‘Here’ Review: Tom Hanks and Robin Wright Get Boxed in by Banal Story in Robert Zemeckis’ Fixed-Camera Experiment
Premiering at AFI Fest, the director's reunion with his ‘Forrest Gump’ stars and screenwriter Eric Roth also features Paul Bettany, Kelly Reilly and Michelle Dockery.
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David Rooney
‘Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band’ Review: Disney+/Hulu Doc Is a Joyfully Earnest, if Slightly Shallow, Tribute
Thom Zimny, a frequent collaborator of the rock icon, directs this inside look at the group as they prepare for and then embark on their first tour since 2017.
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Angie Han
‘Music by John Williams’ Review: Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and More Celebrate the Iconic Composer in a Winning Disney+ Doc
Director Laurent Bouzereau ('Five Came Back') serves up an affectionate portrait of the man behind the much-loved scores for 'Jaws,' 'Star Wars' and many, many more.
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Daniel Fienberg
‘Venom: The Last Dance’ Review: Tom Hardy Wraps up His Marvel Symbiote Trilogy With a Steroidal Buddy Movie
Chiwetel Ejiofor, Juno Temple and Rhys Ifans also star in the interspecies bromance, which pits the central duo against a deadly threat from the alien’s home planet.
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‘That Christmas’ Review: Netflix’s Richard Curtis-Scripted Animation Is Poised to Become a New Holiday Classic
Brian Cox voices Santa in Simon Otto's feature directing debut, which tells overlapping stories about children at Yuletide in a quaint seaside town.
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Lovia Gyarkye
‘Nocturnes’ Review: A Delicate Doc Explores the Beauty of Moths and What They Tell Us About Climate Change
Anirban Dutta and Anupama Srinivasan's film, which won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Craft at Sundance, transports viewers to a lush forest in the Eastern Himalayas.
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Lovia Gyarkye
‘Jigra’ Review: A Fabulously Fierce Alia Bhatt Anchors a Beautifully Crafted but Narratively Uneven Hindi Thriller
The 'Heart of Stone' star plays a young woman who goes to extraordinary lengths to rescue her brother from a foreign prison in Vasan Bala's Indian action film.
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Anupama Chopra
‘Goodrich’ Review: Michael Keaton and Mila Kunis Buoy a Good-Natured Dramedy Drowning in Clichés
In Hallie Meyers-Shyer's second film, a man must lean on his eldest daughter from his first marriage after his second wife leaves unexpectedly leaves him with their two young kids.
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Lovia Gyarkye
‘Smile 2’ Review: Naomi Scott Gets Put through Hell in Unsettling Horror Sequel That Goes Full Freakout
Parker Finn follows his surprise 2022 hit about a malevolent spirit that jumps hosts via a diabolical grin, this time infecting a troubled pop star with a ton of trauma to feed on.
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David Rooney
‘Joy’ Review: Thomasin McKenzie, James Norton and Bill Nighy Lift Netflix’s Pedestrian Drama About IVF-Pioneering Brits
Ben Taylor directs Jack Thorne’s screenplay chronicling the dogged progress in the 1960s and ‘70s of the team behind an important breakthrough in medical science.
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David Rooney
‘Brothers’ Review: Josh Brolin and Peter Dinklage Play Estranged Twins in Amazon’s Erratic Crime Caper
Glenn Close, Brendan Fraser and M. Emmet Walsh also star in ‘Palm Springs’ director Max Barbakow’s sophomore feature.
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Justin Lowe
‘The Summer Book’ Review: Glenn Close Gets Back to Nature in Charlie McDowell’s Delicate Reflection on the Cycles of Life and Death
Anders Danielsen Lie and young newcomer Emily Matthews also star in this adaptation of Tove Jansson’s novel about a grieving family on an islet in the Gulf of Finland.
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David Rooney
‘Suburban Fury’ Review: A Riveting but Searching Documentary Portrait of a Would-Be Presidential Assassin
In his latest feature, Robinson Devor weaves archival footage and exclusive interviews with Sara Jane Moore to figure out how a seemingly ordinary mother became an FBI informant and later a radical.
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Lovia Gyarkye
‘Lonely Planet’ Review: Laura Dern and Liam Hemsworth’s Netflix Drama Won’t Make You Fall in Love but Might Make You Crave a Vacation
A novelist struggling with her latest manuscript and a handsome younger financier with a bestselling-author girlfriend strike up a romance after meeting at a writers' retreat in Morocco.
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Angie Han
‘Blitz’ Review: Saoirse Ronan in Steve McQueen’s Admirably Crafted but Overly Clichéd Tribute to London’s Survival in World War II
The Apple TV+ dramatic feature centers on a young boy and his mother trying to find their way back to one another amid the bombing of the city.
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Leslie Felperin
‘Daytime Revolution’ Review: In a Fascinating Footnote From the John Lennon-Yoko Ono Annals, Hipster Activists Reach the Middle American Masses
Erik Nelson’s doc revisits a unique experiment in countercultural messaging, when the famed couple stepped in for a week in 1972 as co-hosts of the hugely popular ‘Mike Douglas Show.’
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David Rooney