If Westwood: Punk, Icon, Activist isn’t a great or greatly appealing film, that may have more to do with the subject’s personal limitations and unpleasantness than with the filmmaker’s skills. | Continue reading
Lee and Chung essentially tried to improve something that was already perfectly unsettling. | Continue reading
The latest on Blu-ray and DVD, including Annihilation, Gringo, Thoroughbreds, and Unsane. | Continue reading
A review of the new Paramount Network series, "American Woman." | Continue reading
Slickly paced and radiating sexy glamour, “Ocean’s 8” moves with the swagger of a supermodel prancing down the runway. | Continue reading
An interview with the co-writer and director of "Fry Day," and a presentation of the short film. | Continue reading
A review of the new Netflix series The Staircase. | Continue reading
A review of the new AMC series Dietland. | Continue reading
A look back at "The Americans," on the occasion of its series finale last week. | Continue reading
A special edition of Thumbnails featuring conversations with film critics. | Continue reading
Our monthly series on the overlooked films of time gets to Sidney Lumet's Daniel. | Continue reading
“A Kid Like Jake” tackles the tricky topic of gender dysphoria with sensitivity and grace. | Continue reading
Inadvertently or not, American Animals feeds into this often poisonous narrative that offers benefit of doubt and a path to redemption no matter how heinous the crime, provided you’re the right gender and color. | Continue reading
Nothing kills a comedy quicker than a clammy feeling that it’s a little too eager to prove how audaciously smart and subversively hip it is. | Continue reading
In spite of his low-key ambitions, debut filmmaker Simon Baker doesn’t yet have the eloquence as a director to get you on board. | Continue reading
In September, 1983, Tami Oldham Ashcraft and her fiance, Richard Sharp, were hired to take a 44-foot yacht on a 4,000-mile journey from Tahiti to San Diego. About halfway through their cross-Pacific journey, they ran into Hurricane Raymond, a tropical storm which had been buildin … | Continue reading
A review of the new FX series, "Pose." | Continue reading
A review of HBO's new drama series, Succession. | Continue reading
A review of the Sony PS4 exclusive Detroit: Become Human. | Continue reading
An interview with the writer and director of the new sci-fi film, "Upgrade." | Continue reading
A review of NBC's new sci-fi show Reverie. | Continue reading
A special edition of Thumbnails featuring highlights from our coverage of the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. | Continue reading
Our seventh video dispatch from the 2018 Cannes Film Festival features a roundtable discussion between Ben Kenigsberg, Jason Gorber and Lisa Nesselson. | Continue reading
Everything in “Future World” is skin-deep, shallow versions of deeper material from other films. | Continue reading
The film is one long interrogation, not only from Jennifer the character's standpoint, but from a directorial standpoint. | Continue reading
There’s an old saying about kids that goes “little pitchers have big ears.” Summer 1993 is all about the emotions that get poured into those pitchers. | Continue reading
The Misandrists presents an unusual atmosphere, one mainstream cinema can not even conceive of, let alone get on a screen. | Continue reading
Mary Shelley and her monster fable deserve better than a treatment that is basically DOA. | Continue reading
I did find myself wishing that all films this narratively misguided were so directorially sure-footed. Makes getting through them a lot less painful. | Continue reading
This movie does answer the question “What if Eli Roth’s ‘Cabin Fever’ had zero sense of humor?” very satisfactorily. | Continue reading
A guide to the latest on Blu-ray and DVD, including Game Night, Red Sparrow, Mishima, Graduation, Black Panther, and more! | Continue reading
A tribute to the late Philip Roth. | Continue reading
A review of season five of Arrested Development. | Continue reading
A collection of Roger's reviews of the first six films in the "Star Wars" franchise. | Continue reading
“Timeless” isn’t the first show to pull off this kind of magic trick, but it’s magical all the same. | Continue reading
At Cannes, the "Wonderstruck" and "Carol" cinematographer Edward Lachman looked back on more than four decades of film work. | Continue reading
An interview with director John Cameron Mitchell about his new film, "How to Talk to Girls at Parties." | Continue reading
A review of the new Amazon series, "Picnic at Hanging Rock." | Continue reading
Elisha Christian on "Columbus" and "Everything Sucks!"; Superheroes and neoliberalism; Istanbul Film Festival soldiers on; Chatting with William H. Macy; Belafonte and Clark. | Continue reading
A look at how Laura Dern became one of the most adventurous actresses working today. | Continue reading
Our fifth video dispatch from the 2018 Cannes Film Festival features this year's prize-winners, including "Shoplifters" and "BlacKkKlansman." | Continue reading
Our fifth video dispatch from the 2018 Cannes Film Festival features reviews of "Capharnaüm," "The First of Many" and more. | Continue reading
Hirokazu Kore-eda's "Shoplifters" took the Palme d'Or and Asia Argento reiterated her allegations against Harvey Weinstein at the awards ceremony. | Continue reading