Reviews

Unlike certain tone-deaf PSAs, there are voices you need to hear from at a volcanic cultural moment like this. Enter Spike Lee, whose new film Da 5…

Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus (“The Farm: Angola, USA,” “What Happened, Miss Simone?”) turns to dramatized true crime with a grim story many New Yorkers will…

I’m a little worried about Pete Davidson. Then again, that’s the enduring brand of Davidson, the proudly unstable “Saturday Night Live” comicwho’s having a moment with a…

Last week, “The Invisible Man” served up a potent meditation on domestic abuse, then diluted it with campy scares. The quieter “Swallow” follows with a different body…

Bad movies are one thing, but there’s a more potent disappointment reserved for ones that coulda been contenders. Director-writer Leigh Whannell’s reboot of “The Invisible…

A young autistic man (Tye Sheridan) witnesses a murder at his hotel job in this indie noir from director/writer Michael Cristofer (whom you may know…

All Jane Austen’s heroines are clever, but Anya Taylor-Joy brings an unusually sharp edge to her rendition of Emma Woodhouse in “Emma.” Maybe it’s the lingering influence…

It’s prime horror-movie season, and psychological chiller “The Lodge” does not disappoint. The follow-up to 2014’s “Goodnight Mommy,” from writer-directors Veronika Franz and Severin Fiala,…

Don’t sit down to watch this year’s batch of animated shorts without a handful of Kleenex. The five Oscar-nominated films, featuring a remarkable range of style…

The mood of “The Assistant,” with its sparse soundtrack of copier machines, phones and dinging elevators, is deceptively banal. Yet I’ll bet any woman who’s…