Pillion finds the power in setting your boundaries
Wuthering Heights captures what it feels like to fall in love with romance
The Moment satirizes the corporatized artistic landscape from inside the house
The Testament of Ann Lee is a rapturous testament to community
Practical effects save the day in Primate
Marty Supreme and Timothée Chalamet are in pursuit of greatness
Hamnet and the act of creation as communion
Jay Kelly and a movie star’s final take
Eternity is entertaining, but struggles with the inevitable
Train Dreams is a search for meaning in American expansion
Wicked: For Good is ill-paced and ill-conceived
The Running Man is a little too silly to take itself so seriously
Nouvelle Vague is light, frothy fun for cinephiles
In Bugonia, humans can destroy themselves all on their own
Christy lacks the depth the story deserves
Hedda is a delicious power trip
In If I Had Legs I’d Kick You, shame is a state of mind
Blue Moon and the desire to be loved
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is a far too literal exploration of The Boss
Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind paints a portrait of American discontent
The Smashing Machine is a sports biopic that rings hollow
A Big Bold Beautiful Journey is a magical journey to nowhere
The Long Walk and masculinity in the time of dystopia
In Splitsville, relationship anxieties are put to the comedic test
Honey Don’t! should work, but just doesn’t hit the mark
With Highest 2 Lowest, Spike Lee reinterprets a classic for the digital age
The horror of community apathy comes through in Weapons
Sorry, Baby and the nonlinear road to healing
Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs tonight delves into colonialist mentality through the eyes of a child
The meaning of life in The Life of Chuck
Ballerina and the empty task of fighting like a girl
On Swift Horses and the melodrama of awakening
Bonjour Tristesse: who do I want to be when I grow up?
The Amateur is asleep at the wheel
Parade is just as relevant as ever
Black Bag' is a sleek, sexy take on marital espionage
The haunting perspective of Presence
Wolf Man has no bark and no bite
Anora is the anti Pretty Woman for a new generation
Smile 2 and the darker side of stardom
My Old Ass: You don’t know what you’ve got til it’s gone
Aaron Pierre is a force to be reckoned with in Rebel Ridge
The Music Man shines with stellar choreography, great performances
Sing Sing explores the strength it takes to be human
Fly Me to the Moon can’t deliver on the promise of screwball romance
Hit Man and finding the truth in the con
Furiosa and hope in the time of the apocalypse
In Challengers, life is a competition and tennis is sex
The Greatest Hits buckles under the weight of its magical realism
In Immaculate, Sydney Sweeney snarls and screams her way to control
Dune: Part Two and the simultaneous rise and fall of a hero
Argylle becomes the very thing it’s making fun of
Priscilla and the teenage dream that never was
Foe can’t capitalize on its eerie atmosphere
The style is the substance in Asteroid City