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‘All the Old Knives’ Film Review: Chris Pine Spy Thriller Falls Short on Thrills
Pine and Thandiwe Newton do a lot more telling than showing in listless espionage tale
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‘Cheaper by the Dozen’ Film Review: Limp Third Adaptation Proves It’s Time to Put These Kids to Bed
Gabrielle Union plays a character so impressively vivid that we wonder why she’s married to — and yields the film to — an inert Zach Braff
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‘Asking For It’ Film Review: Kiersey Clemons Leads a Fierce Ensemble in Timely #MeToo Action Drama
Eamon O’Rourke’s intense tale has the same cult-movie zeitgeist energy that turned “Promising Young Woman” into a sleeper hit
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‘Lucy and Desi’ Film Review: Amy Poehler’s Engaging ‘I Love Lucy’ Doc Balances History and Homage
It’s an intimate, loving and even-handed exploration of the couple who changed show business forever
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‘Huda’s Salon’ Film Review: Politics and Patriarchy Haunt Palestinian Woman in Tense Thriller
“Paradise Now” director Hany Abu-Assad returns with another tale of moral complexity in the Middle East
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‘I’ll Find You’ Film Review: Martha Coolidge Directs a Visually Lush WWII Romance
This old-school love story is way more interested in relationships than historical tragedy
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‘Downfall: The Case Against Boeing’ Review: Damning Doc Paints a Portrait of Corporate Cowardice
This blistering examination of just one example of malfeasance leaves us wondering about all the other scandals yet to be revealed
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‘Ted K’ Film Review: Impressionistic Unabomber Drama Reveals the Man Beneath the Monster
Director Tony Stone and actor Sharlto Copley take us on a breathless high-wire act, suspended over one man’s madness
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‘Breaking Bread’ Film Review: Feel-Good Documentary Connects Arabs and Israelis Through Cuisine
First-time documentarian Beth Elise Hawk follows a Palestinian winner of Israel’s “Top Chef” and her culinary brand of diplomacy
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‘Rifkin’s Festival’ Film Review: Woody Allen Returns to Spain, and a Very Dry Well, for His 49th Feature
Wallace Shawn plays a grumpy old man whose tastes have stopped evolving, and it would appear Allen’s have as well
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‘Am I OK?’ Film Review: Dakota Johnson Questions a Few Shades of Sexuality in Warmhearted Buddy Comedy
Sundance 2022: Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne make their directorial debut with a crowd-pleaser that has some moments of hesitation
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‘Stop-Zemlia’ Film Review: Ukrainian Teens Stumble Toward Adulthood in Tender Coming-of-Age Story
Writer-director Kateryna Gornostai brings a documentarian’s eye to major and minor moments of adolescent life
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‘The Unforgivable’ Film Review: Sandra Bullock Ex-Con Drama Stuffs a Miniseries’ Worth of Characters Into a Packed Movie
There’s a lot that works here, from the casting to the production design, but you might have to watch the original U.K. show on Britbox to fill in the blanks
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‘A Son’ Film Review: Tunisian Family Drama Quietly Devastates
Mehdi Barsaoui’s revelatory debut feature announces the emergence of a major new talent in the international filmmaking arena
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‘So Late So Soon’ Film Review: Up-Close and Intimate Doc Takes Unsparing Look at Aging Artists
As imperfect and idiosyncratic as the couple it documents, this debut doc goes deep into how an older husband and wife navigate the world, and each other
