The Most Overrated Movie of This Oscars Season
All Quiet on the Western Front falls into a classic war-film trap: all flash and hardly any feeling.
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Creed III and the Power of a Worthy Opponent
Michael B. Jordan’s directorial debut gives new energy to old sports-movie formulas.
The Movie That Helped Kazuo Ishiguro Make Sense of the World
The Nobel Prize–winning author’s work has long had a symbiotic relationship with cinema. His Oscar-nominated film, Living, is the logical next step.
20 Biopics That Are Actually Worth Watching
Most true-story films are functional to a fault. These ones break the mold.
Jenny Slate Wants to Know What You’re Thinking About Her Face
The actor and comedian on aging in Hollywood, her recurring nightmare, and the origins of her sweet sense of humor
Cocaine Bear Is Exactly What It Sounds Like
Elizabeth Banks has promised her viewers no more than a bear on drugs, and a bear on drugs is what they get.
Why Rewatching Titanic Is Different Now
Twenty-five years ago, the movie turned tragedy into romance. Today, that alchemy takes on a darker absurdity.
The Death of the Sex Scene
What we lose when intimacy gets added in postproduction
A Low-Budget Character Drama With Maximalist Thrills
Return to Seoul is a story of adoption and belonging that resists easy sentimentality.
A Sensitive Movie About a Literary Oddity
A new film about Emily Brontë offers a fresh, provocative look at the misunderstood Wuthering Heights author.