Movie Reviews

The Cave, The Farewell, Booksmart, Little Women, Hustlers and Fast Color (from left, starting in top row) all made NPR's favorite-movie list this year.

NPR's Favorite Movies Of 2019

Parasite, Knives Out, Avengers: Endgame, Little Women and Marriage Story are among the year-end list of 20 films that NPR critics loved the most.
August Diehl stars in Terrence Malick's A Hidden Life.

Malick's 'A Hidden Life' Soars Above The Clouds

by Mark Jenkins

Writer/director Terrence Malick's latest film, based on the life of an Austrian conscientious objector in WWII, "spends much of its three hours musing, or simply being beautiful."
Nicole Kidman stars as Gretchen Carlson in Bombshell.

'Bombshell' Imitates, But Fails To Enlighten

by Linda Holmes

Bombshell features some eerie imitations of figures involved in the Fox News harassment allegations that brought down Roger Ailes. But star-studded though it is, it doesn't quite hold together.
Paul Walter Hauser (center) stars as Richard Jewell, the hero and FBI suspect of the 1996 Olympic bombing.

Sneer Campaign: 'Richard Jewell'

by Chris Klimek

Clint Eastwood's workmanlike account of a man falsely accused of the 1996 Olympic bombing clears Jewell's name while baselessly and maliciously smearing a real-life reporter's in the process.
Adam Sandler stars as a 'high risk, high reward' jewelry store owner in the Safdie brothers' newest film, Uncut Gems.

'Uncut Gems,' Glittering Darkly

by Andrew Lapin

The Safdie brothers' exhilarating film is a "gritty indie funhouse ride that sets [Adam] Sandler loose in a world just as manic and angry as his character."