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[ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Nov 6, 2026 ### [Review: 'Godzilla Minus Zero'](https://time.com/article/2026/11/06/godzilla-minus-zero-review/) Takashi Yamazaki’s follow-up to 2023's 'Godzilla Minus One' is a serious fantasy with two gorgeous m... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Nov 6, 2026 ### [Review: 'Club Kid'](https://time.com/article/2026/11/06/club-kid-review-jordan-firstman/) In Jordan Firstman's debut, a single gay man leaves the high life behind to care for the 10-year-old... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 31, 2026 ### [Review: The Mosquito Bowl](https://time.com/article/2026/10/31/the-mosquito-bowl-review/) Peter Berg's World War II movie is awash in violence. But when it comes to depicting war, less is of... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 30, 2026 ### [Review: 'The Only Living Pickpocket in New York'](https://time.com/article/2026/10/30/only-living-pickpocket-in-new-york-review/) Writer-director Noah Segen’s charming, nimble, and affecting drama follows Turturro as a man who has... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 23, 2026 ### [Review: 'Fatherland'](https://time.com/article/2026/10/23/fatherland-movie-review/) Pawel Pawlikowski's extraordinary, compact drama is a somewhat fictionalized story of Thomas Mann’s ... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 16, 2026 ### ['Once Upon a Time in Harlem' Is One of the Great Documentaries of the Year](https://time.com/article/2026/10/16/once-upon-a-time-in-harlem-review/) The film drops in on a party in 1972, when key figures of the Harlem Renaissance reunited for an eve... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 16, 2026 ### [Daisy Edgar-Jones Anchors a Charming 'Sense and Sensibility'](https://time.com/article/2026/10/15/sense-and-sensibility-movie-review/) There's plenty to love in Georgia Oakley’s adaptation of the Jane Austen novel [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 16, 2026 ### [Elizabeth Holmes Is Not the Problem With 'You Can See Everything'](https://time.com/article/2026/10/15/you-can-see-everything-movie-review/) The Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim film is not actually that groundbreaking [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 9, 2026 ### ['Fjord' Details a Family’s Sudden Nightmare](https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/fjord-review/) Cristian Mungiu's drama starring Sebastian Stan and Renate Reinsve is drawn from a real-life child p... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 9, 2026 ### [Review: 'Misty Green'](https://time.com/article/2026/10/01/misty-green-review/) Chris Rock's movie about an actor trying to make it in Hollywood channels an almost existential long... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 7, 2026 ### [Review: 'The Social Reckoning'](https://time.com/article/2026/10/07/the-social-reckoning-review/) Sorkin’s approach to telling the next chapter in the Facebook story is somewhat professorial, but th... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Oct 7, 2026 ### [Review: 'Artificial'](https://time.com/article/2026/10/06/artificial-review-andrew-garfield-sam-altman/) In his portrait of Sam Altman and the rise of OpenAI, Luca Guadagnino has made a movie that's despai... [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Sep 29, 2026 ### [Tom Cruise Bloviates His Way Through the Aggressively Unfunny Digger](https://time.com/article/2026/09/29/digger-review/) Alejandro G. Iñárritu's latest film has a million moving parks and nothing to say [ENTERTAINMENT](/section/entertainment/) *  Sep 25, 2026 ### [Review: Ha-Chan, Shake Your Booty!](https://time.com/article/2026/09/25/ha-chan-shake-your-booty-review/) Rinko Kikuchi stars as a widow learning to face the music, and the world, after death stopped her in... 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