Reviews

Tesla is a bit of a mess, but at least it’s not another plodding biopic. That honor, in electrical-inventor history, belongs to The Current War, which even…

There are a handful of novels said to be fundamentally unfilmable, “A Confederacy of Dunces,” “Lolita” and “Dune” among them. Many of them have, of…

(CNN) — Binge-watching Netflix’s “Down to Earth with Zac Efron” is sort of like watching Bill and Ted discover climate change. During eight, approximately 40-minute-long episodes, the…

An Airbnb rental is a pretty solid horror setup. Over the years, we’ve seen countless real-life nightmares play out in the news. Also, stranded-in-a-cabin tropes tend to be a…

“I used to be worshipped as a god,” says Charlize Theron’s character, Andy, in Netflix’s The Old Guard. 

I love intimate French dramas where people, particularly relatives, tell each other unpleasant truths. The French are, to generalize wildly, so very good at this….

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…