Solo: A Star Wars Story Hits All Its Marks — Except for the Most Important One
Maybe in the next Han Solo film, he’ll become the Bogart-like cynic we met at the start of this whole saga.
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Deadpool 2 Is Tedious and Predictable
Ryan Reynolds returns for a film that spits one-liners as mechanically as a tennis-ball launcher.
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The Seagull Is a Platform for a Definitive Annette Bening Performance
Anton Chekhov’s Arkadina is one of literature’s most narcissistic mothers — which is saying something — and yet Bening makes her damnably human.
Terminal Isn’t Stylish, It’s Style-Clotted
The Margot Robbie vehicle is a genre unto itself: Crayola noir.
Revenge Inverts Its Titular Genre Without Transcending It
But Coralie Fargeat doesn’t linger on or eroticize the violence against her heroine — this isn’t torture porn.
RBG Is the Best Imaginable Retaliation to Mansplaining
Yes, the Ruth Bader Ginsburg doc is a hagiography, but it has its cheeky aspect.
Olivier Assayas’s Cold Water Is in a Class by Itself
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The Rachel Divide Is a Rorschach Blot for Its Viewers
Some people think it’s a hatchet job, others that it gives Rachel Dolezal’s commitment to social justice too much credence.
Disobedience Is a Portrait of Lost Women Seeking Connection
Sebastián Lelio’s drama, starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams, isn’t packed with surprises, but that’s not why you go to a movie like this.
Avengers: Infinity War Will Dazzle, Stagger, and Rile You Up
Marvel’s films have little in the way of a vision, but audiences have so much feeling for these characters that it doesn’t entirely matter.
Tully’s Setup Is Subpar, But It Soon Becomes Magical
Something happens when the character of Tully comes: The movie contracts in a good way, deepens, and becomes very impressive.
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Including a forbidden romance between Rachel McAdams and Rachel Weisz, and Alexander Payne’s Tully.
Which Horror Movie Should You See This Friday the 13th Weekend?
Marrowbone, 10x10, A Quiet Place, and Truth or Dare are all available to freak you out this weekend.
In Beirut, Jon Hamm Has Fully Arrived on the Big Screen
Just as smart is Brad Anderson’s direction, which is clean and crisp but never on the nose.
Michelle Pfeiffer Is Stunning in Where Is Kyra?
See this on the big screen.
Blockers Is a Raunchy Farce That’s Fundamentally Sweet
Beneath the whacking, smutty, in-your-face teen sex farce, Blockers is a mature, thoughtful exploration of parental responsibility.
HBO’s Paterno Takes an Unconventional Approach to a Cautionary Tale
As the title character, the usually galvanic Al Pacino barely speaks, a nearly-still center surrounded by smash cuts and TV-talking-head inserts.
John Krasinski’s A Quiet Place Uses Its Gimmick to Terrifying Effect
The catch in this horror film is thunderously effective: Don’t make a sound or you’re dead meat.