A Missing Child, A Dying Marriage And A 'Loveless' Society
Russia's contender for a best foreign language film Oscar is a bleak and searing indictment of Russian society, told through the eyes of a rancorous married couple.
Movie Reviews
Ticket Sales For Marvel's 'Black Panther' Are Superhero-Sized
Advance ticket sales for super-hero movies are always super-sized, but even accounting for that, Marvel's Black Panther is breaking records. Civic groups have been buying out whole screenings so that African-American children can experience the film together.
'Early Man' Is A Mammoth Delight
In the age of digital animation, Nick Park and his team at Aardman are still animating with their actual digits; this lovingly made tale of a prehistoric soccer rivalry is full of charm.
In The Sexy, Silly 'Double Lovers,' A Woman Steps Through The Looking Glass
French director Francois Ozon's erotic thriller, an homage to the films of De Palma and Cronenberg, is all about mirrored surfaces, twinship and body horror.
In 'The Party,' The Bourgeois Get Petty
Writer-director Sally Potter zeroes in on the hypocrisy of the British chattering-class but her aim wanders, so the characters stay flat and the satire never kicks in.
Mythic 'Black Panther' Is A Momentous Event In Pop Culture History
As originally conceived in 1966, the Black Panther was an African king who fought crime in a high-tech panther suit. David Edelstein says Marvel's new film about the character was worth the wait.
'Black Panther' Is A Superhero Story You Haven't Seen Before — And It's Thrilling
Ryan Coogler's film, set largely in the richly imagined Afro-futurist utopia of Wakanda, is by turns intimate, immediate and — most importantly — new.
Clint Eastwood Celebrates Old-Fashioned Heroism In 'The 15:17 To Paris'
In 2015, three Americans on a Paris-bound train stopped a terrorist attack in progress. Eastwood recreates the incident — and audaciously casts the real-life heroes as themselves — in his new film.
We Have Met The Anomie, And It Is Us: 'Golden Exits'
Young, directionless Brooklynites have their lives (slightly) complicated by the arrival of a beautiful young woman (Emily Browning) in Alex Ross Perry's "precociously fretful" new film.
Reviewed: This Year's 5 Oscar-Nominated Live-Action Short Films
This year's nominees include a sobering and deeply personal drama about the impact of an infamous lynching and a light farce that probes the divide between psychiatrist and patient.