'Tesla': A Movie About An Underrated Genius Who Challenged Edison
Tesla is a thoroughly eccentric biopic starring Ethan Hawke as the electrical engineer Nikola Tesla, a rival of Thomas Edison's.
Movie Reviews
'Coup 53' Tells The Story Of A 1953 Campaign By MI6 And The CIA To Oust Iran's Leader
A new documentary shows how the CIA and Britain's MI6 engineered the forcible removal of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The 1953 coup continues to rattle history to this day.
'Boys State' Documentary Explores What Teens Learn About Democracy
Boys State documentary explores how a group of Texas teens participated in the American Legion program to learn about democracy by organizing political parties and running a mock government.
'Boys State' Helps Teens Learn How Politics Work — Perhaps A Little Too Well
A new documentary follows 2018's Texas Boys State, a week-long summer experiment in which teens form their own representative democracy. The mock election highlights flaws of the real-life system.
Beyoncé's 'Black Is King' Is A Sumptuous Search For Divine Identity
The film project, released Friday on Disney's new streaming service, finds the star seeking out a shared history of Black excellence.
Seth Rogen Finds Himself (Twice) In 'An American Pickle'
In a new film streaming on HBO Max, Rogen plays both a Polish immigrant who wakes up 100 years after falling into a pickle barrel and the great-grandson into whose modern life he emerges.
Fear Of Death Is Contagious In The Psychological Thriller 'She Dies Tomorrow'
This mordantly funny horror film opens on a young woman who awakens with a terrifying premonition of doom. She Dies Tomorrow feels surprisingly in tune with our present moment of unease.
'She Dies Tomorrow' Is A Mood
Writer/director Amy Seimetz's darkly, darkly comic meditation on the contagious nature of anxiety and paranoia plays with horror conventions while refusing to embrace the genre's pulpy pleasures.
Showtime's 'The Go-Go's' Documentary Breaks The Seal
A new documentary chronicling the formation, rise and break-up of the iconic group hits all the familiar Behind the Music beats, but does so with a bracing, clear-eyed candor.
Terrific New Thrillers 'Amulet' And 'Relic' Explore Terrors Lurking Within The Home
Characters' living spaces are infected with dark spirits and become inescapable prisons in two new movies. Amulet is an intensely creepy revenge thriller, while Relic explores the horrors of dementia.