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‘Good Girls Get High’ Review: Laughs Are Baked Into This Sweet Teen Comedy
Does this movie resemble “Booksmart”? Sure. Is it still worth your while? Absolutely.
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‘The Kingmaker’ Film Review: Lauren Greenfield’s Deftly-Drawn Portrait of Imelda Marcos Is Fascinating and Terrifying
A shrewd inquisitor and a crafty interviewee face off in a fascinating look at image-management and power
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‘Synonyms’ Film Review: French-Israeli Identity Drama Pushes Protagonist, and Audience, to the Limit
This autobiographical tale from filmmaker Nadav Lapid (“The Kindergarten Teacher” 2014) is in your face but still effective
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‘Greener Grass’ Film Review: Stepford Wives Step Out of Line in Suburban Satire
UCB vets Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe write, direct and star in an outrageous, candy-colored hellscape
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‘Jexi’ Film Review: Comedy Crashes in Witless Tale of Runaway Operating System
This Adam Devine time-waster is “Her” for Dummies
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‘Wrinkles the Clown’ Film Review: There’s a Great Doc To Be Made About Creepy Clowns — This Isn’t It
Director Michael Beach Nichols plays fast and loose with this urban legend but never plays fair with the audience
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‘Low Tide’ Film Review: Coming-of-Age Tale About Buried Treasure Digs Up Promising Talent
A first-time director and a young cast team up for a teen adventure that recalls the best of the 1980s
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‘Brittany Runs a Marathon’ Film Review: Jillian Bell Gets Welcome Showcase in Indie Comedy
Great casting (the ensemble includes Michaela Watkins and Lil Rel Howery) helps the film glide over the script’s bumpy parts
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‘Vita and Virginia’ Film Review: Elizabeth Debicki Makes a Wonderful Woolf in a Bloomsbury Biopic That Falls Short
Debicki’s Woolf is written with far more depth than Gemma Arterton’s pouty Vita Sackville-West, and the film shortchanges both
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‘Driven’ Film Review: DeLorean Tale Offers a Fun Ride But No Memorable Destination
Lee Pace’s fine acting work as the controversial car magnate is overpowered by the hair and makeup departments
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‘Where’d You Go, Bernadette’ Film Review: Cate Blanchett Stars in a Diverting But Overly Streamlined Adaptation
Fans of Maria Semple’s novel might not like the changes, but there’s plenty here to charm viewers new to the story
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‘Vision Portraits’ Film Review: Visually Impaired Filmmaker Explores Artists Working Without Sight
Director Rodney Evans (“Brother to Brother”) examines how writers, dancers and even photographers create through their blindness
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‘The Mountain’ Film Review: Jeff Goldblum Plays an Authoritative Lobotomist in 1950s-Set Drama
Writer-director Rick Alverson’s portrait of toxic conformity occasionally feels guilty of what it seeks to expose
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‘Sword of Trust’ Film Review: Marc Maron’s Masterful Turn Exposes the Deep Roots of Lynn Shelton’s Comedy
Shelton’s caper about a sought-after Confederate relic feels breezy but has a lot to say about the current politically-charged moment
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‘Annabelle Comes Home’ Film Review: Horror Sequel Conjures Up Barely Any Real Scares
Apart from a few performances (notably Mckenna Grace’s), this third “Annabelle” outing is a lifeless catalog of ineffective spooky stuff
