Reality doesn’t bite. Well, okay, at times it does. A number of our choices for the best documentaries of the year capture turbulent realities, ominous politics, and, on occasion, stark tragedy. That’s one of the missions of nonfiction film: to put us in touch with dark things that are too often hidden away. But our […]

Will “Challengers” nab a best picture nomination at this year’s Academy Awards? The question might seem trivial to anyone who’s not a “Challengers” superfan — and, full disclosure, I am one, having chosen it as my number one movie of the year. But I assure you I’m not merely asking this out of some defensive […]

Though it never announces itself this way, the entire movie — nuclear light shows, plot to blow up the world, a team of heroes fast enough to run circles around physics — is a parody of the grandiosity of what superhero movies have become. It’s like a late Marvel extravaganza that never loses sight of the fact that it’s preposterous.

At the risk of sounding like Nicole Kidman: We all know the feelings that unite an audience in a movie theater. Yet when I went to see the rereleased “Interstellar,” I was struck by a new feeling. Taking my seat in front of the IMAX screen at the AMC Lincoln Square, I was honestly shocked […]

As a movie, "Kraven the Hunter" marks the beginning of the endgame for Sony’s Spider-Man Universe, and you can just about feel that in the way Kraven’s minor enhanced abilities turn him into little more than a generic comic-book bruiser.

"A Complete Unknown" is a drama of scruffy naturalism, with a plot that doesn’t so much unfold as lope right along with its legendary, curly-haired, sunglass-wearing coffee-house troubadour hero. Yet the feel — the effect — is that of a musical.

"Werewolves" is your basic everyday lean-and-mean dystopian werewolf-as-zombie action thriller, with elements lifted from the pandemic and the "Purge" films. It’s not a good movie, but it’s a tight little time passer.