Movie Reviews

This uneven (Heath)cliff’s notes adaptation hits some hot highs.

“The Voice of Hind Rajab” worked last year’s festival circuit with no distributor but plenty of A-list support (Brad Pitt, Rooney Mara and Joaquin Phoenix all ended up boarding the film as executive producers). When it debuted at the Venice Film Festival in September, writer-director Kaouther Ben Hania won the Grand Jury Prize (considered the […]

More people than not have likely had to face the loss of a job. Whether it be a termination or a mass company layoff, their name just happened to be selected in favor of the bottom line — an unfortunate occurrence in a corporate world. It’s not an easy change to navigate, especially when the […]

In the early moments of Bradley Cooper’s “Is This Thing On?” Tess (Laura Dern) is brushing her teeth and watching her husband Alex (Will Arnett) as he steps out of the shower. “We need to call it, right?” Tess asks in between brushes. Alex takes a brief beat before responding “I think so, too.” The […]

To most, pingpong is just a game to play in a friend’s garage or backyard on a warm summer day. To Marty Mauser (Timothée Chalamet), the fast-talking hustler at the center of Josh Safdie’s “Marty Supreme,” it’s a chance to prove he is great at something and can be better than anyone else he’s matched up […]

The last third of director Chloé Zhao’s film “Hamnet” takes place in London, specifically at the Globe Theatre, where Agnes (Jessie Buckley) has traveled from Stratford to see what her husband’s latest play could possibly be about. That play is, of course, “Hamlet,” and it’s not a spoiler to note that this husband is William […]

“A house is just a house,” as the saying goes, but in Joachim Trier’s latest film, “Sentimental Value,” it is so much more than that. The house in question is a place filled with memories and grief, a structure that holds people back from growing while also forcing them to grow beyond what once took […]

To borrow (and edit) a lyric from another Broadway powerhouse: how do you solve a problem like splitting an uber-popular show into two equally (hopefully) winning movies? With more than a 15-minute intermission to contend with since the first half, “Wicked,” premiered in November 2024, “Wicked: For Good” does the best it can — for […]

Director Mary Bronstein’s “If I Had Legs I’d Kick You” opens on an extreme close-up of Rose Byrne’s face. The camera focuses particularly on her eyes, which show a world-weary angst, like she has reached her breaking point many times before. She’s in a hospital room with her daughter, who has been plagued with an […]