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  1. interview
    Elisabeth Moss and Alex Ross Perry on Who and What Inspired Her SmellThe actress and director explain the thread connecting Becky Something to Kim Deal and The Phantom of the Opera.
  2. movie review
    Don’t Let the Funny Hats Fool You, Mike Leigh’s Peterloo Is an Incendiary FilmThe historical drama gives us an anatomy of a political movement that feels utterly contemporary and urgent.
  3. movie review
    The Dirt Is a Parody of a Parody of a Music BiopicThere’s no getting around it, so you may as well go in prepared: The Dirt opens with female ejaculation.
  4. movie review
    Ash Is Purest White Is an Unrequited Love Story Set in China’s 2000sJia Zhangke’s latest portrait of recent Chinese history is a long, strange, lovelorn trip — maybe a little too long.
  5. the inventor
    Alex Gibney’s Theranos Documentary Stares Deeply into Elizabeth Holmes’s EyesThe Inventor fixates on the would-be disrupter’s face as it tries to understand her captivating effect on Silicon Valley.
  6. movie review
    Five Feet Apart Is the Logical, Heightened Conclusion of the Sick Lit GenreCole Sprouse and Haley Lu Richardson manage to sell an operatically romantic and sadistic cystic fibrosis love story.
  7. movie review
    Lil Peep Documentary Is a Deeply Affecting Character Study of the Late RapperEverybody’s Everything arrives at some kind of truth about the risks and rewards of an artist with seemingly no boundaries.
  8. movie review
    Jordan Peele’s Us Is a Messy, Chilling Descent Into the American NightmareLupita Nyong’o is astounding in the director’s distinct follow-up to Get Out.
  9. movie review
    The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind Is Chiwetel Ejiofor’s Mannered Directing DebutPerhaps too mannered for its own good — it’s unquestionably nice and well-intentioned, but lacking momentum.
  10. movie review
    The Dance-Horror Film Climax Is the Best Thing Gaspar Noé Has Made in AgesIt’s like if you turned Step Up into a horror flick.
  11. oscars 2019
    Was Roma Ever Really an Oscars Front-runner?Or was it just Cuarón’s campaign all along?
  12. oscars 2019
    Judging the Oscar Shorts: The Good, the Grisly, and Our Picks to WinThere’s at least one genuine masterpiece in the 15 nominated films, and … a lot of child murder.
  13. the toughest scene i wrote
    Tamara Jenkins on Popping the Big Question in Private Life“You can’t just make shit up. It has to be true at some point. But if I were presenting this as my memoir … I’d be in trouble.”
  14. movie review
    Fighting With My Family Is a Charming Underdog Story — and Amazing WWE PRIt’s just clear-eyed enough about the absurdities of a life in wrestling to have some grip to it.
  15. movie review
    Alita: Battle Angel Is Ungainly, Hokey, and … Kinda CharmingThe only reason any of this works at all is Rosa Salazar and, I hate to say it, those goddamned big eyes.
  16. movie review
    What Men Want Is a Tonally and Logically Confused Gender SwapStarring Taraji P. Henson, What Men Want is a wildly uneven stretch of a movie that’s more of a flail than a romp.
  17. movie review
    Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem Shine in Soapy-Yet-Substantial Everybody KnowsThe Oscar-winning Asghar Farhadi changes locales to the picturesque wine country outside Madrid for his foray into Spanish-language cinema.
  18. movie review
    The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part Is Eager to Grow Up in More Ways Than OneThe childlike, free-associative playfulness is now underscored by a palpable hunger to be the cleverest and coolest kids’ movie on the block.
  19. sundance 2019
    15 Movies We Loved at SundanceIncluding The Souvenir, The Farewell, We Are Little Zombies, and Animals.
  20. velvet buzzsaw
    Velvet Buzzsaw’s Dan Gilroy on Bringing a Buzz Saw to an Art Fight“Are they innocent people being killed and you feel bad for them? Or are they people who deserve to die? I decided, No, no. They deserve to die.”
  21. sundance 2019
    Sundance Standout We Are Little Zombies Is a Neon-Colored Scream Into the AbyssThe RPG-inspired debut feature from Makoto Nagahisa is the best Sundance movie about grief since Manchester by the Sea.
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    The Lodge Is an Unsettling Up-Is-Down Horror TaleRiley Keough plays a survivor of a death cult in the new film from the directors of Goodnight Mommy.
  23. sundance 2019
    Velvet Buzzsaw Is a Pleasantly Perverse Art-World EviscerationJake Gyllenhaal reteams with Nightcrawler writer-director Dan Gilroy for a Los Angeles horror-satire that has no use for subtlety.
  24. sundance 2019
    In Honey Boy, Shia LaBeouf Channels His Own Abusive FatherAs an origin story for a young actor’s warped worldview, Honey Boy is compelling.
  25. movie review
    The Kid Who Would Be King Is a Charming ThrowbackIt’s the kind of expansive live-action adventure tale that we rarely see these days.
  26. the crime scene
    12 Unforgettable Movie Heists, Graded and RankedAn extremely scientific ranking of some of the best heist-movie heists, graded on finesse and planning, style, stakes, and collateral damage.
  27. movie review
    Polar Is Putrid, Soulless, and Worst of All, StaleJonas Åkerlund’s latest is a sad, lint-filled key bump scraped together from the bottom of the post-Tarantino ’90s exploitation baggie.
  28. sundance 2019
    18 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at SundanceIncluding Mindy Kaling and Emma Thompson’s Late Night, Shia’s autobiographical Honey Boy, and Jake Gyllenhaal and Dan Gilroy’s Velvet Buzzsaw.
  29. clones
    Replicas Can’t Even Succeed at Being Fun TrashKeanu Reeves’s latest would be the stuff of future cult screenings if it wasn’t so boring and muddled.
  30. movie review
    The Upside Is an Odd-Couple Cliché With a More Interesting Movie Hiding InsideStarring Kevin Hart, Bryan Cranston, and Nicole Kidman, The Upside is the kind of movie whose greatest virtue is that it’s not as bad as it could be.
  31. movie review
    American Hangman Is a Cheap, Dumb, Off-Brand Black Mirror EpisodeIt’s college-level death penalty discourse, appropriately armed with what appears to be a college-level production budget.
  32. movie review
    Escape Room Is a Tight, Thoroughly Fun ThrillerA smart script and clever art direction elevate the puzzle-obsessed not-quite-horror movie.
  33. most anticipated 2019
    50 Movies We Can’t Wait to See in 2019Brad Pitt goes to space, It returns, Greta Gerwig debuts her Little Women, and Timothée Chalamet is king.
  34. movie review
    Stan & Ollie Is a Synthetic But Sweet Biopic of Two Born EntertainersIt’s also extremely sweaty.
  35. movie review
    Bird Box Wasn’t Written by an Algorithm — But It Sure Feels Like It WasYou don’t appreciate the art of a good genre contrivance until you see one pulled off poorly.
  36. movie review
    Second Act Is a Strange, Scattered Attempt to Cash In on NostalgiaIn some ways, Jennifer Lopez’s latest embodies all the ways in which the mainstream “women’s comedy” is having an identity crisis right now.
  37. movie review
    Welcome to Marwen Is a Totally Confounding MovieRobert Zemeckis’s film fails to capture what’s interesting about Mark Hogancamp’s art.
  38. movie review
    Cold War Is a Stunning Love StoryPawel Pawlikowski’s follow up to the Oscar-winning Ida is a passionate heartbreaker told through music and across decades.
  39. movie review
    Prepare to Be Blown Away by the Child Actors in the Heartbreaking CapernaumLebanese filmmaker Nadine Labaki’s tragic childhood tale is fabulous filmmaking, but a lot to endure.
  40. movie review
    Mortal Engines Is a Breath of Fresh AirIt’s a pretty admirably engineered work of escapism, made all the more astonishing by its ability to stand independent of a cinematic universe.
  41. movie review
    See Aquaman for Its Trippy Undersea Visuals and You Won’t Be DisappointedThere are two kinds of people: those who break out into a stupid grin upon hearing the words “Ocean Master,” and those whose hearts are made of stone.
  42. movie review
    Tyrel Is a Subtle — Then Brutally Effective — Portrait of Racial AlienationIt’s a chamber orchestra of unconscious prejudice and passive-aggression, with Jason Mitchell’s performance as the violin solo at the center of it.
  43. movie review
    Vox Lux Is a Fascinating FailureNatalie Portman’s pop-star drama feels like it has a lot to say, but never gets around to it.
  44. movie review
    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse Is Infectiously FunMiles Morales’s Spider-Man gets his big-screen debut, and it’s one of the most enjoyable superhero films — and computer-animated films — of our era.
  45. movie review
    Mary Queen of Scots Turns Its Queen Into a Generic Underdog FigureIt’s painfully old-fashioned, yet another type of movie that we may no longer have much use for — the awards-season, low-concept costume drama.
  46. best of 2018
    Emily Yoshida’s Best Movies of 2018Including directorial debuts, mysterious documentaries, and violent fever dreams.
  47. movie review
    The Party’s Just Beginning Is Karen Gillan’s Pitch-black Directorial DebutThere’s very little upside in this tale of depression and suicide in a quaint little Scottish town.
  48. movies
    Mirai Is a Galaxy-Brained Journey Through a Family’s Past and FutureMamoru Hosoda tells this child’s story at a child’s eye level, and the diversions feel part and parcel of that point of view.
  49. movie review
    Lars von Trier’s The House That Jack Built Is a Narcissistic, Ugly SlogVon Trier returns with a violent, banal, navel-gazing session.
  50. movie review
    Robin Hood Is a Cinematically and Politically Incoherent Movie SaladRobin Hood is Antifa now, or something?
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