheer delusion and a homemade musical. It is a mockumentary by theater kids who know the joke is on them and tell it anyway.

Biosphere

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

106 min | NR | July 7, 2023 | IFC Films

Two men, the last on Earth, share a dome one of them built. The other is the ex-president who ignored every warning. The setup is wild and the talk crackles, but the film runs out of road before it runs out of ideas.

Joy Ride

Fri, 07 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

94 min | R | July 7, 2023 | Lionsgate

Audrey, a Chinese American adoptee raised in a white town, flies to China for work and drags her three most unhinged friends along for the ride. The business trip turns into a raunchy hunt for the birth mother she has never met. It gets filthy, then it gets real.

Wham!

Wed, 05 Jul 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

92 min | NR | July 5, 2023 | Netflix

Chris Smith builds a documentary about Wham! out of nothing but archive footage, old audio, and a family scrapbook. Two teenage friends conquer pop and then watch the friendship outgrow the band. It is the last happy chapter before George Michael becomes George Michael.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

155 min | PG-13 | June 30, 2023 | Walt Disney Pictures

Indiana Jones is old, divorced, and one day from retirement when his goddaughter drags him after a dial that bends time. The Nazis chasing it now work for NASA. The send-off is heartfelt, but a good reason for it never arrives.

Nimona

Fri, 30 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

99 min | PG | June 30, 2023 | Netflix

A shapeshifting girl crashes into the life of a knight everyone has decided is a monster. She wants to be his sidekick. He wants his name back, and she is the only creature in the kingdom strange enough to help him get it.

Desperate Souls, Dark City and the Legend of Midnight Cowboy

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

101 min | NR | June 23, 2023 | Kino Lorber

Nancy Buirski digs into how a movie about two desperate men hustling through a rotting New York City became the only X-rated film to win Best Picture. She treats the 1969 release as a fault line where Old Hollywood died and something hungrier took its place. The result is a documentary that loves its subject and trusts you to keep up.

No Hard Feelings

Fri, 23 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

103 min | R | June 23, 2023 | Columbia Pictures

A broke Montauk townie answers a Craigslist ad from rich parents who want her to date their sheltered son out of his shell before he leaves for college. The pay is a car. Jennifer Lawrence commits so hard she almost makes a tame premise feel dangerous.

Asteroid City

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

105 min | PG-13 | June 16, 2023 | Focus Features

A grieving father drives his kids into a desert town for a junior stargazer convention. An alien shows up and the government quarantines everyone. Then Wes Anderson reminds you it is all a play, just in case you felt something.

Elemental

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

102 min | PG | June 16, 2023 | Walt Disney Pictures

Fire meets water in a city built for the elements, and a shopkeeper’s daughter falls for the one boy she is supposed to evaporate. Pixar dresses up an immigrant-family story in periodic-table costumes. The allegory is heavier than the romance.

The Blackening

Fri, 16 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

97 min | R | June 16, 2023 | Lionsgate

Seven Black friends gather at a remote cabin for a reunion weekend. A killer forces them to play a board game built on racist horror tropes, and the first rule is that they have to decide which of them is the blackest. Survival comes down to knowing the genre better than the man trying to murder you.

Dalíland

Fri, 09 Jun 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

97 min | NR | June 9, 2023 | Magnolia Pictures

A young assistant lands a job in the orbit of an aging Salvador Dalí and his wife Gala, where the art is a sideshow to the cash and the chaos. Ben Kingsley plays the master as a man who has turned himself into a brand and forgotten the difference. The wild surrealist deserves a wilder movie than this.

The Little Mermaid

Fri, 26 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

135 min | PG | May 26, 2023 | Walt Disney Pictures

Disney drains its 1989 animated classic into a literal live-action remake, with Halle Bailey under the sea as Ariel. The songs survive. The wonder does not.

Master Gardener

Fri, 19 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

111 min | R | May 19, 2023 | Magnolia Pictures

A man with a hidden past tends the gardens of a wealthy estate and lives by ritual and routine. His employer asks him to take on her troubled grandniece as an apprentice. The soil is the only thing in this film that stays clean.

Sanctuary

Fri, 19 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

96 min | R | May 19, 2023 | Neon

A man hires a professional dominatrix to test him through a punishing ritual the night before he inherits his dead father’s hotel empire. She decides she wants a cut. What starts as a session becomes a negotiation neither one can walk away from.

Monica

Fri, 12 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

113 min | R | May 12, 2023 | IFC Films

A trans woman returns home to care for the dying mother who threw her out decades ago. The mother no longer recognizes her. Monica nurses the woman who refused to know her, and the film never lets her say who she is.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Fri, 05 May 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

150 min | PG-13 | May 5, 2023 | Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures

The Guardians are barely holding together when an attack leaves Rocket dying with a kill switch buried in his body. Saving him means digging up where he came from, and where he came from is a nightmare. The trilogy that ran on needle drops and banter ends by making you look at the wound underneath.

Sisu

Fri, 28 Apr 2023 20:00:00 +0000

★★★☆☆

91 min | R | April 28, 2023 | Lionsgate

A taciturn Finnish prospector strikes gold in the wilderness of 1944 Lapland. A retreating Nazi patrol tries to take it from him, not knowing the old man used to kill for a living. They picked the wrong corpse to rob.

Carmen