Reviews

It was incredibly gratifying to see so many female-focused, and directed, nonfiction entries again dominate an event once ruled by Harvey Weinstein. 

Maybe this year’s narrative features at Sundance were the best ever, or maybe my mediocre-movie radar has simply improved. In any case, I didn’t find a bad…

There is a moment, in the chaos of the climactic battle of Avatar: The Way of Water, when Zoe Saldana’s alien heroine Neytiri is furiously…

In my career as a film critic, there’s always been an implied litmus test for Top Ten candidates that the majority of them be a)…

The reason She Said works so well is right in the title. 

Nobody’s making rom-coms like they used to, or so people have lamented. If you believe that, I guess you might take it on blind faith…

Don’t Worry Darling would have crushed if it had come out in the 1970s.

Moonage Daydream is more a vibe than a narrative.

The Woman King is a throwback to the sweeping historical epics of the ’90s, with a twist: Its heroes are all Black women.

Ron Howard’s Thirteen Lives dramatizes a true story, the kind of human saga the whole world unites around. But for all its scuba-diving wizardry, the…