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On Moonlight Bay (1951) John L. Scott Amusing adventures of Booth Tarkington's pre-World War I characters plus popular songs of the period (1917) sung by Doris Day and Gordon MacRae are combined in a diverting film.
Posted Apr 07, 2026  Edit critic review
The Mouthpiece (1932) Norbert Lusk It is excellent entertainment which just misses being extraordinary.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Towering Inferno (1974) Charles Champlin $14 million worth of Holy Cow! Spend more -- efficiently -- and you get more. More stars, more effects, more scale, more suspense, more crises, more impact, more of that feeling the foyer that you have your ticket's worth and then some.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Muppet Movie (1979) Charles Champlin What is remarkable about "The Muppet Movie" is that it is an opening out into the larger world, yet the Muppets are not only not dwarfed by all outdoors, they dominate it by their verve, charm and spunky character.
Posted Apr 06, 2026  Edit critic review
The Blue Trail (2025) Amy Nicholson Anyone with a high-concept idea and a low production budget should study how "The Blue Trail" creates the sense of massive, fascistic machinery with a few pennies’ worth of props
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Yes (2025) Joshua Rothkopf Yes won’t sway any hardliners but it should convince anyone with eyes of the absurdity of trying to write a hate song, even as Y screams its vicious lyrics into the wind.
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Kontinental '25 (2025) Robert Abele Jude is hardly precious about his craft. But that’s because he’s confident you’ll leave bursting with thoughts and feelings about the price of progress, the weight of history and the ways we struggle to do right amid so much that’s wrong.
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
Fantasy Life (2025) Robert Abele A modest yet amusingly spiky round trip from Manhattan to Martha’s Vineyard, it has the trappings of a rom-com but a trickier soulfulness about its unlikely connection.
Posted Apr 03, 2026  Edit critic review
The Drama (2026) Amy Nicholson "The Drama" is the movie equivalent of a half-glass of Champagne: a toast Borgli trusts us to decide whether its ideas are half-empty or half-full. I’ll raise my cup to full, but only because of how pleasurably it bubbles.
Posted Apr 02, 2026  Edit critic review
Pal Joey (1957) Edwin Schallert "Pal Joey" is bright, smart and ingenious up to its last few minutes. It is also a racy and ribald screen show. Audiences will, in the main, find the picture, unusually entertaining, though they will probably not feel especially inspired.
Posted Apr 01, 2026  Edit critic review
Alpha (2025) Tim Grierson As “Alpha” reaches its stylish, dreamlike ending, she hits upon an absorbing final image that suggests the collective sorrow and emotional devastation our recent plague years have wrought.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist (2026) Robert Abele “The AI Doc” is a well-intentioned but aggravating soup of information and opinion that wants to move at the speed of machine thought.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Palestine '36 (2025) Robert Abele As overdue tales of history go, “Palestine ‘36” is certainly more of a blunt instrument than a novelistic endeavor. But its broad strokes and rooted passions easily earn their place, and deserve to inspire more such stories.
Posted Mar 30, 2026  Edit critic review
Two Prosecutors (2025) Tim Grierson Many viewers will correctly predict this young lawyer’s fate, but Loznitsa isn’t after plot twists; he’s more interested in the gut punch of the inevitable.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Bad News Bears (1976) Kevin Thomas Bright, pugnacious and utterly realistic as most children seem to be today, these kids are drawn with much accuracy and are played beautifully.
Posted Mar 26, 2026  Edit critic review
The Second Civil War (1997) Howard Rosenberg "The Second Civil War" mingles broad humor with political and social commentary in ways rare for television, delivering a very funny satire.
Posted Mar 21, 2026  Edit critic review
Hollywood Boulevard (1976) Kevin Thomas An outrageous, often hilarious spoof of the zany world of low-budget exploitation film-making.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Miroirs No. 3 (2025) Robert Abele Somewhat miraculously, we’re carried out of this consequential collision of hearts and minds on the lightest of notes, with the sense that our capacity to rediscover harmony will always be beautifully mysterious.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Ready or Not 2: Here I Come (2026) Amy Nicholson No spoilers, but it’s no coincidence that "Here I Come" finally gets more interesting once it tires of hide and seek. Finding a fresh plot twist is the only way it ekes out a draw.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
House II: The Second Story (1987) Michael Wilmington The cleverest thing about "House II: The Second Story" is its title.
Posted Mar 19, 2026  Edit critic review
The Howling (1981) Kevin Thomas It's a hip, confidently made picture, loaded with inside references, but it does push to the limit the redeeming effects of humor upon sheer grisliness.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
Project Hail Mary (2026) Amy Nicholson While Stanley Kubrick’s unsentimental "2001: A Space Odyssey" inspired the iPad, Lord and Miller want to inspire a better version of us.
Posted Mar 18, 2026  Edit critic review
The Howling (1981) Andy Klein Amid many excellent low-budget and/or B-movie entries of the time, it was a standout, with Dante’s work supported by John Sayles’ witty script, Rob Bottin’s makeup effects and an effective Pino Donaggio score.
Posted Mar 17, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 3 (1993) Kevin Thomas "RoboCop 3" is wearying rather than exciting.
Posted Mar 16, 2026  Edit critic review
Pompei: Below the Clouds (2025) Robert Abele Absorbing this well-chosen album is a treat, and a chance to appreciate the delicate mortality that thrives in a place simultaneously enormous, eternal and ephemeral.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Slanted (2025) Jen Yamato Informed by Wang’s own life growing up Chinese Australian, "Slanted" nails the micro-aggressions, body dysmorphia and desire to belong that can make coming of age while being "other" its own perplexing kind of hell.
Posted Mar 13, 2026  Edit critic review
Reminders of Him (2026) Amy Nicholson You can’t help rooting for Colleen Hoover heroines, bless their bruised hearts.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
undertone (2025) Amy Nicholson I’d love to understand why horror films that I find excruciatingly dull give others the heebie-jeebies.
Posted Mar 12, 2026  Edit critic review
Gunfighter Paradise (2024) Sergio Burstein Anchored in the realm of surrealism... Waters delves into areas of ambiguous meaning that require an active intervention from the viewer.[Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Hoppers (2026) Sergio Burstein Hoppers features moments of dark humor that never fail to impress, unfolds absolutely stunning action scenes, has its heart in the right place, and celebrates the beauty of nature through a frankly dazzling mise-en-scène. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
THE BRIDE! (2026) Sergio Burstein Despite its shortcomings and apparent ugliness (or perhaps because of it?), “The Bride!” is a brave, vital, and risky work that is worth seeing on the big screen. [Full review in Spanish]
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) Peter Rainer It's a film made by a director of great feeling and craft who's caught in a bind: He's hired to deliver the goods for a movie that has no room for his usual range of sensitivities.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop 2 (1990) Terry Atkinson Unfortunately, two aspects "2" doesn't share with the original are quality and humor.
Posted Mar 10, 2026  Edit critic review
Heel (The Good Boy) (2025) Robert Abele “Heel” is Tolstoy’s happy-family maxim cooked in a mad scientist’s lab.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Hoppers (2026) Carlos Aguilar Neither simplistically optimistic nor preachy, “Hoppers” smuggles timely ideas inside a rodent body. Pond rules would probably call that a beaver victory.
Posted Mar 09, 2026  Edit critic review
Anastasia (1956) Philip K. Scheuer The picture...has been handsomely mounted and dressed and is interestingly acted, but it ultimately falls short of distinction for basically the same reason as the play...fell short: the inconclusive note to which it builds.
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Phantom Lady (1944) Philip K. Scheuer A remarkable achievement...
Posted Mar 06, 2026  Edit critic review
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) John L. Scott Miss Hepburn makes the complex Holly a vivid, intriguing figure in a performance that should linger in the minds of Academy Award voters.
Posted Mar 05, 2026  Edit critic review
THE BRIDE! (2026) Amy Nicholson "The Bride!" is a maniacal assemblage of ’30s musicals, ’40s noirs, 19th century literature and 21st century ideology. Every wacky second, you’re well aware how perilously close it is to falling apart at the seams.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
RoboCop (1987) Dennis Hunt Directed by Paul Verhoeven, it's full of wickedly clever touches.
Posted Mar 04, 2026  Edit critic review
K-Pops! (2024) Amy Nicholson This is the right time — and .Paak could be the right star — to earnestly explore what it means that the Top 40 is shifting eastward. But this adventure in Seoul is simply an ego trip.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Scream 7 (2026) Amy Nicholson Maybe in the boldest meta twist of all, the inventor of "Scream" wants to kill it off himself.
Posted Feb 26, 2026  Edit critic review
Two People Exchanging Saliva (2024) Robert Abele An uneven Euro-art bath of unrealized intimacy and casual violence but is given exquisite tautness by the elegant, unrequited swooniness of stars Zar Amir and Luàna Bajrami.
Posted Feb 24, 2026  Edit critic review
Midwinter Break (2026) Robert Abele Modest to a fault, “Midwinter Break” seems to float like something cautious and wishful, hoping along with the audience that this union’s individual strains will fall into harmony once more.
Posted Feb 23, 2026  Edit critic review
The Postman (1994) Kenneth Turan With superb timing, an impressive variety of facial expressions and the hangdog demeanor of an Italian Buster Keaton, Troisi brings a truth and simplicity to his character that means everything.
Posted Feb 22, 2026  Edit critic review
THX 1138 (1971) Susan King Though far from flawless, "THX" has gotten richer over the decades.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert (2025) Amy Nicholson I think Luhrmann is praying that in a thousand years, some alien civilization will discover this footage and build a whole religion around the thrall Elvis’ hip thrusts had over a crowd.
Posted Feb 20, 2026  Edit critic review
THX 1138 (1971) Charles Champlin Some of the images, tiny white figures lost amidst the white antispetic vastness, are chilling and terribly powerful.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Nirvanna the Band the Show the Movie (2025) Robert Abele Johnson is nothing if not a punchy ringmaster of deadpan humor and his grab-bag mindset generates enough goodwill to appreciate the DIY brashness of it all.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
Calle Málaga (2025) Robert Abele There is, after all, a reckoning for Maria’s situation we can’t help but keep in the back of our mind. Because our first brief glimpse of Clara is a sympathetic one, we know “Calle Málaga” won’t settle for a tidy resolution.
Posted Feb 19, 2026  Edit critic review
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