Movie Reviews

When the parents of Nisha (Maria Mazhdah) discover a boyfriend in her bedroom, they send her from her home in Norway to live with relatives in Pakistan, in Iram Haq's harrowing second feature.

Skyscraper is a summer confection where Dwayne Johnson plays a man who wants to get into a burning building to save his family from a bunch of bad guys and a fire. Happy dog days of summer.

Writer/director Boots Riley's film, about a black telemarketer who adopts "white voice" and finds success, makes sharp observations before devolving into unfocused, bewildering absurdism.

A dispute over a tree brings two neighboring households into grimly escalating conflict in this Icelandic comedy so pitch-black that "the laughs are strictly of the stuck-in-the-throat variety."

Kevin Macdonald's documentary about the life and death of Whitney Houston contains no shattering revelations, but it artfully and compassionately places her extraordinary talent in a meaningful context.

The sequel to 2015's Ant-Man is just as light and inconsequential, but a forgettable villain and an over-complicated plot means it has to work harder — and it shows.

Will (Ben Foster) and daughter Tom (Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie) live off the grid — until the authorities find them — in a grounded, sharply observed film from the director of Winter's Bone.