Movie Reviews

Co-directors Julie Cohen and Betsy West's doc preaches to the choir, and does so most effectively when it focuses on Ruth Bader Ginsburg's career and not the memes that have accrued to her.

Critic Scott Tobias says the updated Anna Faris/Eugenio Derbez take on the 1987 comedy is "not a particularly funny film, but it's big-hearted and sincere, with fine chemistry between the two leads."

Director Jason Reitman re-teams with Juno scripter Diablo Cody for a film about an overburdened mother and her nanny that's "a little bit funny, a bigger bit cruel, and with it all, oddly moving."

In this disjointed and bewildering French film, Isabelle Huppert plays a mousy schoolteacher who gains a more assertive — and occasionally lethal — persona after being struck by lighting.

In this delightful French tale, Juilette Binoche plays an amorous, tart-tongued artist. Filmmaker Claire Denis seems to have created "a fresh sub-genre: the looking-for-love comedy procedural."

Chilean filmmaker Sebastián Lelio follows up A Fantastic Woman with a film set in an Orthodox Jewish community, about a forbidden romance between Esti (Rachel McAdams) and Ronit (Rachel Weisz).

Two young women (Alia Shawkat and Laia Costa) launch into a relationship, resolving to be completely truthful with each other. The film's insistent nature lacks subtlety or modulation.

The Avengers try to keep a space-tyrant from bedazzling his space-glove and performing cosmic genocide. The film doubles down on character interactions both familiar (good) and unfamiliar (less good).