Movie Reviews

Tilda Swinton plays two characters, a mother and a daughter, who have gone to spend a winter holiday at a hotel in Wales in the new movie The Eternal Daugher.

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Tilda Swinton stars twice in 'The Eternal Daughter' — as both parent and child

11:01am December 02, 2022

by Justin Chang

Swinton plays a mother and a daughter who have gone to spend a winter holiday at a hotel in Wales. The double casting is much more than a stunt in this smart, subtle film — it is magical.

Movie Review: 'Women Talking'

4:35pm December 01, 2022

by Bob Mondello

Director Sarah Polley's adaptation of the novel "Women Talking" by Miriam Toews is about women in an isolated religious colony who break the silence about abuse at the hands of the colony's men.

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5 films we can't wait to see: Here's Hollywood's holiday bounty

4:25pm November 24, 2022

by Bob Mondello

Avatar returns, Will Smith stars in a Civil War epic and Bill Nighy is Living. Also, a compelling novel adaptation and three hours of Jazz-era decadence. Find out what else the studios have in store.

Anna Diop plays a Senegalese immigrant pursuing the American Dream in Nanny.

'Nanny' employs African folklore in a haunting Black horror film

4:10pm November 23, 2022

by Pilar Galvan

While the live-action adaptation of The Little Mermaid casts Black actors in a preexisting white narrative, Nanny illustrates that Black people have their own folklore; Black mermaids already exist.

The donkey's eyes seem to take the measure of modern life in Jerzy Skolimowski's film, EO.

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This brash film about a wandering donkey may just leave you in tears

5:00am November 23, 2022

by John Powers

Jerzy Skolimowski's thrillingly imaginative new film, EO, follows a former circus donkey on a journey across modern Europe. It's a strange, haunting epic that couldn't feel more of our moment.

New York Times journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor (Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan) investigate allegations against Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in She Said.

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'She Said' follows the journalists who set the #MeToo movement in motion

1:26pm November 18, 2022

by Justin Chang

An engrossing new film focuses on New York Times journalists Megan Twohey and Jodi Kantor, whose reporting uncovered the crimes of Harvey Weinstein — and the vast network of people who enabled him.

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Move review: 'Bones and All'

4:32pm November 17, 2022

by Bob Mondello

Film director Luca Guadagnino reunites with "Call Me By Your Name" star Timothée Chalamet for "Bones and All," a dark, romance/drama based on author Camille DeAngelis' young adult novel.

Movie Review: 'The Fabelmans'

4:40pm November 14, 2022

by Bob Mondello

Director Steven Spielberg's new movie, "The Fabelmans," is a fictionalized version of his life story, growing up a budding filmmaker in the 1960s in Arizona.

Angela Bassett is Queen Ramonda in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever.

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'Wakanda Forever' bids farewell to T'Challa and Chadwick Boseman

1:21pm November 11, 2022

by Justin Chang

On- and off-screen tragedies merge as the film reckons with the 2020 death of Chadwick Boseman, honoring the memory of the Black Panther star as respectfully as possible.

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'Wakanda Forever' hopes to replicate the success of 'Black Panther'

5:07am November 11, 2022

The sequel to the Marvel film Black Panther is in wide release this weekend. Wakanda Forever directly addresses the death of the character played by the late Chadwick Boseman.