The underdog comedy, which centers on a hard-partying woman who signs up for the New York City Marathon, proves that even a predictable plot can be hard to resist if it's well executed.
The film, about a wealthy clan who play a deadly game of hide-and-seek with a young woman (the fantastic Samara Weaving) marrying into the family, is fast, fun and not for the squeamish.
Where'd You Go, Bernadette follows a brilliant architect who, in the midst of a decades-long career slump, disappears to recapture her life's passion in the unlikeliest place imaginable.
NPR's David Greene talks to movie reviewer Kenneth Turan about Blinded by the Light, which takes place in late 1980s England as an Anglo-Pakistani teenager finds solace in Bruce Springsteen's music.
Julio Castro's tale of two men who hook up in Barcelona, only to realize they'd shared a similar encounter 20 years before, is full of big ideas bogged down by "mushy drama."
What could have been a cringeworthy misfire of tweens fumbling toward sex instead turns into a winning comedy that gets the sweetness-to-raunch ratio miraculously right.
Film critic/Springsteen superfan Chris Klimek says Gurinder Chadha's film about a British-Pakistani kid who finds inspiration in The Boss's music is affected and cloying.
Conspiracy theories abound in this literally incredible documentary, in which an eccentric Danish journalist sets out to prove that Dag Hammarskjöld's 1961 plane crash was no accident.
Hatidze Muratova lives in a remote area of Macedonia and has one simple rule: When you harvest honey, you take half — and leave the other half for the bees. An elegant new documentary tells her story.
Andrea Berloff adapts a comics miniseries about mob wives taking over their jailed husbands' rackets; it's at its best once the stilted, speechifying dialogue settles down, and the pulpiness kicks in.
Kelvin Harrison Jr. plays a popular teenager who was adopted from Eritrea as a kid. But underneath Luce's charming smiles and polished speeches is the trauma of a former child soldier.
Jennifer Kent follows up The Babadook with a controversial thriller that "grants its protagonist respect and dignity beyond mere victimhood, and frames her pain in both personal and political terms."
In writer-director Sameh Zoabi's gentle satire, a Palestinian screenwriter and a Israeli checkpoint guard collaborate on a popular, low-rent soap opera.
Great performances from Walton Goggins, Olivia Colman and others only underscore the by-the-numbers story and shallowly observed setting of this drama set in an Appalachian snake-handling church.
A freak accident killed actor Anton Yelchin in 2016; Garret Price's documentary features archival footage and moving interviews with loved ones who remember the brilliant young man fondly.
The "genial flexfest" of a spin-off is the "most agreeable" of the franchise, which once again slickly repackages set-pieces from other, better, more innovative action films.
Leonardo DiCaprio and Brad Pitt star as a TV actor and his stunt double in a film set in '69 Hollywood. The movie's low-key hangout vibes may test your patience, but every moment pulses with feeling.
Call it peak Tarantino: The writer/director's ninth film — about a Manson-family-adjacent actor and his stuntman — is an ode to the grimy, neon-lit place and time that shaped him.
Avi Belkin's documentary of the late 60 Minutes interrogator explores the ambiguous space Wallace occupied between journalistic rigor and slick showmanship.
In A.J. Eaton's documentary, Crosby proves a "passionate, wry, often bellicose" storyteller who "often seems to be writing his own self-lacerating obituary."
In Barbarians, writer/director Radu Jude's ruminating, ruefully funny Romanians debate history, propaganda and truth while mounting a re-enactment of a mass murder.
