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'One Child Nation': A Quietly Horrifying Look Back at China's Disastrous, 35-Year-Long National Birth-Control Program Nov. 08, 2019
Anyone drawn to the now-resurgent notion that collectivism is kind of cool would benefit from a view... Read More
'The Irishman' and 'Terminator: Dark Fate': De Niro, Pesci and Pacino in Scorsese's Most Melancholy Mob Drama, and Schwarzenegger Returns in the Latest Installment Of A Super-Played-Out Franchise Nov. 01, 2019
It used to be that the scariest things in Martin Scorsese's gangland dystopias were the bullet storm... Read More
'Zombieland: Double Tap' and 'The Lighthouse': Undead Again with Jesse Eisenberg and Emma Stone, and Some Dark and Stormy Nights with Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson Oct. 18, 2019
Being a follow-up to a movie that came out 10 years ago, "Zombieland: Double Tap" could be said to h... Read More
'Parasite': Bong Joon-Ho's Very Wild Ride Oct. 11, 2019
The movie you may think you're about to watch as "Parasite" gets underway would surely be a lot of f... Read More
'Joker': No Laughing Matter Oct. 04, 2019
Well before its official release, "Joker" already had an armlock on our attention. The movie's trail... Read More
'Ad Astra' and 'One Cut of the Dead': Brad Pitt's Outer-Space Daddy Issues and a Look Behind The Scenes at the Zombie Apocalypse Sep. 20, 2019
In the near future, for the usual all-too-human reasons, the beleaguered people of Earth are looking... Read More
'Hustlers': Jennifer Lopez Crushes It in a Strip-Club Caper Flick Sep. 13, 2019
"Hustlers" is about empowerment, sorta. A group of New York strippers decide to turn the tables on t... Read More
'It Chapter Two': Bill Hader and Jessica Chastain in a Very Long and Crowded Horror Sequel Sep. 06, 2019
The best kind of monster, of course, is one that's little-seen. Steven Spielberg demonstrated this i... Read More
'Don't Let Go' and 'The Fanatic': David Oyelowo in a Sci-Fi Crime Thriller and John Travolta in a Movie By Fred Durst Aug. 30, 2019
"Don't Let Go" is a characteristically tight, tense Blumhouse thriller that gets considerable mileag... Read More
'Hot Air': Steve Coogan Takes On Talk Radio Aug. 23, 2019
As an attack on right-wing radio, "Hot Air" is surprisingly inept. Steve Coogan, the movie's star (a... Read More
'Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood': Quentin Tarantino Journeys Into the Movie-Biz Past and Replays the Manson Murders Jul. 26, 2019
"Once Upon a Time...in Hollywood" is being marketed as "The 9th Film from Quentin Tarantino" —... Read More
'David Crosby: Remember My Name': Portrait of a Man Running Out of Road Jul. 19, 2019
David Crosby has been many interesting things over the course of his 77 years: a founding member of ... Read More
'Stuber': Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista Are Well Worth Seeing, But Not in This Movie Jul. 12, 2019
Kumail Nanjiani and Dave Bautista are so appealing in 'Stuber' — so personable and droll in th... Read More
'Midsommar': A Hallucinatory Swedish Road Trip from Virtuoso Writer-Director Ari Aster Jul. 05, 2019
Ari Aster's new movie — the follow-up to his hair-raising debut, "Hereditary" — cries ou... Read More
'All Is True': Kenneth Branagh, Judi Dench and Ian McKellen - Three Great Shakespeareans - in a Glowing Tribute to Shakespeare Himself May. 10, 2019
You know you're watching a different kind of Shakespeare movie when it begins with the great man's L... Read More
'Shadow': Zhang Yimou Returns to the World of Flying Daggers May. 03, 2019
Maybe you've never thought of umbrellas as deadly weapons. I never did. But take a look at the ones ... Read More
'Avengers: Endgame': Robert Downey Jr., Scarlett Johansson and Chris Hemsworth Assemble a Decade's Worth of Superheroes for a Long, Fond... Farewell? Apr. 26, 2019
Rounding the bend into hour three of "Avengers: Endgame," I heard a snurfling sound to my right. A d... Read More
'Hail Satan?': The Devil Gets His Due Apr. 19, 2019
Let's say it's 2013 and you're Rick Scott, multimillionaire governor of Florida and evangelical Chri... Read More
'High Life': Robert Pattinson in Claire Denis's Slow-Going Sci-Fi Exercise Apr. 12, 2019
"High Life" is the sort of Euro art movie that susceptible critics are inclined to describe as "chal... Read More
'Us': Jordan Peele Would Like You To Be Very Afraid. You Won't Let Him Down. Mar. 22, 2019
Jordan Peele's "Us" is a very scary movie that doesn't add up, which is too bad. Peele's uber-nerd c... Read More
