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review
Don't Fall for
Dear Evan Hansen
By Stephanie Zacharek
What If a Robot Was Your Perfect Match?
I'm Your Man
Explores an AI Love Affair
By Stephanie Zacharek
The iPhone 13 Is Perfectly Fine
By Patrick Lucas Austin
Netflix’s Catholic Horror Story
Midnight Mass
Is One Hell of a Halloween Binge
By Judy Berman
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review
The Eyes of Tammy Faye Wavers Between Parody and Pathos
In the grand scheme of Christian forgiveness, maybe it’s a nice idea to try to reclaim the honor, or at least the humanity, of the late evangelist TV personality Tammy Faye Bakker, one-half of the...
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 17, 2021
Cry Macho
Is Pure Clint Eastwood—and That's Mostly a Good Thing
The director's 39th or 40th picture, depending on how you count, is a simple, handsome story that exemplifies some of the unexpected riches of the director's later films
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 17, 2021
American Rust
Sounds a Lot Like
Mare of Easttown
. Sadly, It Isn’t
Jeff Daniels stars in a Rust Belt crime drama too mired in small-town misery to say anything new
By Judy Berman
September 10, 2021
FX’s Epic
Y: The Last Man
Adaptation Gets Off to a Shaky But Intriguing Start
A woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle. So goes the old feminist slogan. But that doesn’t mean life on Earth would continue as normal if every mammal with a Y chromosome suddenly dropped dead.
By Judy Berman
September 8, 2021
Olivia Colman Is Extraordinary in
The Lost Daughter
, Maggie Gyllenhaal's Bold Directorial Debut
For her directorial debut, Maggie Gyllenhaal takes on a complex and daring narrative about motherhood and all that it can drain from a woman
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 5, 2021
Edgar Wright's 1960s Fever Dream
Last Night in Soho
Is a Half-Brilliant Thriller
Edgar Wright's new thriller, which premiered at the 78th Venice Film Festival, starts off seductively before taking an unfortunate turn
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 4, 2021
HBO's
Scenes From a Marriage
Remake Is Trying to Break Your Heart, All Over Again
HBO casts Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac in a loosely gender-flipped remake of Ingmar Bergman's classic miniseries.
By Judy Berman
September 4, 2021
Denis Villeneuve's Take on
Dune
Is an Admirably Understated Sci-Fi Spectacle
Denis Villeneuve directs Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya in a largely successful adaptation of Frank Herbert's sci-fi novel, long considered unfilmable
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 3, 2021
Kristen Stewart and Pablo Larraín Do Princess Diana Wrong in
Spencer
Kristen Stewart is a tiger in actor form, one of our most gifted and understated young performers. Her fearlessness is the casual kind, arriving without fanfare or advertisement—languid one minute and ready to leap the...
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 3, 2021
Oscar Isaac Smolders in the Pensive Romantic Thriller
The Card Counter
Oscar Isaac, the star of writer-director Paul Schrader’s ardent romantic drama The Card Counter—premiering at the 78th annual Venice Film Festival—is the matinee idol we barely deserve in our short-attention-span world, an era when we...
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 2, 2021
Jane Campion's Gorgeous Western
The Power of the Dog
Is a Sharp Study of Masculinity Gone Awry
If you’re going to borrow, borrow from the best. Jane Campion begins and ends her sinewy western The Power of the Dog with a nod to John Ford’s penchant for framing figures and action through...
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 2, 2021
Penélope Cruz Gives One of the Best Performances of Her Career in Pedro Almodóvar's
Parallel Mothers
Pedro Almodóvar's 23rd movie opened the 78th Venice Film Festival
By Stephanie Zacharek
September 1, 2021
Impeachment: American Crime Story
Frames the Clinton Scandal as a Case of Women Sabotaging Women. Is That Really So Revolutionary?
If there’s a point to this exercise, it gets lost amid so many scenery-chomping reenactments of scenes we’ve seen replayed on the news and parodied in late-night comedy for more than two decades
By Judy Berman
August 31, 2021
Steve Martin’s
Only Murders in the Building
Is a Droll, Cozy Mystery for Modern Manhattan
Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez team up on murder podcast in this charming trifle from Hulu
By Judy Berman
August 30, 2021
Candyman
Teases Out New Relevance From a ‘90s Horror Classic
Sometimes a movie arrives at just the right time, as if it were reading society’s collective mind. Candyman, directed by Nia DaCosta, and written by DaCosta, Jordan Peele and Win Rosenfeld, is one of those...
By Stephanie Zacharek
August 27, 2021
Rebecca Hall Shows Some Bristling Energy in the Otherwise Turbid Ghost Thriller
The Night House
If there’s one reason to view Oscar tastemakers with skepticism, it’s the career of Rebecca Hall. She’s one of our finest, most daring actors. But year after year, she fails to make a blip on...
By Stephanie Zacharek
August 20, 2021
Netflix’s Sharp Satire
The Chair
Throws Sandra Oh Into the Politicized Powder Keg of Higher Ed
This perceptive, perfectly cast, if rushed, comedy follows the first female chair of a chaotic college English department
By Judy Berman
August 19, 2021
The Lessons of Father-Daughter Action Movies
“Fame is rot,” J.M. Barrie was purported to have said. “Daughters are the thing.” Of course, the creator of Peter Pan didn’t have any children, so he wasn’t exactly speaking from experience. For the crop...
By Belinda Luscombe
August 18, 2021
John David Washington Can't Outrun the Tedium of Netflix Thriller
Beckett
There is no sadder genre than the tedious thriller, a movie that works hard to entice us with suspense, rough and tumble action, maybe even alluring locales, only to fizzle out far from the finish...
By Stephanie Zacharek
August 13, 2021
Ryan Reynolds' Charm Can't Quite Liberate
Free Guy
From a Cluttered Plot
The secret to life is knowing what your strengths are and running with them, and Ryan Reynolds has figured it out. He has the shiny vinyl good looks of a Ken doll and, when he...
By Stephanie Zacharek
August 13, 2021
Jennifer Hudson Makes a Dazzling Aretha Franklin in 'Respect'
Though biopics about R&B and pop-music artists keep getting made—the past seven years or so have given us Get On Up, Love & Mercy, Bohemian Rhapsody and Rocket Man—they’re among the most easily picked-apart genres,...
By Stephanie Zacharek
August 12, 2021
Netflix Horror Noir
Brand New Cherry Flavor
Tastes Terrible
What little the showdoes contribute to the post-#MeToo discourse around predatory men, vulnerable women and the price of fame falls somewhere between reactionary and obvious
By Judy Berman
August 6, 2021
Annette
Is Gorgeous to Look at But All the Wrong Kinds of Weird
Leos Carax's new rock opera, starring Adam Driver and Marion Cotillard, might have been a reason for us to find euphoria back at the theater were it not a little too self-consciously weird
By Stephanie Zacharek
August 6, 2021
The Surprisingly Complicated Pleasures of
Cooking With Paris
Here’s the thing about Paris Hilton in 2021: the heiress and entertainer has lived rent-free in the brains of millions, but especially 30-something women, for two decades.
By Judy Berman
August 4, 2021
Amazon’s Divine Period Romance
The Pursuit of Love
Gives Classic Social Satire a Modern Twist
Writer-director-actor Emily Mortimer hits all the sweaty, swooning highs and melancholic lows of Nancy Mitford's roller-coaster plot, with a particular eye for comedy
By Judy Berman
July 30, 2021
Matt Damon Shines in
Stillwater,
an Uneven Thriller Inspired by a Real-Life Murder Case
The one constant is Damon, who’s turning out to be one of those great, casual American actors we didn’t know we had anymore
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 29, 2021
Why Is Music Television So Nostalgic?
In the years since MTV abandoned its eponymous mission, much of the programming devoted to an art form synonymous with youth, newness and immediacy has become weirdly nostalgic
By Judy Berman
July 29, 2021
The Green Knight
Is an Extravagant Unicorn Tapestry of a Movie
Dev Patel stars in David Lowery's confident, enchanting retelling of a 14th century poem set in medieval England
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 26, 2021
TV's Hot Reality Trash Summer
When it comes to entertainment value—the only criterion by which it’s fair to judge this stuff—the distance between good and bad trash can be vast
By Judy Berman
July 23, 2021
Val Kilmer Turns the Camera on Himself
Now that we’re used to recording our whole lives on cell phones, it’s hard to imagine an era when we didn’t walk around with mini movie cameras in our pockets. In the early 1980s, Val...
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 23, 2021
M. Night Shyamalan Squanders a Rich Premise in
Old
A reverse fountain of youth could have been a great jumping-off point to riff on human fears of aging, but Shyamalan doesn't go there
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 22, 2021
The Last Letter From Your Lover
Falters Often, But Its Illicit Romance and Gorgeous Costumes Go Straight to the Pleasure Zone
Enough, for now, to keep the flagging genre alive
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 22, 2021
Ted Lasso and TV's Quest to Build the Perfect Man
In the age of toxic masculinity, shows like Ted Lasso give us characters that sometimes read more as instruction manual for manhood than real human person
By Judy Berman
July 19, 2021
Roadrunner
Illuminates Anthony Bourdain the Man—But Are Its Means Totally Legit?
Morgan Neville's 'Roadrunner' may make you feel you know Anthony Bourdain the man much better than before. But some of its tactics have been called into question
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 16, 2021
Atypical
Fell Short as Both Autistic Representation and Entertainment. At Least It Was Eclipsed During Its Own Time
The Netflix dramedy about an autistic teenager was far from a game changer, but a new crop of autistic-informed entertainment has emerged in the four years since it debuted
By Sarah Kurchak
July 16, 2021
My Unorthodox Life Is More Bravo Docusoap Than Unorthodox
Netflix, like Eve in the Garden of Eden, has finally seized the low-hanging fruit—and it’s a juicy one.
By Judy Berman
July 14, 2021
The Loneliest Whale
Brings Us on an Invigorating Search for an Elusive Creature of the Deep
Even if you don’t care much about whales, this documentary might make you care about people who care about whales
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 9, 2021
Black Widow
Is a Showcase for Florence Pugh and Scarlett Johansson First and a Marvel Superhero Movie Second
There are three types of people in this world: those who are first in line for every Marvel movie, those who slouch toward them indifferently, and those who would prefer to stay at home and...
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 8, 2021
HBO Max's
Gossip Girl
Reboot Is Perfectly Fine for a Show That Shouldn't Exist
Tailored to the sensibilities of current teens, 'GG' 2.0 is less “problematic” and more diverse than its predecessor
By Judy Berman
July 5, 2021
Three Music Documentaries Help Connect Artist and Audience
Questlove’s Summer of Soul, Edgar Wright’s The Sparks Brothers and the Hulu docuseries McCartney 3,2,1 remind us of the ways music unites us
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 2, 2021
Don Cheadle Steals the Show in Steven Soderbergh's Twisty Noir Entertainment
No Sudden Move
Set in 1950s Detroit, Steven Soderbergh's playful but pointed neo-noir No Sudden Move is a thrilling ride
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 1, 2021
HBO's Luxury Resort Satire
The White Lotus
Is the Must-See Show of the Summer
'Enlightened' creator Mike White returns to HBO with a darkly hilarious, existentially terrifying wealth satire set at a luxury resort
By Judy Berman
June 30, 2021
The Reopening Springsteen on Broadway Brings Broadway Back
On June 26, the intimate performance by the Boss became the first show to launch after some 470 days of silence in New York’s theater district
By Stephanie Zacharek
June 28, 2021
False Positive
Strives for Elevated Pregnancy Horror But Misses the Mark
Broad City's Ilana Glazer co-wrote and stars in this pregnancy horror film, which doesn't trust its audience enough to avoid hamfisted exposition
By Stephanie Zacharek
June 25, 2021
The Ice Road
Is an Overly Twisty Action Adventure That Has Its Charms, Chief Among Them Liam Neeson
Neeson continues to shoulder the mixed blessing of becoming a late-in-life action hero, making it look like no work at all
By Stephanie Zacharek
June 25, 2021
Netflix’s Steamy New Drama
Sex/Life
Is So Bad, It’s Funny
There’s room for all kinds of programming aimed at grown-ups—including sexy shows whose target audience is female. Everyone has their own preferred brand of trash. And it can succeed on its own terms without being, you know, deep. But 'Sex/Life' drowns itself in the shallow end.
By Judy Berman
June 25, 2021
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