Reviews

The Lesson

Richard E. Grant couldn’t be more perfectly cast as an esteemed author in Alice Troughton’s new noir thriller The Lesson. He plays...

Alex Troughton

Cassandro

Gael Garcia Bernal plays gay wrestler Cassandro in Roger Ross Williams’ feel-good biographical drama. The film, set in the early 1980s,...

El Conde

In real life, Augusto Pinochet, who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, died in 2006. Pablo Larrain’s new film El Conde, or The Count in English,...

A Haunting in Venice

After Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, Kenneth Branagh is back as Hercule Poirot in A Haunting in Venice. The spooky murder...

Kenneth Branagh

Past Lives

One of the best films of 2023 has arrived. Celine Song’s Past Lives, which has received reviews since its debut at the Sundance Film...

Celine Song

My Big Fat Greek Wedding 3

When My Big Fat Greek Wedding launched in 2002, hardly anybody expected that it would still be going 21 years later. But it has defied the...

Nia Vardalos

Scrapper

Every year, we are treated to at least one breakout child star performance and this year’s comes from Lola Campbell in Scrapper. Charlotte...

Passages

Passages is a truly international affair; American director Ira Sachs hired German and English actors and a French actress to star in his latest...

Ira Sachs

The Blackening

In movie rules, nothing good ever happens at a cabin in the woods. And that is certainly true in Tim Story’s The Blackening, which follows...

Tim Story

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Theater Camp

Longtime friends Molly Gordon and Ben Platt have been starring in stage productions together since they were children so they are the perfect...

Molly Gordon, Nick Lieberman

Strays

Between Joy Ride and Strays, the gross-out adult comedy seems to be making a comeback. Strays follows a Border Terrier named Reggie (voiced...

Josh Greenbaum

Heart of Stone

Gal Gadot has showcased her action prowess in Wonder Woman, Fast and Furious and Red Notice – and she’s back at it again in Heart...